Hi Team!
So I finished up with my short contract last Tuesday, and my days are my own again. Bittersweet as I thoroughly loved working there, but also, I have so much to do... here's a list!
- Three costume commissions,
- An unconventional wedding dress commission
- Two glove commissions, plus I need to work on a big order and build some stock (did I tell you I am obsessed with gloves? No? Ok, another post about them soon!),
- Festival planning to do, lots of contracts to send out
- A script to write for the October show
- 20 denim jackets to decorate in time for WOW.
As well as life "lifing" of course.
Also, not sure if anyone realises but I have a big mobility issue - my left knee is not in great shape and moving hurts. It's not super painful but the pain is so "Stop this, it's going to make things worse" flavoured that it exhausts me.
I was a little mortified that someone said something leading me to understand they assumed my knee was bad because I'm a chonk, but it's more accurate to say that the injury that caused the bad knee hasn't really been helped by me being a chonk. ANYHOO, I was talking to my massage therapist and she suggested I do some hip release exercises. I'm doing them on my back on the bed, and I decided on impulse to add a leg stretch with a foot flex into it, and OMG, the pain in my knee has gone. I've done it three days in a row and it is working. I immediately feel like being way more mobile because I'm not anticipating that pain. Crazy. The PT gave me these flex your foot against the wall ones, but it HURTS TO STAND ffs.
So, I have a sense of hope of clawing back a level of mobility I've not had for years. Wish me luck!!!
