Diana posted bitterly on Twitter that she doesn't care if her cousin never updates her journal, and that cousin is me, and I felt sorry for never updating for her entertainment, but you know there was the internet ban at work, which is where I write my posts! And I can't seem to be bothered to do it when I think of writing a post when I'm at home, so there you go. Nothing gets written and Diana just has to make her own entertainment.
However, here I am, awake at 4 in the morning after being sleepy and falling into bed at 10 last night, and I think I can manage to write a little something, because what else am I going to do at this time of the morning?
As I mentioned before, Rachel has been sewing and so far she has made two skirts and a pair of pajama pants with little monkeys in karate uniforms printed all over them. So cute! She says I am not better at teaching than I am at sewing, meaning there is just as much frustrated cussing when I am just telling her as there is when I am doing it myself, but hey, she knows how to make a skirt now, so she can just shut up and be grateful!
Since Rachel is all about sewing now, and we have made about 50 trips to the fabric store in two weeks, I went online and ordered a book that I saw on Amazon a while ago, about how to make things out of t-shirts, and yesterday I made pillows out of two of Kim's old t-shirts! It was easy, except for the cutting, because all of my scissors are dull, and now she has two cute pillows for propping up on to read in bed.
In knitting news, I'm almost done with a vest I am making for Carolyn's brother Brinton, who is going on a mission to Peru, and when that is done, I have to finish the sleeves of a sweater for someone at work who has a new granddaughter, and then I can get back to work on finishing Carolyn's new sweater. As always, there is a long list in my head of other things I want to knit, but they all have to wait until these three things are done!
Tomorrow is Kim's birthday and she will be 21! So we are having pizza for dinner and also birthday cake! I asked what kind of cake she wanted, and she said Angel Food, so we are going to have Angel Food cake with chocolate sauce for dipping! Rachel and I thought it would be fun to make faux cocktails, too, since she is going to be 21, old enough to drink, except that we don't drink, so Ash is going to make virgin cocktails for us, and Rachel and I shopped for supplies today.
We took Maddy with us to the store to do the party shopping, and she was not having the best shopping trip of her life. First, it was too sunny and windy outside, and she hates having the sun in her eyes, so we pulled her blanket over her face, but she also hates having a blanket in her face, and the wind kept blowing it off anyway, so then eek! the sun was in her eyes again!
When we got her in the store, out of the weather, she was slightly happier, except that she was hungry! Rachel made a bottle using powdered formula and some bottled water, but nooo, Maddy didn't like that! We think she didn't like the taste of the bottled water, which was a brand that I don't like either, so I understand it, but I thought the formula would cover up the taste of the water, but apparently it just ruined a perfectly good bottle of formula!
Maddy managed to survive the hardships of weather and food, and make it back to the house where she could get a decent bottle and play on the floor with Rich while Rachel sewed pajamas and I made pillows, and then Kim came home!
She admired the pillows, and the baby, and collapsed on the couch, tired from driving five hours to get home! She managed to revive enough to get her laptop from her car and then all was well as she sat on the couch, computing. Sando showed up an hour later and brought his Xbox, and they made frozen pizza, just like always.
I knitted and watched Sando play the latest Final Fantasy game, and then I was so tired I couldn't stay awake, so when Kim and Sando went to the store at 10 to buy a video game, I went to bed! Rachel and Maddy were long gone, and I hope Rachel is getting some sleep tonight, too!
So that's what has been happening here, and I just have one more thing - I'm reading a book called The Reformed Vampire Support Group and it's great! The vampires are a bunch of whiners, who have to find out who killed one of them before the Slayer can strike again, and I liked it so much that when I finished it, I wanted to read it again! Two days later, I am reading it for the second time, that's how good it is.
Friday, April 2, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
I wrote this on Saturday!
I don’t know why I’m all nervy and stressed today. I woke up happy this afternoon, and Rachel brought Maddy over so we could go see a spinning and weaving exhibit. The demonstrations were over when we got there, but we know some of the exhibitors, so we talked to people and petted a sheep belonging to a friend, who had brought him in to demonstrate wool on the hoof.
