Monday, October 8
Oct. 8th, 2024 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
Nice weather. Beautiful leaves.
Getting some better quality of sleep.
Roxy seems to be comfortable, eating, and pooping well. I am trying to just take all of this day by day for now, but I am grateful to have her here, to see her happy face looking for a bit of veggie or a snuggle.
I went to town after doing normal chores and such, and since I give Roxy a pill at 3 pm for now, that makes it too late to go to pottery class.
I did stop in at the studio, and a tea pot and a vase were finished, and the glaze was quite nice.
It's a bit funny HOW MUCH ATTENTION the tea pot has generated. It's not the first one I've made, and it's nice, but I had people from the beginner's class comment to me about it as they trickled in, and everyone at the gathering later really thought it was gorgeous.
Yes, I seem to be the only person in the studio making tea pots, and it IS nice, but I was a bit surprised at the number of comments I got on it. Well, take it for what it is, I guess. It's nice to get compliments.
I talked to the woman I was trying to help two weeks ago, when I was so rudely told to leave the pottery class (long story, MY class time is now supposed to be finished at 5:30, the beginners come in after that, I had hoped I could work with the beginners a bit because I am more of an evening person, but was told no, and as I was packing up to go, I engaged in a conversation with someone about their tray, and ideas for how to glaze it. S freaked out at me for giving "her student" advice, especially since it was different information from what S had told the student to do, and even more forcefully told me I had to leave.)
This woman is hoping to learn how to throw using the wheel, and that's not something covered in the beginning class. I am fine if she wants to watch me work and ask questions, but I don't know if anyone else will be okay with this. Part of me hopes "we can all work something out", but that's not usually how this group works.
Anyhow, this woman (with me not saying anything to her, she was just appalled at S's treatment of me) went to talk to S about her behavior, and said it was unacceptable and she didn't think it was appropriate to treat me that way, as all I was doing was offering my own insight to her issues with her tray.
I appreciate that she did that for me.
As I said, I didn't have time to do anything in the class, but it was nice to connect with people.
I did pick up a fruit tray and a veggie tray to take to a gathering at one of the pottery ladies' home; she invited us for a social event.
The grinch inside of me didn't really want to go, but I know that I'm usually okay at these things once I'm there. I just have to get past all of the voices saying "agh, another social thing where I have to be clean and talk to people and bring food" and "agh, I don't know if I even like these people" and "agh, I would rather be doing something else, or nothing at all". As I've said, once I'm there I usually am fine, realize that I like these people just fine, and that there was indeed something I could eat, and that it was a fine way to spend some time.
D was able to come. She texted me yesterday saying that her very elderly Mom fell and broke her hip, and wasn't sure if she could be there. Apparently they were able to perform a surgery on her Mom lightening fast, put a pin in her hip to stabilize it, and she's awake from surgery, so D decided to come.
The woman hosting the gathering lost her husband last year, and was a bit teary in thanking us all for coming to her home. We were the first social gathering she's had since her husband passed, and she was hoping it would help her moving forward, to have something happy in the house again.
I'm glad I went, then, given that this woman was making an effort to bring community to her home.
Afterwards, I got some groceries. The fruit tray I had picked up before the gathering ended up dumping itself all over the floor of the car because the lid wasn't sealed in any way (and really, that's the whole point of those pre-cut fruit trays, is to have something secure to take food to a gathering, usually they are taped or something to hold the lid on), and on a whim I took in the receipt, produced the tumbled fruit, and they actually refunded me!
I got the rest of the groceries, and I am very grateful for all of the things it takes to be able to do so.
I saw that couple that I always seem to see when I grocery shop. I'm wondering if we're all supposed to be buddies or something, the way I see them all the time.
I came home and we brought in all the groceries and put them away, and it was late enough that my Sweetie needed to go right to bed after.
Nice weather. Beautiful leaves.
Getting some better quality of sleep.
Roxy seems to be comfortable, eating, and pooping well. I am trying to just take all of this day by day for now, but I am grateful to have her here, to see her happy face looking for a bit of veggie or a snuggle.
I went to town after doing normal chores and such, and since I give Roxy a pill at 3 pm for now, that makes it too late to go to pottery class.
