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Apr. 30th, 2020 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesMental health day coming tomorrow. I need one. I would normally have taken a vacation sometime in March or April, but there's nothing normal these days, and anyway I went on vacation in January. I still have dreams about that, and they're always good dreams so far.
I went to Whole Foods yesterday, partly to get out of the house, partly to stock up on meat, and partly to avoid the strike on Friday. WF continues to have almost no pasta and almost no frozen vegetables. I don't know if it's a "can't keep it stocked" problem or a "can't get it delivered" problem, but it's been going on for as long as the quarantine. They did have meat, though, so I can make something out of beef and mushrooms and carrots and probably barley and eat that for a while.
The embroidery is going like gangbusters, for several different reasons. One is, tree parts are easy; another one is, I'm just following the pattern and not keeping track of that error; and the third big one is, this page isn't solid embroidery. There's some empty space. (Also, my elbow has stopped being sore as hell for two days after an hour and a half of embroidering. That wasn't fun, especially when I had to go grocery shopping with a sore elbow and haul stuff home.) But, progress, our most important product, and it makes me happy. I really should do a mess of spring cleaning tomorrow, but if it's going to be grey and gloomy again and I won't be able to see the dirt on the floors anyway, maybe I'll spend a lot of it embroidering instead. A normal mental health day would be part getting things off the list and part making myself happy, anyhow. And there isn't a whole lot of "go somewhere else and do happy stuff" available.
I cannot wait until I can go to Brookline Booksmith again.
I went to Whole Foods yesterday, partly to get out of the house, partly to stock up on meat, and partly to avoid the strike on Friday. WF continues to have almost no pasta and almost no frozen vegetables. I don't know if it's a "can't keep it stocked" problem or a "can't get it delivered" problem, but it's been going on for as long as the quarantine. They did have meat, though, so I can make something out of beef and mushrooms and carrots and probably barley and eat that for a while.
The embroidery is going like gangbusters, for several different reasons. One is, tree parts are easy; another one is, I'm just following the pattern and not keeping track of that error; and the third big one is, this page isn't solid embroidery. There's some empty space. (Also, my elbow has stopped being sore as hell for two days after an hour and a half of embroidering. That wasn't fun, especially when I had to go grocery shopping with a sore elbow and haul stuff home.) But, progress, our most important product, and it makes me happy. I really should do a mess of spring cleaning tomorrow, but if it's going to be grey and gloomy again and I won't be able to see the dirt on the floors anyway, maybe I'll spend a lot of it embroidering instead. A normal mental health day would be part getting things off the list and part making myself happy, anyhow. And there isn't a whole lot of "go somewhere else and do happy stuff" available.
I cannot wait until I can go to Brookline Booksmith again.