Then we took Maddy and went for a trip to the fabric store. (Cue foreboding music.) Rachel and Kim both want to learn to sew, and each of them mentioned it last week, so I told RA and we made a preliminary trip to the fabric store on Friday. Both of us know how to sew, having learned from our mothers, but neither of us does it anymore. I would much rather knit than sew, and RA would rather pay someone else to sew for her.
We thought it would be fun to teach the girls to sew, well, okay, RA thought it would be fun and I thought it would be very likely to end in tears, but we talked about it and decided that a chef’s apron and a skirt with an elastic waist would be good first projects, just to teach them how to read the directions and how to sew straight seams.
So on Friday, RA and I went to the fabric store and looked at patterns, and we bought fabric for aprons and skirts. Also, RA thought it would be fun to make a sewing basket for Rachel, who was going to be our first sewing student, so she picked out a cute sewing box with a handle, and took it home to fill it with stuff from her sewing room. She dropped it off at my house later, and she had also gone back to the store to get a couple of things that she didn’t have extras of, and when Rachel came over and saw the basket, she was pretty pleased with it!
I had bought the pattern for aprons and some Hello Kitty fabric, enough for each of the girls to make an apron, and some black and some charcoal gray knit fabrics for skirts, and Rachel liked them, but she wanted to look at more patterns, so with Maddy in her car seat, we went back to the fabric store. I gave Maddy a bottle while Rachel looked at patterns, and then I followed her around the store, carrying a baby and my very overweight purse, while Rachel picked some fabric for a dress and another skirt.
I was standing at the cutting table with the fabric bolts while Rachel went back for one more thing, when Maddy decided to hork up some of her bottle of (stinky) formula on me. Ugh. We had wipes and whatnot, so I cleaned up, but that shirt I was wearing needed to go home and get washed. We still needed a few things, like zippers and buttons, so I had to keep following Rachel around the store, carrying my heavy purse, a fussy baby in her car seat, and my coat. It was very tiring, and why I didn’t think of grabbing a shopping cart, I don’t know.
Finally we were back home, and man, I was exhausted! Rachel started clearing the dining room table, Rich took Maddy, and I started making soup, thinking it would be soothing to do some cooking. We had some ham and a hambone left from the lunch after Maddy’s blessing last Sunday, and Rich likes bean soup, so I sautéed onions and half a bag of shredded carrots and added a bag of pinto beans that had been soaking, and then the ham. That simmered for a couple of hours while we sewed.
The actual stitching is not the hardest parting of sewing, the hardest part is learning to use the sewing machine. That is what we spent the most time on, and now Rachel knows how to set up the machine, and how to troubleshoot problems. I supervised while she cut out a skirt and sewed the seams, and Rich put Maddy to sleep. By the time the soup was done, the skirt was finished, except for the hem, and Rachel took the baby and the skirt home.
Tonight I got a call from Rachel, and she was feeling pretty frustrated. I told her that she just had the easy part left, just the hem, and she was wondering which part of the hem was the easy part? She said she had been working on it and it looked like crap, and she didn’t know what she had done wrong! I asked her how she had done it, and it all sounded good – folding, pressing, pinning, all fine, but oops, it turns out she didn’t know how to do the actual sewing part! She was doing some kind of running backstitch and of course it looked like crap. Oops, it never occurred to me that she wouldn’t know how to hem!
So tomorrow we’re going to have a lesson in how to do a little bit of finishing work.
Then we took Maddy and went for a trip to the fabric store. (Cue foreboding music.) Rachel and Kim both want to learn to sew, and each of them mentioned it last week, so I told RA and we made a preliminary trip to the fabric store on Friday. Both of us know how to sew, having learned from our mothers, but neither of us does it anymore. I would much rather knit than sew, and RA would rather pay someone else to sew for her.
We thought it would be fun to teach the girls to sew, well, okay, RA thought it would be fun and I thought it would be very likely to end in tears, but we talked about it and decided that a chef’s apron and a skirt with an elastic waist would be good first projects, just to teach them how to read the directions and how to sew straight seams.
