Retablos and Vaccines

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Cutting out stencils with an X-Acto knife turns out not to be a trivial task.

And one that—as you can see—I don’t do particularly well.

Still. First retablo I have ever attempted, blah, blah, blah. There is a learning curve; I knew going into this that the first half dozen or so retablos I make will not set the world on fire with their incredible mastery.

I’m not going to buy a CriCut just so I can make stencils.

But it would probably be a good idea to track down an acquaintance with a CriCut whom I can cajole into making stencils for me.

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I’m scheduled for my second Moderna vaccine dose today.

I had what I think was an unexpected and quite positive reaction to my first shot: All the lesions associated with my autoimmune disease cleared up.

Every last one of them!

Including one that had been on my leg for around (No shit, Sherlock) four years.

Of course, there’s no way of proving this had anything to do with the vaccine.

Tomorrow is the first evening of Passover. I wish I were spending it at a big, schmoozy seder filled with dysfunctional Jews but instead I will probably be spending it in bed, watching Shtisel (third season is finally out on Netflix!) and feeling ill since I’m quite sure I’m going to have a reaction to the shot.