Can't believe I forgot about this blog all-together! Time to reset.

I did finish the quilt back in 2014 and it turned out beautifully. In fact, it ended up being better that I could ever imagine. I've put it on its own page above.

Now, for the big "reset"

Starting today, I am running a 4-week experiment taking better care of my health. This involves

1. exercising at least 4 times each week
2. learning mindfulness for 10 minutes each day
3. listening to audiobooks if I have trouble sleeping

I want to see if these three items will reset my sleep and internal clock from its current unsustainable randomness to a schedule resembling a "normal" person.

P.S. Well, mindfulness is a more complicated subject than I thought. Some reputable places/people question if "mindfulness" harms some people:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jan/23/is-mindfulness-making-us-ill  and
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/19/magazine/the-muddied-meaning-of-mindfulness.html. According to this latter piece, "mindfulness" is a Buddhist meditation stripped of religion, defined along the way as “The awareness that arises through paying attention on purpose in the present moment, and non-judgmentally” (Kabat-Zinn), and coming on the heals of other techniques for self-actualization, positive-thinking, self-help, recovery, and other mumbo-jumbo and psycho-babble. 

I guess daily posting is just not for me

Made a lot of progress over the weekend and am now waiting on a few final pieces before figuring out sizes and positions. Minky backing is going to be seriously tricky. Many places just flat out say that you should not attempt it, especially if you are a beginner. Oh well. I guess I never liked listening to advice when it is telling me not to do something I want to do.

Day 2 with QFP

Maybe it's obvious, but I just realized that in order to arrange it at all, I'm going to need to know the sizes of the various patches. I'm worried that I have more stuff to include than the space that I have, which is the size of the blanket P has chosen, 50x70. She was home today and between that and the cleaning lady, I haven't gotten much done on qfp. I have make progress in narrowing it down to a generally-horizontal orientation.

Day 1 with QFP (quilt for pearl)

I've missed creating stuff with my hands. This feels good.

Today I got a number of pieces stiffened with interfacing, sewed on Pearl's name with the laces from her first shoes, ordered Buffy patch, found Dr Who and Supernatural fabric and realized that I haven't yet figured out what do put for her vegetarianism.

Interfacing takes times and I've messed up a few pieces :(, including getting mom's Paris scarf with the writing appearing backwards.

Still haven't quite decided on the overall look and pattern. I think the spiral from the center will not work since many pieces have writing on them, which will look better horizontally. making exact horizontal or vertical lines would be a pain. I wonder if I can get away from multiple slightly skewed planes.

Oh yes, and I got Pearl to approve the teal throw I bought for her "blanket" for college.

Jeffri dropped off CMS team t-shirt, which is totally perfect since I had nothing of hers from middle school.

Week of 6.30

date	todo part/done unplanned
6.30	part...schedule bloodwork danielle 215.451.4263 done...robin done...pick up sheds done...sort mail sort desk leslie's bill mail rx find gift receipts mail thank you to susan
7.1	done...p gift subscription to week e programming done...make vascular appt done...schedule bloodwork danielle 215.451.4263 done...story app for e done...update credit card autopays call susan citibank offer mail rx part...sort desk done...sign up for j's medical leslie's bill find gift receipts mail thank you to susan
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