So on Friday, RA and I went to the fabric store and looked at patterns, and we bought fabric for aprons and skirts. Also, RA thought it would be fun to make a sewing basket for Rachel, who was going to be our first sewing student, so she picked out a cute sewing box with a handle, and took it home to fill it with stuff from her sewing room. She dropped it off at my house later, and she had also gone back to the store to get a couple of things that she didn’t have extras of, and when Rachel came over and saw the basket, she was pretty pleased with it!
I had bought the pattern for aprons and some Hello Kitty fabric, enough for each of the girls to make an apron, and some black and some charcoal gray knit fabrics for skirts, and Rachel liked them, but she wanted to look at more patterns, so with Maddy in her car seat, we went back to the fabric store. I gave Maddy a bottle while Rachel looked at patterns, and then I followed her around the store, carrying a baby and my very overweight purse, while Rachel picked some fabric for a dress and another skirt.
I was standing at the cutting table with the fabric bolts while Rachel went back for one more thing, when Maddy decided to hork up some of her bottle of (stinky) formula on me. Ugh. We had wipes and whatnot, so I cleaned up, but that shirt I was wearing needed to go home and get washed. We still needed a few things, like zippers and buttons, so I had to keep following Rachel around the store, carrying my heavy purse, a fussy baby in her car seat, and my coat. It was very tiring, and why I didn’t think of grabbing a shopping cart, I don’t know.
Finally we were back home, and man, I was exhausted! Rachel started clearing the dining room table, Rich took Maddy, and I started making soup, thinking it would be soothing to do some cooking. We had some ham and a hambone left from the lunch after Maddy’s blessing last Sunday, and Rich likes bean soup, so I sautéed onions and half a bag of shredded carrots and added a bag of pinto beans that had been soaking, and then the ham. That simmered for a couple of hours while we sewed.
The actual stitching is not the hardest parting of sewing, the hardest part is learning to use the sewing machine. That is what we spent the most time on, and now Rachel knows how to set up the machine, and how to troubleshoot problems. I supervised while she cut out a skirt and sewed the seams, and Rich put Maddy to sleep. By the time the soup was done, the skirt was finished, except for the hem, and Rachel took the baby and the skirt home.
Tonight I got a call from Rachel, and she was feeling pretty frustrated. I told her that she just had the easy part left, just the hem, and she was wondering which part of the hem was the easy part? She said she had been working on it and it looked like crap, and she didn’t know what she had done wrong! I asked her how she had done it, and it all sounded good – folding, pressing, pinning, all fine, but oops, it turns out she didn’t know how to do the actual sewing part! She was doing some kind of running backstitch and of course it looked like crap. Oops, it never occurred to me that she wouldn’t know how to hem!
So tomorrow we’re going to have a lesson in how to do a little bit of finishing work.
Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Shut up and pass the Advil.
I went to my first session with a trainer at the gym on Friday, and met with a very pleasant, friendly, tiny, little woman who demonstrated how to set up each of the machines, and then supervised me doing a set of 8 reps on each one. She advised me to drink some water and eat a snack with protein in it within the next 45 minutes after I left, and I went home feeling pretty good, but not as if I would be sore the next day.
Fast forward to this afternoon, when I went back for a second session, and met another trainer. Today’s trainer was older, but also tiny – neither of the trainers that I’ve met was any bigger than a Keebler elf!
Today’s trainer was also very nice, but she said she likes to see more reps on each machine, and she added one more machine, too. She was pleasant and friendly, and in her pleasant friendly way she almost killed me! It was good, though. I was glad to have someone push me, but oooh, I can already feel some of my muscles aching.
I went from the gym to a doctor appointment, because my doctor likes to have me come in and get scolded about my cholesterol and whatnot every once in a while. The drive to the doctor’s office takes about 30 minutes of driving through the country, and it was a beautiful day for it. I had my bottle of water and my (overpriced) protein bar, and a Queen CD that I liberated from Kim’s car – her friend Catsy is always burning CDs for Kim that Kim doesn’t listen to – and the sun was shining on the cornfields. It looked like a postcard, Diana!
