After picking Silas up at the bus stop last Thursday, we dropped by two of our nearby Seattle Parks and Recreation community centers to see what programs they’re offering this summer.
I was just wondering when is the next online workshop going to be ( the one you make once a month for subscribers ) ? I'm afraid I missed the last one as I can only remember our last meeting on march 28th ! Have a nice day !
I'm watching fat little black capped chickadees busily build their nest outside our window, watching my 5 year old enthusiastically hold her breath under water (I cannot do that without holding my nose) and making tiny Tetris-shaped bricks of visible mending around the butt pockets of my just-ok but not going to buy new jeans that I wear all the time.
It's odd how admiring my own visible mending gives me much more of a kick than any aspirationally invisible mending I might have attempted - though I have had a bag of other projects sitting by the sofa all winter and haven't yet got round to it, but I do feel very proud of the stuff I have done.
Hm, bits - I made a really great mayonnaise with an egg yolk that had been sitting in my fridge for almost a week (+ 1 tbsp water, a clove of wet garlic and about 50ml cold-pressed rapeseed oil which gave it an outrageous colour, whizzed up with a stick blender) to go with asparagus, so that's satisfying.
Would it be ridiculous to toss some mending supplies in our bags for the retreat this fall??? Little impromptu mending circle??? I bet Kate would approve...
(All genders welcome to join us naturally, I would like to think women do not have the monopoly on large needles and stout colourful thread, and I’m sure Mark RIP would have been amazing)
Needed a boost so re-listened to my favorite The Moth podcast ever(listen to the end!) and indeed felt boosted: Dr. Mary Claire-King at the World Science Festival June 2014 https://youtu.be/tOP5pUIYhv4?si=f-5j7a3bYKZwBMGE
Trying to stretch more!
Ate Dairy Queen with my kid and his bud after soccer on a hot day and it was *so* good
1. I went to a middle school track meet today and it was great to see so many kids trying their bests. Even the ones in the back and the later non-scoring heats. There’s a lesson in that for everyone.
2. There is a squirrel in our basement that came in through an uncapped chimney and I don’t know what to do about it. My husband just tries shooting them with his pellet gun and its not working to trap them.
3. Mothers Day always feels weird to me like “here’s one token day to thank you for the never-ending work you do to take care of everything”. And I caved and spent the day with extended family instead of doing exactly what I wanted to do.
Thanks for your little bits and bobs Molly. Sending joy for your garden and taking it as an inspiration for my ugly pile of dirt and plants and dead tulips.
Re: Mother's Day, 100%. Ash and I both consider ourselves mothers, so around here Mother's Day is a totally normal day, only we feel *more* annoyed about its annoyances than we do on all the other days. SOLIDARITY
1. I just had a very loud laugh at myself when I saw the IGAF logo and read it as:
I Give A F*ck.
I'm a little slow today.
2. I'm going to try an open mic at a new comedy club that opened in my neighborhood. I did stand up for 25 years until the pandemic. I'm terrified and excited, but I've been quiet for too long. Making people laugh is something I do really well, and I need to get back to it.
This week I took my car to the car wash I have used for so long now that several of the workers know me. Asked by a long- term employee how I was, I admitted tearfully, not so great. My husband died last fall.” He hugged me. Bless him.
In my own espresso maker journey: we got a breville espresso maker for our wedding 2 decades ago, and I also couldn’t figure out how to pull a decent shot, and due to that disappointment I did make a habit of using it and it mostly sat idle for years and years. A few years ago I got divorced and let my ex husband take the espresso maker. A year later, I was hankering for espresso and I asked him if he ever used it, which he did not, and so I asked for temporary custody of it to see if I might engage my growth mindset and learn to do it better and the decide if I wanted to ask if I could keep it or just get a new one. I was just developing the habit when the heating element blew. I took it apart to see if I could fix it, and I couldn’t, and we don’t have an espresso repair shop to my knowledge, so I didn’t something out of my ow character and CALLED THE COMPANY to see if there was, I dunno, anything they could do? The machine had just been discontinued so they couldn’t fix it, but instead they gave me a 25% discount on a new machine! So I went for it, and now I can make myself a decent espresso, and I also don’t are about frothed milk so I never use that part. I also feel as though I’ve grown up somehow.
Hi !
This is so fun to read !
I was just wondering when is the next online workshop going to be ( the one you make once a month for subscribers ) ? I'm afraid I missed the last one as I can only remember our last meeting on march 28th ! Have a nice day !
I'm watching fat little black capped chickadees busily build their nest outside our window, watching my 5 year old enthusiastically hold her breath under water (I cannot do that without holding my nose) and making tiny Tetris-shaped bricks of visible mending around the butt pockets of my just-ok but not going to buy new jeans that I wear all the time.
