October (#18)

[geowench]

October was a quiet month (as opposed to my usual fast-paced glamorous life, snort).  E was in Prague for nearly two weeks, and instead of making plans with friends, like I usually do, I chose to spend the time alone – neither of the two friends I usually make plans with had been in touch with me enough to know my husband was gone, and I just felt like fuck you both, I’m tired of doing all the lifting in this relationship.  The first weekend he was gone I took myself to the Victorian Radicals exhibit at OKC MOA, and the second weekend I stayed home.  Both weekends I sewed and read and watched movies and actually really enjoyed myself.

 

Speaking of Prague, while he was there E had a long meeting with the visa person at the Czech Academy of Sciences, which included 3 phone calls with the visa woman at the Czech Embassy in D.C. (who vetoed my original application), and the woman in Prague was like, “That bitch is crazy,” about the woman at the embassy.  Prague is redoing all our paperwork for a Feb or March starting date, and then we will reapply to the embassy for our visas, now that we have the apostille and translations of our wedding license.  If they approve, great, if not, I will go with E for three months and then I’ll have to come back for three months and he’ll come back for part if not all of that three months and then I’ll go again, and who knows.  Although I was super depressed about it at first, at this point I’m like fuck this, who wants to go to Prague anyway?  Which is stupid because I desperately want to go to Prague.  I’m just tired of being disappointed.

 

Let’s see I actually had some goals for October. 

 

1)         Get back to my ab and arm workouts

I did 4 arms and 3 abs workout in October, which is not great, but OTOH is better than 0 arms and 0 abs workouts.  Definitely room for improvement in November!

 

2)         Continue my daily walks

 

I made my daily step goal 22 days in October, so while not perfect, I think that’s pretty good.

 

3)         Make some jewelry as a birthday gift for my friend M who turns 50 at the end of the month

 

Yup, I did this.  She seemed really taken aback, like I had overdone it, but she was the only person to make a fuss about my birthday (she got me a balloon and some chocolate), and I knew her husband would be a dick and I wanted to do something nice.  It’s not like it cost me hardly anything – I did buy a pair of sterling silver hoops for a bunch of semi-precious stone little earring dangles, but I made all the dangles and had all the findings and stones already in my stash.

 

4)         Go the Cirque du Soleil show I want to see

 

Yes!  It was actually last night, so technically November.  Despite what I said above, I gave in and asked my friend L if she wanted to go and she did and we had a great time.  I told her that I wanted to stay in better touch and she agreed, saying she has not texted/called because she didn’t want to be the intruding/unwanted widow friend, or get me in trouble at work.  I told her that both of those were ridiculous.  So hopefully she will follow through.

 

5)         Spend some time cleaning up my sewing room (again)

 

I didn’t do this because I was too busy actually crafting – jewelry making and sewing – in my sewing room, so even though this is technically a NO, I’m actually calling this a YES in spirit, because I have really wanted to get back into creating stuff and am thrilled with  my bad self that I have made a start.

 

Goals for November

Hit my steps goal 6 days a week.

Arms and/or ab workout 2 days a week.

Finish the two sewing projects I have going.

Give kickass bioarch presentation (invited talk at Ponca OAS)

 

Comments

[old_black]

Victorian radicals? I have to confess I wouldn't know a Pre-Raphaelite if I fell over one, and I'm pretty ignorant about art in general, but this sounds like a good way to while away the time on a quiet weekend.

And Prague is beginning to sound like the impossible dream, isn't it? That's sad.

Your step achievement level looks good to me, and yay you for the hand made 50th gift! M must be special to you. The gifts I value most are those that were hand made.

[geowench]

You'd probably recognize some of the more famous paintings, although might not knwo their labels.

Prague may still happen - we have resubmitted our visa applications and she did not reject them ...

[fineplan]

What do you sew? And that was super sweet to make jewelry for your friend. :D

Sounds like you don't have a lot of fucks to give this month. ;) My number of fucks is rapidly dwindling, too... Know what you mean about doing the heavy friendship lifting... I seem to be doing a lot of that myself. :-/

Cirque du Soleil is amaizng! And I hope your Prague stuff finally starts working out.

[geowench]

I mostly make clothes for myself! I've got a pair of pants and a matchign top in the works that I need to finish up, plus I have some old, fancy dresses that I'm thinking of converting into skirts, because I absolutely do not have a life that calls for fancy dresses.

L and I really enjoyed Cirque. Now I want to go to Vegas and see some more of their shows!

[fineplan]

I keep thinking it would be fun to try and make clothes for myself, but then I get either intimidated or lazy -- despite having bought a sewing machine over a year ago. I also keep thinking I will make something for ComicCon. I need to make myself make something soon...

Can I meet you in Vegas for the shows? haha