It’s your timing, is what it is. Good comic timing – worth its weight in … whatever one might succeed in weighing it with, I suppose.
.-= Lean Ni Chuilleanain´s last blog ..9 Crafting Tips from my 9-Year-Old Self =-.

The good:
Feeling well enough to have my steam run out… as pain used to stop me.
Feeling like my body belongs to me again.
Finally getting attention to my priorities management problems.
Planning vacation with my boyfriend.
Fun with friends.
Continuing to ‘get’ yoga more and more each time I go to class.
.-= Lisa Lassner´s last post … =-.

@Anna-Liza – wow! Your sweater design published in a magazine! That you can hold in your hands. That’s fantastic. Hugs for the hard …

And to everyone else too. Because the hard is hug-worthy. Definitely. Yay, chicken-ing!

This is the all theatre chicken for me, as my week was consumed with the opening of Guys and Dolls, the musical I’m in which opened last night.

Hard:
–technical rehearsals. Long nights. Getting the lights right. Working with the orchestra. Futzing with costumes. Not enough sleep.
–having to deal with neurotic actor stuff, my own and other people. Had a sort of anti-diva diva fit when a costart got all persnickety about who gets what kind of bow in the curtain call. I have no patience for that ego b.s. and a lot of judgments about it. Did not handle it very graciously and wish I could get a do-over on it.

Good:
–the show opened successfully, and I feel good about it in general and the quality of my performance
–having a lot of fun with the cast and really enjoying a sort of “back to basics” why I love doing live theatre feeling of happiness and community and soaking up the spotlight.

Hugs to all for the hard, hoorays for the good.

Havi, I hope your travels are wonderful/fun more than anything.

Lots of hard this week, but some pretty good good, too.

Hard: We’ve given up fighting the foreclosure. The sale date is next week, we don’t know how soon we’ll have to move.
This means moving back to our old, tiny house we were never able to sell, which further means we have to ask our really great tenant to leave, which I feel awful about. And she’s at Burning Man right now (I wish I was there, too), so we can’t even tell her yet.
I have suddenly gone from a pretty healthy person to a person with a blood clot, on various drugs (some of which are to protect me from the side effects of the blood thinner), and having to treat myself like an old china teacup. No like.
The company that started making overtures to my husband about possibly working for them (and for whom he would love to work) hasn’t called back, although hope hasn’t yet faded completely.
Had to tell the kids we’re moving today. The youngest doesn’t seem to be too bothered yet, but the older one is horribly upset – his best friend lives right next door.
My medical expenses are just scary. Even with insurance, we’re going to owe several thousand. And I had to say “no” to one of the drugs my doctor wanted me to take because, even after insurance was applied, it was over $1200 for a two-week supply.
I’m starting to feel like a poster child for all the ills President Obama is trying to get fixed!

The good: Giving up fighting the foreclosure does have some element of relief to it. There is still a lot we don’t know, like how long we’ll have to move (longer is better, so we can give our tenant more notice), but just giving in feels … restful.
Since my husband is very unsure if the current uptick in freelance work will last long, moving back to the old house (less expensive to run overall) feels like some relief of the money pressure.
Even if I do have to act like a fragile thing for a few months, at least now I know what’s wrong and there is a treatment for it.

The really good: I got an actual real copy of the magazine my sweater design is being published in – Interweave Knits Weekend. It won’t be on sale ’til the 15th, but I was given an advance copy. I’m really pleased with how it turned out.
.-= Anna-Liza´s last post … Knit Pollyanna! Now You Can Do It, Too! =-.

The chicken for this week:
The hard:

*Deadlines. I hate deadlines. Especially when my
success is dependent on OTHER people.
*The job. No details, sorry.
*Insomnia, probably related to everything else.

The Good:

*Decisions made.
*Epiphanies had. and a new Winter Design created.
*Fabric for model ordered!
*Naomi’s SpeakEasy and associated “Get off
your A**” emails. :)
*A day with no people at all on Saturday! Just
the kitties and me.
.-= Romilly´s last post … Things I miss… =-.

The good:
Furlough day (today) and long weekend!
Epiphanies! (but not a lot, and, truth be told, not the ones I was most hoping for.)
Some new kinds of mental focus in my life. The house is looking better, the projects are getting done, and the horn is getting played.
I want to start cooking again.

starting to look for a dance studio to lease, which has required me to figure out exactly what it is I want–which has been harder than I’d expected;

my children acted in such a way all week as to make me not miss them too much when they started school on Thursday, the younger for the first time.

The good: today has been reasonably tolerable without the Wellbutrin;

the fabulous small school my two pre-school-aged kids will be attending. I would move in with the two teachers if they’d let me;

a great hour of dancing on Wednesday that left me feeling recharged;

more luscious cherry tomatoes in our garden than a dozen people could possibly eat; and

a long weekend!

The hard:
Shoes, dealing with repercussions from the stitch and bitch fiasco of two weeks ago; I can deal with cold shoulders, but doing it to my ten year old is just mean

Marty had another interview and another “thanks but no thanks”

Donkey raised the prices on my baked goods and I haven’t raised my wholesale price to them; so now I am in a quandry of trying to source even cheaper supplies or selling less to them or? not sure

Waiting for monies to arrive

Trying to move forward while still not seeing “how” that is going to happen

The good:
Greek Festival at the Annunciation Greek Cathedral in Columbus; beautiful mosaics, great food, great music

Making progress on my new water tower piece

Cooler weather, getting to wear my new orange hoodie this week :D

Re-instituting my daily workout and beginning to feel like a person again

Have a great weekend,y’all!
.-= Andi´s last post … Fabric Gardens =-.