Monday Musings

On Cricut Maker - I finally got started with my Cricut Maker yesterday.  My first attempt was an epic fail:

I decided this font was maybe just too thin to work...

I tried again with a different font that didn't have pencil thin lines.  I got an image I could actually transfer...  But I still didn't like the results.  The Cricut cut each individual letter fully, so where they overlapped, bits would end up missing.  Also, I thought the size was just a little too big!

Finally got to the point of understanding the difference between "group" and "weld".  Very happy with the final result.  More importantly, the bride-to-be was happy!  So, my first project - set of six bridesmaids wine tumblers - DONE!  And weeding vinyl?  Not my idea of a good time!

On Face Masks - I'm still busy sewing. Finished another 10 on Saturday.  So here's the group currently ready to hit the mail

I continue to receive requests for these, so I'm still sewing like crazy.  And now that it is becoming clear that our stay-at-home orders aren't being rescinded anytime soon, and we are being required to wear face masks to get into the grocery store, I'm guessing there will be a continued need.  I'm about to run out of elastic again. Sigh.

On the "New Normal" - or rather complete lack thereof. I thought we had this COVID thing kind of figured out. I'm unemployed, but that happened pre-COVID and we were doing okay. We had settled into a schedule and a life at home...  and with a single phone call, that has all been turned on its head.  

Jay just learned that he's been "furloughed".  I've put that term in quotes because we both agree it is his company's chicken-shit way of jettisoning employees without coming right out and telling them.  He was told 4-8 weeks.  So why do we think "furloughed" actually equals "let go"?  Because they want him to mail his laptop back to Corporate HQ.  If they were planning to bring him back in a month, why would they bother?  So we are now two unemployed older Americans.  Jay is devastated. I don't even know how to react. It sucks in ways I can't even describe.  I know that our situation isn't unique and that we will muddle through it somehow.  But O.M.G. - 2020 SUCKS!!!!