puppetmaker | Wednesday right? (Reply)

Looks outside to see recycling can in place. Wednesday it is.

Time and I are at slight odds with each other.

Tuesday is almost ephemeral. I keep thinking it is Monday or Wednesday.

Thursday is solid since I work on Thursday.

Friday is the day after I worked so that one doesn’t slide around a lot.

Saturday and Sunday are easy to mix up or turn Friday on repeat.

Monday is almost solid for some reason.

Months? What are months? I can remember what month it is just because I am vigilant with my calendars, so I know where I am in the year. Doesn’t always work but works enough that I can keep up with it.

2025 I have firmly in my head, but we are past January.

Then there is the amount of time Peter has been ill. We are two years and five months into this saga. Not much has changed recently except his white blood cell count is normal for the first time in over a year. We had a new normal but now he really is normal. Dialysis can cause the white cell count to tick up a bit. I know when he has an infection. He hasn’t ever run a fever but there are other signs that make me alert to an infection.

There is the amount of time Caroline has been on this planet. I keep up with that. She has gone from someone the length of my forearm to a young lady with ambition. She is still just a bit shorter than me. I am so proud of her. We gave her a start and she has taken that to become the person she is. She’s in love with her partner and they were made for each other. She had to fight hard to get into FIT and harder to get into the animation program. She would not take “it is the way it has always been” as an answer and got administration to think about why it was this way. She is the first film student to major in animation and with that opened the door for others to take that path. It does mean an extra year of school for her. She doesn’t mind that. She is even working in the industry doing storyboards for a project. She is a go getter. She is also an empathetic and kind person. She told me that she learned from my example of how to treat people. She is a good problem solver.

Then there is the amount of time I have been on this planet. As I have stated before, I can say many things about my life, boring is not one of them. I have been able to do and learn things that have served me well through out my life. My first teachers were my parents who did an excellent job raising four very different children. Then there was school and my peers. College then Grad School and all the people I met long the way. Peter expanded my horizons by just being Peter. Then there are all the people I have met at conventions, in fandom, online, just to name a few. Puppetry has led me lots of interesting places and people. Over time I have gotten better about building puppets. I am starting the most complicated set yet and I feel confident in what I can do. I am confident in my writing as I have sold stories to various anthologies. Something I never thought I would do when I was younger.

Tempus fugit but I am here for the ride.

I am grateful for Time in all its forms.