Update on my life

[frualeydis]

 It has actually been six months! I am not a good writer these days.

Mainly it is the exhaustion, I don't write much at all, of any kind, though I have done some photo heavy but short on text posts on my blog.

I still sew, or rather: I sew again. I have gotten back to sewing aqain, finding some of my creativity that disappeared when I first got my exhaustion diagnose. Some of it ends up on the blog:
 

* 1930s gown, used with water themed wire crown for a water fairy photo shoot
* New regency stays and shift.
* Yule themed dirndl for this year's vintage pin-up inspired photos.

I made a re-cap of all my 2020s sewing here.

* I started on a 13th century Spanish outfit, and I have this far finished the shift and the pellote (sideless surcoat). I am taking a break from that
now, because the saya encordata (tight, laced kirtle) requires soem thinking, and I am not very good at that right now. Post with the finished pellote. Post about the project. 
* I used some scraps to make my wool redingote bigger and went Regency ice-skating. 
* And I made a c. 1610 wool doublet and a starched linen cap and went ice-skating Dutch 17th century style.
Basically much of February was spent walking to different lakes and bogs to skate.
* And in March i finished another regency gown, this one around 1815.
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I have also gotten obsessed with reform/aesthetic dress from the late 19th-early 20th century, and made three modern gowns inspired by it. No photos to share right now however.

 

In other news: I wrote about my assessment to see if I am autistic. Well, I am. And it has been an eye opener - both as an explanation to some of the weird, awkward and stupid things that I did when I was younger, and to the amount of work that I have to do just to appear normal and function. Adding my constant pain to that and it is not strange that I ended up with an exhaustion that doesn't seem to be going anywhere.

 

There are still so many things that i can't do. I tried to make a simple excel sheet yesterday, just to track how I feel in body and mind, and it was really, really hard even to remember how to drag things and move things. 
I am since yesterday back at work for 1,5 hours evey day as rehab training. It was extremely exahausting, even if all I did was to hook up my computer, which needed soem help from the support team, throw away some e-mais and make that excel sheet. I felt like I was going to fall asleep walking as I walked the 800 metres for work to my home yesterday.

 

Now I am off for the second day. I aim to read up on your lives, but I am not sure when it will happen.  Thanks kareina for reminding me about DW.
 

Comments

[clothsprogs]

It's nice that you're posting again, and the recapof your costumes and sewing puts my lack of much progress to shame.

Teddy

[frualeydis]

Well, you are working, I am not. Or I haven't, started a little this Tuesday.
Good to hear that you are able to work four days a week for a while, even if the reason is a bad one.

/Eva

[clothsprogs]

{laugh!} Unfortunately, I'm so disorganised that I'm unlikely to get ay more crafting done with the extra day available than I've been doing before, but I intend to try.

I loved the ice-skating video, BTW.

It made me happy to see you playing like that. I'm adding it to my list of cheer-me-up viewing.

Teddy

[frualeydis]

Thanks! Skating was so much fun this winter. I hope we will get winter next year too, so I can keep skating.

/Eva

[clothsprogs]

In my (limited) experience, ice-skating is always fun.

Teddy

[therru]

I agree that getting the autism diagnosis was en eye opener, almost an epiphany. So many things slotting into place. I am more and more convinced that my chronic exhaustion and other problems stem from a lifetime of trying to be neurotypical, when I'm not, and never will be.

[frualeydis]

Yes. This.
I already knew that the constant pain was one cause for exhaustion, siven ti takes so much energy just to keep functioning. And then I have to put energy into behaving "normal", and to stand the noise and social needs of other people. It is just too much.

/Eva

[kareina]

Welcome back! I hope you are able to post here now and again, I really love keeping current in your life, and my checking of FB is kinda random, and then what it actually reveals to me when I do is even more random...

[frualeydis]

True. And, since I have lots of FB friends who are more work cotnacts I shy away from some topics there anyway.

/Eva