Various distractions this week

[cahn]

Various things I have been doing to distract myself this week:

-A. usually "makes dinner" Tuesday, and this week he wanted to make crustless sandwiches (a recipe in a kids' cookbook their lovely late grandmother gave E. several years back). This is a welcome variant on the box mac n cheese that he chose every week for quite a while! (Honestly, at this point, I welcome anything other than mac n cheese.) Since we had a lot of crusts left over, the three of us then made chocolate bread pudding and it was a big hit :) It also counted as comfort food for me, at least, that evening.

-The week after Halloween is the week that church Christmas planning kicks into high gear, so while I have not actually kicked myself into high gear, I have at least sent a lot of emails with cajoling and bribing and so forth. (We will have an instrumental-only masked-distanced service as well as singing-over-video.) One of my bribes was that I would come up with music for anyone who wanted, which means I now have to kick myself into figuring out this music, which in my experience is the hardest part (which is why I offered to do it for people to get them more willing to sign up, lol) and I get extremely worried about it ("will X be able to play this? will it be too easy for Y?")

I am also mulling whether I should commit to making a small-group video. I would be the one who would have to do all the technical putting the videos together, and the very little I've read about it makes it sound like a lot of time which would... have to come from... somewhere. (Probably Yuletide, which isn't the end of the world, especially since I'm not planning on replicating my crazy intense Yuletide from last year, but gosh darn it, I want the option to spend more time on it, even if I don't use it...) Maybe I could enlist E. to help me.

-from naraht, I have been enjoying looking at the STARtorialist shop. I kind of really want that constellation cardigan. Maybe if we are ever at a point where I can go to church regularly again.

-This guy makes fidget spinner gemstone pendants which are imo the coolest thing ever, especially when he has several of them in a row going like this, with aliasing. Well, I think they are cool, anyway :P (And yes, I could not resist -- I now own one (in a similar style), and yes, it is quite blingy (though small -- the center stones in these are only about 5mm), though I haven't been able to get a good aliasing video of mine.)

-I made my first unironic Gantt chart this week -- of my own volition because I was panicked about this work thing -- and yes, I feel properly ashamed of myself for my slow decline into management. I am becoming this guy:

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Comments

[ambyr]

I've been eying that cardigan on Svaha's website for years. They usually do pretty serious post-Thanksgiving sales, if you want to keep an eye out.

[cahn]

Oooooh. I will do that, thanks! :D

[jenett]

The Svaha cardigans are fantastic, and I own about five of them, including that one. They wear well (I've had the constellation one for .. four years? Five? And it's a little faded, but otherwise holding up well.)

Seconding that they usually do pretty serious sales regularly, and signing up for their mailing list is worth doing for discounts.

(I find their dresses are a little more body-con on me than I want even at the 5X, but the cardigans are fantastic for size. Also, pockets.)

Every time I wear one of their cardigans around other people, I get at least one person knowing where to get it, too. (I really need to ask if they can send me some business cards or something.)

[cahn]

Oooooh, I am really happy to hear they wear well. Because when I buy things I want to keep them for the long run!

and yeeeeeessss when I saw it had pockets that's when I was like "okay I really REALLY want this!" YAY POCKETS.

Huh, that's interesting about the dresses, because I was kind of interested in that constellation dress as well (especially it also having pockets!) Well, maybe I'll pass on that.

[jenett]

The 5X constellation dress is okay on me (I wear a 24ish US size, give or take) but anything smaller than that doesn't work. It depends on the cut, too, for the dresses.

(I have several, but in practice they tend to be 'wear with a cardigan' which limits how often I'll wear them, for layering goodness.)

[hamsterwoman]

As a person who fidgets with all of my jewelry, those gemstone fidget spinners are such a cool idea! It's a great thing they are a little too blingy for my taste, or I would be seriously tempted XD

-I made my first unironic Gantt chart this week

Hahaha, it's a slippery slope!

[cahn]

:D Yeah, the one I have is a little less blingy than the pic I linked, but it's definitely on the upper end of what I would actually wear. When he started making these, he made them even larger and blingier -- here's an example -- and I think he still prefers extra-blingy but I get the impression the smaller ones sell a lot better ;)

Oh man, it is a slippery slope! First it was Gitlab issue reports, now this :P

[elsane]

Oh no, that Startorialist website is very dangerous! I love that constellation cardigan, too.

[cahn]

I knooooow! There are several things on it that I am coveting! I'll probably end up getting that cardigan someday...