Bohemian Valhalla: Sneak Peek At RV Garage Mahal Progress

It is a Two-Fer Post kinda Day, so... here we go... I Slept 'til almost Noon! This is what happens now when I do anything at all the day before! Half a Day then is Needed to recuperate! It's not as if I did very much on Friday and I honestly more than Paced myself in the doing of it and probably spent less than 2-3 Hours Tops in the doing of it. Half of that time was spent just eating Breakfast at a Restaurant! *LOL* Yeah, what a Workout, eating Poached Eggs and Fruit! *Bwahahahaha* Okay, so, the 2nd part of said Workout was picking up a Chalkware Carnival Kitsch 12 inch Figurine and a Bling Necklace, whew, as if it broke a Sweat! *LMAOROTF* Ya gotta find the Gallow's Humor in it all really.

My Mood has been relatively Stable thru it all, tho' the Kiddos beg to differ and say clearly I'm distressed about it, which, they ain't Wrong. The Son has been getting me a Caramel Frappe from McDonalds a couple of Mornings to start my Day and Cheer me Up. *LOL and Awwww* He's been Mentally unraveling becoz of my Health Crisis, he's NOT handling it Well at all, and that concerns me more actually than my own Well Being. I'll be Fine, he's Talking to himself a lot, almost all Night long and he doesn't know I can hear him in the stillness of the House. When he was Younger he did that a lot, but he hasn't for many Years now. I guess the Thoughts in his Head Need the Verbal expression, when he feels he can't say these things to anyone else, I dunno?

The Daughter had told me a few Days ago that she felt her Brother wasn't handling me being Unwell and perhaps I should just pretend I'm doing better so he doesn't fall apart? She could be Right. Autistic folk tend to really go too Deep into their own Heads sometimes and they're highly Intelligent, so you can't usually pull the Wool over their Eyes. So, I've never tried to and keep it 100% all the time with everyone anyway. Yet, here we are and he's going to pieces every Evening in the Solitude of his own Room, but I can hear him. And his Paranoid Schizophrenic Sister is telling me he's worried about me, so fake it, so I don't know what he's said to her, or if he's even HAD to?! She does have Eyes and Ears of her own... Christ on a Bike!

So, he and I had a Candid Talk this Morning and he'll be Good, and I Understand the stress, strain and fear a lot of what's going on, even besides my Health Issues, brings with it. Keeping it Together and Holding it Down can be a Challenge for any and sometimes all of us. Nobody is an exception to that and you've gotta extend yourself some Grace and Mercies as you navigate Life's more treacherous Waters without a Life Preserver being thrown out to you to keep your afloat. And Communicating it to someone Trusted is important, to be transparent and vulnerable isn't easy, but often it is necessary becoz none of us are expected to be Super Heroes, that's Hollywood shit and not Real. *Winks and Smiles*

Princess T got off Work early again, they're not getting full time Hours lately. But, she was asked if she wanted to stay longer than most of her Co-Workers, coz, she's one of their most efficient people. So, she did, but it still wasn't a full Day's Work. Yesterday was Payday for me but I haven't gone in yet to pick up my Check, haven't felt up to it so far. Didn't even go in to tidy up the Showroom before the Weekend, didn't have it in me to. I have enjoyed Decorating that new Shelving Unit that Rob gave us for The RV Garage Mahal, got the top of it Styled. And The Daughter and I are working on Styling the Shelves now. We were Laughing our Asses off at some of my Vintage Trading Post Tourist Collectibles that say "Hand Dressed By Indians" and I'm joking that it was likely my Aunts and Cousins that Dressed those Dolls. Or, somebody's Navajo Aunts and Cousins did, still... the Selling Point to Tourists is hilarious to us. REAL Indians did this... *Bwahaha*

Anyway, my 1970 Johnny West Toy Indians are in Sad Shape now, the Rubber Bands holding their Arms on have deteriorated, especially the Apache Warrior who we call Chochise, tho' this Iroquois Warrior we call Deganawida has held together well. My Cousin wore his Hair like this Iroquois Warrior in the late 1960's in a Mohawk, otherwise he wore it Traditionally very long. He Died last Year and sadly the Anglo Hospice had cut all his long Hair off, he'd only ever had short Hair during his Years in the Marine Corps. Special Forces during Vietnam. My Brother had the whole Johnny West Set in the 1970's and I don't know if he still has them or not? My pieces I picked up over the Years Nostalgically coz I recalled my Brother and I playing with his Set as Kids, we Loved that Set more than GI Joes.

