Archives: July 2004
Friday, July 30, 2004
Some "Sally*" stitching to jazz up a plain black tshirt. It goes all the way down the side seams too, though it's harder to see. Boredom, purple embroidery floss and some spare time:
http://www.silentgarden.net/images/personal/tshirt1.jpg
A black widow's hourglass on the back, done with sequins and red foiled beads. The sequins end up looking a bit weird and orange thanks to the camera flash but it's really a very vibrant red:
http://www.silentgarden.net/images/personal/tshirt2.jpg
The tongue in cheek skulls & roses cheongsam. Missing the collar, sleeves, lining and needing to be sewn at the side seams, but the basics are there:
http://www.silentgarden.net/images/personal/cheongsam1.jpg
The oriental brocade cheongsam. It's missing the same items as the skulls & roses dress, as well as an additional side front panel that I haven't attached yet:
http://www.silentgarden.net/images/personal/cheongsam2.jpg
I'm waiting on a few supplies in order to finish the cheongsams, but other than that I'm happy with how it's gone so far. The pattern was altered in several places than what it was on the package, and I'm not sure I'd recommend that particular pattern either, there are (have to be) much less complicated cheongsam patterns out there (Buttericks at the very least I believe) than this Simplicity one. I think 22 pieces is a bit much for a cheongsam.
Need to order some other supplies for another project involving this fabric which glows in the dark :)
* Nightmare Before Christmas
@ 02:51 AM EST
Thursday, July 29, 2004
"On average how long does it take to make a corset? I'm considering clothes making as a home business and also considering a wide variety of different clothes. Of course I know nothing about clothes making, just pondering the idea before taking a step into the unknown..."
Why? WHY?!
Who in the hell decides to say something so stupid? Or consider something stupid? Am I the only person who finds this quite ridiculous? Who considers starting up a business, home or not, dealing with something they have no experience in whatsoever? Especially something where your inexperienced self is responsible for the production of the items you're thinking to sell.
Maybe I should start up a plumbing or interior design business...
@ 02:57 PM EST
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
Well, the sewing machine works, even if it's testy and grouchy and refuses to cooperate sometimes. Usually when Kit's just walked out of the room. I think it does it on purpose.
Saturday in general was a bit of a loss... overslept so that PreZ missed his skating class, never made it to yoga either. Sunday Kit came over, though later than he'd anticipated as it was all new directions coming from his new place to ours. Eventually he made it. Went to Home Depot where vague case modding theories were discussed and then went off to find some food before we all succumbed to malnourishment.
Most of the evening was spent with PreZ and Kit working on case mod ideas and concepts and I spent the majority of the evening on the floor on my cutting board cutting out pieces for my cheongsam. While doing all kinds of stuff we watched one of the movies from the 50 Classic Horror Movies box set PreZ and I got a while ago, Carnival of Souls which was pretty weird and disjointed, and had pretty crap acting and dialogue. Part way through Atom Age Vampire we popped in Eddie Izzard's Circle show, and then Billy Connolly's Live: The Greatest Hits and after that I popped on the '95 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice of which we watched about one episode, before inflating the airbed for Kit and us all crawling off to bed at about 5 am.
I got a large part of the dress and lining assembled on Monday, with the exception of piecing together one last thing. Other than that it's on hold until Kit brings the interfacing for the collar. In the mean time I can repeat the stuff I've done for the other fabric I have.
Now it's time to wonder about which frog closures to get. I'm not sure if I'll get all the same frog closures for both dresses, or different ones for each. I'm leaning toward B01-10 in red/black for the skull fabric dress, and B01-09 in black/gold for the gold-medallion-on-black brocade dress.
Kit and PreZ also managed to get most of their steampunk case mod design plotted. The sketches look great. PreZ has also enlisted the help of a colleague and ex-colleague, both know their way around pistons, engineering and one knows where to get pieces custom machined for intricate parts. This is definitely going to be an interesting project to watch, and document.
@ 02:39 AM EST
Saturday, July 24, 2004
Kit came by Thursday afternoon so we could work on the cheongsam, as the fabric for that arrived last week. We went for ice creams, chatted and tinkered around a bit until Kreestof showed up. Together with PreZ we headed over to Applebees for some food before heading off to Kit's previous apartment to play enforcer and get his security deposit back. Or we would have, had all his roommates not vacated the premises. At least one of them called to tell us that early, so Kreestof could head on home, as he had a lot of stuff to do himself. The three of us went on to just move the last remnants of things from Kit's place.
