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[elainegrey]

It's grey and drizzly outside. Yesterday Christine and i stepped out to run a few errands, in hopes of breaking our respective funks. The ginko trees along Middlefield were brilliant, fallen leaves pooled under the trees. It was like all the sun that had been shaded by the tree over the summer, lit up the ground all at once.

After we sat and had coffee, i was inspired to go buy some pony beads to attempt making a crocheted beaded rope in large scale. With the large beads and thick yarn, i was able to practice and finally understand the technique. I'm not sure what to do with the chunky beaded length i now have. It's too long to be an ornament, too short to be beaded garland. I suppose i could pull it all out and do something else with it. First, though, i want to try with seed beads!

My sister talked some sense into me yesterday. New Director had rounded up our phone call with the request, the gift, that the team should take the day off to compensate for all the work in getting things deployed over the past month. I felt that mainly the two folks who had focussed on that should take the time, and felt that i had managed my time over the days and didn't require comp.

But after the 7 am phone call was far more frustrating than i expected, and after wrestling with whether a bargain airfare was truly a bargain -- to find that it disappeared -- i was out of sorts and really did NOT want to work. So, i didn't, really.

Maybe the mental rest early on will help me get some activities managed over these four days.