I had both Sunday and Monday off work. After the holiday week from hell that I've had, I damn well earned it. These two days off were very necessary and kicked much ass. It rained pretty much the entire time, so I stayed home. Thor was swinging his mighty hammer and my dog was losing her mind because of the thunders that made the house rattle. I managed to get some extra sleep in the morning hours, and staying bundled up in my bigass heavy winter blanket was fucking heaven. Also, my husband got released from quarantine on Sunday, and we celebrated with a wild night of romance. I think we both had some pent-up frustration caused by this terrible week, so the release needed to be violent. I'm still sore but it felt amazing!
On these two free days, I finally got a chance to use my zine room! I managed to write, layout and complete my MoZiPro August zine that I've been putting off for far too long. Here is the cover.
I LOVE my zine room. I had such a blast working there these past two days and I can't wait to use it again. On the first day, I had my stereo playing, I lit the silver candle, as well as the scented oil diffuser. The scent of vanilla spread throughout the house and remained for an extra day or so, so that I didn't have to light it again.
This is what my work desk looked like on the second day after laying out my zine. Keep in mind that this is just a small 16-page MoZiPro zine. Imagine what this desk will look like after laying out a full-length 50- or 60-page quarter-page-size zine during International Zine Month or ZineWriMo!
In this picture, you can see the silver candle and my scented oil diffuser, slightly used. Rose Madder is sitting off to the back to give me a bit of space to lay out the zine, pieces of paper, my pen, my glue stick, my scissors, my black construction paper - all the tools need to lose track of time.
And lose track of time I did! At some point, my phone buzzed to remind me to give my dog her meds. That reminder is set to go off at 14:00.
"What?!" I exclaimed. "It's already fucking two? No!"
I can't wait to get a chance to use my lovely room again.
Going over the list of things I wanted to accomplish in December, I realized I accomplished almost all of them. I'm very proud of myself, I must say. The only things I have left to do are to complete my MoZiPro zine for December (the prompt is "Magic"), and design an updated version of my PMS Mess! catalog for 2023 including all the new zines I have in my repertoire and that are available for download on Ko-Fi. There still are a few days left in December so I just might manage to get it done.
Peace, love and yes, that's pomegranate juice
Riot Grrrl 
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