It's great to be able to give you some new Sneak Peeks at the RV Garage Mahal's most recent Progress. We're having such Fun with it when it's finally coming together in a way we can Style Sections, bit by bit. It doesn't overwhelm me to Style the Area, it is intimidating when it's just a Chaotic Mess. That doesn't bother The Daughter tho', so she tackled that part now and makes Order of the Chaos so I can go in there without Melting Down and becoming completely Overwhelmed and Paralyzed with the Disorder. I do NOT like Chaos or Chaotic Environments, I don't do Well in them. I can have a lot, so long as there's a modicum of Order and Style to it. Too Much doesn't bother me as much as it being Chaotic and looking like a Hot Mess and messy Hoard. So, these Areas we're Styling now are my Happy Spaces in there to spend Time in and I can do that for Hours without it being Sensory Overload for me. Especially when we're Laughing about it as we're Styling it.

The Daughter Understands my Aesthetic, my Quirky Sense of Style and the Odd Weird and Wonderful stuff I like to surround myself with. If it's Ordinary and Boring, it doesn't Interest me and I have no real attachments to the Common or the Mass Produced that Appeals to most folks when they Decorate and Style their Personal Spaces. I don't even like carrying Ordinary shit in our Showroom or Locked Case. I prefer to try to find Unique, Interesting and Strange Inventory that I'd have in our own Home or Buy ourselves. There's so much more I do Plan to do with our Retail Spaces once I have all of these Spaces at Home in Order and Done. We will then expand my Aesthetic full on and be completely Authentic to ourselves. The Young Prince Plans to go Wild with his Art once he's here and I'll Bankroll it for him to be Limitless with the Creation and Production of it. I Believe it has Value, there's nothing like it I've ever seen and I LOVE it.

His Imagination is Off The Chain and he's so Madly Creative in a Mad Genius kind of way that he always is 24-7 and 365. He literally lives and breathes his Art and wants to continuously Create in almost a Frenzy of Creative Energy he has to Release and Manifest into Being. I want to also encourage him to Design Programs on the Computer again too, since, that can be extremely Profitable and comes so easily to him when he's in his lucid periods where he can Design and Invent complex things. He's excited about the prospects and so am I, there is no limit to what we can Create from here, we're only limited by our Imaginations really. We can Create something out of Nothing so it doesn't even require a lot of Funding at all. When we Find stuff, we can Create from those Found and random Objects Collected.

Now that the Weather is Idyllic to be in The RV Garage Mahal, which is not a Climate Controlled Space yet, and may never be able to afford to be, we can spend a lot of Time in there. The Daughter is in there every day immersed in the whole Project, she Loves it and it keeps her Mentally Stabilized, so, a Win-Win. She hardly ever has Psychotic Episodes when she's deep into doing something like this, it seems to Calm her Demons that Torment her and push them out of the way so that they're not Dominant and more of her comes through instead. And when you're literally Laughing so hard you're Crying and your Sides Hurt, it is really hard to feel any Negative Emotions or have Tormented Thoughts at all!!! It is like a Good Medicine to have hearty Laughter and Joy. And we'll Laugh about the absurd stuff we end up saying. I was telling her shit like, "Stop, you're knocking Cochise's Babies over...", and we Laughed and Laughed coz his Right Arm kept coming off too! So, we hid it with The Children. *Bwahahaha*

We also gathered up all my Skookum Antique Dolls and put them in one of my Glass Antique Barrister Cabinets so they don't get dusty. I still have a lot of Glass Cases not completely Styled yet and some of my Cabinets Of Curiosities haven't been completely filled yet either. So, from time to time we add stuff we find that should go in one. We can tweak all of the Spaces later and change or rotate Collections as we see fit. For now, we're focusing on getting as many Smalls off the Floor and out of Storage Crates as we can that are probably going to be Kept, at least for now. I can always trawl thru it all to Downsize more and Sell Off more as I Need or Want to later on, when it's all Done and better Organized to see what I even have. A Lifetime of Collecting means you don't always recall everything you've accumulated of your Treasures. And I'm not all that Attached to most of it really anymore.

