Day in the Life of an Idiot

Image: a rather dark picture of a quilt I started over a year ago.

Facebook has this thing where it reminds you of things you posted about x many years ago. Today, the thing that popped up for me was this quilt I started during the early days of the pandemic. I am, as it happens, still working on this. In fact, I just got a big influx of fabrics, and so I was adding to it just last night. I think this quilt is one of those lifetime projects. I will probably keep adding pieces to it forever.

I have a quilt that's all finished in terms of piecing, and is just waiting for me to drag the quilting hoop down from upstairs and get going on the finishing touches. That's a big blue and green quilt that I made for rachelmanija . I have another one that's actually all together and ready to go out the door. I just need to package it up and send it off.  I have just not had the energy for these for whatever reason. Currently, I am blaming the weather. It's been cold and gray and miserable here. 

Though, I see sun right now. My computer tells me that it's 37 F / 3 C. I guess that's warmer than it has been??

Speaking of the outside, I'm going to have to watch a webinar about planting my pollinator garden at some point. I managed to miss the meeting somehow, but they send out recordings to everyone. To be honest, I just haven't thought about it because I try not to do too much to my lawn in early spring. I did rake the section of land that I'm going to start planting on, so I could probably start considering my options there. 
I don't know. I am feeling like I should be more clever than I am feeling right now because I just popped back over to Facebook for this picture and got distracted by all the people who are whining about the demise of Twitter and talking about other social media platforms to join. Which... I mean, this comes up periodically and people pretend they're going to leave on principle, but no one ever does. But the thing that really distracted me was that at least two writer friends had threads about this and I was curious enough to see what people were suggesting, and then, lo and behold, people started mentioning Dreamwidth... only to bash it for being empty and "dead." And, I'm like, "Huh." I mean, I guess if you're comparing it to Twitter, yes. But, dead seems a little harsh.

I started to defend out little plot of awesome over here, but then decided I like it quiet. I mean, in this particular case, it really is apples to oranges. What you would get from Twitter, you will NOT get from the long, meandering form of Dreamwidth.

Anyway, here is the same quilt, a year later, also with cat.

If I Twittered this moment's comment would be: "headed for lunch; up for a Lammy."

Because... the anthology PERIPHERY was just short-listed for the 21st Lambda Award in the lesbian erotica catagory. My AngeLINK short story, "ishtartu" included in that, though it's not terribly sexy and I'm sure it had very little to do with the nomination. But, if any of you have the power to vote on the Lambda, please consider casting a vote for PERIPHERY if you liked it!

Also, I am not watching the Saint Paul St. Patrick's Day parade right now because a) I couldn't find a date, and b) it looks like it might rain any minute.

Anyway, I should write. I've managed to go several days now without writing thanks to the weekend and the school field trip. It's time to get back to work, alas.

I should tell folks who might be interested that our gerbils have names. The black one is "B" (for "busy like a bee") and the sandy-brown one is XOXO (pronounced "zoe-zoe"). I seriously considered John's suggestion of "food" and "supplimental" as Inky's vote, especially since if there was a fair vote (as in one for every animal in the house) "food" and "supplimental" would probably win. The cats, I think, have lost weight due to the never ending excitement that is the gerbils. There is much tail twitching and batting and jumping and whisker flicking. Both Inky and All Ball like to sit on top of the cage and loom. It's quite a sight.

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!