Rose Updates

As I know y’all are dying to have an update on my rose-bead making adventure, I went ahead and combined Batch #1 and Batch #2 together.  It’s just easier to stop trying to keep them separated.  ::chuckles::  AND then, with my hyper-focus going, I have started Batch #3.  I’m seeing if I can keep it in a Tupperware container and it still turn out just as well as the Batch I’m keeping in the mini cast iron dutch oven I have.  If it doesn’t, well, I just put it back out around the rosebush as compost.  And if it doesn’t work, maybe once we are past the major COVID-19 hump, I can get over to the Tuesday Morning store, and pick up another mini cast iron dutch oven, specifically for this project.  Combined Batch has 15 days left.  Batch #3 has 29 days left.  I really need to take a photo of the Combined Batch.  It’s definitely more “clay” like now.  So in 15 days, the Combined Batch will be done and I can start making actual beads.  Man, at the rate I’m going, I will be selling rosaries by the time I go back to work.  ::laughs::

In non-rose-bead-adventures, I am still working from home.  So is hubs.  So that is all good for us.  The City keeps going back and forth on how soon they want the Library to open up.  We are currently doing home book/material delivery.  Well, we are getting it ready, and then two people from the Parks & Rec department are making the actual deliveries.  As of right now, it’s looking like mid-May we will do a “soft” opening.  Which means, patrons will be able to come into the Library to check out material, but can’t hang out.  Originally, the City wanted that to happen May 1^st…but that’s now been pushed until the 15^th-ish.  Who the fuck knows?  I just wish they would stop throwing out dates all willy-nilly and stressing us the fuck out over it.  Pick a date and stick with it.  Change it only when the Governor extends the shelter-at-home order. 

The Coven had a virtual ritual this past Sunday.  It ended up being really cool and I realized just how much I miss doing ritual, in person, with my Coven.  I seriously miss them.  But I live for the twice a month Zoom meetings with them.  That is sustaining me for now.

Other than that, it’s pretty much the same ole, same ole.  I have an hour long meeting Monday through Thursday with my coworkers.  Then I pretty much am free to do whatever it is that I wish.  I work on my rose bead mash.  I write in my journal.  I sit outside and enjoy nature.  I do a bit of work, but mostly I just hang out with Josey, drink too much coffee, smoke too many cigarettes, and do my best not to bottom out in depression nor allow my anxiety to overwhelm me.  Most of the time, I maintain a pretty good balance.

We now each have two cloth masks so we are protected when we have to go out.  I got two from work – I had to go up there and print some things out and grab my work journal with all the notes on how to order books and what not.  And then Christie made us two as well.  For free.  So yeah, I will certainly take her out for Mexican food once it’s safe for us to do so.  We are going to see who can eat the most bowls of queso.  ::grins::