Oh, Anne! Enough with this cold! It needs to leave you alone right now.

I'm on the upswing, but I still get winded easily. So today I stay home, watch movies, and read House of Leaves.

Bloomers, corsets, etc.

Hec, sorry the job is of the suck. I hope you can find something better and tell them to EAT IT! DH is in the same boat right now and is starting to put out feelers for new positions.

vw, I envy you that much sleep--but you needed it and I'm glad you're getting some rest.

ION: I believe I may be falling for the Wallybee. And I know she's falling for me.

That's poetical. And cute.

Lilybean remains cute to the lethal extreme.

Oh, Cashmere, I wish you that much sleep. You deserve it more than I do.

The difference is that I signed on for the gig, vw. I get a lot of benefit from it. It's only temporary, too.

So, is mine (temporary, that is), I hope.

And you're right. You do have a beautiful little benefit there.

I am so unorganized right now. I can't find the tax documentation for donating my car. And they've sent it to me twice. It should be here *somewhere*. Ugh.

Oooh, wallybee fallage-for. Lovely.

Did I say? Lilybean's photo should be beside the definition of "cute" in the dictionary. She doesn't take a bad photo, does she? Ador-A-ble.

Cash, that bloomers site set off my restorer-costumer's twich. I know it's modern stuff amended from "antique" styles for modern folk. But it's still wrong, wrong, wrong! Women's underpants usually had a split crotch. I mean, if you hadda go, and you were wearing a non-bendy corset on top of five petticoats, a hoopskirt, and a dress skirt with five or more yards of fabric, getting to your underpants waistband would be rather a chore. Not to mention that women wearing underpants under all that petticoatery was considered scandalous and risque.

And the designer at that site called tucks "folds"! Auggghh! Not only are there no pintucks for decoration on the camisoles, nor ribbon-threaded beading, the allowance-for-lengthening tucks are miscast as decoration.

Okay, when I made petticoats for people, I sewed them on a machine, and used pre-ruffled eyelet for the bottom flounce. But there were tucks, *and* pintucks, and eyelet beading I threaded myself with the giftee's color preference of satin ribbon. And they had dropped yokes and insertion and the seams were covered and top-stitched and they matched where they met.

Gathered, lumpy, machine-made lace, faugh! Uncomfortable. Still, I suppose I should be glad what skills do linger are making stuff for contemporary use. But..."folds." Faugh!

Yay for sleep. I slept well too. Only about 6-7 hours, but it was good stuff.

And I finished cleaning the 13000+ rows of data this morning. Now for the house cleaning part. Ugh.

t mommy mode Now Ms. Bug. I know you are going to be thinking there are things you need to do, but I insist you take it easy! Your father is coming today, yes? He would much rather see a relaxed daughter than see you ill because you tried to do too much. Or ya know, Relax don't do it When you want to go to it, Relax don't do it. t /mommy mode

Phew! Found it. Of course, it was right in front of my nose...next to the computer, where I put the "URGENT! NEED TO TAKE CARE OF THIS NOW!" mail. Shows how well I take care of the urgent mail.