That's gorgeous, Spidra.

Thanks. I got a real sense of accomplishment from that one. I tried to do something I wasn't sure I could do and I pulled through nicely. I look forward to making another corset someday. What I *really* want to learn to make is a corset with cups. Basically, a merry widow, I guess. I'd need to do that to make a Golden Age Wonder Woman outfit not to mention the Lilli Von Shtupp outfit I'm dying to make. (Actually, I looked closely and realized that even though I remember it having cups, it's just a more curved front. Not sure how the costumer did that although I think if I use the Laughing Moon pattern view with gores I can do it.)

I am very cold most of the time. But I did warm up part-way through that gig and doffed the coat. Sometimes the heat is from stage lights. Other times it's from nervousness.

Apparently, the surgeon was pleased with the samples they got, so that's good. I think she's encouraged.

This is very good to hear. How are you doing? I hardly ever get to post with the East Coast morning crew anymore! Oh and, Fay asked about paying for cookbooks over in the F2F thread.

For pretty much the reason Stephanie mentioned - I can't keep Mal away from the keyboard if he's awake and I'm on the computer. Not even if I set him on the shelf next to me: [link]

Spidra, that's a rocking corset!

Here's my day so far: [link] I should have photos up on Flickr today or tomorrow. I didn't take many as I didn't want to get firebombed.

My favorite quote from the article:

Ahead of the visit, anarchists claimed responsibility for planting several firebombs, burning cars but causing no injuries.

Which basically means it's Tuesday here. They've been making carbeques for months and months, why stop now?

carbeques

Snerk. Well, everyone still gets their fashions from Paris, n'est çe pas?

How are you doing?

I'm hanging in there. Trying to do better.

{{{vw}}} Because.

Damn. I was going to, pathetically enough, download last night's 7th Heaven. But, the website is down. I'm all sad, which is just stupid.

Shhhh...don't tell anyone! I'm gonna get new shower curtains and wash the rugs in the bathroom. It'll be like a whole new clean room!

Fun. A new shower curtain really does make it a whole new room.

I'm coming back home to clean after I take the kid to school. Work will have to wait a bit. I'm too tired at night to do housework, but I can do office work anytime.

I LOVE washing our bathroom rugs. They come out of the dryer so clean and fluffy! It makes me unreasonably happy. (it's the little things)

Go vw! It's a gorgeous day today... so hopefully your errands today will be a little nicer with the sun on your face.

{{vw}} good luck with turning the bad vibes around. I know it's hard. But sometimes it helps a lot. To quote the Simpsons, "In with the love... out with the jive."

I have shown my paper twice already to people, not including Tom last night. And I made him look at it twice. The prof gave some good comments about organizing the paper, which is helpful, in case I ever want to re-purpose it or anything.

It's so nice outside!

Nora, I'm so psyched about your A! Go you, with your paper writing fu!

vw, it probably sounds stupid, but I have such a sense of accomplishment when I clean the whole bathroom. Dusting ticks me off. This is the dustiest house known to mankind, and so it mostly makes me feel like that Greek [memfault] who was always pushing the stone up the hill, only to have it roll right back down.

t whinge t MeMeMe

Last week, Scott's job moved out of state.

Last week, our old car died.

Last week, the mechanic called and said, "It doesn't look good, but I'll take it apart next week, and let you know what I think."

Yesterday, the mechanic called and said, "You know how I thought it was going to be 500 bucks? Well, I'm changing that to a thousand. Minimum. And honestly, I don't think it's worth your money. (It's a '91, so he's being good to us, telling us this.)

Last week, it wasn't a big deal. It was April vacation, and we didn't have to be anywhere.

This week? Not so much. We're back to the grind, going to school, and all three kids in Little League means practices and games, and Girl Scouts for Julia (my mother already takes her to her dance lessons).

Plus, you know, I actually do need a car, sometimes. The thing is, we can't afford a car, because we just bought a new car we already couldn't afford, back in December. Whatever we buy has to be reliable enough for Scott's 80 mile roundtrip to work, or big enough, for me to cart the kids around (leaving him with the new car, which darn well ought to be reliable enough for his 80 mile, roundtrip.

None of this is the end of the world. Problems that can be solved by money and/or that are caused by lack thereof sure aren't the worst kind of problems.

I just don't like it. I want a car. I should go do that spoiled meme on LJ. I'm not closing the whinge tag, just because. So there.

...

The upside? Chris had a great time at his birthday party. Ben's team won their first game (which only Scott attended, because it was cold and drizzling, and we'd just gotten home from the party). The final score was 11 to 3. Ben successfully stole four bases. Last year, the team he was on made the Bad News Bears look like champions. We live within walking distance from the school, and it's warming up, so as long as we don't have thunder storms, walking them to and from school is a good thing (even though I'm lazy). Scott can work from home a couple of days a week, and his bosses are understanding (so far) of our situation, and feel badly that the move (which was not their decision) was on such short notice.

So it's okay. Really.