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Jul. 14th, 2025 07:49 amI feel like I've been run over. Probably due in part to dehydration, it feels exactly like that. Possibly also because I've been out of a brain drug for over a week now. No zappies this morning, like I had Friday-Sunday. I wish I could have stayed in bed this morning, especially since I was so rudely awoken by feeling like I had a large beetle crawling on me. (The peri-menopausal folx of Threads tell me this is a common symptom, feeling like insects are on you.) Period ought to be starting in the next few days too. Whee.
Saturday I ran some errands in the AM and then M and I decided the times didn't work out for a movie so we've tabled that until after Mama M goes home in 2 weeks. Had begun hemming the petticoat the night before so I finished that, and then tried it on just by pinning it around my waist. It's too long -_- Even accounting for a 1" tape for the waist and heels, it's barely clearing the ground. Dang it. Easiest way to deal with it is taking some off at the waist since that's still largely open (tape is ordered, won't be here for a couple days more). Re-hemming would be a little better bc I could have straight strips then for further trim but ugh, it took me SO LONG to hem! Grump grump whine complain.
I cut the lining for the jacket from the offcuts of the banyan mwahahaha, and then HASHTAG YOLO!!!! into the silk. It worked out largely like I'd planned and I think I could even shorten it and have enough to do a sleeve ruffle too. Right now it's just the pieces laid at the top edge of the fabric and not trimmed for hemming at all. The sleeve was cut from the gap between front and back.
No time to do much more. I got the back edges of the lining hemmed and pinned the front and shoulder straps on to test fit against an ill-fitting set of stays. It was right before I needed to leave so all I could really say is yes, it should work just fine. Then I left to pick up M and we went to the airport.
I knew we didn't need to be there so early but ~*~ anxiety ~*~ so we got there just as her flight was expected to land. They'd touched down 10 mins earlier, but because that was actually half an hour before they'd been scheduled even, they had to wait for a gate to open up lol. Then it took a long time to get the luggage clear. FINALLY we were on the road again an hour later. We'd noticed some backed up traffic on the way in and thought it would be clear on the way out. It wasn't, but I braved it anyway. It took, no joke, an hour and a half to get out of. It was impossible to see what was going on. Accident? Construction?
Nay! It was three lanes of traffic being forced into ONE to exit the highway. There were four vans under the bridge and they were power-washing the highway. What the heck? We found out later that a rendering vehicle had lost its load of offal all across the road. The best comment was "it was the worst smell I've ever tasted". Glad we missed that! We detoured around the city and took a very scenic route, where we saw a pair of moose in a field of canola and a pretty part of the river valley. We finally got back to the city and into a fast food place for dinner at 9:16pm. An hour later I was finally home.
Sunday was a showing for the Lion King Broadway show, which was at 1pm instead of our usual 2, and threw off the entire day. It was FABULOUS of course! Third time for me and OH. I was already crying like a minute into Circle of Life. It's just so good. Then we packed Mama M up and drove out to see our friends' dogs, where we spent a couple hours just loving on them. I was worried that Darcy didn't have much time left, but honestly for his age and health issues, he still looks really good and was still interested in treats and food. I'm still glad we did it. We'll be going out again in the near future so we can see the humans too.
Popped into a restaurant for dinner and then back home, just before 9. I scooped the cat box and laid out in bed for a few hours. At least I slept through the night, terrible wake up aside.
Tonight I need to do some more house chores. My dishes are in a state, I need to change the fountain filter, and while I'd like to vaccum, I probably won't have energy for it. I need to get cat stuff in the next couple of days but it's not necessary to do it today. I think I need an evening to mostly rot and sew.
Oh, on my erranding, I was SO CLOSE to the leather supply store so I popped in to get gum tragacanth. Man that store smells SOOOOO good. I poked about quickly since I had fridge-items in the car, considered a deer hide for stay binding (decided no, I'm not even close to being able to do that so I'll wait until I am), admired all of the things available, and then at the checkout I picked up a knob of pure beeswax. My sewing-store blob/container has been on its last legs for awhile but it did last me almost 10 years, I am SET now for like the next 25 years with this one. Very pleased with that purchase, definitely planning to go back when I have more time.