Mark is right, number 5 was really, really good.
Black capped chickadees! I love their chick-a-dee-dee-dee-dee-dee song -- an obvious one, but the first birdsong I ever learned to recognize.
OH MY GOD, number 5!
RIGHT????
It's odd how admiring my own visible mending gives me much more of a kick than any aspirationally invisible mending I might have attempted - though I have had a bag of other projects sitting by the sofa all winter and haven't yet got round to it, but I do feel very proud of the stuff I have done.
Hm, bits - I made a really great mayonnaise with an egg yolk that had been sitting in my fridge for almost a week (+ 1 tbsp water, a clove of wet garlic and about 50ml cold-pressed rapeseed oil which gave it an outrageous colour, whizzed up with a stick blender) to go with asparagus, so that's satisfying.
Would it be ridiculous to toss some mending supplies in our bags for the retreat this fall??? Little impromptu mending circle??? I bet Kate would approve...
Let’s do it! I will certainly have progressed no further by then, and I love the idea of us darning and chatting like extremely wise women of old
(All genders welcome to join us naturally, I would like to think women do not have the monopoly on large needles and stout colourful thread, and I’m sure Mark RIP would have been amazing)
(Also I love the idea of writing down children's orders! hope you're going to frame that)
Needed a boost so re-listened to my favorite The Moth podcast ever(listen to the end!) and indeed felt boosted: Dr. Mary Claire-King at the World Science Festival June 2014 https://youtu.be/tOP5pUIYhv4?si=f-5j7a3bYKZwBMGE
Trying to stretch more!
Ate Dairy Queen with my kid and his bud after soccer on a hot day and it was *so* good
Ooo, what's your Dairy Queen order? I never pass up a chance for an Oreo Blizzard.
M&M blizzard for me! I just re-listened yet again to that moth podcast. Damn. So good. I hope readers check it out. Cheers!
1. I went to a middle school track meet today and it was great to see so many kids trying their bests. Even the ones in the back and the later non-scoring heats. There’s a lesson in that for everyone.
2. There is a squirrel in our basement that came in through an uncapped chimney and I don’t know what to do about it. My husband just tries shooting them with his pellet gun and its not working to trap them.
3. Mothers Day always feels weird to me like “here’s one token day to thank you for the never-ending work you do to take care of everything”. And I caved and spent the day with extended family instead of doing exactly what I wanted to do.
Thanks for your little bits and bobs Molly. Sending joy for your garden and taking it as an inspiration for my ugly pile of dirt and plants and dead tulips.
Re: Mother's Day, 100%. Ash and I both consider ourselves mothers, so around here Mother's Day is a totally normal day, only we feel *more* annoyed about its annoyances than we do on all the other days. SOLIDARITY
1. I just had a very loud laugh at myself when I saw the IGAF logo and read it as:
I Give A F*ck.
I'm a little slow today.
2. I'm going to try an open mic at a new comedy club that opened in my neighborhood. I did stand up for 25 years until the pandemic. I'm terrified and excited, but I've been quiet for too long. Making people laugh is something I do really well, and I need to get back to it.
Oh Cindee, you are very much invited to read IGAF as I Give A Fuck! And more importantly, break a leg at the open mic! When is it?
Thank you! As soon as I have one new joke to start with. I'm re-writing some of my old stuff. Could be this week!
This week I took my car to the car wash I have used for so long now that several of the workers know me. Asked by a long- term employee how I was, I admitted tearfully, not so great. My husband died last fall.” He hugged me. Bless him.
Looking forward to hugging you next month, Pam ❤️
In my own espresso maker journey: we got a breville espresso maker for our wedding 2 decades ago, and I also couldn’t figure out how to pull a decent shot, and due to that disappointment I did make a habit of using it and it mostly sat idle for years and years. A few years ago I got divorced and let my ex husband take the espresso maker. A year later, I was hankering for espresso and I asked him if he ever used it, which he did not, and so I asked for temporary custody of it to see if I might engage my growth mindset and learn to do it better and the decide if I wanted to ask if I could keep it or just get a new one. I was just developing the habit when the heating element blew. I took it apart to see if I could fix it, and I couldn’t, and we don’t have an espresso repair shop to my knowledge, so I didn’t something out of my ow character and CALLED THE COMPANY to see if there was, I dunno, anything they could do? The machine had just been discontinued so they couldn’t fix it, but instead they gave me a 25% discount on a new machine! So I went for it, and now I can make myself a decent espresso, and I also don’t are about frothed milk so I never use that part. I also feel as though I’ve grown up somehow.
Tracy, BIG YES to CALLING THE COMPANY! May we all bring more CALLING THE COMPANY energy to life!