Paingry

I went to my Ortho appointment, and in nice, medical professional terms he said, “Your pain is outside the normal parameters of the problems you’ve listed here. I can’t do anything for you. Now, go home and wait for your pain clinic appointment.”

I went to my car and cried, drove home, and took a Percocet. It’s actually doing something! It kicked the pain back to, “Hmmm, I should take some Ibuprofens…” from, “Holy fuck, just cut if off!” My “S’s” sound very sibilant to me right now. Ssssssssssssibilant.

The Percocet is the only reason I’m not crying and/or in a sulking depression pitying myself. It’s also maybe the reason I’m not going to make this post solely about being pain angry. Paingry? HAHAHA

I finished binding my book! I used Sea Lemon’s coptic stitch tutorial.

My first coptic stitching!

The outside covers are sparkly scrapbook paper. You can’t see it very well, but the edges of the leaf are rounded. It’s my favorite part of this project : D

And the inside covers are swirly scrapbook paper

I made some mistakes and they must have compounded each other, because it’s really loose. But, I don’t care! It is now a daily journal where I put things that make me happy, like, “Had an internet argument that didn’t turn into a war.” I try to write at least one thing in it every day.

I will make more books! A torn apart sketchpad currently lies in wait for further surgery. For my next one, I think I’m going to try making bookcloth. I have some great dinosaur rock band fabric. I also want to try Japanese stitch binding, mostly probably because I have a lot of those paper grommet things.

I have so many ideas for making books. I want to try making paper, marbelising paper, sewing onto paper, popup books, kid’s books, fabric books, found object books, etc etc etc. Hmm…perhaps I could write all of these ideas down. To the Official Idea Holding Notebook!!