Happy Summer Solstice

Today was a day off.  Originally I was going to go climb Mount Major with a friend but the weather didn't cooperate.  Then I was going to go to the storage unit but I ended up instead in the Pennsic planning rabbit hole.  I think all my T's are crossed and I's dotted until tomorrow.  There will be a new list of things to do tomorrow.

My happy for today is going to craft night and visiting with people and seeing all the cool stuff they are working on. 

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What a day!

Sometime in the middle of my deep, Benadryl sleep last night I felt that my arm was swelling up.  Well, it was already swollen around the site where something bit me on Monday but this was like the rings on my fingers suddenly seemed too small and I pulled them off and left them on the bed beside me.  This morning I could only find one of the two rings I took off.  There has yet to be an extensive search because of the doctor appointment this morning and other things that had to be done.  Somewhere in my room there is the ring my aunt/godmother gave me for my sixteenth birthday.  Hopefully I will find it tomorrow, when I have a little more time, and before it gets stepped on or squished into a drawer.  The arm is seeming a bit better today, wish the itching would end though.

After my doctor appointment-where she thought waiting one more day to see if my body will take care of the bite itself before prescribing meds-I met up with some work friends for a birthday celebration.  Hopefully I will find some time to get together with them again over the summer.

I was able to take a nap before heading out to fighter practice tonight.  This proved to be a good thing because there were people there to talk to and I had to do more than sit and watch.  A former Baron and his wife were there and toward the end of practice a local reporter came by to see about writing a story for the local paper.  This was a big reminder that I should get myself some business cards. 

It was a good day visiting with friends and meeting new people.  Happy things for today include:

• Seeing some improvement on my arm where something bit me on Monday.
• Good food.
• Great company.
• Plans coming together (some anyways).
• Naps.

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Shower

Monday at work something bit me.  At this point the spot is way larger than it should be and I am going in to see my doctor in the morning.  I will spare the readers and not post the pictures I have been taking. 

In other news there will be a new shower at the two week long event this summer.  It seems to be coming along quite well and I am in awe as to the amount of work that goes into constructing this well.  A few of us got together and got it partially assembled today.  It is so pretty. 

There was also a retirement party for someone at work today.  I have known her since I was a teenager and she is the reason that I am a para-educator now. 

My happy things are:

• The shower and getting to visit with some SCA friends.
• Going to the retirement party and visiting with work friends. 
• Pushing little kids on a swing (at the party).  
• Ice on my bite.

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Improv--short post

Yesterday while outside at work something bit me.  Since then that spot just keeps getting larger and more red.  If the miscellaneous treatments I have used today and tonight don't show improvement in the morning, it will be doctor visit time.  It has been a distraction for me most of the day.

My happy for today though involves rehearsal.  We went through the scenario, made some adjustments and have things we need to work on.  All the players were there tonight and it went well.  There is always laughter at rehearsal.  :)  It may because I wore the garb that is my costume tonight, but I finally felt like I was finding my character.

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Mary, Mary

After the penultimate day of the school year my friend and I went out and did some more weeding and planting in her garden.  I am reminded about a part from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett where Mary requests a piece of earth.  Gardening has never been a huge thing for me.  I like them but seldom have been able to keep up with the weeding and such.  My preferred plants were always the ones that come up again every year.  That would be the flowers I used to have in my yard (narcissus, lily of the valley, bleeding hearts, tulips) and also the edible strawberries and rhubarb.  We have planted some herbs and now cucumbers.  The rose bush has been uncovered, but there was no new growth yet.  Hopefully it will pull through now that the grass around it has been pulled.  It was a rough autumn around here and it didn't take long for things to grow that didn't belong.  So now in the home I sometimes stay at we are sharing a piece of earth and may have some fresh vegetables in the fall.  More plants need to be purchased, soon for a nice small fall harvest.

Gardening is my happy for today.

This bee was polite enough to pose for my picture taking. 

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Happy? Father's Day.

Apologies, in advance, for a not very happy post.

This is the 19th Father's Day since my father passed away.  It has been a rather melancholy day for me.  I believe, for the majority of humans, we always miss our parents.  There have been and still are family members in my life that I consider mother figures after my mom passed, but no family members that stepped into the father figure roll for me.  This is not to say that I don't have some awesome older cousins and uncles that I am sure would step into that roll if I had asked, it just never happened.  Thankfully, the SCA is full of parental as well as brother and sister types.  As time goes on, I have lost some of those as well.  That is part of getting older, mourning those that go before us.  Today we are asked to celebrate the Fathers in our lives; I hope that those reading this had a splendid day and were able to be with family.  K is visiting her father in Texas and Z is with his dad too. 

My happy today is all the love we have for our family, friends and chosen family.

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Just a Happy

For today I bring a list of happy things:

• Yesterday and today I have been doing a skin test to see if I can use a particular shampoo and I my skin is fine.
• I remembered to figure out what I need to do to fix my gown, now I just need to do it.
• Today is the halfway point of the 30 day exercise challenge, so far, so good.
• Per my request the bacon for my lunch at Subway was burned and it was perfect.
• In Minecraft I 'trained' two wolves last night and this morning I dyed their collars different colors, named them Shuttle and Warped and accidentally bred them and got a puppy, yet to be named.
• Went for a walk and got my step count in.
• Sang a song with K making Gideon laugh hilariously.
• Quite possibly convinced, or at least answered many questions for someone still fairly new to the SCA, to go to Pennsic.
• The moon is beautiful tonight.

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