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11 years ago
NEEDLE FELTING IS TITS MCGEE
Now seems like a good time to pop back in to my gallery(ies) and say hi, and give everyone a little update! I sure do hope that life is treating everyone well, that the upcoming fall season isn't too cold for you (yet), and that you get to have fun as the nights get longer :3
Life has been crazy-busy in the past few months since the move. In the middle of August Max (the hubby-bear) and I hosted a family union in celebration of our wedding last year - his family was able to come and visit, and we had them stay the weekend at our house. Hosting that many people was exhausting! We partied every night and made food for everyone all day - it was fun, but it sure took it out of us!
The day I got back to work, I transferred stores. This came as a huge surprise (I didn't even think the transfer was coming for another two months!) and left me kind of shocked; I've come to know and love everybody at my old store, and I still kinda miss them even now - however, working at this other store is a nice challenge in and of itself. The challenges at work just kept getting challenge-ier: schedule-change after schedule-change, and almost four weeks in and the dust is finally starting to settle.
Top it all off with a month of deep revelation, discovery, self-reflection and edification via an error of judgement on my part, and the last four weeks have not been my best.
It got pretty rough there for a few weeks. Let's just say that fall is not a good time of year for me, and September itself is just bad juju for me and my emotions. In September, nothing feels right and I don't feel just stressed or anxious, I feel disconnected and, to an extent, as if I'm hanging on to reality by a thread.
Through it all, though, I've been drawing, sculpting, and needle felting. I've been working on older projects, and starting new ones - and finishing them! It may take me weeks whereas it could only take days (if i wasn't working a full-time schedule elsewhere) but at least I'm doing it! It isn't easy, but nothing in life that's worth having is ever easy.
The next stage of this journey is to actually juggle all the balls I have in play in my life. I have my marriage, family, and other relationships, I have a home and animal-children to take care of, I have a full-time job to manage, I have an art career, I have hobbies... Somewhere in there I need to sleep.
I know there's a way to juggle all this, and I'm going to give myself the next six months to figure it out. If I can survive the past twelve months, I can survive anything!
Life has been crazy-busy in the past few months since the move. In the middle of August Max (the hubby-bear) and I hosted a family union in celebration of our wedding last year - his family was able to come and visit, and we had them stay the weekend at our house. Hosting that many people was exhausting! We partied every night and made food for everyone all day - it was fun, but it sure took it out of us!
The day I got back to work, I transferred stores. This came as a huge surprise (I didn't even think the transfer was coming for another two months!) and left me kind of shocked; I've come to know and love everybody at my old store, and I still kinda miss them even now - however, working at this other store is a nice challenge in and of itself. The challenges at work just kept getting challenge-ier: schedule-change after schedule-change, and almost four weeks in and the dust is finally starting to settle.
Top it all off with a month of deep revelation, discovery, self-reflection and edification via an error of judgement on my part, and the last four weeks have not been my best.
It got pretty rough there for a few weeks. Let's just say that fall is not a good time of year for me, and September itself is just bad juju for me and my emotions. In September, nothing feels right and I don't feel just stressed or anxious, I feel disconnected and, to an extent, as if I'm hanging on to reality by a thread.
Through it all, though, I've been drawing, sculpting, and needle felting. I've been working on older projects, and starting new ones - and finishing them! It may take me weeks whereas it could only take days (if i wasn't working a full-time schedule elsewhere) but at least I'm doing it! It isn't easy, but nothing in life that's worth having is ever easy.
The next stage of this journey is to actually juggle all the balls I have in play in my life. I have my marriage, family, and other relationships, I have a home and animal-children to take care of, I have a full-time job to manage, I have an art career, I have hobbies... Somewhere in there I need to sleep.
I know there's a way to juggle all this, and I'm going to give myself the next six months to figure it out. If I can survive the past twelve months, I can survive anything!