Rachel called me as I was driving, to see if I would come over and sit with Maddy when I got back so that she and Ash could go to the Y, and I was happy to do that! So after my appointment, I drove back through the sunny cornfields, singing along with the CD, and went to play with Maddy. She was in a lovely mood, and looked so happy to see me! Maddy is so friendly and she never questions me about my cholesterol or scolds me for not using my inhaler, like her mother and my doctor do!
So that was all very fine, but then later I took a nap before work, and when I woke up, I felt a little sore and stiff. I took some ibuprophen when I got to work. By the way, not only am I slightly sore in the muscles I used at the gym, but my rib muscles (?) hurt because even though I am over the cold I had last weekend, I have been coughing my lungs out ever since! Ow sweetie, ow dahling!
Fast forward to this afternoon, when I went back for a second session, and met another trainer. Today’s trainer was older, but also tiny – neither of the trainers that I’ve met was any bigger than a Keebler elf!
Today’s trainer was also very nice, but she said she likes to see more reps on each machine, and she added one more machine, too. She was pleasant and friendly, and in her pleasant friendly way she almost killed me! It was good, though. I was glad to have someone push me, but oooh, I can already feel some of my muscles aching.
I went from the gym to a doctor appointment, because my doctor likes to have me come in and get scolded about my cholesterol and whatnot every once in a while. The drive to the doctor’s office takes about 30 minutes of driving through the country, and it was a beautiful day for it. I had my bottle of water and my (overpriced) protein bar, and a Queen CD that I liberated from Kim’s car – her friend Catsy is always burning CDs for Kim that Kim doesn’t listen to – and the sun was shining on the cornfields. It looked like a postcard, Diana!
Rachel called me as I was driving, to see if I would come over and sit with Maddy when I got back so that she and Ash could go to the Y, and I was happy to do that! So after my appointment, I drove back through the sunny cornfields, singing along with the CD, and went to play with Maddy. She was in a lovely mood, and looked so happy to see me! Maddy is so friendly and she never questions me about my cholesterol or scolds me for not using my inhaler, like her mother and my doctor do!
So that was all very fine, but then later I took a nap before work, and when I woke up, I felt a little sore and stiff. I took some ibuprophen when I got to work. By the way, not only am I slightly sore in the muscles I used at the gym, but my rib muscles (?) hurt because even though I am over the cold I had last weekend, I have been coughing my lungs out ever since! Ow sweetie, ow dahling!
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Grandma would be so pleased.
I had to laugh about a friend's journal post today where she said her husband was sick so she had to take care of his Farmville farm as well as her own! That is so funny, but hey, even when you're sick, farming goes on! Actually she had to farm three farms that day because she farms on her son's farm, too.
I can totally understand it, because you know I have two farms, mine and Kim's. When I started farming, it was so much fun that I couldn't wait for my crops to grow, so I started a second farm on Kim's account! Now that my farms have gotten bigger, it's kind of a pain to have to farm both of them, but I solved that by planting crops on Kim's farm that take longer to grow, so that I don't have to run from one farm to another to harvest everything at the same time.
One of my Facebook friends used to farm but doesn't any more, and she was telling a story on Fb about a woman who was taken to the hospital and needed to be admitted, but first the sick woman needed to talk to her best friend, and it turned out that she needed to ask her friend to take care of her farm while she was in the hospital! It's funny, but it's true that it would be on your mind if you suddenly had to go away from home for a few days!
One time I had a little time on my hands (when don't I?) and I was going through all my friends farms, fertilizing their crops, and I saw that my cousin Diana's crops were wilting. I sent her a text message to tease her about it, and she called me to say that she was in the car on a short driving trip with her husband and couldn't get home in time to save her crops! Her husband was laughing at us, but he suggested that she give me her password so I could farm them, and she did, so I saved the rest of them. A couple of weeks later, I had to ask her to take care of my farm for the same reason, so it's a good thing to have a trusted friend to help you.
