The end of days.
31 December 2024 07:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sister_raphael It's the morning of the last day of the year and I'm sipping vanilla coffee in my container garden with my rescue kitty and thinking of the past year. It's been unusuallt cool and moist this summer so less plants have died with extreme heat, which is nice. The pineapple tops rooted and for the first time since I was a kid, I have pineapples growing! The elderflower trees are doing incredibly well for pots and provide dappled shade for the herbs. The giant salvias are still growing head hight or above which is crazy but awesome. Bee numbers are up again with 3 types of bees regularly about.
Book wise, the first one is still selling, the little quote one suffers from me not having a distributor and the third one is set for release March 2025, which is 12 weeks away, so I'm prepping for that. I've had a bunch of sterling silver squirrels to tie onto bookmarks for special events which worked out to be a few cents each rather than much more in the craft shops.
Website upgrades are continuing for another week or two as I get time. The online galleries for sewing and tutorials still need finishing, as do the experimental archaeology pages. Two are finished, but there's a couple more to go.
Work has slacked of a bit as it usually does between Xmas and new year and training the new assistants is going well. Lots of deer in the headlights eyes but they're going to get there. Covid numbers presenting in ED have spiked again, which is annoying. The hilarious yransition of this year's 4th year assistants that I trained are finished uni and are now first year radiographers and are in charge of me, which is a dynamic shift some of them struggle with.
History wise, I've recruited another member to Ex Libris Living History, who is studying religion and hopes to do some great tallks and displays about Holy relics, so that will be fun! I'm hoping ro make some jewelled circlets to sell early next year at a medieval market, so I need to get on with that. I've got a ton of hand sewing to do, so I really should have been doing that while I was off work with my knee recovery but I felt I just needed to switch my brain off for a bit and do nothing in front of movies with my kitty. The reproduction brooch and buttons from my friends at Keystone Forge are amazing and I'm using them already.
Fingers crossed for a good last shift of the year. Our X-Ray department is a wonderful place to work and I love my job as a CT Assistant, and the posse I'm working with is all girls, so it should be a nice one.
No real New Year Resolutions other than post more regularly to keep myself motivated about projects. Craft and read more. Spend a little more time with my cat.
Book wise, the first one is still selling, the little quote one suffers from me not having a distributor and the third one is set for release March 2025, which is 12 weeks away, so I'm prepping for that. I've had a bunch of sterling silver squirrels to tie onto bookmarks for special events which worked out to be a few cents each rather than much more in the craft shops.
Website upgrades are continuing for another week or two as I get time. The online galleries for sewing and tutorials still need finishing, as do the experimental archaeology pages. Two are finished, but there's a couple more to go.
Work has slacked of a bit as it usually does between Xmas and new year and training the new assistants is going well. Lots of deer in the headlights eyes but they're going to get there. Covid numbers presenting in ED have spiked again, which is annoying. The hilarious yransition of this year's 4th year assistants that I trained are finished uni and are now first year radiographers and are in charge of me, which is a dynamic shift some of them struggle with.
History wise, I've recruited another member to Ex Libris Living History, who is studying religion and hopes to do some great tallks and displays about Holy relics, so that will be fun! I'm hoping ro make some jewelled circlets to sell early next year at a medieval market, so I need to get on with that. I've got a ton of hand sewing to do, so I really should have been doing that while I was off work with my knee recovery but I felt I just needed to switch my brain off for a bit and do nothing in front of movies with my kitty. The reproduction brooch and buttons from my friends at Keystone Forge are amazing and I'm using them already.
Fingers crossed for a good last shift of the year. Our X-Ray department is a wonderful place to work and I love my job as a CT Assistant, and the posse I'm working with is all girls, so it should be a nice one.
No real New Year Resolutions other than post more regularly to keep myself motivated about projects. Craft and read more. Spend a little more time with my cat.
