@redenigma Yep! I've committed myself to a big one to cover our bed. I've got around 960 more hexagons to go.

I have now knitted a tiny Welsh flag for my ancestors to be one of the 1,000 hexagons in this blanket I'm knitting. If I'm knitting that many pieces, this blanket will tell stories!
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@LadyZurk He's a Kenyan sand boa. His name is Lady because the woman who raised him named him after the song "Dude Looks Like a Lady".

YES! Y'ALL! I'm getting a snake! Reaching childhood goals! I'm going to be friends with a SNAKE! 🥰🐍

@Keysalagain Yeah...I'm 5'10" and my husband is 6'3". We attract short elderly women in stores.

Looking at skeleton keys in an antique shop today, and I suddenly exclaim, "Oh, that's a handcuff key!" I immediately tell the woman my dad was a cop.

She very gently says, "It's okay...you don't have to explain yourself to me."

I'm thinking I clearly do when someone feels the need to assure me that I don't.

It's one of several points in the year when trauma issues ramp up for me. An anniversary is approaching. Considering my age, I probably only have to do this around 30 or 40 more years.

Spent a few hours working outside with my plants today. Going to knit tonight. The plants keep me moving. Trim this one. Water that one. The knitting keeps me in the present. Can't wander when I'm counting stitches.

People often make it sound like knowing the difference between fiction and reality is all that matters. That ignores why humans tell stories. And, yeah...I knew it was fiction when I was a kid. But those characters gave me examples of the kind of person I could become. When I trusted no one, I found safe space in books, movies, and episodes. They raised me.

Finished season 2 of "Picard" tonight. That last episode was hard to watch. It finally hit real close to some of my own traumas that I had already recognized it was dancing around. Healing hurts, though...and this was important for me. Those characters raised me, and now they're guiding me one last time.

I bet season 3 is going to be rough.

@EnochianEntropy I'm still recovering from season 1 and getting caught up in season 2!

@XaoslordErie I kind of think he maybe was almost saying you can be pro-life and pro-choice...but he certainly didn't want to clearly commit to that!

I wasn't sure yet whether or not my lantana had survived the winter. Today, the first new leaves are showing up!

@VanontheBorder Leftover sock yarn, size 4 needles. It's the Beekeeper's Quilt by Tiny Owl Knits, except I'm not stuffing my hexies.

I have now knitted 26 out of 1,000 hexagons for my blanket, so I have... Hold on...carry the 1...

A lot more to go!

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Being laid up in bed has given me plenty of time for writing today. Is it good quality? I don't care at this point. I'm putting ideas into words. They can be trimmed and polished some other time.
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Day 2 of running a fever and feeling like my whole body has a headache.

I'm going to cry if I can't find the energy to knit today.