Daily Check-In

[mecurtin]

This is your check-in post for today. The poll will be open from midnight Universal or Zulu Time (8pm Eastern Time on Sunday) to midnight (8pm Monday Eastern Time).

Poll #23726 Daily poll

This poll is closed.
Open to: Access List, detailed results viewable to: Access List, participants: 81

How are you doing?

I am OK
71 (87.7%)

I am not OK, but don't need help right now
10 (12.3%)

I could use some help
0 (0.0%)

How many other humans live with you?

I am living single
36 (44.4%)

One other person
25 (30.9%)

More than one other person
20 (24.7%)

Please, talk about how things are going for you in the comments, ask for advice or help if you need it, or just discuss whatever you feel like.

Also, please let me know if this doesn't show up in your reading list in order.

Comments

[feng_shui_house]

Still sewing and ficcing. My sleep schedule is all wacky, but on the bright side getting up way earlier than usual means I have more good light for sewing. Finished another 10 face masks and wound up writing 2 more fics. Today Dug the dog from UP woke me at 3am to insist I write his story, and later Wanda Maximoff wanted to be heard.

[darkemeralds]

Wow! Your productivity is an inspiration! I cut out one experimental mask today--I'm trying for the shaped kind with a center seam--but become overwhelmed. I get overwhelmed with the simplest things! And I know how to sew!

[feng_shui_house]

I know what you mean! I spent 2 days checking out links, printing out patterns, looking up comments from nurses & doctors before I even decided what pattern to use. And then went 'WHAT? HOW? PLEATS, OMG WHAT?' before I made the first one.

I decided to do it assembly line fashion once I figured it out, so I have a bunch *partly* done, which will make it seem faster because they'll complete quickly. But once this batch is done, I have to start over on the next group which only has the first few stages done (boiled for 5 minutes, spun to get out excess water in washing machine, and then dried on high heat).

My first batch of 16 is awaiting pickup by the USPS- they're going to an assisted living facility (I didn't choose them, I signed up with MaskMakers who matches you up and gives you the address.)

[kathmandu]

We're all dealing with a lot of new things right now. Each new thing takes extra mental effort, just because it's not routine habit yet. I've noticed new recipes take 2-3 times as long as familiar recipes, just because I have to pay close attention to the recipe vs. 'collect ingredients, measure, stir, pour in pan without even getting out the written recipe'.

So each new thing is a bigger project than if it were familiar, and the more new things we're dealing with, the closer we get to 'brain full, must reboot'.

[tamsin]

Wow, you're being really productive! Sounds like the characters are insistent to get written right now.

[feng_shui_house]

A lot of it happens while I'm doing mindless sewing and ironing- I'm trying to be efficient by doing the same step over and over and over again on a batch and after a few minutes I just zone out and characters start telling me how they want to help.

I'm taking a coffee/lunch break now from ironing pleats. Scott McCall from Teen Wolf has been talking to me, so I expect I'll be trying to write his story before I go back to sewing. Need more time to get the kinks out of my back, anyway. ;^)