No, stop adding things to the post, just hit the button!

[spindizzy]

Hello darlings! I didn't realise that I'd dropped off the face of the internet until faintdreams messaged me to check if I was still alive, so I'm sorry about that. (I have had some variant of "Post x on dreamwidth" on my to-do list every day, and I keep forgetting that this doesn't automatically translate into you all knowing that I am fine and yelling as usual.)

I've been a bit up and down! Seasonal depression can once again go eat a wasp nest, and oh my goddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd can my family keep it together for FIVE MINUTES PLEASE, but I'm alive!

(The niece who married someone like fifteen years older than her is getting a divorce and I am SO HAPPY FOR HER! Anecdata seems to indicate that 25 is the age where people dating older-yet-less-mature creeps realise what's going on, and she's bang on target for that.)

• A pipe burst outside work a while ago and they've not turned the water off, which means that we have a huge puddle outside the library that ducks and geese have been splashing in!


• It's fucking cold over here, my dudes. Not as cold as it's been in the Americas, but fuck me I thought we were free of this devilry.


• It's always a bad day when you have to message the IT guy at work being like "Maybe make someone else check the tickets today, the one I'm about to put in is gross." Not sure if that day was better or worse than the one where the fire alarm test broke the alarm so it kept sounding for nearly an hour.


• I finally finished Lex's Valentine's day present! I made him an alolan vulpix! Once again, I need to figure out how on earth image hosting works so I can show you all. I used an embroidery machine, it looks so fancy thanks to that.


• Oh yeah, it was our anniversary last month! Lex and I have been together for... Fourteen years now? Fuck me, our relationship would be old enough to pick its GCSEs, that's terrifying.


• Trying to get my website back up to date, which I haven't done in a thousand years. It's being a slog my dudes. It's not that I hate wordpress or anything? It's just that my ideal UI is the bastard lovechild of dreamwidth and tumblr (dreamwidth for the text entry, tumblr for the queue and the in-post image control) and there is literally no reason anyone would make that.


• Apparently the chorus of Jessie's Girl isn't actually "I wish that I was Jessie's girl" and it's 100% less queer than I thought. Whoops.


• Had a bit of a mad one and started making a skirt. It's the Sew Liberated Estuary pattern!
  
  • The true purpose of having huge glass windows into the conservatory: taping A0 patterns and tracing paper to them so that I can trace my patterns without scrabbling on the floor!
  
  
  • I'm making a toile! Like a madwoman sensible human! Currently squinting at it a bit, because the two views are "skirt with in-seam pockets" and "skirt with patch pockets" and I'm not a coward: BOTH. Hence the making a toile out of a hacked-up duvet cover so that I can figure out if that would even work.
  
  
  • I have a horrible feeling that the real fabric I've got for this project is too heavy. The instructions say something like "Use a light or mid-weight linen," but the linen I bought seems quite thick. Worst case scenario, it doesn't work and I use the fabric for something else. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
  
  
  • I made a skirt for one of my dolls, and now apparently I have transferable skills? Which I know was partly the point, but also: BAMBOOZLING.
  
  
  • "How long did that take you to cut out?" "Uhhhhhhhh three episodes of Columbo?"


• Spent my bank holiday weekend being awake long enough to do one (1) thing, then having a nap. Rinse and repeat until bedtime. Apparently I was tired!


• Seriously, I looked at my diary and I haven't written out my to-do list since the 4th. No wonder nothing's getting done if I'm not writing things down.

Comments

[oracne]

Happy anniversary!

[spindizzy]

Thank you! <3