I'm in!
Matilda had her last soccer game today, and Emmett's high school team had their last game today where they failed to make the playoffs for the first time in a long time.
We started off well (5-0) but regressed as the season went on, and the hitting completely disappeared at times and the defense got quite shoddy.
So he's got a few weeks off to finish the school year and enjoy prom, and then he'll start travel team ball around June 20th.
We watched a Norwegian movie that was billed as a wacky comedy, but was actually one of the bleakest and most pointlessly depressing things I've ever watched
The comic Scandinavia and the World addresses this.
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Hola! I am having a really good weekend! I spent the night at my friends's place; got sunshine watching her girl at soccer practice, then we sat on the deck, gabbed and got kinda hammered on Cosmos. But I slept from midnight to 8! Amazing. Good coffee and breakfast and sun on the deck, then I met a friend for a meditation class at the studio she teaches at.
It was great, and the teacher let me stay for the next deep stretch class for free. Mini-spa! There were just two poses I couldn't do yet, and I had to modify a couple, but yay! I have missed it so much!
I have one of my BF's 40th bday shindig tonight; it's a little cool, but sunny. There will be a ton of yummy food, and I am going to dress up for the first time in ages.
Oh! I did dye my hair, and it's is FUCKING RED. Blazing; I love it. And I gave myself a pedi; I feel magically delicious!
It's so nice to feel good. And people are so kind.
Glad to hear you're doing well, Strix.
Yay, Strix!
Not so yay, Scandinavian not so comedy.
I have an eyebrow and cheekbone ache AKA a sinus headache of Doom. Bad enough that one of my coworkers kept commenting on how bad I looked.
After work I stopped by Target and got some Nutella. I deserve a treat.
(excited. but not that excited.)
I have a question for the sewing people among us.
I am using a Singer Inspiration 4212 for the first time. (inherited from my surrogate mom when she moved)
I've watched the video and read the manual to ensure that I had not forgotten how to properly make a bobbin and thread the machine. Turns out the threading is remarkably similar to the two Featherweights I use.
Problem...the thread balls up on the bottom of the fabric, as if the tension is wrong. I've adjusted and readjusted everything I can think of to fix it, to no avail.
There does not seem to be a feed dog adjuster and the manual does not address this problem.
Anyone have an idea of what is going on? Google is not helping me!
I cannot help you, bonny. This is why I don't sew by machine. I will spend hours hand sewing to avoid using the machine. I generally rip out every seam at least once. My favorite thing to do with a sewing machine is throw it out the window.
Perhaps someone with a mellower relationship with sewing machines can offer advice.
Windsparrow, I am your sister in sinus headaches. I hope you fine relief. Hot compresses occasionally help mine.
Zen, sorry about the disappointing movie. And Strix, yay for good hair and good times!