Plotbunnies' Paradise

Friday I had grand plans to get things moving so I could get a pedicure and Costco run before my tattoo appointment. I only got the pedicure cause I got up late (even though my brain was up and awake very early) like I was up and meandering around and making coffee before Mel. So managed the pedicure and then looked at the time, travel time and my stress level and just came home, packed a nice bag, ate a quick lunch and then headed to my appointment.

I got rock star parking and we got to work and it was easy? Like only a few spots were weird. I didn't swell, it didn't ache it was fine? I had a high off of it and headed home without issues. Mel and Benton were off at the dojo. When they got home I had hoped we could go out to dinner but Mel was DONE with being outside. So I took myself to sushi and Ari was able to join me. Which was needed. We caught up on things and had good noms and drinks and I felt better in my head. Got home and then the tireds hit. I headed to bed early I think and slept well.

I was again up early but didn't manage to really accomplish much. Mel was out at the dojo. Benton was meandering around and I had hoped to get calligraphy done but I didn't do much but knit I think? I was in the tired and healing stage of things but I did manage to hit Costco at least. I even took a nap in the afternoon cause I was tired.

Sunday we got up and moving and left the house with Andrew in tow to see Jesse in the hospital. We had an exciting bit where the bumper finally just came off the left side of the van. Mel cut it off so we now have a missing piece but I've ordered a new one to arrive in SD so we can fix it there since it takes time to get it to us (end of june). Got to Scottsdale and grabbed lunch at Cupbop It was tasty but I think the overworked counter girl put mel's spice level on my cup. It was fine but a bit more spicy than I wanted. We managed to get to the hospital in the drizzle (Phx broke a 100+ year record for rainfall on June 1st. They haven't had any on that date in that long). I sat and knit while we spent time with Jesse. Thus far they arne't sure its cancer but he's got a room in the oncology ward just in case. Monday they were doing ablation of veins before they took out the bad sections of his femur and then put in a rod/pins to hold it all together while the bone heals. He will then be mobile which will help a lot. The test results are pending on the biopsies so we shall see. He's pretty up beat but I think that is Jesse. Jen is not doing great and yeah I keep checking in on her. We didn't get to see her yesterday and we left as Kevin was coming in. We all chatted for a bit but then they needed to do meds and other things to Jesse so we all exited to lobby. Kev went to give Benton a hug and Benton is now taller than him. He was a bit taken aback by that cause damn but yeah. It was a good visit. I'm glad we went. We then headed to the Brass Armadillo antique shop and then home. During all of this we had a lot of rain. I was driving in sections that were pretty well monsoon strength but it made for some knuckle gripping but there was light traffic so that was nice. But we got almost an inch at the house. Not sure what Phx got but it looks like 1/3rd of an inch. It was good steady rain too nice and soaking. We so needed the rain. Yay!

Got home and the boys had leftovers and I had toast for dinner. Lunch had been filling. I had some bed time procrastination and that wasn't good but the tattoo has now hit the scaley portion and hurts a bit here and there. Its itchy too yay fun. But all good.

I did manage after work to pick up the studio a bit, pack partial things for SD. I then also purged through 2 drawers of clothes and have filled a bag. I hope to do the same thing with my closet. I did put an order into Old Navy for some work appropriate pants since wide leg is back in style. The first pair arrived yesterday and I'm wearing them today. They are my fave olive green and I've paired it with a nice black tank and I love it. Hopefully the other stuff fits! I'm going to purge work pants with abandon and weird ass shirts I hate. So I guess I'm going to purge before we leave and that is okay. I may do the same on some fabric to have Willa sell for me at Fabric War. Things to work on.

So I went to scribble last night and got the knight text to fit perfectly on my second practice overlay. So I will be hoping to get things setup in the studio to do that and then I can take my table down so I can get the studio ready to hibernate and allow me to have space to pull fabric bins down. I do hope to make a few under dresses while I'm in SD. Trying to have a variety of things to work on. I will probably pull back a few things but its nice to have options.