Diana is so funny, now that her kids have left home (more or less) and it's too boring at her house, she is on the computer all the time playing these facebook games. She started with Yoville, and now she has an apartment in Yoville, a house and a mobile home, plus, she runs another Yoville game on her friend's account, just because she likes to play it. I started Yoville because Diana liked it so much, but I didn't care about it, so she used to sign in and play my character, too, when she needed extra money in the game!
Then she started playing Petville and got me playing that with her, but we have both stopped that one. You just feed your pet, clean its house, and collect furniture. I got tired of that fast. It's too much like housework, and I'm not interested in that, either.
The other game she plays now is Vampire Wars, and last night she told me she hoped I wouldn't mind, but that she started playing a character in Vampire Wars on my Facebook account because she needed more members in her group of Vampires! I told her I don't care, and asked if that meant I should accept Vampire gifts when people send them to me? And she said yes, if I get any, to accept them.
So apparently I am playing Vampire Wars now! She told me that she named my character Wilda, which is the name of our grandmother that we were both very close to, because she thought it was a good name for a vampire. I wonder if Grandma would be pleased? She always wanted one of us to name a child after her.
I can totally understand it, because you know I have two farms, mine and Kim's. When I started farming, it was so much fun that I couldn't wait for my crops to grow, so I started a second farm on Kim's account! Now that my farms have gotten bigger, it's kind of a pain to have to farm both of them, but I solved that by planting crops on Kim's farm that take longer to grow, so that I don't have to run from one farm to another to harvest everything at the same time.
One of my Facebook friends used to farm but doesn't any more, and she was telling a story on Fb about a woman who was taken to the hospital and needed to be admitted, but first the sick woman needed to talk to her best friend, and it turned out that she needed to ask her friend to take care of her farm while she was in the hospital! It's funny, but it's true that it would be on your mind if you suddenly had to go away from home for a few days!
One time I had a little time on my hands (when don't I?) and I was going through all my friends farms, fertilizing their crops, and I saw that my cousin Diana's crops were wilting. I sent her a text message to tease her about it, and she called me to say that she was in the car on a short driving trip with her husband and couldn't get home in time to save her crops! Her husband was laughing at us, but he suggested that she give me her password so I could farm them, and she did, so I saved the rest of them. A couple of weeks later, I had to ask her to take care of my farm for the same reason, so it's a good thing to have a trusted friend to help you.
Diana is so funny, now that her kids have left home (more or less) and it's too boring at her house, she is on the computer all the time playing these facebook games. She started with Yoville, and now she has an apartment in Yoville, a house and a mobile home, plus, she runs another Yoville game on her friend's account, just because she likes to play it. I started Yoville because Diana liked it so much, but I didn't care about it, so she used to sign in and play my character, too, when she needed extra money in the game!
Then she started playing Petville and got me playing that with her, but we have both stopped that one. You just feed your pet, clean its house, and collect furniture. I got tired of that fast. It's too much like housework, and I'm not interested in that, either.
The other game she plays now is Vampire Wars, and last night she told me she hoped I wouldn't mind, but that she started playing a character in Vampire Wars on my Facebook account because she needed more members in her group of Vampires! I told her I don't care, and asked if that meant I should accept Vampire gifts when people send them to me? And she said yes, if I get any, to accept them.
So apparently I am playing Vampire Wars now! She told me that she named my character Wilda, which is the name of our grandmother that we were both very close to, because she thought it was a good name for a vampire. I wonder if Grandma would be pleased? She always wanted one of us to name a child after her.
Saturday, February 20, 2010
In which I feel horrible, and yet, so happy.
I hardly slept at all the last couple of days, but I think I am caught up now. Yesterday was weird, because I hadn't slept enough the night before, even though I was home all night. I went to sleep at 10 or so, and woke up at 1. I tried to go back to sleep, but it just didn't happen. I watched TV, farmed my farm, and knitted, and in between those activities, I would go back to bed and try to sleep, but after an hour of laying in bed awake, I'd just give up and go find something else to do.
