I went over to the commune for dinner. That was an experience. We had these taco salads but it was super fancy and super vegan which I always appreciate. We talked a bit. I had so much tea, which Mr. M loves his tea and he loves sharing. He made the dinner.
Ann's in town so she helped me organize. We jumped from room to room, starting here and ending there. It was a mess, but I'm super happy with what we did. She is taking all the stress balls I have (which were a lot) to her exercise class. I guess people can use the stress balls? I had so many of them and they just gather dust. But she's in a class with older people and its good for their hands to have them. I had them in my throw-away box, so she rescued them and a few other things. She's so cute.
She wanted all these tiny little doll house things that I had that I said to throw into my give-away box. She's like "but they're so cute!" so I asked "Do you want them?" and of course, she said, "yes." Please! Take them! I need to downsize a LOT.
The commune is going to a funneral. I'm sad to hear this. It's someone they all knew a long time ago who passed fairly young.
I can't wait to call the Phoenix commune once Ann gets back into town. I spend about 30 minutes in the morning just filling them in and they tell me what's going on with EVERYONE! It's a lot of people all doing their own thing. Ann said she'll call me from the airport to fill me in on everything from the Porter commune once she gets settled.
I really miss having a large group of people to come home to. It's kind of nice.
I've been feeling pretty down lately.
Writing Update:
C. chpt 8 is edited but I've been dragging my feet posting it. I'm super nervous about people liking it. Also, the depression is real and I just don't know if I like the direction of any of my work.
B.C. working on chapter 17 on this one. I've got 2,700+ words written on it, but each chapter has been about 4,000 words so I don't want people to feel like the story just cuts off and I don't want it to drag, so a lot more work needs to go into this.