Birthday. Month August 30 and 31: Epilogue
Sep. 7th, 2023 08:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elisemSo I didn't get the last two days of the month posted.
(Cue a momentary recollection of Allie Brosh's DO ALL THE THINGS: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html)
The work of the month did succeed, though, because an intensely creative series of days at the workbench is why I didn't get the last two days of August posted. Well, that, plus the way my sleep schedule slid around until it was almost conventional. (No, not our kinds of conventions. You know what I mean.) Anyhow, I wound up making rather than posting, and that's how it went.
There are new pieces to put up in the Etsy shop, and to talk about here. Apparently my rainbow battle armor thing is still thinging. So that's what I did.
It's hard work not apologizing for it, but I've spent too many decades apologizing for what I call being an ADHD monster, and I'm done with that, because not only does it not help, it makes things worse. I'll apologize in particular circumstances if I make problems for someone else, but that means I will apologize for what I do, not for what I am.
Is there something you are done apologizing for?
Bonus questions: When you look away from whatever screen you're reading this on, what do you see that makes you glad? What do you see that helps you take a breath and relax? What do you see that helps you do what you do?
(Cue a momentary recollection of Allie Brosh's DO ALL THE THINGS: http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/06/this-is-why-ill-never-be-adult.html)
The work of the month did succeed, though, because an intensely creative series of days at the workbench is why I didn't get the last two days of August posted. Well, that, plus the way my sleep schedule slid around until it was almost conventional. (No, not our kinds of conventions. You know what I mean.) Anyhow, I wound up making rather than posting, and that's how it went.
There are new pieces to put up in the Etsy shop, and to talk about here. Apparently my rainbow battle armor thing is still thinging. So that's what I did.
It's hard work not apologizing for it, but I've spent too many decades apologizing for what I call being an ADHD monster, and I'm done with that, because not only does it not help, it makes things worse. I'll apologize in particular circumstances if I make problems for someone else, but that means I will apologize for what I do, not for what I am.
Is there something you are done apologizing for?
Bonus questions: When you look away from whatever screen you're reading this on, what do you see that makes you glad? What do you see that helps you take a breath and relax? What do you see that helps you do what you do?
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Date: 2023-09-07 08:17 pm (UTC)I see, um, wow, well, the new package of eight free at-home COVID tests send by the Say Yes! (no, I have no idea) program of the Minnesota Department of Health. They do not exactly make me glad, but they make me feel ahead of things and able to visit the very few people I visit indoors.
Also the ancient wall quilt my grandmother made me from scraps, hanging over a south-facing window that had no blind when we moved in and still hasn't; which has a vivid orange background in a kind of sunburst quilting pattern and features the head of a unicorn whose mane is composed of a myriad of different scraps of brightly-colored, tiny-patterned fabric and its beard of fabric that matches exactly one of the scraps.
And finally, the Minnesota Weatherguide calendar for this year -- David gives me one every year -- the September page of which has a hummingbird visiting a Mexican sunflower, which is about the same color as the quilt's background.
P.
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Date: 2023-09-08 01:53 am (UTC)I'm also not sorry if I don't want to do the thing as late as someone else or eat as much of it or anything like that. They can do it their way, right? and I'll do it mine.
I've been keeping a rotation of postcards from friends tucked into the corner of the map above my desk, and that's a very good thing.
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Date: 2023-09-09 11:00 am (UTC)[okay, yes - 3.5 years old isn't exactly a kitten anymore, but she's sleek, svelte... and just pounced on mom]