Moved stuff, and in the process acquired some things ourselves that were no longer wanted. Drove home and proceeded to hang out and have tea and donuts. The only thing I really got done was ironing all the fabric I'd washed and cutting out all the paper pattern pieces. We did check to see if a temperamental old sewing machine of Kit's worked, which it did. It's not ideal, being that there are bits missing that have to be improvised in the meantime, and some things don't work so well, but it stitches, which is enough for now I guess. I need to email PreZ's aunt and see if she had one stored somewhere, because I seem to remember her mentioning it once. Otherwise just time to buy one, I did ask PreZ for one for my birthday after all ;)
As if Kit didn't have enough projects to work on, PreZ brought up another one, an idea he'd mentioned before... case mods. Mixing geek with design. So now they've got ideas for a steampunk inspired case mod. That should be interesting to see happen. Kit decided to crash at our place as he was tired and he'd have to try a new route home and wasn't sure he'd be awake enough to do that without getting lost. So we stayed up til the wee hours talking about case mods. The idea of a Tim Burton inspired case mod is so tempting, were it not for the fact that I have a nice case I like, albeit not a modded case, and it's not like I have a need for a second case, or computer. But still... ;)
PreZ will finance the materials for the case, and Kit will kind of get design free reign with it. If it turns out well, it might be another avenue to pursue... custom case mods for sale ;)
I woke up to more geeky case mod talk this morning. And thunder, lightning and buckets of rain. What turned into a quick jaunt to Joann's in the afternoon took way longer than imagined due to massive traffic on the Tappan Zee, so we got home too late for me and PreZ to go to yoga, which was a bit annoying. Picked up some lining fabric, notions, a cutting board and a few other bits and pieces.
A recent Amazon order arrived Friday as well, so we ended up watching a dvd from the couple we ordered. We watched Trainspotting before Kit headed off home. I'd never seen Trainspotting, to my shame. I've always wanted to, I've known it got excellent ratings, everyone I knew who'd seen it said it was great, but it had just never happened. In part also due to the fact that our trips to the videostore are about as frequent as blue moons (I think we need netflix or something... none of that hassle of going to the damn videostore which is inconveniently far away). It was, of course, brilliant. Parts were disturbing, parts were sad, parts were weird and strange, parts were absolutely hilarious, like Renton's rant about the fact that being Scottish sucks, because they were colonised by wankers and couldn't even get colonised by a decent nation ;)
And of course Ewan looks sexy, even as an underfed heroin addict ;)
Plans for the weekend are fluid at the moment. PreZ will go off skating Saturday morning, other than that it kind of depends, Kit might come over sometime this weekend so we can work on more stuff, and if so there'll probably be a trip to Home Depot to look for bits and pieces for the case mod. We need to cram in at least one yoga session this weekend, otherwise we're going to waste too many of the classes we already had to buy back because we haven't been going as frequently as we should.
In the meantime, sleep.
@ 03:49 AM EST
Wednesday, July 21, 2004
The fabric I ordered recently arrived before the weekend. A Skulls & Roses fabric, which I want to turn into a Goth/Deathrock cheongsam, and a Skeletoons fabric that glows in the dark for an underbust corset. First off the cheongsam though, and I'm thinking of maybe doing both the brocade and the cotton one at the same time, though the Skulls & Roses one gets precedence, because I'd like to take it to LA, and I'd like to wear it at Drop Dead in NYC, if we go.
I need to go to Joann's and pick up some basic black cotton and rayon for the lining of both the cheongsams.
Trying to pick dates to do stuff with Kit. I hope this pattern will be plain sailing.
I also need to fix that corset. I need to take it out a bit because it's just not fitting me like I'd like it too.
@ 09:01 PM EST
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
So yesterday everyone said goodbye to Eduardo. Before class started (he was teaching) he was presented with a gift that many people, including PreZ and myself, had chipped in for. They gave him an iPod which was definitely a cool gift. Pity they couldn't have given it to him earlier so he could have had time to charge it properly and load it up with music for the flight back to Sao Paolo.
Training as per usual... Sensei Liz came in towards the end of class to tell people that Eduardo was leaving, for those who didn't know, and to thank him and all that stuff. She also mentioned that they would really love to have him back, and indeed hope to welcome him back soon. That would be very very cool, as he's a good teacher and just a really great guy. He gave a little speech, which was nice and he thanked everyone there as well for teaching him as much as he's taught us.
Anne was mentioning in the change room that he'd mentioned maybe coming to study here for say 2 years or so. Interesting anyway. Here's hoping he'll be back before next year's North American Open.
