Holiday Events

Tuesday was the Toastmasters Club 832 (West Seattle) meeting and Holiday Party. I got the benefit of rearranging my office into a studio, with a plain back wall I can decorate (I plan to paint it a calmer color than that yellow soon). I won the best costume, at the price of wearing a hat that got super warm after a while.
Wednesday I skipped my long walk and finished up another pack of GOTV letters to Georgia.
Thursday I went up Frontenac with no breathing distress at all! It was noticeable work but not hard! After, I picked up some groceries from Mary the neighbor and distributed them among the various little free panties (skipping 16th because I'd stocked it Wednesday). I ended up doing 12,891 steps - a personal best!
This evening I skipped Zumba and a possible Toastmasters meeting for the Time Bank Holiday event, where we played trivia.
Now I am exercising my right to go to be early. When the days are longer, may be we need more sleep.

Today's Art

 While I have plenty of work-like things to do, I have time for art as well. For example, when I respond to a facebook notification that a friend has a birthday, I try to compose a card using mspaint, rather than copy something or just write text.

I Know Anita From Law School

My home Toastmasters Club (832, West Seattle) is having our holiday party Tuesday and one of my roles is publicity. I made an image for our Facebook page, based on the White Elephant game we'll be playing. No actual goods will be exchanged, only tall stories!

Toastmasters White Elephant

A Facebook group I hang around with (Garak is love. Garak is life. Garak is queer.) had hosted a charitable fundraiser "Run The Promenade). You'll understand all that if you're a DS9 fan.
Today while cleaning I found the package with the t-shirt I'd earned by doing the event.Naturally I had to add the shirt to the titular character, just for fun!

This is Elim Garak in an exceptionally happy mood.
Not my work, obviously.

Me modeling the shirt

My MSPaint skills are small,
but enough for a joke

A little creativity every day!

Mask Collection

 Masks are our newest form of litter. I pick them up in my glove, roll the glove over it for stowage, and once home launder with soap. This collection, having been cleaned, I'll be donating since obviously I don't need them, but it's interesting to see what people drop in the path of my walk.

Weekend Cleanup

 I reorganized my yellow room so that my two little desks are as one big L-shaped desk and the wall behind me is blank. I plan to repaint it to look more like a zoom studio.

I got my walking in although I had to take it easy on my left foot was I may have overworked it during Saturday Zumba.

I'm steadily although not necessarily speedily moving stuff on through Buy Nothing. Having the shed restored to sanity, now I'm working on the Yellow Room Closet, which requires doing something about all those board games I never play (due to pandemic and the plethora of new games available on the internet.)

Friday I had the zoom room open for gaming; Mary from blockwatch and Vicki from Timebank came on and we all three talked but gamed not at all.

Sunday I was reminded to work on the Elfster/giftgiving for SPEAKOUT, and worked it out.

Sunday Ed was having codewords but just before I got a message from Sandy asking about a game link, which turned out to be last week. I opened a room and emailed the hobbit list, from which Mary Russell joined in; Sandy  invited  her SCA friend Galen and Mary Russell dropped in. We started Lost Cities when it was just the two of us but at Galen's suggestion switched to Alhambra, which is a good game but very different. I think I see some general principles about games of Alhambra's type, about building productive capacity before worrying about scoring or something. 

Ginny flows to fill her space

Imp monitors the neighbors' back yards

Shadow prefers the chair I've most recently sat in

A few last tamerinds

Zoom-ba and christmas cat tree

Western Glowing Cedar near highpoint