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Good mornthing!
28/10/18 12:37The morning has run away from me, but I think I've spent it well enough.
Last night, Secret Agent Lover Man and I stayed up quite late, watching some of the second season of <i>Big Mouth</i> on Netflix. It continues to be hilarious, and continues to be wholly inappropriate for real life children of the same age as the make-believe cartoon children on whom the show centers. I brought up to him that someone recently commented that today's children are so lucky they have <i>Big Mouth</i> to help them understand much of the ins and outs of puberty, but that was a comment with which I quite disagree. It is a show that is hilarious to those of us who have already gone through puberty, because we are past it. It's nostalgic and sort of... balloons and exaggerates the entire experience. It's not informative for kids going through it, not in a helpful, healthy way.
But yeah, funny as hell for a grownup, though.
Last night and this morning I have been making a lot of progress on the shawl I have been working on. It's a simple pattern with a four-row repeat, and in the yarn I've chosen and with the hook size I am using it is coming out beautifully - I am very much looking forward to finishing it and taking pictures.
I am more motivated to get it finished, now, than I had been, because a new project is on the rapidly-approaching horizon. I made that dragonfly-pattern blanket that I posted a picture of a few days ago, for materials and my time gratis, for a friend of my mother's. Someone saw it and reached out to me to commission one for herself, and so I had to do that detestable dance of price-setting, because I didn't really expect to be making others of this blanket and so I did not track the time it took me to make it. This commissioner is insisting on paying properly for my time, and so I am working hard to not undercut myself. They sent more than enough money up front for the materials, and I will be timing myself and giving them an accounting thereof when the blanket is finished. And I'm prepared to give them a discount anyway if it's steeper than they expected.
Eldest's best friend slept over last night, and I am positively vibrating with stress. Two thirteen-year-olds and a twelve-year-old. They all amp each other up, feeding off one another's energy to a peak. They're all doing so much better than they were three years ago, or even a year ago, but they are not to a point where I can just leave them be for an entire evening - they still require regular intervention for loudness, for cussing, for throwing things or getting physical. This means I have to stay close enough to hear when intervention is required. This means I am on edge with their amped energy even when it is happy energy, waiting for it to go south.
Sometimes weekends are the least restful time.
Later, I go shopping for the yarn. Right now, I work on finishing this shawl. And thinking about my NaNo story. I might write notes and try actual planning/plotting this year.
Hello, Blisstopia.<3
Last night, Secret Agent Lover Man and I stayed up quite late, watching some of the second season of <i>Big Mouth</i> on Netflix. It continues to be hilarious, and continues to be wholly inappropriate for real life children of the same age as the make-believe cartoon children on whom the show centers. I brought up to him that someone recently commented that today's children are so lucky they have <i>Big Mouth</i> to help them understand much of the ins and outs of puberty, but that was a comment with which I quite disagree. It is a show that is hilarious to those of us who have already gone through puberty, because we are past it. It's nostalgic and sort of... balloons and exaggerates the entire experience. It's not informative for kids going through it, not in a helpful, healthy way.
But yeah, funny as hell for a grownup, though.
Last night and this morning I have been making a lot of progress on the shawl I have been working on. It's a simple pattern with a four-row repeat, and in the yarn I've chosen and with the hook size I am using it is coming out beautifully - I am very much looking forward to finishing it and taking pictures.
I am more motivated to get it finished, now, than I had been, because a new project is on the rapidly-approaching horizon. I made that dragonfly-pattern blanket that I posted a picture of a few days ago, for materials and my time gratis, for a friend of my mother's. Someone saw it and reached out to me to commission one for herself, and so I had to do that detestable dance of price-setting, because I didn't really expect to be making others of this blanket and so I did not track the time it took me to make it. This commissioner is insisting on paying properly for my time, and so I am working hard to not undercut myself. They sent more than enough money up front for the materials, and I will be timing myself and giving them an accounting thereof when the blanket is finished. And I'm prepared to give them a discount anyway if it's steeper than they expected.
Eldest's best friend slept over last night, and I am positively vibrating with stress. Two thirteen-year-olds and a twelve-year-old. They all amp each other up, feeding off one another's energy to a peak. They're all doing so much better than they were three years ago, or even a year ago, but they are not to a point where I can just leave them be for an entire evening - they still require regular intervention for loudness, for cussing, for throwing things or getting physical. This means I have to stay close enough to hear when intervention is required. This means I am on edge with their amped energy even when it is happy energy, waiting for it to go south.
Sometimes weekends are the least restful time.
Later, I go shopping for the yarn. Right now, I work on finishing this shawl. And thinking about my NaNo story. I might write notes and try actual planning/plotting this year.
Hello, Blisstopia.<3
