same four walls in my room with the same four pairs of leggings in rotation.
i think i've forgotten what wearing jeans feels like.
right now, everyone is on the mask making train, and i wanted to have the energy to do it to the extent others did/do... but in all honesty, it was hard to bring myself to sew the 8 that i did for friends and family. and it made me feel SO guilty, and a little ashamed i wasn't "using my talents" in the way that everyone else was. so after personally struggling with it, i decided to just breathe a little bit, and in the words of a certain ice queen... try and "let it go" and release the guilt.
so here's a recount of how i did spend my spring broke... i mean break... no, i think i do really mean broke.
being on unemployment but still technically having all my jobs is weird.
sunday:
sewed 5 masks for friends and family
cut out remaining festive fir quilt pieces (basically just the ornament balls remained)
i also looked at buying a nintendo switch lite so i could play animal crossing like the cool kids.
reality and unemployment quickly snapped that back to reality
monday:ran to the post office to mail masks to TX. that was an experience.
i finished the binding on one of my disney ispy quilts that has yet to be put up for adoption.
turned the ornament ball pieces in to "snowball blocks" as i restarted parks & rec from the first season for the 4367th time.
2 more masks made for my sister and her husband, since my mom ran out of appropriate themed fabric.
decided to download the strava app and go for a walk this morning.
i sure felt it after basically 3 weeks of sitting and confinement.
wait... it's only been 3 weeks? oy
sewed more on the festive fir quilt and made chocolate chip cookie dough like i have been planning for since pre social isolation.
walked again, almost 3 miles in the morning and then drove to leatherby's to shop local and order curbside. ice cream creations were half off... how could i resist??
sewed some masks. so tired of masks...
shins were achey. no walking today.
sewed 2 more masks and cut a LOT of fabric for my wonky stars quilt that i started forever ago.
one quadrant was done after i took the class with some of my sacMQG members, so i cut the rest of the pieces needed for the 3 remaining quadrants to make this in to a final quilt top. well, at least the background part. the grunge stars will come later... this is also the reason why i haven't used up my grunge scraps. once this project is complete, my grunge will be free range again.
also started another cross stitch... because why not?
today was also zoom day for sacMQG, which was nice to have something to look forward to at the end of the day. one of my unemployment "jobs" has been demolishing my aunt's old photo albums ad putting the photos in to storage boxes. because of the sound of tearing pages out and even running a hair dryer... i was mostly listening with my microphone on mute.
i also got jimboys for dinner... and that was easily the most satisfying take out meal of my entire week... or three weeks even.
ordered online, picked it up fresh and drove home. still hot. still delicious.
will do again.
this was a mess up my sleep schedule kind of day (not that it isn't already messed up...)
stayed in bed FAR too long, did some laundry and then cut some fabric in to pieces.
at least 5 years ago, i bought 2 yards of big bang theory fabric for the reason of just to have it... i know, because that's exactly what my post online said about it.
tonight, it became 4 pillowcases to be donated to a children's hospital. the more fabric i use up, the more i can buy post quarantine, right??
celebrated my pillowcase completion with a pizookie from the aforementioned cookie dough.
my sleep schedule is SO OFF.
probably went to bed after 2am. when i say probably, i mean that is exactly what happened, and i stayed in bed until nearly 12pm. oy.
had to do some revising on the layout of my festive fir quilt top, since it ended up with some strong diagonal lines of similar colors.
now that it is all set and ready to go, it can hopefully become a quilt top by the end of the week.
it was also easter, so there's that.
well this was supposed to be the last day of spring break, and clearly that isn't the case.
i woke up at 9:30, and stayed awake... granted, i stayed in bed until 10:30 because i was playing emoji blitz... BUT I WAS AWAKE.
that's the moral of the story.
i spent the greater part of today completing the festive fir quilt top, which was a success in of itself. i got on such a roll that i wasn't paying attention to the pattern and had to rip out and redo half my blocks that i sewed the piece to in the wrong order. and then i sewed the row with the star block upside down.
that's what i get for blasting my music too loud.
also... i realized that i have played emoji blitz so much, some of the graphics are burned in to my screen... so that's cool.
and now here we are...
tuesday.
should have been going back to work today, but instead...
i sit and wait and hope to get called in for emergency childcare services.
and if not... hope that summer camp doesn't get cancelled.
i fully understand the precautions, but i need life to start moving forwards again.
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