Attended: my first Candlelight Concert! Gaya invited me to go with her to see a tribute to Coldplay at The Abbey. I had seen these ads for a while, especially for Taylor (my algorithm likes to algorithm), and was always interested in the experience, so when Gaya asked me to join her it was a no-brainer. I highly recommend going to one. It makes for such a relaxing date night with a partner or a friend. There really is something so healing about listening to a string quartet, in the dark, with literally 3,000 "candles", while not being allowed to use your phone (until the last song). Classern killed it!
Celebrated: Angela's birth via a charm making par-tea. She had the cutest little spread of bite-sized treats and several teas with a choice to booze them up! It was such a lovely Sunday afternoon making charm necklaces and/or bracelets. I love that her parties seem to usually entail some kind of crafting element. There were SO many cute charms to choose from but my necklace was born once I found the gold snake (rep girlies rise up) that I used as my centerpiece. I paired either side with an orange cat and a black cat in tea pots and went from there. I ended up with a dark side and a light side of random little charms.
If you live in Central Florida and would like to host your own in-home charm bar party or learn to embroider with friends Angela is here to help with The Chiffon Crafts.
Witnessed a Solar Eclipse: Florida wasn't in the path of totality but we still got to experience 57% at the peak which happened to be at 3:03 p.m. on Monday, April 8th. To honor the event we even had moon pies and cosmic brownies! It was so neat to experience with my co-worker friends. We all were sharing glasses with one another and giving our best tips for photos. Someone ended up bringing a mini mirrorball which reflected the eclipse everywhere on the building - little half-moons all over!
Texas WAS in the path of totality and Erin shared some really cool photos and descriptions from over that way. There was such a sense of community to share this event with everyone.
Watched:
Shogun on HULU based on the novel of the same name is historical fiction set in 1600s Japan. A beautiful story in unlikely friendship.
From Wikipedia, Shōgun follows "the collision of two ambitious men from different worlds, John Blackthorne, a risk-taking English sailor who ends up shipwrecked in Japan, a land whose unfamiliar culture will ultimately redefine him; Lord Toranaga, a shrewd, powerful daimyo, at odds with his own dangerous, political rivals; and Lady Mariko, a woman with invaluable skills but dishonorable family ties, who must prove her value and allegiance."
Fallout on Amazon Prime based on the popular video game series that Dustin loves. We've even had our very own Vault Boy figurine in our living room for a decade, so it was cool to see the story come to life in a new way. I was glad Amazon dropped the whole season at once which is usually not their style. Dustin and I finished it in a weekend. It's really got two things I really can't get enough of - mid-century modern everything and a good ol' apocalyptic world mixed with humor and action.
From Wikipedia, The series depicts the aftermath of the Great War of 2077, an apocalyptic nuclear exchange in an alternate history of Earth where advances in nuclear technology after WWII led to the emergence of a retrofuturistic society and a subsequent resource war. Many survivors took refuge in fallout bunkersknown as Vaults, unaware each Vault was designed to perform sociological and psychological experiments on the Vault Dwellers. More than 200 years later in 2296,[2] a young woman named Lucy leaves behind her home in Vault 33 to venture out into the dangerously unforgiving wasteland of a devastated Los Angeles to look for her father, who had been kidnapped. Along the way, she meets a Brotherhood of Steel squire and a ghoul bounty hunter, each with their own mysterious pasts and agendas to settle.
Had to be the mean parent: because Cheeto was gnawing away at a patch on his back (probably from a scuffle with his sister) and the wound kept reopening, therefore I was forced to take matters into my own hands. I consulted our personal vet tech, Jessica and she sent some good information. Basically, we needed him to stop messing with the area. Before we went the Scooter Titanic life vest route I wanted to try something maybe less constricting BECAUSE I FELT BAD HAVING TO DO THIS TO MY LITTLE BOY. First, we tried the shirt and quite honestly he looked handsome as all hell. It was soft and stretchy and he could still run around like normal. He did ok in it until he realized just how stretchy the fabric was and then kept escaping from it. Dustin was over here like "He's fine. He's not messing with it anymore." Then why was it every time I looked over at him he was going ham on that same spot?! So mean cat-mom had to come out AGAIN and this time with a fabric bendable space cone. Did my heart break when he had trouble jumping up and down things because his vision was obstructed? YES. Did it crumble into a million pieces when he laid next to me on the bed and was so tired but couldn't sleep because he couldn't get comfy? YES. It was hard but we had to do what was in his best interest.
He's doing fine now although he still has a little bald patch. Hopefully he lets the hair grow back because it is not the vibe he thinks it is.
Listening to: TTPD of course, but that will get its very own post soon.