I apparently don't have any doll photos or anything to share today. So you get to see my Christmas cactus in bloom. I think it's actually a crab cactus, which is a parent plant to the Christmas cactus or something like that. This is a recent photo. My plant doesn't know that it is June. I got this 9 years ago for my first paraprofessional appreciation day. It hasn't bloomed since then. I feel like this plant is tied to my emotional state. I have been (mostly) in a really great place lately. And my plants seem to know it.
So let's talk about me and plants. We have had an odd relationship. I have killed many plants in my life. I tried to keep them alive, I was just not good at it. But starting with the Christmas cactus I was able to keep succulents alive, and mostly healthy. In the past year I have gotten quite a lot of new plants. I did kill a couple of them (I have never yet kept an English Ivy alive) but my current count is 12 plants, only 3 of which are succulents. And two of them are rescues from the school. We had a lot of plants in the upper foyer that needed homes. I have a spider plant that is looking quite happy to have a somewhat larger pot, it was so root bound when I brought it home. And I rescued a rubber tree plant yesterday. I think it was a cutting someone put into a pot, I discovered it doesn't have roots. So I am going to see if I can keep that one alive. Twelve plants is probably good. I think I am out of places to put them anyway. Unless I build some shelves in front of the window. Which I am not against doing. I like plants. And they don't mind when I leave them to go to work.
Tomorrow is the last day of school for the year. I am ready for it. I love my job and I am tired, all at the same time. I need a break. And a really good nap. Tomorrow we only have a half day. At least some of our kids aren't even coming. There is a luncheon at 11:00, after the kids are all gone, and then a bunch of us are going out afterwards. That will be nice. I do like the adults at school. You have to be at least a bit weird to work at a middle school, at least to do it well, so there are a lot of people that are just as weird as I am. It's been really interesting the past two years. I went from really missing my people from the high school to being really comfortable with where I am. And really happy to be working with the people I am working with.
In non-school news, I have been making dolls. Of course I have been making dolls, lol. My trip to Kentucky is now less than a month away. At this very moment I have 29 sales dolls ready. And I least one partially started. And with only one more day of school I can work on a ridiculous amount of dolls and doll accessories. I am really thrilled that so many things I ordered for prizes (do you remember I mentioned the prize wheel? It's a reality, I have it!) have been coming in. I have to get them sorted the way I want them to be, and I am waiting on I think one more order to come in. I am so excited! I am still working out how I want to do the prizes and I will post more about it when I have it all finalized. I'm going to mull that over a little bit longer.
I think those are all the updates I have for the moment. I'm exhausted but still going. I have a good doll stock, but I want it to be bigger. And somehow I have managed to keep a whole bunch of plants alive. Good times.
