mistressofmuses

Time to go collapse in bed...

Today was good. Alex had a model show, which was held at the horse expo, which hasn't been held for a couple years. The show went well (again, treating plastic horses like they are very serious business, but he had several plastic horses win things, so it was a successful day!) It was nice to get to see people, including a lot of local hobbyists, but also some people who traveled from out of state, which was kinda neat. (Also, while the mask mandates have been lifted, and most of the other expo attendees weren't wearing them, it was required for all showers and anyone in the showing area, which made me feel better about going to do a thing around other people. Plus it was held in part of the exhibition hall, so indoor, but extremely open and well-ventilated.)

It was actually a pretty efficient day, too - we were done by mid-afternoon. But I am still exhausted! It was a lot of walking around and carrying stuff. Plus I'm very bad at sleeping the night before going to do things - I wake up, worried about missing an alarm, and I just can't convince myself to go back to sleep.

It was also still pretty bitter cold today, though at least out of the single digits. Even so, I hit the point where I got cold and just couldn't get warm again, which just saps my energy.

Sad that I have to go back to work tomorrow, though at least I've only got two more days until my real weekend (at which point I have to go deal with the DMV.)

Tonight is not the night I get caught up on commenting. I'd hoped to, but... I'm nodding off.

Alex had his x-ray appointment earlier, and that was about all it told them: Yep, he's got bones. (He did say the X-ray tech's office was pretty cute, with a ton of skeleton-themed decor.) Hopefully he can get an MRI appointment before too long.

Ran a handful of errands, which were fortunately successful.

Next month is NaMoPaiMo, which I think I've mentioned before. It's National Model Horse Painting Month. Collecting and competitively showing and customizing model horses sounds like a weird hobby, but it's surprisingly robust for such a niche thing. It's definitely more Alex's thing than mine, but I try to participate when I can. The last two years I've entered NaMoPaiMo, and I plan to this year as well, though I still need to pick a project.

The relevance of that is that we needed primer and sealer for our projects (and non challenge-related projects of Alex's.) But the basic Krylon and Rustoleum type primers and sealers aren't very reliable for stuff like this.
The best primer we've found is Duplicolor, which is an auto body primer, that only O'Reilly's seems to carry (other companies claim to have it, but track it as an identical inventory item to Krylon, and consider it an equivalent substitute, when it's not, dammit) and it's hit or miss if they'll have white.
For sealer, the go-to seems to be Dullcote, which is a Testors product meant for models. But for some reason, there seems to be a perpetual shortage of Dullcote just about everywhere, though we found a small local craft store that's had it twice now, lol.

I'd hoped that today would be one where we could go walk or something, since I really do want to try and get some kind of exercise, even if it's minor. But since yesterday we have had the WORST wind, so that was a big nope.

I think I'm going to try and grab a nap before maybe trying to be productive on writing.