Birthday Month 2023 August 27: upside down clock, but something about it works for me

[elisem]

So I just woke up a few hours ago, which is why this is a Sunday, August 27 entry although it's technically Monday, August 28. My experiment with going to sleep when I'm sleepy and working/reading when I'm wakey is having interesting results, among which is that I am feeling better, feeling more myself, when I don't constrain my sleep schedule. The part I don't like is not getting enough sunshine time, which is probably silly sounding from someone who rarely leaves the house, but I do like a sunny window, especially in the workshop.

The Quest for a Clean Kitchen continues. I haven't mentioned it yet, but it's been a quest for a while now. It's kind of been the Augean Kitchen around here, and I want to change that.

Birthday Month continues pleasant in a lot of ways. Although I haven't got all the new pieces into the Etsy shop, I'm happy to have made them. There's a necklace-crown almost done, a piece about mechanical fae, gears, black rainbow magic, and so on, and I hope it's going to work. With luck, I can show it to all soon. And there are a lot of new earrings and a few new pendants that I need to photograph, but I've decided to stop beating myself up about it and just make what progress I can.

Dunno what the perfume of the day will be yet; haven't got that far.

Do you like a sunny window? A moony window? What are your feelings about windows in general? Is there one window that made a particularly strong impression on you? (For me it was a tower window in the fort in St. Augustine, Florida, and thinking about what I would see if I could see all the way across the ocean from it.)

Comments

[xeger]

At certain times of the year and weather, the transom window above my front door lets in a light so molten and gold that it's almost impossible to not roll in it or lounge in it for those brief, amazing minutes.

[azurelunatic]

I like the window by my desk, which has a nice view of some trees.

Windows with cats in them are great.

[pameladean]

Your sleep journey is very interesting. But feeling more like yourself is a very great thing.

At the moment, I like ivy- and grapevine-covered windows. I will have to give the house a dramatic haircut later in the fall, but for now, the leaf patterns are beautiful and the vines keep the house a little cooler in our increasingly apocalyptic weather.

In the winter, I like a window that will frame good astronomical sights. Before the building went in over on Nicollet, I could see the rising moon and rising planets, particularly Mars, from the window in the back door; and the big upstairs window facing the other way showed the setting new moon and setting planets.

P.