doing all right
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skye_writerSome things:
- Still working on cross-stitch. I’m nearly two-thirds done with the first page of my SIL’s project, and I just finished the first page (of four) on the Rivendell project for my brother. I think I might manage to get these done in time for Christmas, though I’m starting to doubt that I’ll get them done in time to get them framed. Oh well.
- We celebrated my birthday and my mom’s birthday last week. I got some very nice yarn from my aunt and uncle, and then my parents got me a SWITCH LITE. :DDD And my siblings got me a couple $20 Nintendo gift cards, so that’s is also nice. I hope my mom and I can do something for my birthday on the actual day, because that would be lovely.
- re: Switch Lite: It’s turquoise like I wanted it, and I have purchased one game so far: Ori and the Blind Forest. I am having an okay time playing it? Though I’ve reached a point where I’m not sure where to go next, because it won’t let me do what I thought I had to do and I’m probably going to have to look up a walkthrough or watch a Let’s Play or SOMETHING. Ori is a platformer game, too, but I’m managing pretty well so far. It helps that the game is so pretty.
- re: yarn: My aunt lives in CA, and she’s recently gotten into weaving and spinning, so now she frequents fiber festivals and the like, which there are a lot of in CA. So I got some nice yarn from local dyers and I really like it. Also like that I got two skeins of each color so I can make something big with them. I went ahead and wound one skein up and started crocheting it into a shawl. It’s working up pretty fast, too, so I might just get it done in time for the cold months, barring a loss of interest or something like that.
- Have not been doing a great job preparing for NaNoWriMo. I keep trying to write and then not writing, and I do not think next month is going to go well, but for all I know it could go great. I’m going to try to write something every day this week, so... here’s hoping. I’ve already done my writing for today, which helps a lot. Just have to do something tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. And so on. (I would really like to at least write something every day in November, so I can get that shiny streak badge, even if I don’t reach 50k. But I’m willing to bet that probably won’t happen, so I’m not gonna bank on it or anything.)
- Finished a book last week! Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. It’s a sci-fi YA (or possibly New Adult; all the characters are 18 or older), the first book in a new series. Follows a very ragtag squad in a galactic peacekeeping force, plus the mysterious girl their leader pulled from the wreckage of a centuries-old derelict spaceship. It’s not like capital-G great or anything, but it’s a fun romp and I’d like to keep up with the series as it continues. No idea when book two comes out, though.
- Also started another book: The Feather Thief, Kirk Wallace Johnson. It’s a nonfiction title, and it’s about the theft of dozens of very rare bird specimens (including some collected by Alfred Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin!) from the Natural History Museum in the UK. The thief? A young American flautist obsessed with the art of Victorian salmon fly-tying. I’ve only read the first few chapters, which cover the history of Alfred Wallace’s collections, as well as the Victorian obsession with exotic birds and the eventual efforts to preserve said birds (and other species). It’s fascinating and infuriating at the same time. Fascinating because of the history and the obsession of the fly-tiers. Infuriating because it seems like these people can’t see past their obsession to understand why museum collections are so important. So I can’t wait to dig into the rest of it.
Can’t say there’s much else going on. Even though that’s a lot of stuff going on. I feel like I’ve got this big balancing act going on, and I’m not very good at it. But I guess that’s probably true for everyone in some way or another.
Anyway. Hope you’re all doing well, as ever. <3
- Still working on cross-stitch. I’m nearly two-thirds done with the first page of my SIL’s project, and I just finished the first page (of four) on the Rivendell project for my brother. I think I might manage to get these done in time for Christmas, though I’m starting to doubt that I’ll get them done in time to get them framed. Oh well.
- We celebrated my birthday and my mom’s birthday last week. I got some very nice yarn from my aunt and uncle, and then my parents got me a SWITCH LITE. :DDD And my siblings got me a couple $20 Nintendo gift cards, so that’s is also nice. I hope my mom and I can do something for my birthday on the actual day, because that would be lovely.
- re: Switch Lite: It’s turquoise like I wanted it, and I have purchased one game so far: Ori and the Blind Forest. I am having an okay time playing it? Though I’ve reached a point where I’m not sure where to go next, because it won’t let me do what I thought I had to do and I’m probably going to have to look up a walkthrough or watch a Let’s Play or SOMETHING. Ori is a platformer game, too, but I’m managing pretty well so far. It helps that the game is so pretty.
- re: yarn: My aunt lives in CA, and she’s recently gotten into weaving and spinning, so now she frequents fiber festivals and the like, which there are a lot of in CA. So I got some nice yarn from local dyers and I really like it. Also like that I got two skeins of each color so I can make something big with them. I went ahead and wound one skein up and started crocheting it into a shawl. It’s working up pretty fast, too, so I might just get it done in time for the cold months, barring a loss of interest or something like that.
- Have not been doing a great job preparing for NaNoWriMo. I keep trying to write and then not writing, and I do not think next month is going to go well, but for all I know it could go great. I’m going to try to write something every day this week, so... here’s hoping. I’ve already done my writing for today, which helps a lot. Just have to do something tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow. And so on. (I would really like to at least write something every day in November, so I can get that shiny streak badge, even if I don’t reach 50k. But I’m willing to bet that probably won’t happen, so I’m not gonna bank on it or anything.)
- Finished a book last week! Aurora Rising, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. It’s a sci-fi YA (or possibly New Adult; all the characters are 18 or older), the first book in a new series. Follows a very ragtag squad in a galactic peacekeeping force, plus the mysterious girl their leader pulled from the wreckage of a centuries-old derelict spaceship. It’s not like capital-G great or anything, but it’s a fun romp and I’d like to keep up with the series as it continues. No idea when book two comes out, though.
- Also started another book: The Feather Thief, Kirk Wallace Johnson. It’s a nonfiction title, and it’s about the theft of dozens of very rare bird specimens (including some collected by Alfred Wallace, a contemporary of Darwin!) from the Natural History Museum in the UK. The thief? A young American flautist obsessed with the art of Victorian salmon fly-tying. I’ve only read the first few chapters, which cover the history of Alfred Wallace’s collections, as well as the Victorian obsession with exotic birds and the eventual efforts to preserve said birds (and other species). It’s fascinating and infuriating at the same time. Fascinating because of the history and the obsession of the fly-tiers. Infuriating because it seems like these people can’t see past their obsession to understand why museum collections are so important. So I can’t wait to dig into the rest of it.
Can’t say there’s much else going on. Even though that’s a lot of stuff going on. I feel like I’ve got this big balancing act going on, and I’m not very good at it. But I guess that’s probably true for everyone in some way or another.
Anyway. Hope you’re all doing well, as ever. <3
