When I was at the hospital for my x-ray, I had to readjust to an entirely new inside - I apparently have been there before, now that I think about it perhaps my follow-up MRI on my hip after I returned home from Boston, and my surgeon insisted on seeing my progress 3 years post operation. (I know I was in this hospital once as a teenager also, to visit an injured HS friend.)
Anyway, the inside was luxuriously beautiful, all this glass and light and high ceilings and Starbucks and a fancy cafe and artwork and this entire children's courtyard and all kinds of loveliness. Along the long hallway of wooden colorful painted trees and a wavy green path, the wall had diorama type boxes on the wall, shaped like bird houses with bird silhouettes in the glass, and all sorts of little things inside the box representing said bird.
They were so beautiful and charming and irresistible to behold, and there was something so fun about the 3-dimentionality of them, that I thought, what a fun project it would be, for mom's memorial, to make a box like that, with a silhouette of something she loved, like a cat or a piano, a coffee cup or a wine glass (ha), sheet music or a hymnal, movie quotes or a cat figurine, and to fill it with things people wanted to gift to it, to represent her. I could display it somewhere in my home, or even outside of it, it could be opened and added to/changed from time to time, perhaps on her birthday or something.
I want to be careful to remember all of my friends and loved ones who have passed in as honorable a way as possible, my dad and Madoc, my pets and my coach, grandparents and sweet little
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65redroses (Eva).
I will think about this.
So much I want to get done while I'm banished from the apartment tomorrow early morning (Josh has an interview). I want to do a tutorial on how to get started with Patreon, I want to film a new hair sparkle video, I need to do some more website online store training, it's all so overwhelming. Also need to write a check, get some quarters, make a deposit, and follow up with a friend or two about an order for advertising materials and also just to hang out. I was going to see about going to Nectar cafe and working there, but if they seem unfriendly to the idea I could just take my coffee to my studio. Come back home for lunch and start sparkling at noon, work until 5, I am grateful I had a morning cancellation so my actual sparkling time is only 5 hours instead of 7. 6 on Friday. Still too much but it'll be all right.
Still need to figure out cat sitting if i want to join Josh in Astoria next weekend for a coastal 5k run and overnight getaway. And loosely book out the rest of the month's appointments.
Still need to eat less. But at least i ate a lot of kale, today, and prepped a lot of veggies for tomorrow and Friday, yay. calorie restriction during a migraine is not always a good plan.
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It is nice to have a down day, to "take a zero" as Josh likes to put it, when it's obvious that it's needed. Other than the x-ray and DEQ, an a supply order and a lot of dishes, a little cooking, and walking the cat, i got pretty much nothing done today while that migraine dissipated. and it felt
great. Sometimes it's wonderful to just
be. I am so grateful just to be here.
