Monday, January 5

[gottawonder]

Today I am grateful for:

The fact that we are moving towards having an operational pottery studio at home.

I am TIRED of the drama of the pottery studio, and so much of it centering around this one particular woman S, who tries to control everything, and seems to be succeeding.

This was the first day back to the studio after our holiday break, and I hadn't even walked into the studio before I could hear the latest BS about what S was doing now.

I won't even bother going into it, but it's just tiring.

What bothers me more, is that there is only a very small group of us who are resisting S, in a very "passive resistance" way by trying to attend meetings and participate with our engagement in what is actually happening, trying to create ways for us to work around the notion that S is the only person with skill and knowledge by trying to have group sharing of skills on Saturdays, and social opportunities that prove that the "old" pottery members don't "hate" the new ones.

The rest of them just bitch about it, and don't do anything useful.

I feel like I messed up the glaze on my teapot, and that annoys me to no end. I feel that all too often, my glaze "looks okay" but always has a drippy or uneven effect to it. Sometimes that is fine, but I want to start having deliberate looking glaze applications and I never seem to manage it.

So that's all I did today, was some glazing, all the while being surrounded by the swirling emotions of the other potters as they bitched and moaned about "what S is doing now".

I think I prefer working by myself.

I did go to Winner's, more or less as a way to try to get some Dopamine. I got no pleasure at all from pottery class, and was left feeling full of the toxic feelings of others.

I found some notebooks for writing down stuff from my riding sessions, and an address book to maybe replace the one I've been using for a decade that is now falling apart.

I also found some actual 501 Levis that fit me. I'm a sucker for the button fly.

I also found a "Mandelorian" mug that was cheap enough to buy as a future gift for R at the barn, who loves baby Yoda.

After that I got groceries, and was in no mood for it but did it anyhow. I am very grateful as always for the means and ability to get groceries.

I did talk to the customer service person about the fact that the big yellow price sign in front of the U.S. cauliflower listed it as being a product of Mexico. This shit MATTERS!

So I came home, and my Sweetie helped me put everything away, had made supper, and we commiserated about each other's day.

I ranted at great length, and he talked less heatedly about how stupid this one thing at his job is. I don't understand it entirely, but it's something along the lines of how all the files at his current job have to be changed from 2025 to 2025 manually because they don't have the software to update things automatically. He literally has to go through and change the titles of many, many files.

He started doing it before the break, and he's still doing it this week until it's all caught up. On top of doing the rest of his normal tasks.

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[ratunderpaper]

I found Levis jeans at Winners too! It was a deep discount because they're not wide-leg, I suppose.

[gottawonder]

These were a fairly straight leg, but "roomier in the thighs" or something. When I tried them on, they fit like normal jeans, so I wonder what the thighs are supposed to be on regular jeans?

I don't normally have to look for "roomy thighs".

These don't have Lycra though, so they might have a hope of not loosening up and sliding off of my butt like so many jeans these days.