cleverly disguised as a responsible adult

downwood was awesome and helped with bottling the brown ale. Actually, he ended up doing most of it, since Ox was in one of his "Only Momma will make things better" moods. What I tasted pre-bottling was pretty smooth, even though we weren't able to crash the temperature of the wort as quickly as usual for this batch. Next weekend will be racking the Chocolate Milk Stout to its secondary fermenter and maybe starting a batch of porter. I also found a local apiary with good rates on bulk honey, so I'll be handing over some small green pieces of paper to them soon.

Otherwise, my sewing machine and I bonded in our dislike of glitter dot fabric and cheap chiffon. I made belts and accessories from the glitter dot and skirts from the chiffon. I started the chiffon tops, but ran out of frustration points and decided to give up before tackling the next step. It shouldn't take too long to finish, especially if I use the time between then and now to come up with a Plan for for to make the neckline.

Still fighting off a pretty awful depression relapse. My new meds are helping, but now I can't cry even when I want to. Still don't feel like "me" and still don't know if I'm ever going to get back to that. Blah. So it goes.