The Jedi in Residence: Self-care
May. 4th, 2020 07:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishadayMay the Fourth be with you!
I've started the habit of taking the odd Monday off - no work email, no notifications (ok, I lurk a teensy bit on Teams because my team is hilarious.) and instead indulge in grapefruit mimosas, computer games,watching Leverage, and well, basically extending my weekend. Mostly I'm aggressively NOT working. Household chores and mask-making don't count.
I found some old shirts of my father's that I had cut off all the seams and cuffs to make into a rag quilt - they're now being turned into masks instead. I'm super thrilled with this one flat sheet that I'd thrifted a while back. It had a small tear, and I'd sliced off the elastic and the corners, but it's the softest cotton - perfect for linings. You can get SO many out of a sheet.
After seeing the measurement too many times and trying to math out what I can make of it, I'm now suspicious of the most common measurement for a rectangle-to-pleated face mask: 9"x7" - a quilters fat quarter is 18"x20" - that's six masks for two fat quarters (using two different patterns to differentiate innards from outards.
While I do have elastic on hand, I'm not as fond of masks with it, and while I also have quite a bit of bias tape (both grandmother's stashes of notions, as it turns out) - very little of that works well for actual ties. I tried a spare pair of shoelaces to try it out, and then I went hunting for more shoelaces. Turns out shoelaces are comparatively expensive next to paracord (why yes, I did have paracord on hand, why do you ask?) Basically, all of my crafty impulse purchases of the last twenty years are now TOTALLY justified.
I got out my bike last month for the first time in over a year. The bike path next to me is busy, but at least people are moving, which lends itself to social distancing. I was doing very well with my daily walks at lunch and sometimes a morning walk on top of that. And then I did something to my right Achilles - I've been taking it easy this last week, but it's hard when my desk is set up for standing or sitting in a high desk chair. I have to shift to one of the living room chairs to ice and elevate the heel. Fortunately it seems to be less sore in the afternoon and cycling doesn't seem to aggravate it, so I'm not completely sedentary. Stupid bodies - why does middle age have to hit me so hard?
I've started the habit of taking the odd Monday off - no work email, no notifications (ok, I lurk a teensy bit on Teams because my team is hilarious.) and instead indulge in grapefruit mimosas, computer games,watching Leverage, and well, basically extending my weekend. Mostly I'm aggressively NOT working. Household chores and mask-making don't count.
I found some old shirts of my father's that I had cut off all the seams and cuffs to make into a rag quilt - they're now being turned into masks instead. I'm super thrilled with this one flat sheet that I'd thrifted a while back. It had a small tear, and I'd sliced off the elastic and the corners, but it's the softest cotton - perfect for linings. You can get SO many out of a sheet.
After seeing the measurement too many times and trying to math out what I can make of it, I'm now suspicious of the most common measurement for a rectangle-to-pleated face mask: 9"x7" - a quilters fat quarter is 18"x20" - that's six masks for two fat quarters (using two different patterns to differentiate innards from outards.
While I do have elastic on hand, I'm not as fond of masks with it, and while I also have quite a bit of bias tape (both grandmother's stashes of notions, as it turns out) - very little of that works well for actual ties. I tried a spare pair of shoelaces to try it out, and then I went hunting for more shoelaces. Turns out shoelaces are comparatively expensive next to paracord (why yes, I did have paracord on hand, why do you ask?) Basically, all of my crafty impulse purchases of the last twenty years are now TOTALLY justified.
I got out my bike last month for the first time in over a year. The bike path next to me is busy, but at least people are moving, which lends itself to social distancing. I was doing very well with my daily walks at lunch and sometimes a morning walk on top of that. And then I did something to my right Achilles - I've been taking it easy this last week, but it's hard when my desk is set up for standing or sitting in a high desk chair. I have to shift to one of the living room chairs to ice and elevate the heel. Fortunately it seems to be less sore in the afternoon and cycling doesn't seem to aggravate it, so I'm not completely sedentary. Stupid bodies - why does middle age have to hit me so hard?
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Date: 2020-05-05 02:10 am (UTC)