I was gifted some unused yarn from an elderly neighbor and started crocheting again this weekend, so that's been nice. My arthritis was acting up after an hour, but something about the endless loops and knots reallllly satisfies all the disorders heh. Hope everyone is doin okay this week!
Ooooh I get the satisfaction feeling from the loops and knots, I have that when I'm sowing, it's divine. What are you crocheting? And I hope your arthritis doesn't give you too much trouble.
Thanks! I'm doing an amigurumi octopus pattern I've had in a folder for a while now, it's so cute and I'm excited to make one again. I tried cross-stitch a couple times in the past but struggled with the needles too much. The crochet hooks help keep my fingers from seizing up too bad, so I can keep at it for 30-60 minutes without overdoing it. Are you currently working on anything?
Oh it sounds lovely! I'd love to see what the little octopus(-pattern) looks like once it's done. The crochet hooks sound really helpful for the arthritis, I can imagine how much you would have to move your fingers if you were to try something without them, so I'm very happy to hear they enable you to do something that makes you happy. 
I finished a little merperson doll a while back, all made from fabric and wadding. I don't use templates because I've always been horrible at sticking to a template in any circumstance, so I just go by my gut feeling and draw some lines on the fabric, then cut it out, sow it together, and fill it with wadding. The tricky part about the merperson were the hairs. I use wool, cut it into little strings and sow them onto the head of the doll, then use a fine comb to separate the individual strands. The result is, after multiple hours of untangling wool, a very curly-haired merperson. The project I started but didn't continue (yet) afterwards is supposed to become a dragon, but I'm still debating on the shape of certain parts of the body. Right now, I just have a very long, adorable head and a neck that is open at one end lol 
It's been nice for sure. Your merperson and dragon sound so cute and creative! 
It's so fun to make something just for the heck of it.
Absolutely
would you be alright with sharin a pic of your merperson? it sounds cute as heck
Here they are! I make it a habit of gifting plushies to my friends, so this is the latest one I gifted away and thus my only good picture. Hope you like it
they're so cute! thank you! 
Thank you 
My partner is drunk again. I'm supposed to get up at 5am tomorrow to drive her to work. The same thing has happened for the past 2 or 3 weekends, and so far she still has a job, but her drinking has cost her more than half a dozen jobs in the past few years and her behaviour shows no signs of changing.
I'm growing more and more resentful because she doesn't want to go through with any sort of addiction treatment. My own counsellor has offered to me to connect her with someone, and there's addiction treatment on-demand available at the local hospital, but she just doesn't want to do any of it.
I know that addiction is not as straightforward as just asking for help, but I've been out of work for more than a year and a half and can't find anything, while she hops from job to job like this.
There are times when I just want a break from watching her self-destruct, but she'd probably be on the streets if she wasn't living with me.
I have ADHD and am probably on the autism spectrum, and I know I'm not always easy to deal with. But she never tells me what she's feeling or what she wants, and it feels like any effort I make to support her, or even just keep an eye on her to make sure she stays on the wagon, ends up as wasted energy. And it's already all I can do to keep searching for work.
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