Yesterday was a PSD (personal sewing day), but I ended up with this purple blob.
Well, it is not a blob. It is one of those fashionable mock-wrap tops. But the horizontal seam is nearly at my waist, and so loose that the effect is not so much a wrap as … hmm… I cannot think of any pieces of clothing that include such a thing as a design feature.
There is, doubtless, a way to fix this. I will be working on it. Until then, it does not deserve a picture any better than a purple blob.
I had intended to tell you how much I liked the fabric and how easy the pattern was and stuff like that, but I am not happy with this thing. And, yes, it is all the fault of the inanimate object.
Fortunately, Jasmine was behaving better than that purple thing. I finished the first sleeve and it fit into the space it belongs in, and started the second sleeve.
This made up for the bad behavior of the purple top.
Another thing that helped make up for that was the fact that the garage door is repaired. I went to buy replacements for the broken coffeepot and the broken toaster, and to do the grocery shopping, and when I returned home, the garage door repairman had been and fixed it, without my having to do anything.
If only that happened with the housework, too. I would come home from doing the errands, and all the house would be sparkling.
Well, I do know that this is possible, and in exactly the same way as the garage door repairman is possible — you have to pay them.
But it was a nice fantasy.
#2 son assisted me in preparing this breakfast of sausage and cheese casserole and peach coffee cake. Do we detect the presence of saturated fats and simple carbohydrates here?
We do.
Today is a work day.
I have not even been to the farmer’s market, and I will regret that later in the week, but at the moment I am talking to my kid on the IM and enjoying the peaches with their brown sugar, and not caring a bit.
I like the colour of the Purple Blob ‘though…
The odd saturated fat and simple carbohydrate won’t do any harm – and they look tasty.
I have heard of Eddie Izzard somewhere but have never seen him. Have seen quite a few of the Mr Bean episodes but not the one you mention – I can almost imagine it ‘though. I don’t really watch tv much – there is nothing on it I find interesting – all reality shows, sports, or crime procedurals – we don’t have the same number of channels here as yo do unless we are on the Sky network (which I’m not as there is very little on that I want to watch either) As mentioned I’m building up my collection of DVDs from my favourite shows of the 70s and 80s (and very occasionally the 90s) and I watch those. The BBc is gradually converting many of its old bittersweet comedies, and its mini series to DVD so I get them when they come out. There was a couple of very good writing teams in the 70s and 80s who wrote a lot of the BBC comedies we used to watch regularly – I find their shows even sadder-funnier now than I did when I was younger – I have noticed they disappear quite fast from the shelves. There must be a lot of people like me (in my age group and above I assume) who grab the quality series when they can get them on DVD. I also have Series 1 and 2 of Soap that I really enjoyed when it came out in 77 and 78. It is as funny now as it was then. I am also somewhat astounded at how far ahead of its time the series was – many of the topics it covered did not become acceptable tv fare until very recently.
Stupid purple blob. Shape up! Maybe you will come home and the sewing elves will have fixed it, like the garage door elf and your fantasy housecleaning elves.
Yummy breakfast! Better at breakfast when you have all day to burn the fats and carbs off, right? It was good planning, I think.