Not all of it is Nostalgic or Sentimental in a way I couldn't or wouldn't Let Go of some of it. I don't mind Keeping stuff if it has Placement tho' until I decide I wanna Let Go of it or until Friends in the Industry ask me if it's For Sale? Sometimes it's Not For Sale, but, it Can Be Bought, you know? *Winks* And, if I've got things properly on Display, it Helps to Sell them becoz nothing Sells anything like Vignetting it in a way it makes someone else Want it or take Interest in it. Often a lot of stuff, Individually, isn't so Special, but, when Showcased or together as a Collection of similar or same Items, it can really stand out and look Cool. Even the most mundane or utilitarian items, when grouped Together, can Display really well and become Interesting and Aesthetically Pleasing.

Just doing that required me to lay back down tho' and almost fall Asleep again by 4:30 p.m. and I'd only gotten up at 11:55 a.m.!!! *LOL* Monday Afternoon is when I take the Heart Monitor off and Mail it back in to be Read and Diagnosed by my Doctor after he gets the Results of the Lab Reading of it. I'm Curious about what they'll tell me, but with just perhaps One exception, I haven't felt anything alarming happening that I'm of Aware of anyway. I was a little Short of Breath doing not much earlier Today, so, I just quit doing anything until I could catch my Breath again. I Tapped the Monitor Twice like they told me to do if I felt Odd. Hard to really know what I should actually be Tapping it for if I don't particularly Feel anything else but exceedingly Tired and need to Sleep a lot? They had given me a Journal I can also fill out, but nothing to really Write about in it that I think is relevant, so, I haven't used it.

I've been watching the Catastrophic Apocalyptic Fires in Cali that still cannot be contained, I have no Words. So many Homeless and without Insurance to cover their incredible Losses. So many whose Jobs may also be gone as Commercial Areas were also Lost. One of my Favorite Designers, Magnolia Pearl, lost their Malibu Home. I think they still have their Fredericksburg Location in Texas, so will have a place to go. But, they had a lovely Store and Home in Malibu and had endured a Fire December 16th and now this other one less than a Month later that took what the first Fire hadn't been able to. It breaks my Heart for all of the Victims of this Natural Disaster. Many are Famous, many more are not, but a Natural Disaster cares not who you are and anyone can be a Victim of Mother Nature unleashing Natural Fury. Cali already had a Housing Shortage, so I don't even know where most will go? They may have to migrate to neighboring States like ours? Rents aren't affordable here for Locals, but for Californians it would be modest priced compared to there.

Of coarse it means you'd have to be Earning Cali Wages, and I don't know how many displaced people from there might end up destitute anywhere else, Unemployed and Homeless? That puts a strain on any Community with a huge Population of People in Crisis and in Need of literally everything. I'm so glad to see we're getting Present Help even from other Countries like Mexico and Canada who are sending First Responders of theirs to Help ours. This is Why Globally, we all Need one another and shouldn't have that Isolationist Attitude that the Far Right assume is preferable, it's not, especially during Emergencies and extreme Crisis. People coming together in Unity and common decency, with Compassion, Mercy and Humanitarian Aide is Priceless. You don't get that if you have no Humanity in you, since you lack the capacity to even give it. And Shame on anyone Exploiting this Crisis and further Victimizing the Victims of it.

I'm so encouraged to see that most People are BETTER than that. It's refreshing to know Good People still exist and get involved when other People are in Need. It's nice to know some folks can and will put Politics aside and can get past all the divisive bullshit going on that is pitting Americans against fellow Americans and even the rest of the World. We've endured so much Negativity and the Worst in some People since 2016, so, it was looking grim for Humanity. Now seeing the Positive and Best in most People is so uplifting and encouraging. Becoz nothing sorts People out quite like Trouble. And this has separated the Wheat from the Chaff as my Mom used to say. To distinguish what is Valuable and Useful from what is NOT and be able to identify Good Ideas and the best People from a larger Group is important to make Positive Change and Progress in the Right Direction.

The Niece agreed with The Young Prince that waiting for Good Driving Conditions is best, so, we may not see them now until Spring is upon us? Depends what inclement Weather February brings, January isn't looking so good across most of the Nation Dealing with terrible Weather and various Climate Crisis they're Dealing with Nationally. Arizona is doing Okay for now and for that we're Grateful. It is now dropping below Freezing at Night so I've put the little Paper Cup Hats on the tops of my tall Cacti to stop Freeze Damage at their Crown. Below 45 Degrees they can struggle otherwise and need a covering to protect them from Wind and Frost. Well, I know this was a Two-Fer Post kinda Day, but my first Post was rather Dark and discussing difficult Topics like Health and Mental Health Challenges. And I never want to Hold that Space very long... and only Focus upon it. Life holds so much more...