"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs, Sewing, Super-Short Entries on Mar 8th, 2006
Wax-free tracing paper blows goats, right? I hate that stuff…it doesn’t make a clean, strong mark, and the marks smudge. Ass. I’m mostly marking the inside of the garment anyway, and I’ve never had the wax kind of tracing paper stay on the fabric beyond a couple of washes anyhow. Fie on wax-free tracing paper. […]
Posted in bike commuting, Fashion, Garden, Home Improvements, Imports from old blogs, Sewing on Mar 6th, 2006
Well, well, what’s been up… Hah, quite a bit, really. I’m starting to get over my winter blahs, thanks to the weather having been so nice lately and the days getting longer. Moreover, I’ve imposed upon myself several projects to change things up a bit so I won’t be so bored, grumpy, dull, and frustrated. […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Super-Short Entries, Work/career (vague as to avoid doocing) on Feb 22nd, 2006
So, my time in my current department draws to a close. This job, which I eagerly accepted back in November, has turned out to be nothing at all like what I was expecting, and was frankly making me despair. Lucky for me, I had several applications outstanding within the HR system, and one of them […]
Posted in Distractions, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
A zillion fancy pencils…these always seemed to turn up in gifts, and I felt they were to pretty to use up. Also, they tended to be that splintery wood that doesn’t sharpen well, anyway. They were better to look at than to use, anyhow. Special delivery: eraser, par avion! The big red bag was my […]
Posted in Distractions, Fashion, Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
At one point in the mid-1980s, it was fashionable, at least amongst schoolgirls, to have a long plastic chain with a bunch of little keychain/charm thingies hung on it. My sister and I never had the chain, but we had a few charms. This is one of mine. She had one just like it, but […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
Rainbow Circus was apparently a Sanrio line back in the early 1980s. This pencil case was a birthday present from my grandmother, and I think I was in the second grade. I know Mrs. Berry was still my teacher, so it would have had to be either first or second grade. There’s a little heart-shaped […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 20th, 2006
Because I am utterly sickening, not to mention a Bear of Small Brain tonight, here are some pictures of some cute shit from my childhood. This past Fall, my folks brought down a trunk of my old childhood momentoes, and today I was a little bored at one point and started going through some of […]
Posted in grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Imports from old blogs on Feb 13th, 2006
Sometimes my body gets stuck in a rut of misbehaving. For example, when I get the hiccups, I’ll be hiccupping most of a day, then for the next two or three following days, I’ll get the hiccups intermittently, tapering off slowly. It is very annoying. Right now, my current bodily rebellion is with my head. […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, Sewing on Feb 11th, 2006
I finished these pants last weekend, but failed to post ’em, so here you go now! Because I have questionable taste in clothing, I felt that my wardrobe would be greatly enhanced and improved by the presence of one pair of bright-orange, wide-wale corduroy jeans. And so I made them. They have a slightly lowered […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs, nostalgia, Photo entries on Feb 11th, 2006
A couple of weeks ago, I went along with my boss and his assistant to assess a cleanup project in an offsite office, and we were taken down to the building basement to eyeball a bunch of old files and miscellaneous stuff they’d been storing for quite some while. While we were poking around, identifying, […]