Went into my little studio earlier tonight, and as I was wrapping up, it occurred to me that I forgot to show this little guy off.

This was my first real experiment with making something that had legs and a tail. Also, the little Stegosaurus plates on its back I felt like we're a nice little touch. Ideally, I might have saved a little clay to make a little lizard tongue, or maybe even some eyeballs, but I think it still turned out pretty nice.

There's a bit of a crack in the underbelly near one of its shoulders, but the way I'm holding it in the photo, you can't see it. It's barely worth noting it exists, frankly.

All in all, I really like how this little lizard turned out.

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A friend of mine once showed me "The Ingval Prayer":

"Dear God. I know that, in this moment, you are testing me, but really, you of all people should know I was a c student in high school. This is so unfair!"

I found myself reciting this prayer just a minute ago when I remembered the hard way that on day three or four of the stomach bug, you're feeling almost back to normal... But you still have the nightmare diarrhea. And our baby just reminded me of that detail, if you know what I mean. 🤢

Yeah, all my friends told me Parenthood was going to be gross. But I didn't listen, did I? 😭

I'm kind of at a point where all my health issues are sorted out for the time being, and I'm looking forward to finally having some time in my little studio to get back to my modeling clay. On the other hand, I have this really bad feeling that if I say that out loud, something else is going to happen, and I'm going to end up being sick all over again. Maybe with something new, maybe something from earlier in the week will come back for round two... Who knows?

If you're reading this right now, I clearly decided to roll the dice. But as I'm typing it out, I'm not so confident.

I'm glad to be over whatever stomach issues plagued me the last couple days. I just wish I didn't end up

I tell you, this week has not been a good week to be me.

This is probably the best I felt in days. I might actually have it in me to go back into the studio, and resume my projects.

Luckily, I happen to be in between projects when the ear infection hit, so now, the only real problem is figuring out which one to start next.

Most of Mastodon: dude! My Linux destro can totally jiggatize My 23x32 pulser adapter to formulize All the quadrants of my Mondosaurus zimmerposer to ostricify pineapple pie a la mode!

Me: 😵 The hell is Linux!? I just want to play with modeling clay!

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Feeling a lot better today compared to the last couple of days. I think it helps that my ear ended up springing a leak last night. According to the people at urgent Care, that's a sign of infection is losing.

It's weird trying to listen to audiobooks on my phone, though. Well I'm used to having only one earbud in, it's usually the ear that is currently infected that has an earbud in it. They genuinely can't remember the last time I've done this one earbud gimmick with the lLEDT earbud only.

Really hoping this ear infection crap is over with soon. Even if I don't have nearly the headache I did yesterday, it's still sucks.

I tried booking a doctor's appointment today, only to remember that I don't have the same insurance I had 3 years ago, so I had to update that. And unfortunately, after several minutes of trying to explain this and that to the guy over the phone, it turns out they don't take the insurance. Because God forbid anything in this God forsaken country be easy, I guess. All this, while simultaneously chasing a 2-year-old around, telling him to leave Dad's guitar alone, and stop pressing buttons on mom's computer.

So yeah, great start to the weekend. 😝