So it was a long day, and by noon, I was tired, but I had a hair appointment at 1, so I couldn't go to bed! I would have called to cancel, but I had already missed one appointment by forgetting it, so I felt like I owed it to the salon to show up this time! Then I had the bright idea of calling Rachel to see if she wanted to take my appointment! Yay! Rachel went to the salon and I went to bed!
When I woke up, it was almost 7, and as I staggered to the shower, I thought sadly that it was too late in the day for me to see Maddy, and I wondered if Rachel would want to bring the baby over to visit, but I didn't think she would, because it's a lot of work to take a baby out with all of its supplies.
After my shower, I got dressed, and then from downstairs, I heard a noise! And it was Maddy! She and Rachel were in the living room! So I had a nice time playing with Maddy, and then she had to go home to bed. (Rachel's hair looked good.)
When Maddy and Rachel were here, I was coughing a bit, and after they left, I started to feel feverish and cough more, and I realized that what I thought was asthma for the last few days, was actually a cold coming on! Oh noes! I hope Maddy doesn't catch it!
Dr. Diana recommended that I get some Dayquill to take at work, so I went to the grocery store on my way to work, and bought Dayquill, and Nyqill to take in the morning to help me sleep. Diana was right! The Dayquill helped a lot, and I took the Nyquill capsules when I got home in the morning and slept all day! Oh the happiness!
And now here I am, sitting in the big chair with my laptop on a little table in front of me, drinking a Diet Pepsi, and watching the Olympics. I'm still sick, but life looks pretty good from my big chair.
So it was a long day, and by noon, I was tired, but I had a hair appointment at 1, so I couldn't go to bed! I would have called to cancel, but I had already missed one appointment by forgetting it, so I felt like I owed it to the salon to show up this time! Then I had the bright idea of calling Rachel to see if she wanted to take my appointment! Yay! Rachel went to the salon and I went to bed!
When I woke up, it was almost 7, and as I staggered to the shower, I thought sadly that it was too late in the day for me to see Maddy, and I wondered if Rachel would want to bring the baby over to visit, but I didn't think she would, because it's a lot of work to take a baby out with all of its supplies.
After my shower, I got dressed, and then from downstairs, I heard a noise! And it was Maddy! She and Rachel were in the living room! So I had a nice time playing with Maddy, and then she had to go home to bed. (Rachel's hair looked good.)
When Maddy and Rachel were here, I was coughing a bit, and after they left, I started to feel feverish and cough more, and I realized that what I thought was asthma for the last few days, was actually a cold coming on! Oh noes! I hope Maddy doesn't catch it!
Dr. Diana recommended that I get some Dayquill to take at work, so I went to the grocery store on my way to work, and bought Dayquill, and Nyqill to take in the morning to help me sleep. Diana was right! The Dayquill helped a lot, and I took the Nyquill capsules when I got home in the morning and slept all day! Oh the happiness!
And now here I am, sitting in the big chair with my laptop on a little table in front of me, drinking a Diet Pepsi, and watching the Olympics. I'm still sick, but life looks pretty good from my big chair.
Friday, February 12, 2010
Kim is home!
Kim came home this weekend, and I have been so busy with Rachel and Maddy that I hadn't even gone to the grocery store to stock up on sausage links and frozen pizza. Also, RA is still out of town, so I haven't been out much. I don't think there is even any Mountain Dew in the house! I wasn't even expecting Kim until late last night, but it turns out there was a fortuitous power outage all over campus and her afternoon class was cancelled, so she left early and was here at 5:30!
Rachel and Maddy were here, so as soon as Kim came in, she sat in a chair and held the baby. It would have made a cute picture if I had thought to take one!
Rich was getting ready to leave for TaeKwonDo, and we were going to juggle all the cars in the driveway to get his out, but then he had the bright idea of just driving Kim's car, so that was easy.
There was a dog show on TV, one of our favorite things to watch, so Rachel, Kim, Maddy and I watched the dog show, and then Kim and I collaborated on a Spanish Omelet for dinner. It was very pleasant evening.
