things of life and living

[tielan]

I'm enjoying the time off; time to quilt, to write, to plant my garden. However, my sister is getting tense about not having any income (hers, in particular, but mine also).

I have gotten a lot of quilting done! Including making a pussy hat block:



It's only 5.5" unfinished - 5" square finished - but is going to be in the corners of the Sydney Mod SQuaD (Sewists, Quilters, and Dressmakers) Group quilt for the year, photos of which I will have up later. It was a round robin, and I did the centre medallion, and half of the outermost border.

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Jaw is not getting better. It's not getting worse, so far as I can tell, but it's not getting better. I haven't spoken to the oral surgeon just yet; we're going with some osteopath work first. *shrugs*

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On Friday, I'm doing nails for a dozen women from a far north set of islands who have come down to Sydney for the Mardi Gras. Apparently they're trans, and a friend asked me if I was interested/willing to help with giving them manicures. Sure thing!

I should really do my own nails before then; they've been natural for a few days after repeated manicures and polishes, just giving them a bit of time to recover (but not too much, otherwise they split).

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Writing; very little inspiration to write. Will have to get back into the 20 minutes every hour writing that produced some of my longer works.

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I have not been posting about politics; things are getting bad here, too. I really have to broach the matter of getting a group together to the friend I'm sitting and sewing with this morning. Even some protest will let our (conservative) member know that we don't like what his party is doing.

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

That is a cool quilt block!

While I am glad your jaw isn't getting worse, it would be awesome if it would get better.

Good luck on the job hunt front!

[heliopausa]

Cheering for you on the political protest front. I think it's a pretty critical time for the Libs, so a few voices in key seats could well make a difference as to whether they swing further right (which would be disastrous for all of us) or not.