as you drop by let me know how you're all doing, would you?
the masto instance i'm on is down and none of us are in a hurry to fix it (and i think i like it that way)
we've been sick the last couple of weeks; or rather, *I've* been sick for like 3 days, and my child has been sick for 12, with some non-covid but lung-nasty crud. and while I valiantly avoided it for those 9 days via masks and airflow and partial isolation, wow i sure am sick now :') ow
I haven't been working on any of my stuff lately. no knitting, no spinning. no pastels or paints or tarot. no journaling. I suppose there's been a bit of art-RPG digital art and writing, a smattering here and there between all of the Everything.
work is questionable, I have no idea what sort of weird transition state my manager is in right now but I'm anxious to find out. HR also has set my pay to a weird amount due to not filing a form & tax status that I qualify for, which is really making things annoyingly tight (but not impossible or anything, just annoying and needing a bit of creative accounting that's unreasonably pushing poverty brain buttons). I want to supplement income somehow. I'm not sure how I'll do it yet. maybe back to risque business, maybe back to etsy. IWe'll see how collecting supplies & learning how to jewelry solder goes, I need new ring splints at a fraction of the cost
That's my current venture, I suppose - slowly gathering all the supplies for that. half-round wire, jewelry soldering gun, beaker and pickle ad hot plate, tongs of course, jewelry solder & flux. a really nice pair of flush cutters for all this wire. probably a tiny saw too, since it'd be REALLY nice if I could resize my own rings & solder my wedding bands together myself. I'm certainly not *starting* with those, that'll be uh. down the road haha
Anyway other than that there's I suppose slowly learning dutch; I'm very behind my child in terms of picking it up (but they have constant daily exposure and I... do not! so I have an amount of reason for it at least)
Tell me what's good with all y'all - good books? shows or movies? games? something neat happening in your world?
P.S. my last-known state of residency, which knows my legal name & that it changed over 18 months ago, issued me a jury duty summons. To my old name. even though EVERYTHING is in my legal name - voter registration, driver's license, SSN of course, passport, the whole 9 yards. What on earth is going on with bureaucracy
