In Process

 Good news—this morning’s test showed my blood levels much improved – – I’m waiting to hear from the doctor what she thinks. 

For now, I’m taking this as a sign that changing my diet is effective, for sure, and I should keep doing that —

and more of it.

I got a great reminder that the thrift store is not the only source of scrappy art materials when I went to the grocery store attached to the Mexican bakery I’d mentioned, and I found 4 copper-wire pot scrubbers in a pack. At home I unraveled them, and started making Lunar new year Dragon costumes for Girlettes – – the two noodles arrived and were eager to jump right into costume day.

Below, a dragon in process—She’s going to have copper netting wings. This is not a girlette, of course, it’s a broken doll from the store—old, she was made in Hong Kong. 

Her dragon head is the toe of a metal shoe tree. 

I also signed up for Facebook again today – – for the first time in… I think three years? One reason I got off was that I was unhappy doing the store’s social media, and my own got caught up in that. So it’s not entirely incidental that I’m getting on again now that I’m gone from the store. Also, as I’ve mentioned, I’ve been feeling a little too isolated – – and there are a couple people who I only saw on Facebook because they live out of town and that’s their main way of staying in touch. If I find I get obsessive about it and can’t handle it, I will get off again.

I do not feel lonelier having left the store though – – I think I felt lonelier at the store, actually. 

I’m looking forward to meeting my new coworkers – – one of the people who interviewed me responded to a question I asked in such a thoughtful and thorough way, obviously genuinely interested in the matter, I felt less lonely in the world right then and there.

Fly on, little dragons!