@ 11:05 PM EST
Sunday, July 18, 2004
From Neil Gaiman's blog today:
"For reasons that are probably just coincidence, but are odd and cool anyway, I've received about a dozen e-mails over the last week from friends of mine who wanted to let me know that I had turned up in the middle of their dreams (normally described as "particularly vivid") and wanting to know if I'm fine. Yes, I'm fine...."
The bizarre part is that last night I had a dream with Neil Gaiman in it, which was odd in itself, but now doubly so after reading that.
@ 02:47 AM EST
Friday, July 16, 2004
Roger Ebert has no illusions about today's movie audiences...
"I would have liked to see deeper characterizations and more complex dialogue, as in movies like "Braveheart" or "Rob Roy," but today's multiplex audience, once it has digested a word like Sarmatia, feels its day's work is done."
"They [actors] even keep straight faces in the last shot, as the camera audaciously pulls back to reveal Stonehenge. That gives audience members a choice; they can think (a) "A-ha! So that explains Stonehenge!" or (b) "What a cheap shot to use Stonehenge as a location when it has nothing to do with anything," or (c) "What's that?""
-- Roger Ebert, reviewing King Arthur
@ 04:31 PM EST
Thursday, July 15, 2004
If Tim Burton and Pixar got together, I imagine the result might look a bit like this:
http://www.rustboy.com/
It's a one-man project. Although that one man seems to be somewhat of a renaissance man from the looks of things... writing, drawing, animation, layout and design for his book (Making Of), modelling (as in making, not doing). He's managed to secure private financing so he can work on it fulltime.
The mission he set himself was to make an animated short film using over the counter consumer 3D software. It's not finished, but there are clips and stills and concept shots and storyboards on the site. I definitely can't wait to see it when it's done.
Amusingly enough I found this page through a Pirated Sites site, which showcases supposedly pirated designs next to the originals, which I found on someone's blog, which I found on CSS Vault where I was browsing the Noteworthy archives. Seven Degrees... or something ;)
@ 12:50 AM EST
Wednesday, July 14, 2004
I think I might have tweaked my lower back a tad earlier this afternoon (Tues) when doing a yoga tape in front of the tv. The biggest problem there was that it was a Vinyasa flow series, and it's kind of hard to try and keep up with the flow, whilst looking at the screen from positions that don't always have you facing that way. For a beginners tape it went a little faster than I was expecting.
It could also just be because I've been up way too long sitting behind this screen and I should just go to bed.
Bats Day In The Fun Park tickets are paid for, and funds properly sluiced from one account to the other to cover the balances etc.
I keep forgetting to do certain things, like call or fax Vixens and Angels, or a bunch of other stuff. It's not that I want to forget, but it seems to fall out of my head, which is very annoying. And usually by the time I remember it's too late to call, and then I'll think to myself that I'll make up an email or fax in a bit, and then subsequently forget to do that. Rinse. Repeat.
There's a note around here somewhere with a to-do checklist...
@ 05:24 AM EST
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
A quiet weekend, which seems to pretty much be the standard... we went to yoga on Friday which was good, and the first time in 2 weeks that we'd been. I did feel a bit dizzy during class, probably due to not having eaten enough that day. Taking a small time out to cool down helped. It seemed as though some postures were going a bit easier now, thankfully, finally. I guess strength is growing in small increments.
PreZ went skating on Saturday, his usual morning class and an extra lesson in the afternoon as well as some free session skating. He really enjoys that.
I guess I need to organise more to do in the weekend, because I can't really think of anything worthwhile I did on the weekend except for laundry. Bleh.
The patterns I'd won on ebay arrived yesterday... one for an Ao Dai, the traditional Vietnamese dress that I've been lusting after for ages from this site. One day I'll order one from there... they're gorgeous, and relatively inexpensive when you considered that courier shipping is included in the price, and it's custom tailored. But for now, a Folkwear pattern of the garment will do. The other patterns are from Vogue, one for an Issey Miyake dress and skirt, the other for a Montana coat. The coat will have to wait for some time, as it's an advanced level pattern, the skirt/dress is an easy pattern. But I liked the coat, and the pattern is out of print with Vogue itself, so might as well snap it up at a bargain, right?
I need to order the fabric for the cheongsam. Because I know inevitably I'll be stuck for time, and especially if I need to get Kit to help me out, as well as borrow/use his sewing machine, I figure I might as well go for the deathrock cheongsam first rather than the brocade one. Here's hoping I have the time to do that one too... it would be cool to take along to LA to wear.
