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clevermanka) wrote2024-01-17 08:18 am
clevermanka) wrote2024-01-17 08:18 am
Wednesday
Temperatures are reaching (reasonable) double digits today so I'm running all my errands. I hope the snow I can't shovel will allow me to exit my driveway. I'm pretty sure it will, although I'll likely have to clear at least a couple narrow paths to roll down my trash bins and my landlady's. Crossing fingers she doesn't have enough recycling to worry about because that will mean three paths and I'm not sure how I'll manage that and run errands. We'll see.
I'd planned to write marketing copy for Secular Sacred yesterday--those ten words and brief embellishments of them--but only managed five because I spent a lot of energy (and wrist strength) on removing the ice from my bedroom windows. Between the potential damage to the untreated wood sills (I know, but I don't own this place so am not putting in the effort and money to rectify that) and the specks of mold I saw growing under them (yikes) I figured I needed to deal with that toot sweet. Tomorrow I'll tackle what's likely the same on the window in my art studio, which will entail clearing off the entire worktable so I can kneel on it (it's very large and unmovable by me).
I despise winter and everything that comes with it, but I am also emotionally bereft when removed from an environment without a significant tree population. Also I can't really afford to live anywhere but the Midwest. Capitalism continues to be the bane of my existence (and so many others').
Monday I had the pleasant surprise of someone scheduling a tarot reading. It felt good to read for someone again, and the $30 didn't hurt! I'm feeling a bit discouraged by the lack of response to my offers of even free general, vibes-based readings to my Patreon members. I'm considering offering a free reading a week to the general public because now that my online tarot group has disbanded I have few opportunities to stay in practice. But I think a similar lack of response to a general audience might be further depressing? On the other hand I don't like operating from a place of acting (or not acting) out of a fear of the worst, so...
The business of practicing optimism is a difficult one.
Excelsior, though. Right? Right.
I'd planned to write marketing copy for Secular Sacred yesterday--those ten words and brief embellishments of them--but only managed five because I spent a lot of energy (and wrist strength) on removing the ice from my bedroom windows. Between the potential damage to the untreated wood sills (I know, but I don't own this place so am not putting in the effort and money to rectify that) and the specks of mold I saw growing under them (yikes) I figured I needed to deal with that toot sweet. Tomorrow I'll tackle what's likely the same on the window in my art studio, which will entail clearing off the entire worktable so I can kneel on it (it's very large and unmovable by me).
I despise winter and everything that comes with it, but I am also emotionally bereft when removed from an environment without a significant tree population. Also I can't really afford to live anywhere but the Midwest. Capitalism continues to be the bane of my existence (and so many others').
Monday I had the pleasant surprise of someone scheduling a tarot reading. It felt good to read for someone again, and the $30 didn't hurt! I'm feeling a bit discouraged by the lack of response to my offers of even free general, vibes-based readings to my Patreon members. I'm considering offering a free reading a week to the general public because now that my online tarot group has disbanded I have few opportunities to stay in practice. But I think a similar lack of response to a general audience might be further depressing? On the other hand I don't like operating from a place of acting (or not acting) out of a fear of the worst, so...
The business of practicing optimism is a difficult one.
Excelsior, though. Right? Right.