Various distractions this week
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cahnVarious 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.
-fromnaraht, 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:
-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.
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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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Date: 2020-11-06 05:52 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2020-11-06 06:57 pm (UTC)(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.)