I need to email PreZ's aunt or something, see if she knows anyone with an unused sewing machine I can use. I seem to remember there being mention of an unused one that they had lying around somewhere, but I'm not entirely sure. That would be nicer than buying a new one, especially as we do plan on moving back in a few years, and I don't want to splurge on an expensive sewing machine I can't take overseas.
Karate last night, it was very humid and muggy in class, and as a result I decided to cancel adding on another half an hour of kata on the end of it. I'm not sure if it's me being out of shape due to that week and a half / two weeks of being unable to do much with that migraine, or possibly the added factor of me having my period this week, but it was a bit icky to get through class, and I felt pretty weak and such, a tad frustrating.
Currently I'm trying to wade through some of the overdue housework. Soaking the do-gi's to get some of the orange staining that comes off the belts, some laundry, dishes, random tidying up. The piles of it are ever multiplying. You get rid of one thing, and it's usually back in some form the next day, ditto cooking dinner and such.
@ 05:36 PM EST
Friday, July 9, 2004
Tuesday night I caught up with an old friend, Nic. I haven't spoken to her in months, other than a Christmas card she sent me. Funny how we managed to pick up where we left off... as usual :)
Nic's my first online friend, later graduating to a real life one, and one of the very few consistent friends I've had over the years, for which I'm extremely glad. Though we have had our moments when real life intervened a bit and we drifted somewhat. Here's hoping that that part will be behind us now, it seemed that way on Tuesday, even though we still have mass amounts of catching up to do, which will be fun. The time differences between NY and Adelaide are going to give me a headache though :)
It's when you catch up with a true friend that you realise how few of those you really have. Surveying the group of people around me, I know that the number is small indeed. Always much smaller than I imagined, than I hoped, no matter how much I try to change that. I know it isn't my fault, as I know I've put a lot into relationships and friendships that haven't ever given me back a fraction of what I put in. It never ceases to sadden me, no matter how much I think I've hardened against the inevitable blow over the years. And I know this rings true for numerous other people too, including mostly my real friends. I know they've been let down over and over as well by people, people whom they'd hoped were real, true friends, and who obviously weren't.
Bleh, I don't want to get into a "People Suck" mood, I've already been having that little black cloud hover over me for the last week or so.
Tomorrow I need to work on an email for Nic, some stuff is just better communicated in an email than via IRC/ICQ, especially when you're talking about large volumes of information.
@ 03:30 AM EST
Thursday, July 8, 2004
First karate class in about two weeks Wednesday evening. The humidity was also bothering me a lot, making 80F/27C feel pretty unbearable. Between the two I felt like I was going to pass out through kata class, but didn't. Some cold water between the all students and kata classes would have been nice, but we didn't get a break, alas.
Found out that sempai Eduardo is leaving on the 21st. He's going back to Brazil, his 6 months are up. It's a real pity, he's a nice guy and a good teacher. Tonight we had a new sempai, no idea what his name is... I'm guessing he's a new recruit from Brazil, I believe he had a Brazil patch on his do-gi. I think they have an exchange going with the South American Kyokushin headquarters which is located in Sao Paolo. That said, not sure where some of our other sempais are from, I think the other 2 we usually get are both Japanese, but I'm unsure if they live here or are also exchanges.
Class was interesting, I got to stand on Eduardo. The new sempai made us do various splits and stretching techniques, and you had a partner that would push you further into that split or stretch, obviously with the caveat that you "osu!" if it hurts you. So when sitting on the floor with the soles of your feet touching, and pulled in, the partner could either press the knees down, or stand on them. Eduardo decided I should stand on him, granted he's flexible enough that it wasn't hurting him. It's kind of odd standing on someone else... but then I had that initially with the hitting people part too, especially that time we had to do stomach muscle exercises, that consisted of the partner standing with their arms behind their head being punched in the gut for a minute or two. At least with sparring you have more of a reason to hit someone, and they have the option of blocking and hitting back. I always seem to end up paired off with a sempai when we do this kind of thing.
After that some bag practise with punch and kick combinations, and sparring. Thanks to Francesco, who doesn't seem to realise that you don't hit that hard when sparring, I have some nice marks on me and a nice sore spot on my shin, hopefully that won't bruise, but if it does it'll be nasty. Kata after all of that, and that was another 90+ minutes worth of exercise.
