Beverly, the sock cuffs idea sounds interesting (I echo your 'darning? hah!' type sentiment). Presumably you cut off the toe end? I can see that giving me more movement than fingerless gloves do.
Let me guess. We're in a hurry.
Inara ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Seska (the Watcher-in-Training) - Oct 02, 2010 1:00:17 pm PDT #4748 of 30000
"We're all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?"
Strix - Oct 02, 2010 1:01:55 pm PDT #4749 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
HA. Got a wild hare, and changed out Dan's "nighstand" (one of those plastic 3-tier drawer things, with a wooden stool with books on it right by) for a sturdy stack of my 2 vintage leather hatboxes, and hauled one of the two dresser drawers in out TEENY bedroom in my office here.
Office is a bit crowded, but the closet with all my hanging clothes in in here anyway, and the bedroom looks SO much better, I cannot believe.
I hated that nightstand setup with a fiery, burning hate, and although I would still like to have matching nightstands with drawers one day, this set up is worlds. better. The room feels neater and much less crowded and slapdash.
WindSparrow - Oct 02, 2010 1:12:09 pm PDT #4750 of 30000
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
This is the method my mother taught me for darning socks:
1. Pick up sock.
2. Examine it carefully for holes.
3. If holes are present, say, "Darn sock!"
4. Put in stash of dusting cloths.
Volans - Oct 02, 2010 1:17:24 pm PDT #4751 of 30000
move out and draw fire
I probably could've fixed the old computer, but it pre-dates Mal, and over the years everything's failed on it. I've lost a hard drive, replaced the RAM, replaced the graphics card and audio card, only one of the two DVD drives still works, and it only reads, doesn't write. And the case is trashed.
So since I no longer need a top of the line gaming machine, I ordered a Dell outlet refurb which got here right away. It was the easiest computer setup ever.
erin_obscure - Oct 02, 2010 1:18:21 pm PDT #4752 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
seconding windsparrow's mom's method. i also sometimes cut off the toes and small bit of heel in order to make a washable liner for wrist braces that i wear at night during flareups. Man, about a month after my first bout of tendonitis that wrist brace *stank*. I apparently have very malodorous wrists.
omnis_audis - Oct 02, 2010 1:22:53 pm PDT #4753 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
erin_o, I didn't want to say anything. But yeah, we could smell it all the way over at the sound tech tables.
Strix - Oct 02, 2010 1:23:32 pm PDT #4754 of 30000
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I dust with clean old socks. Slap them on your hands and it works really well for books and bookshelves.
smonster - Oct 02, 2010 1:26:17 pm PDT #4755 of 30000
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Spent most of day in bed trying sleep off a migraine. Did not succeed, but it's better. Feh. Good thing I didn't have to work today.
omnis_audis - Oct 02, 2010 1:34:39 pm PDT #4756 of 30000
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir
{{{ smonster }}} May the pain fairies find their way out of your ears, and get caught up in the air conditioner filter, work their way free, to be sucked into the fan, and chopped to bits, and be out of your life forever.
erin_obscure - Oct 02, 2010 2:02:55 pm PDT #4757 of 30000
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
am i a bad sister if my 14 yo (half) sister posts on facebook that she needs a hug and my first thought is "then you shouldn't have pissed off yr mom so bad that she sent you to stay with dad, and then pissed off dad in exactly the same manner" ? I didn't actually tell her that, just thought it. Hard.