Christina Hendricks @chendricks@scholar.social

@dogtrax Thank you...good to return to this community. When I’m really stressed with work (or anything else) I tend to cocoon. Hopefully that will be less as the months go by. It’s been full on with work during the pandemic.

It’s been awhile. I’m here, I’m tired, but it’s a long weekend so I’m coming out of my stress shell a bit.

Here is Mika, not caring at all that I can’t get to all the puzzle pieces.

I have come late to the bread making stage of the pandemic. I needed an extended vacation time to de-stress enough to even want to start baking. First was multigrain loaf. Today is ficelles but they got stuck together.

@lauraritchie Thanks! I didn’t actually make the mitten though, I just fixed a hole in it through darning. You can see the spot where things are kind of uneven on the right of the image. That’s where I fixed the hole!

TIL how to darn. It’s not gorgeous, but it should hold. First darning project!

Happy holiday #caturday from Mika! #mastocats

I recently started watching the Great Canadian Baking Show and it’s hard to describe how comforted it makes me feel toward the end of this awful year. More cakes! More breads! More pies!

Why does just watching them being made make me feel almost as good as making them? Strange...

@lauraritchie it’s in our parking garage thank goodness, below our living spaces. And we were able to get it fixed enough to not be too bad, until we can get a permanent fix. But my poor partner had to spend several days dealing with this (not to mention the workers who were working on a holiday!). Stuff seems to give out at inopportune times. But fortunately we’re all good for now!

B/c there’s not enough going on towards the end of this year, let’s have flooding in our parking garage in some holiday days. Yes. Sounds great. And rain starting again tomorrow. 🙄

Our son shared this interesting video by Minute Physics about why masks work better than you'd think and I learned something today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y47t9qLc9I4

And check out this great page by Aatish Bhatia on the multiplicative power of masks: https://aatishb.com/maskmath/

In serious need of exercise for mental health but:

Don’t want to go to gym due to COVID risk

Can’t be outside very long due to air quality being awful bc of wildfire smoke...with asthma not good combo

Guess I’ll be doing laps around the kitchen island...

Got my first haircut in about 8 months yesterday. It had gotten so long an inch off hardly seems noticeable. COVID protocols strong, including only a few minutes of hair dryer (now I’m curious why a longer blow dry would be a problem when 3 mins okay).