The partnered-stretching was interesting, and even though it wasn't always the most pleasant sensation, I did enjoy doing it. You can't always get yourself into stretches that deeply, so the added push, literally, was good. It definitely gave Bikram yoga a run for its money, though the series of postures we do in that doesn't work those muscles in that particular way.
I'm sure I'll suffer tomorrow (later today) ;)
@ 03:35 AM EST
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
So recently Katie mentioned in her lj that she was thinking about having a party because she never sees her friends, then thought the better of it because she sees most of her friends (the Clique and one of Keith's friends) regularly, and tsk tsk to everyone else she didn't see so often.
So I said tsk tsk indeed, because we've organised plenty and invited enough. She's shown up once.
She said she was either too working or too broke when we asked.
Now this would be believable, were it not for the fact that we're talking about well over 2.5 years at this stage, because we've been inviting her over since before we moved into this apartment. However after that much time I seriously doubt that "too working or too broke" is really a valid excuse anymore. Especially not when not too broke to hang out in bars or get together with the Clique to get plastered frequently, and if we're holding a gettogether, that means very little guest expenditure. And nobody works ALL the time.
Plus all the times we've asked her (and Keith) to mention what times are good, and we never heard a peep. Nor are PreZ and I the only ones she does this too... I believe Kit's heard the same "oh we need to hang out more" line, and upon replying with "great, let me know when you have time and we'll do something" he's gotten the same response we have. Nary a peep.
I think I'm done with this.
Real friends make the time. If you can only manage to come and hang out on our turf ONCE in almost THREE years, then I don't think we can say that this is going too well, can we?
@ 03:28 PM EST
Tuesday, July 6, 2004
And in keeping with the trend, Cherie didn't show up tonight, even though when she picked up the critters last week she told PreZ that she'd most likely be coming by this evening. She didn't even bother to call to say what was going on, also not vastly unusual.
@ 11:14 PM EST
We seem to be reliving this incident a lot: http://www.livejournal.com/users/prez/10302.html and with the same people too.
And it's starting to piss me off, because after so many excuses that were/are becoming increasingly harder to swallow, it's quite obviously becoming a load of horseshit.
I'd much prefer some honesty than being fed the same old line of bollocks every single time. If you're not interested in hanging out, fine, just stop pretending you want to get together and stop blowing us off numerous times afterwards when we actually try and pin down a date or occasion.
I don't know how many times we've heard the immortal words "we never see you guys, we need to organise something soon!", mostly uttered from Katie, but also Keith and Cherie. Rarely ever does anything come from it at all, even though we've organised several events and invited numerous times. Cherie's the only one with some follow-through in this instance, but over the last number of months since just before Christmas or so, I've increasingly gotten the impression that she'd rather be pulling teeth than hanging out with us. It all seems so stiff and unrelaxed and a touch uncomfortable.
Ditto Brian, but then he never claims he wants to hang out with us anyway, and half the time he can't show up to anything we're organising because he can't deal being near Kit. Of course that's an increasing problem now with Kit having declared he wants to hit Brian. I also know that Brian isn't a fan of goth, I'm sure in no small part because that is a link to Kit as well, and I know that we got into his bad books by mentioning Kit around him too often for his liking (i.e. at all).
I'm just tired of spending time, or trying to, with people who more or less seem to want to avoid us altogether. I mean, what kind of friends are those? I can get "don't give a shit" from random strangers, it seems a bit stupid to have to deal with that from people who claim to be friends. And the excuses to call stuff off are lame and unbelievable... if you can hang out with your little clique and get plastered on a multiple-times-a-week basis, then your timetable obviously isn't that packed nor your wallet that empty...
@ 04:40 PM EST
Monday, July 5, 2004
It seems like the headache might finally be drawing to an end. Thankfully. Today was my first painkiller and headache free day, yay!
For the 4th of July we headed down to NJ to meet up at Kit's place with Kit, Tom and Karen, and to then head to Sea Bright for a bit of a beach picnic and firework watching session. It turned out that Cherie was there as well, even though she knew we were going to be there. Somewhat awkward, seeing as Brian doesn't want to come anywhere near Kit (something that has made organising outings and parties very difficult, and is a pain to deal with), and Kit wants to beat the crap out of him if he encounters Brian in close quarters. So as a result we kept to ourselves some way away. But then I guess life would have been a lot less awkward if Cherie's break-up and new hook-up hadn't been ass-backwards timing wise, making life a lot harder all around.
Either way we had a good time. We brought plenty of munchies and drinks and stuff and sat around chatting. The weather didn't cooperate as well as it did the last two years, when it was in the 90s... this year it managed high 70s-low 80s, and there was a brisk wind on the beach which meant we didn't stay too long after the fireworks were over.
