Day in the Life of an Idiot

 
Image: 1960s-style Marvel characters on a quilt, interspersed with red, blue, green and brown squares. Some of the colored squares are checked or dotted to imply the stippling done with color and shading in early comic books. 

Least any of you are worried that I was so petulant about the Facebook comment that I have given up on quilting, never fear. I turned around and started this one almost the same day. Here is the nearly finished result. I'm currently waffling about the edging. I think I may want to expand it a bit more, which would require some detail work, but... what else have I got to do? (I am still awaiting copy edits and final comments from Shawn, so, really, I don't have a lot on at the moment.) 

Meanwhile, I continue my postcard project, despite a distinct lack of funds. This will be week... four (?) of random, strange homemade postcards for my recipients. No, I think I unearthed a postcard booklet of Yellowstone postcards a few postcards back, so maybe it's only been a couple of weeks of these. I found an amazing postcard on Redbubble that I'd love to send, but I'm going to have to wait for Christmas money to arrive. My very, very cheap source of postcards dried up sometime ago. I used to be able to order postcards from Deviant Art. But, I think the powers that be figured out that I was going in via an old entryway and have since disabled it. Like, I don't think I was doing anything wrong, I just think that the powers that be discovered that offering postcards like that was was a loss leader and I was buying a f*ck TON through them. Redbubble and Etsy are much wiser about their prices and so, given that I need about 25 of these things once a week or so, they've become a very rare purchasing option for me. 

This week, in the process of moving some chairs around the living room, I uncovered a basket full of odd cards--like birthday greeting cards. For a while, I was pseudo-collecting these at estate sales. Back when I was getting into pen palling, I found it kind of silly/fun to just send out old-fashioned or odd greeting cards along with my letters. Nowadays, I am down to ONE international pen friend, so they languished. 

What I did with the greeting cards was cut them up to 6 x 4 which is the standard postcards size and then used scraps of pretty paper to cover up obvious birthday wishes, etc. The result is a lot of flowers? Odd pictures of birds? I'm not sure how I'm going to spin this one into the story I'm half-telling, but it will be fine. I'm never entirely sure (except in a few rare cases where people have actually reached out now and again to tell me otherwise) that my strange efforts are appreciated, anyway.  

It's mostly a project for me. As Mason once told his Discord: "Ima needs enrichment."

I'm like an octopus in an aquarium, apparently. 

In other news, I am continuing my nightly rewatch of a single original Star Trek episode. I accidentally rewatched "The Enemy Within" last night, and I rather wish I'd skipped that one. I will say, however, that Sulu is quickly becoming a favorite character this time around. He gets a LOT of funny lines, and, no surprise these days, but George Takei has very good comedic timing and is handsome and charming in a way I think I missed the first time through, as I was far more focused on the Big Three: Spock, Kirk, and McCoy. One of you suggested "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky," as one I could randomly pick as part of this, and I think that will be tonight's episode. 

I am also using my time to bake cookies for the holidays. Yesterday, I made spritz. Today, I will be making sugar cookie cut outs, a recipe we call "Lizzy's sugar cookies," after Shawn's bestie from Kindergarten, with whom she is still in regular contact (and might still be a bestie?)