Bluebird
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So everyone in our household has voted, and I am so done hearing about anything election related. I’m just tired.
I got my period on Halloween, so yay? I’m tired of it too.
I’m excited to start my day today though - I’m going to be doing a lot of spreadsheet work for my Senior Santa program and for our Teen Christmas as well. I need to assign sponsors and log all of the gift requests. Right now I have more sponsors than letters, which is a great position to be in! I am absolutely certain I can get more letters - the need is pretty high here - but for right now I need to divvy up the ones I already have.
I am planning to have my volunteers work on marking and organizing donations that came in over the weekend, and then hanging up all of our winter coats and sorting them into sizes. I want to do a giveaway tomorrow, I think.
I also need to plan and post about a meal giveaway - I am going to do chili & cornbread. I might not get to that today though. I need to work on how our Random Acts of Christmas will be this year, as well as our Anniversary event, which is the beginning of December.
The weekend was kind of a mess. Saturday was lots of fun. I took a 12 year old girl on a shopping spree, which is actually one of my bucket list items that I have been wanting to do for over a decade. I spent $760, and I don’t regret a single dollar. I outfitted her, top to bottom: underwear, socks - she had her first ever bra fitting - pants, dresses, sweaters, hoodies, camis, tank tops for layering, T-shirts, hoodies. She looks and feels fabulous now, and it needed to be done. She literally had nothing. I wanna do this every day!
Sunday started with me being down a lot. MisterMoonbeam had gone back to Fredericksburg Saturday morning to stay the night for Samhain, and it’s the one holiday that his coven doesn’t typically allow visitors. He hasn’t tried to attend a coven event for quite a while, and he was anxious about it. This resulted in him kind of shutting down all communication with me, and it made me feel really worried and anxious myself.
DarkKnight & I had free tickets from a friend, so we spent Sunday afternoon at a Little Shop of Horrors drag show/musical event. It was lots of fun and that was distracting. When that finished we went shopping for DarkKnight, and he got new jeans and several different shirts for both work and for, well, not at work. Lol
I had a sleepover with MisterMoonbeam when he returned and he said that there WERE visitors at the Samhain event and I could have attended. He said he spent most of the time alone in a bedroom crying, and didn’t actually even go to the ritual, which is a very religious thing for him. He said half the people there wore masks and half didn’t, but those ones socially distanced, and he didn’t really interact at all with anyone and stayed off by himself and didn’t talk and then was in the bedroom, depressed.
His religion is tied up with his late wife and he just couldn’t do it. This made me feel really sad, because I wish I had been there to comfort him. He made this trip so he could be involved with the ritual but nope.
I told him about the anxiety I experienced, and I cried a bit later on because I was in my feelings about the betrayal I was replaying in my mind about PunkRock. MisterMoonbeam being gone stirred all that up, which I had expected, but it still sucked. Honestly, I don’t even think about him as a person much. It’s more about the loss overall, and having thoughts about how he went outside of our marriage instead of focusing on with me what was bothering him, and instead of talking to me, how he’d drink. Ugh.
Issues always come down to communication.
I need to start working on our household budget for the rest of the year, and plan out holiday gifts. Oh! I did reserve the hotel suite for the 3 of us over the week of Christmas! And then our friends in Fredericksburg - the couple we always hang out with - reserved their room as well. They already bought their matching pajamas! I am so excited about that trip!
I got my period on Halloween, so yay? I’m tired of it too.
I’m excited to start my day today though - I’m going to be doing a lot of spreadsheet work for my Senior Santa program and for our Teen Christmas as well. I need to assign sponsors and log all of the gift requests. Right now I have more sponsors than letters, which is a great position to be in! I am absolutely certain I can get more letters - the need is pretty high here - but for right now I need to divvy up the ones I already have.
I am planning to have my volunteers work on marking and organizing donations that came in over the weekend, and then hanging up all of our winter coats and sorting them into sizes. I want to do a giveaway tomorrow, I think.
I also need to plan and post about a meal giveaway - I am going to do chili & cornbread. I might not get to that today though. I need to work on how our Random Acts of Christmas will be this year, as well as our Anniversary event, which is the beginning of December.
The weekend was kind of a mess. Saturday was lots of fun. I took a 12 year old girl on a shopping spree, which is actually one of my bucket list items that I have been wanting to do for over a decade. I spent $760, and I don’t regret a single dollar. I outfitted her, top to bottom: underwear, socks - she had her first ever bra fitting - pants, dresses, sweaters, hoodies, camis, tank tops for layering, T-shirts, hoodies. She looks and feels fabulous now, and it needed to be done. She literally had nothing. I wanna do this every day!
Sunday started with me being down a lot. MisterMoonbeam had gone back to Fredericksburg Saturday morning to stay the night for Samhain, and it’s the one holiday that his coven doesn’t typically allow visitors. He hasn’t tried to attend a coven event for quite a while, and he was anxious about it. This resulted in him kind of shutting down all communication with me, and it made me feel really worried and anxious myself.
DarkKnight & I had free tickets from a friend, so we spent Sunday afternoon at a Little Shop of Horrors drag show/musical event. It was lots of fun and that was distracting. When that finished we went shopping for DarkKnight, and he got new jeans and several different shirts for both work and for, well, not at work. Lol
I had a sleepover with MisterMoonbeam when he returned and he said that there WERE visitors at the Samhain event and I could have attended. He said he spent most of the time alone in a bedroom crying, and didn’t actually even go to the ritual, which is a very religious thing for him. He said half the people there wore masks and half didn’t, but those ones socially distanced, and he didn’t really interact at all with anyone and stayed off by himself and didn’t talk and then was in the bedroom, depressed.
His religion is tied up with his late wife and he just couldn’t do it. This made me feel really sad, because I wish I had been there to comfort him. He made this trip so he could be involved with the ritual but nope.
I told him about the anxiety I experienced, and I cried a bit later on because I was in my feelings about the betrayal I was replaying in my mind about PunkRock. MisterMoonbeam being gone stirred all that up, which I had expected, but it still sucked. Honestly, I don’t even think about him as a person much. It’s more about the loss overall, and having thoughts about how he went outside of our marriage instead of focusing on with me what was bothering him, and instead of talking to me, how he’d drink. Ugh.
Issues always come down to communication.
I need to start working on our household budget for the rest of the year, and plan out holiday gifts. Oh! I did reserve the hotel suite for the 3 of us over the week of Christmas! And then our friends in Fredericksburg - the couple we always hang out with - reserved their room as well. They already bought their matching pajamas! I am so excited about that trip!