So, we were taping the living room yesterday for today's onslaught of VERY neutral, VERY bright off-white paint and in the 1950s built-in bookcase of oddities AFTER writing yesterday's entry, I found this. Which then reminded me of my love of Venetian clowns, of which I used to have a few. I have no idea where this particular piece came from. It's about the size of a couple quarters. I have no memory of it at all. Just a sign from the Universe that it heard me when I said the masks are off? Regardless, it's now sitting on my desk, in eyesight, as a reminder.
I took yesterday, apart from taping to do a whole lotta NOTHING. That is the truth. I did nothing. There were maybe five or 10 minutes of work-work involving an app issue, but other than that, nothing. We did make the mostly unintelligent decision to get Mexican food for dinner, or afternoon snack, in the 3:00pm hour, and I am here to tell you that the less you eat restaurant food, the more you can tell what crap it really is. I got a chicken fajita taco salad, complete with the tortilla shell, of which I did consume half, but not sure why. The chicken and fajita veggebles were grilled on a flat-top grill with some form of shitty restaurant oil, and had little to no flavor outside of that oil. YUCK. The shell was the same. Just an overload of low-quality, high-inflammation oil. All in all, I did eat about half of the whole thing. I guess I just needed to remind myself of the things I DO want and the things I DO NOT want, and that, I do NOT want ever again.
In the words of her:
I ain't doin' it.
Oh, and the Great Faux Nail Experiment of 2024 has ended. I indeed now know what is the right length for me, and whether I can be comfortable wearing them. The question becomes should I go get them done professionally? The jury is out. If I had a public-facing job where I was constantly meeting people, I probably most definitely would. I do not, though, so it'd purely be for vanity. I do have ugly nails, and I was scolded for saying that, and being too hard on myself, but it is a FACT. Psoriasis not only affects the skin, but also the nails, and the joints, and probably more that I don't know about. Each nail is ridged from one side to the other and if I let them grow long enough, they split, sometimes horizontally, sometimes vertically also. I mostly keep them clipped off, so I won't obsess.
I did order some more collagen powder to see if it helps with the skin. The first time I did keto, nearly ALL of it cleared. I don't know why. I also don't know why it hasn't happened this time, but it's a much slower roll. Things are less than they were, but they are still here and still annoying. They're also like a barometer of my diet. When I eat shitty food, I itch. If I eat healthy, things are mellow and mostly silent. Topical treatments are fairly useless. I've tried the majority. I have yet to take a pharmaceutical, though, because have you read the side effects? Is it worth liver damage? I think not. It's superficial. Like everything else, it only bothers me if I focus on it, so mostly I pretend it's not an issue, and it leaves me be.
Well, enough about that.
It's Monday. A new week has arrived. Nothing earth-shattering going on with work, just continuing to stay organized and get more shit done.
I am going to do some thinking about other things I want to do. When you do NOT do anything except work and manage the household as best you can, all else kind of falls away. At this point in time, if I had to pick, I would not be able to. Decision fatigue. I really am considering the YouTube/podcast thing. It will not be a high-class production. It will be me and a webcam, or me and my phone, with sporadic inserts of photos. I do have a channel set up for Odin, but also need to find time to edit those into shorts that would probably be a hit on all the socials because PUPPY ...
Art has been on my mind. I watch fashion and art videos daily. Something's gotta give eventually. First, organization. I can't work from the crumbly chaos of what's currently in my brain. I know that I do not want to be a SELLER of things. I tried it last year. It's not for me. I also know that I don't mind making designs for stuff, but I'd rather sell the designs for someone else to use than to make them myself. I have a few other ideas spinning around, but not ready to share quite yet.
All in all, I think this will be a pretty damned good week. Lots of changes coming to the Hermit Castle. Will be exciting to see when it's all done.
I think for now I'll just get started with my day and see what happens.
Happy Monday!
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