Kyril's Journal -- October 28, 2005

Life is a Jigsaw?

Friday, October 28, 2005

(From my livejournal entry)

I am home in WI again. It is a beautiful fall day and though I missed the peak of Autumn color the check out woman at our local grocery store assured me that without a frost this year the colors were not spectacular. Still I missed it. There are a few trees left with the beautiful reds, golden reds, and golden yellows but many have already turned brown. The air is crisp and clear, but at 56 degrees not really very cold. I have been in a good mood all day for no particular reason except that I am home and it is fall, I think.

I started up doing my meditation and exercises again -- I hadn't done them for the last two weeks. It seems hard to maintain a routine in CA because Faol's schedule, if one can call it that:), is so different from my regular routines. My unpacking is done, and I got Tom's "I am home again" chocolate chip cookies (not to be confused with his "I am about to leave again" ones) baked so the house is filled with the sweet scent of chocolate and brown sugar.

Today was a Faol phone day (we moved to a M, W, F, and one weekend day calling schedule instead of everyday) and I did the dishes while we talked, set out all the cookie making ingredients measured and ready to begin, cleaned off a corner of the dining room table, and puttered about. After making the cookies though I found my energy coming down. Tom seems to be fighting off a cold and I have throat tickles and a bit of a runny nose so that may be affecting my energy. Hopefully will win the fight though.

The only other thing I have accomplished today is to finally order a book on cloth dollmaking. I wanted one by Antonette Cely but it was $40 and I didn't find it at a couple of used bookstores I tried or at Amazon so finally just settled for another one that looked ok for 1/4 of the price. Basically I don't even know yet whether I will actually enjoy making them so I don't want to spend much money on it but I do want to read about the techniques before trying it rather than just experimenting because I could find I don't like it at all due to not knowing some of the tricks or easier ways of constructing them. I am mostly just interested in it for creative expression but if it is hard on my hands there is no point in going there.

Tom gave me a jigsaw puzzle for my welcome home gift! I have done so many of the computer ones that I recognize many of the shapes regardless of what picture I use, so this is a particular delight. I would really like to have another computer program like the Moraff one but one that has many more shape sets to choose from. The program lets the user add pictures so it is infinite in that regard for all practical purposes but it only has about three hard shape sets, something like 10 medium difficulty sets, and a handful of the easy sets. So I used each of the hard shape sets so many times that it isn't much fun anymore.