My Mycelium Journey

I am so excited to have the opportunity to visit dad and be welcomed where he is at! I haven't gotten much time with dad since before 2007, I am so lucky and so fortunate to have this time. A week... can I get more? He is in a safe space; I can find a safe space near him. I miss him so much, and I hate the hate that has kept him away.  I'll be able to see him, talk to him freely and he will be safe from all forms of abuse. I wish the conditions were better, but I am so looking forward to this visit with him so much.  I know everyone's Dad is their Hero, but my dad really is a hero. 

If it's not going well, talk about it.  If it's not changing, leave. There's no reason to live in Misery -That's a movie; not a place to stay...    You do NOT have to have your feelings validated by a therapist for them to be important enough to make life changing decisions! Trust your gut! DO NOT ACCEPT MISTREATMENT IN A RELATIONSHIP BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T ASSERT YOUR BOUNDARIES. DO NOT COMPROMISE SELF-RESPECT.

Failure is the only path to success...  For FUCK'S SAKE, JUST SAY "THANK YOU" to people!

 

  Who do you want to be?  How do you want to be remembered?  You are the only one that gets to choose your reaction. 

I canceled my service years ago, just saw they charged me for something that was re-occurring yesterday. They will not fully refund and it's nearly impossible to cancel. Very dissatisfied with this service. It was challenging just finding the chatbot to get this done. There's not even a way to cancel on their portal.  what a world...  I'm melting. Bowie's impression of Hostgator's customer service for reference:

change jobs... still stressful. I'm starting to think it might be me and not the jobs at all. Not sure how to fix that...

 Things are stressful and busy, but they are good.  So thankful for Drew <3

 I suppose you could say I got a little overwhelmed at my job the other day, it's hard to manage your time when so much of time management relies on how much a client feels like doing. I was auditing back to back and had projects for the not so spare time. I panicked! At the height of this frustration, I found myself trolling around on Linkedin. Here, I found what looked like a perfect job. Enter Stryker! A Sr Supplier Quality Engineer position with a leader in the field. One of the early interviews was a Gallup interview that instantly felt like a failure and left my confidence in ruin. Turns out, it wasn't that bad and they wanted to go ahead with the team interviews. These went much better and it sounded like they had decided they wanted to hire me based on my resume and qualifications alone. How thrilling! What a compliment! I was even able to get to the offer table without naming a price. The price they came to me with was below what I was currently at so they decided to r...

I participated in my first-ever vendor market earlier this year. It was a lot of work leading up to it. I bought over 30 pounds of sweet potatoes to make dog treats. Had some leftover. I found that the best treats were actually the cookies. The best part of the cookies was giving them to people at the bar that had brought their dogs. We went to Meteor after the event was over. Overall, I think it was a break-even endeavor if you don't count labor as a cost. which doesn't say a lot for sustainability as a business... but I did have to buy a lot to go into this, mostly table, paper cutter, bags, etc. the sweet potatoes from Aldi were the cheapest.   

Are you going to listen to messages? What do they say? Where's the creativity come from? What do you want to do?  

 

Parties used to be a thing... People gathering in general... Starting to really miss things like this but so thankful that I had the oppertunity to see everyone that was able to come out for this! What a blast! Nothing to motivate a house cleaning project like having friends over (and needing the space to decorate!). 

GWAR! This was Fun Fun Fun fest in 2010. I was so excited to see GWAR walking around I got a picture with them!  I missed out on getting a shirt, they (and their merch) only stayed the day they played and I didn't even go to a merch tent that day. This picture was better than any shirt, though, and takes up less space!  

 

Had so much fun in the paper mache! Probably have't made a pinata since grade school! He's full of Rum, Candy, Lais, and pirate booty. This was part of the party preparation for Talk Like a Pirate double feature in the backyard tomorrow! The final product! pretty pleased with how this came out. Alfi is terrified of him, maybe it's too realistic? Forming the body and the first coats of paint! First face iterations. Had to change to something a little less happy cartoon. All of these face components got nixed.  Face overhaul. updated eyebrows, eyes, and mouth.   

Room 1 is DONE!  

Beautiful night for a walk in the park! 75 degrees and overcast.