Saturday I ran some errands in the AM and then M and I decided the times didn't work out for a movie so we've tabled that until after Mama M goes home in 2 weeks. Had begun hemming the petticoat the night before so I finished that, and then tried it on just by pinning it around my waist. It's too long -_- Even accounting for a 1" tape for the waist and heels, it's barely clearing the ground. Dang it. Easiest way to deal with it is taking some off at the waist since that's still largely open (tape is ordered, won't be here for a couple days more). Re-hemming would be a little better bc I could have straight strips then for further trim but ugh, it took me SO LONG to hem! Grump grump whine complain.
I cut the lining for the jacket from the offcuts of the banyan mwahahaha, and then HASHTAG YOLO!!!! into the silk. It worked out largely like I'd planned and I think I could even shorten it and have enough to do a sleeve ruffle too. Right now it's just the pieces laid at the top edge of the fabric and not trimmed for hemming at all. The sleeve was cut from the gap between front and back.
No time to do much more. I got the back edges of the lining hemmed and pinned the front and shoulder straps on to test fit against an ill-fitting set of stays. It was right before I needed to leave so all I could really say is yes, it should work just fine. Then I left to pick up M and we went to the airport.
I knew we didn't need to be there so early but ~*~ anxiety ~*~ so we got there just as her flight was expected to land. They'd touched down 10 mins earlier, but because that was actually half an hour before they'd been scheduled even, they had to wait for a gate to open up lol. Then it took a long time to get the luggage clear. FINALLY we were on the road again an hour later. We'd noticed some backed up traffic on the way in and thought it would be clear on the way out. It wasn't, but I braved it anyway. It took, no joke, an hour and a half to get out of. It was impossible to see what was going on. Accident? Construction?
Nay! It was three lanes of traffic being forced into ONE to exit the highway. There were four vans under the bridge and they were power-washing the highway. What the heck? We found out later that a rendering vehicle had lost its load of offal all across the road. The best comment was "it was the worst smell I've ever tasted". Glad we missed that! We detoured around the city and took a very scenic route, where we saw a pair of moose in a field of canola and a pretty part of the river valley. We finally got back to the city and into a fast food place for dinner at 9:16pm. An hour later I was finally home.
Sunday was a showing for the Lion King Broadway show, which was at 1pm instead of our usual 2, and threw off the entire day. It was FABULOUS of course! Third time for me and OH. I was already crying like a minute into Circle of Life. It's just so good. Then we packed Mama M up and drove out to see our friends' dogs, where we spent a couple hours just loving on them. I was worried that Darcy didn't have much time left, but honestly for his age and health issues, he still looks really good and was still interested in treats and food. I'm still glad we did it. We'll be going out again in the near future so we can see the humans too.
Popped into a restaurant for dinner and then back home, just before 9. I scooped the cat box and laid out in bed for a few hours. At least I slept through the night, terrible wake up aside.
Tonight I need to do some more house chores. My dishes are in a state, I need to change the fountain filter, and while I'd like to vaccum, I probably won't have energy for it. I need to get cat stuff in the next couple of days but it's not necessary to do it today. I think I need an evening to mostly rot and sew.
Oh, on my erranding, I was SO CLOSE to the leather supply store so I popped in to get gum tragacanth. Man that store smells SOOOOO good. I poked about quickly since I had fridge-items in the car, considered a deer hide for stay binding (decided no, I'm not even close to being able to do that so I'll wait until I am), admired all of the things available, and then at the checkout I picked up a knob of pure beeswax. My sewing-store blob/container has been on its last legs for awhile but it did last me almost 10 years, I am SET now for like the next 25 years with this one. Very pleased with that purchase, definitely planning to go back when I have more time.