I did stop in at the studio, and a tea pot and a vase were finished, and the glaze was quite nice.
It's a bit funny HOW MUCH ATTENTION the tea pot has generated. It's not the first one I've made, and it's nice, but I had people from the beginner's class comment to me about it as they trickled in, and everyone at the gathering later really thought it was gorgeous.
Yes, I seem to be the only person in the studio making tea pots, and it IS nice, but I was a bit surprised at the number of comments I got on it. Well, take it for what it is, I guess. It's nice to get compliments.
I talked to the woman I was trying to help two weeks ago, when I was so rudely told to leave the pottery class (long story, MY class time is now supposed to be finished at 5:30, the beginners come in after that, I had hoped I could work with the beginners a bit because I am more of an evening person, but was told no, and as I was packing up to go, I engaged in a conversation with someone about their tray, and ideas for how to glaze it. S freaked out at me for giving "her student" advice, especially since it was different information from what S had told the student to do, and even more forcefully told me I had to leave.)
This woman is hoping to learn how to throw using the wheel, and that's not something covered in the beginning class. I am fine if she wants to watch me work and ask questions, but I don't know if anyone else will be okay with this. Part of me hopes "we can all work something out", but that's not usually how this group works.
Anyhow, this woman (with me not saying anything to her, she was just appalled at S's treatment of me) went to talk to S about her behavior, and said it was unacceptable and she didn't think it was appropriate to treat me that way, as all I was doing was offering my own insight to her issues with her tray.
I appreciate that she did that for me.
As I said, I didn't have time to do anything in the class, but it was nice to connect with people.
I did pick up a fruit tray and a veggie tray to take to a gathering at one of the pottery ladies' home; she invited us for a social event.
The grinch inside of me didn't really want to go, but I know that I'm usually okay at these things once I'm there. I just have to get past all of the voices saying "agh, another social thing where I have to be clean and talk to people and bring food" and "agh, I don't know if I even like these people" and "agh, I would rather be doing something else, or nothing at all". As I've said, once I'm there I usually am fine, realize that I like these people just fine, and that there was indeed something I could eat, and that it was a fine way to spend some time.
D was able to come. She texted me yesterday saying that her very elderly Mom fell and broke her hip, and wasn't sure if she could be there. Apparently they were able to perform a surgery on her Mom lightening fast, put a pin in her hip to stabilize it, and she's awake from surgery, so D decided to come.
The woman hosting the gathering lost her husband last year, and was a bit teary in thanking us all for coming to her home. We were the first social gathering she's had since her husband passed, and she was hoping it would help her moving forward, to have something happy in the house again.
I'm glad I went, then, given that this woman was making an effort to bring community to her home.
Afterwards, I got some groceries. The fruit tray I had picked up before the gathering ended up dumping itself all over the floor of the car because the lid wasn't sealed in any way (and really, that's the whole point of those pre-cut fruit trays, is to have something secure to take food to a gathering, usually they are taped or something to hold the lid on), and on a whim I took in the receipt, produced the tumbled fruit, and they actually refunded me!
I got the rest of the groceries, and I am very grateful for all of the things it takes to be able to do so.
I saw that couple that I always seem to see when I grocery shop. I'm wondering if we're all supposed to be buddies or something, the way I see them all the time.
I came home and we brought in all the groceries and put them away, and it was late enough that my Sweetie needed to go right to bed after.
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Date: 2024-10-08 09:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-09 05:09 am (UTC)I'd love to see a picture of the teapot if you're ever up for sharing! But either way I think it's lovely that you make things like that.... Because I do love tea! :D
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Date: 2024-10-09 07:11 am (UTC)Far too often, no one says anything to a person who is very rude, when maybe it's important for people to know that their behavior is not appropriate.
This woman, S, is not a BAD person, but she is immature and insecure, and is easily threatened by anyone questioning anything she says or does. It's not a great set of traits.
People seem to do their best to just accommodate her, but you know, she IS an adult, and maybe she could try harder to understand that she doesn't have to control everything around her and be the only opinion with validity, and that having a meltdown isn't a professional way to act at our studio.
I don't know the other woman well, the one who said something. I'm thinking she might be worth knowing!
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Date: 2024-10-13 03:54 am (UTC)