Traffic away from Sea Bright was a nightmare, and it took us ages to leave. We had a bite to eat at an Applebees in Asbury Park, where the service was shoddy and tardy, so we left a fairly measly tip because that was what the service was worth. Dropped Kit off at home after and drove the 70-some miles home.
All in all a good day, even though the weather could have cooperated better. I wore the t-shirt I was embroidering beads and sequins onto earlier in the week. It's got a red hourglass pattern on the back, reminiscent of a black widow spider. I personally think it's very nifty. I need to take pictures of both t-shirts that I decorated and post them soon.
Now I need to look around and find a decent deal online for a sewing machine. I don't want anything too expensive... not because I'm trying to be especially cheap, but we are planning on moving back to Australia in a few years, and I don't want to buy something that's expensive that I can't take with me when we move. Differences in power systems are such a gigantic pain in the ass. So I need to start taking recommendations as to make and model from some people.
Fabric also needs to be ordered. I have black chinese brocade decorated with gold medallions that I want to make a cheongsam out of, but I also want to make a cheongsam out of a black cotton with a skulls and roses print on it, as a deathrock version. I think it'll be amusing :) Eventually I also want to make an underbust corset out of a glow-in-the-dark skeleton fabric, just because the idea amuses me greatly. Ideally I'd like to have that made before we head out to L.A. towards the end of August, but who knows whether that will happen. The cheongsams might, the underbust corset I'm not so sure of. A sewing machine obviously would be a good start. As would some time spent with Kit once I have one, especially as I want to rework the cheongsam pattern I have so that the splits are on the sides not the side-front.
Anyway, some of many projects I'd like to get to :)
@ 03:14 AM EST
Saturday, July 3, 2004
Cherie picked up the critters on Thursday. And it's been so quiet ever since.
I keep expecting to hear a bird chirp when there's water running in the shower, or the bathroom fan is on, or when I boil the kettle in the kitchen, but it's silent. And I keep expecting to see a furball zoom past who will almost trip me as I go to the bathroom because she thinks I'm headed into the kitchen (regardless of whether she already had a supply of food or not). Food was the only thing she'd run for, it was amusing to watch.
Even though the kitty was at times destructive she's a nice kitty. She likes company... if I was on the computer, she'd be napping on the pillow on the floor next to me, if I was in the living room she'd be on the couch next to me, or across the room where she could keep an eye on the couch. If I was asleep and the door was open she'd come in for a nap too, or if I was reading or doing some stitching in bed she'd curl up nearby and watch me.
She left me some more cat puke next to the foodbowl as a parting gift... she's so sweet :P
@ 03:21 PM EST
Friday, July 2, 2004
I was kind of happy that I missed karate on Wednesday though, after hearing from PreZ what that class was like... it ran for almost two hours and shihan taught it, so it was a tough one.
And so the migraine continues on, unfortunately. Yesterday was kind of unpleasant at times, but 2 ibuprofen seemed to help, or the distraction of cleaning the bathroom and doing some vacuuming... or maybe a combination of the two. This afternoon also meant it got more severe... afternoons seem to be bad for that, but once again 2 ibuprofen seemed to make it go away. We ended up reading in the bedroom for a while, I made a batch of pumpkin cookies, and I napped for about an hour or so as well. A quiet afternoon/evening.
I've also been stitching away at my Black Widow t-shirt... the t-shirt that I'm decorating with red sequins and beads on the back in an hour glass pattern reminiscent of the Black Widow spider. I'm hoping it turns out as cool as I envisioned it. I might get it finished by Sunday, but seeing as it's slow going, I'm not counting on that quite yet.
We cancelled our plans to attend the crawfish boil (which apparantly now is sans crawfish due to flooding in Lousiana...) on Sunday. We'll just be heading down to the beach near Kit's mother's place, like last year. Bring some food, hang out, etc. Tom and Karen are joining us, and Kit said one of his new flatmates, Kathy, might be coming too, possibly with her brother. Should be good fun at any rate. I hope Kathy does show up, it would be nice to meet her, especially after hearing favourable things about her from Kit. She seems like a cool person at least.
Tomorrow I want to make a few things to take to the beach, maybe a pasta salad or something. And just pick up some simple foods at the store I think, like chips etc. You don't really want to eat anything too elaborate anyway. Stuff that requires assembly is going to be a nightmare on a beach.
@ 11:53 PM EST