I'm happy to be off this weekend to watch the start of the Olympics! I love the Winter Olympics, and I'm ready with a sweater to knit while I watch! I'm working on a sweater for Carolyn in grey Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks, and I plan to have it done before the end of the Olympics!
Rachel and Maddy were here, so as soon as Kim came in, she sat in a chair and held the baby. It would have made a cute picture if I had thought to take one!
Rich was getting ready to leave for TaeKwonDo, and we were going to juggle all the cars in the driveway to get his out, but then he had the bright idea of just driving Kim's car, so that was easy.
There was a dog show on TV, one of our favorite things to watch, so Rachel, Kim, Maddy and I watched the dog show, and then Kim and I collaborated on a Spanish Omelet for dinner. It was very pleasant evening.
I'm happy to be off this weekend to watch the start of the Olympics! I love the Winter Olympics, and I'm ready with a sweater to knit while I watch! I'm working on a sweater for Carolyn in grey Wool of the Andes from Knitpicks, and I plan to have it done before the end of the Olympics!
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Take my love, take my land
I'm sorry that I haven't made a post since January, but I have my reasons. First, lack of material to write about, because RA is out of town again and the only place I've gone since she left is over to Rachel's to hold the baby so she can take a nap. Oh, except for that day when Rachel needed to go to the mall in Rockford to buy some bras because she couldn't stand the one she was wearing for another minute! It was eating her alive!
So we took the baby and went to the mall, and we just went straight to the Motherhood store, where Rachel bought four (!) bras and was feeling much better about her life, and I was holding the baby and walking around the store while she was in the fitting room and everyone admired the baby, and then when I said something about her mother, I got looks of surprise and someone said, "Oh, she's not your baby?" and I thanked them for thinking I am young enough to have a baby, and then we went straight back home without even going to look in the windows of the Gap, my favorite store in the world! I know, shocking.
We did stop in a yarn store on our way out of town, but it's not really a very good yarn store, so I just bought a couple of skeins of Encore sport-weight to make a sweater for Carl.
Also, I usually write my journal posts at work, where I have a routine of reading webcomics and journals and then writing my own journal during the first hour of the night, but last week my boss had another one of his cunning plans to entrap the bimbos from the answering service - and I don't understand his fuzzy thinking on this- but he plans to audit their internet useage, so he told Barb that we should not surf the net at work for about 45 days, and that is really cramping my style, because how am I supposed to write my journal and stalk Rachel's old boyfriends if I don't use the internet at work? What will I do when Bill from Housekeeping wants me to help him find a Ballad of Serenity ringtone for his cell phone? How will I know what ugly outfits celebrities are wearing without reading Go Fug Yourself?
So you see that I just don't have anything to write about, but I will make an effort to write about nothing more often.
PS, It's snowing.
So we took the baby and went to the mall, and we just went straight to the Motherhood store, where Rachel bought four (!) bras and was feeling much better about her life, and I was holding the baby and walking around the store while she was in the fitting room and everyone admired the baby, and then when I said something about her mother, I got looks of surprise and someone said, "Oh, she's not your baby?" and I thanked them for thinking I am young enough to have a baby, and then we went straight back home without even going to look in the windows of the Gap, my favorite store in the world! I know, shocking.
We did stop in a yarn store on our way out of town, but it's not really a very good yarn store, so I just bought a couple of skeins of Encore sport-weight to make a sweater for Carl.
Also, I usually write my journal posts at work, where I have a routine of reading webcomics and journals and then writing my own journal during the first hour of the night, but last week my boss had another one of his cunning plans to entrap the bimbos from the answering service - and I don't understand his fuzzy thinking on this- but he plans to audit their internet useage, so he told Barb that we should not surf the net at work for about 45 days, and that is really cramping my style, because how am I supposed to write my journal and stalk Rachel's old boyfriends if I don't use the internet at work? What will I do when Bill from Housekeeping wants me to help him find a Ballad of Serenity ringtone for his cell phone? How will I know what ugly outfits celebrities are wearing without reading Go Fug Yourself?
So you see that I just don't have anything to write about, but I will make an effort to write about nothing more often.
PS, It's snowing.
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