I can keep comforting myself with the fact that the days will not be getting any shorter after the next 2-3 weeks. The winter solstice will slide by resulting in a few extra minutes of light at each end of the day.
Right now it reminds me of months on end in Minnesota – get up in dark – go to work/school in the dark – come home in the dark. You might/might not see any sunlight on the weekends. There was this thing called snow…
Anyway – it was 0 dark whaatever when the cat lost his ever loving mind – the same cat who is now sitting my lap between me and the keyboard. Apparently he was STARVING to death and needed me to be aware of the fact. Right. Like I really needed to be up at 0530. Rested yes, slept a lot yesterday but still, I would have welcomed another hour or so of sleep.
He got fed. I made a french presses worth of coffee and wandered upstairs to stitch till a Zoom get together at 0830. Earpieces directly shoved into the canals helped a bit. Then it was back to stitching.
taking over my lap for a snooze
taking a nap break in one of the many cat beds
So you have an idea of how much “help” he has been today.
Otherwise 1428 stitches more on the Menorah putting it at 80%.
five colors are completely zeroed out. Unfortunately, there are still two (825 & 3844 with about 2k each to go… I have moved to “fill in outlines” as it seems to make the most sense.
So
The cat?
