weekly retro #44: poked, prodded, but not fully deflated
sometimes it's not until sunday when i can connect my exhaustion to the fact that it was a chaotic week. it happened again tonight.
the week started off with me busting my ass on candle stuff, but also beating myself up for being some fake idea of "behind schedule." i felt i was dropping the ball in every aspect of my life. dramatic!
there was a nice moment on tuesday where i was on the subway home finding out that james solomon won the jersey city mayoral run-off.
it was jamie's birthday, which we celebrated at larpa with robot karaoke. jamie did all the work, though. anyway, that's the reason why i was probably the last jersey citizen to know the election results.
that high evening then went low for a couple of days as i went through my annual thyroid ultrasound and quarterly bloodwork.
i just hate the being poked and prodded, walking over a mile to have warm goo pressed into my neck and paying over $200 for it. just a lotta bullshit delaying my candle-making!
friday i finally launched the "leftovers" holiday shop on bugs rock. getting this out there was an uphill battle but i learned a lot, which i'll share more on in a future blog post.
one thing i learned was that doing hobbies really occupies time that otherwise i'd be using rotting or being mean to myself. i spent over 3 hours at the ceramics studio and it was like my brain getting a vacation. i haven't seen it yet, but i heard my tissue box cover survived the bisque fire! the photo above is a coil pot i made into a trapezoid shape, perhaps a future candle vessel
things i enjoyed this week
- i loved this episode of pablo torre finds out with maury povich and connie chung. i immediately went to my library's app to borrow an ebook of connie chung's memoir which i'm going to start after i publish this post.
- i got myself a thin cotton robe that fits in well between my short satin robe and my thick cotton hotel robe. if i had the executive function, i would dye it a darker color.
thanks to everyone who has ordered candles so far and helped motivated me this holiday season! i'm excited for a week of packing orders and melting more wax.
xoxo jenn