puppetmaker | Friday the Thirteenth Twenty Twenty-two

I became a Pogo fan through my father’s love of the series. Pogo is where I learned about Friday the Thirteenth.

I can remember my father and Harlan at our wedding rehearsal dinner standing over in the corner that my father had his Pogo collection. Harlan was quite impressed with it. They talked Pogo and other topics until dinner was served. I know my father gained great respect of Harlan and Harlan told me that my father was a wise and very articulate person.

Every Friday the Thirteenth, I remember Churchy’s Triskaidekaphobia.

For me the day is an even one. I got my letter saying I was accepted at Yale on a Friday the Thirteenth. I got the news that a friend killed themselves by running their car into a concrete wall. A lot of people thought that they just lost control of the car but I had talked them out of killing themselves so many times and tried to get them help that in my gut I knew what happened.

This day has its good and bad parts. Yesterday Peter went into the hospital and was given an infusion of monoclonal antibodies. The whole process took less than three hours. He is very tired, but his breathing is less labored. He is going a bit house crazy, however he is following the rules.

Caroline is finishing up school, doing her finals, and packing to come home.

I plan to go into the city on Sunday early to pick up what she has packed and get her some more boxes so she can finish it. Then she will be done with her first year.

Today is household chore day. I must finish the laundry. Clean up the kitchen and sweep then mop the floor. Then I can start on the impossible project of Impossibilities.

I have applied for Anime NYC these years. I am going to fill out my DragonCon along with Peter’s paperwork. I am also going to search my mail for a couple of invites that have vanished.

Each convention is told that Peter’s appearance depends on his health. Which stinks but I have to do the best for Peter.

I want to get some creative items done for various things. I am toying with an idea that came out of the Badge I did for Heliosphere. I can build sets and props to be used with my puppets and photograph those. Then I would make prints and sell them. So good idea or bad idea?

I have put my creative impulses at the back of my mind. There has been so much going on here that needs my attention. My family call this when I am in stage management mode.

This has to change. I know I am stressing myself out. I can feel the fatigue in my bones and my mind is muddled. Every time I think I have the time, something else seems to come up. So I am going to give myself a half an hour to do what I want to do creatively be that to write or sew or work with a new skill.

My close friends and family know what has been/is going on and they have been very supportive.

Now I need to change my thinking and get my head back in the act. I do not want to wallow in the dark pit I am now. I want to get things done.

It is not going to be easy but what is these days.

I am so very grateful for my support system.