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С Новым Годом, and welcome home!

koshka_the_cat

Since I probably won't get to start my Jane Austen dress this break, I'm doing the straightforward gathered dress that ties in back. If I put my mind to it, I can do it in a week. Hopefully I'll put my mind to it!

koshka_the_cat

Being sick is not how I wanted to end break, but at least I don't have to worry about lesson plans.

ETA they came early. It's covid!

ETA again the next day, since they above is unclear: I had an appointment with Doctoroo, in home urgent care, for 6-8. They came early. I had been throwing up every 20 minutes since the night before. The zofran shot took care of it. Whew!

koshka_the_cat

My mom got sick last week. I was hoping I wouldn't catch it. I caught it. I guess I'm going to have to call the eye doctor tomorrow to reschedule my appointment about my cataracts that's on Wednesday. Sigh

koshka_the_cat

I took all the fabric, except for the fabric for the Jane Austen dress, out of the built in linen closet and put it in bags in the spare bathroom. It's sitting there, ready to be organized. This time I'll do it right because I'm doing it slowly and not getting to the over it stage where you just throw everything wherever.

koshka_the_cat

I've been thinking about my Jane Austen dress. That's a kind of progress...

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FANDOM: Sonic the Hedgehog
FIC LINK: Bee buzzing on AO3
AUTHOR LINK: Noiat
RATING/WARNING(S): G for General Audiences
WIP?/WORD COUNT: Completed One Shot / 1,241 words
MAIN CHARACTERS: Charmy, Espio, Vector

FIC SUMMARY: Sometimes bees communicate with each other by buzzing, caused by the vibrations of their wings. Charmy discovers this and wants to try communicating with Espio through buzzing.

RECCER'S NOTES: A short and sweet moment at the Team Chaotix Detective Agency, where Charmy is his usual excitable self, Espio is an annoyed older brother who just wants peace and quiet, and Vector sleeps the whole time but his presence is still felt in spirit.

koshka_the_cat

I did nothing today. Ok, I made English muffin bread (basically a quick bread with yeast) and am making matzo ball soup for dinner and went to the store, but other than that, a relaxing day. Tomorrow I'll finish the desk. Probably.

koshka_the_cat

I thought the laminate was too easy to paint! I put the second coat on today. Most went fine, but I thought I got a cat hair on the front of the drawer, but it was a lump of paint and the paint peeled off like Tinkerbell nail polish. I wiped it off and repainted a thin layer after trying to sand it. I started sanding it yesterday, but because it's laminate, nothing seemed to happen.

I have two theories. One, the front of the drawer is a more plasticy laminate because it gets used a lot. Two, I closed the drawer so the corner didn't dry and chaos ensued when I rewet it with more paint. On the rest of the desk the paint chips easily, but it doesn't peel. I hope the sealant fixes that. And layers. I may just have a delicate IKEA desk. I'll just get a mat for the top if chaos continues!

I also took a long nap today. It was so nice!

koshka_the_cat

The desk has one layer of green paint. I'll paint another layer tomorrow. I didn't get the wax top coat yesterday because I wasn't sure I'd need it, but went today to get it. There was only one cat related incident when Sid jumped on the top when it was very wet.

Hopefully I'll finish tomorrow!

koshka_the_cat

Desk and chair built, old storage cubes donated.

I also found a lining for a Regency dress I never finished, so although my pattern hasn't turned up, I have the pattern! I still need to take a sleeve off an old dress for the sleeve pattern, but that's fine. Most of my old dresses need the arms widened if I'm going to wear them again. Which I'm probably not doing anyway, so it's easier to take a sleeve off than draft a new pattern.

I'm still undecided if I should make the Jane Austen Evening dress front or back opening. I need to decide soon.

koshka_the_cat

Now that I'm on vacation again, I'm getting back to organizing. I have two cube drawer things that I'm emptying and replacing with a little desk that I bought at IKEA today. The costumes that were in them are in a bin under the bathroom counter--a place meant for a vanity but I used for the cat box until I cleared out the shower closet last summer--and the fabric is going to go into the built in linen closet that seems to un-organize itself every time I clean it.

Slowly I'm making it so I don't have too much stuff. I don't count costumes yet. Maybe I'll get the energy to deal with those after everything else! For now, they're neatly in drawers or bins.

koshka_the_cat

My steering wheel cover shipped. From China. We'll see how that goes.

Anyway, they sent me an email asking if I ordered green by mistake because it looked like black would go better with my car and most people with my car get black. Uh, no. Thanks for asking, I guess, but please. No black. I even call the color of my car breadcrumb blue because it's the same shade every car maker has just to have a color that's not monochrome--it's just the breadcrumbs they throw at us.
Not that I'd buy the same car now knowing what I know about it, but I'm so annoyed that I missed the acid green that's basically the same color as my first robe de style by a year. It's so pretty! Even if it looks like you would have to special order it. Oh well.

Somewhat ironically, black is my favorite color to wear, but I'm somewhat fussy about that too. I hate faded black--a nice, inky black please!

koshka_the_cat

My plan for the first day of break was to do nothing, and I succeeded! I need to do nothing more often

koshka_the_cat

Two weeks off!

koshka_the_cat

It feels like Friday, but I have work tomorrow because it's Thursday.

I bought a sew on steering wheel cover. I've started wearing gloves in the morning, it's been in the 40s, which isn't cold enough for the heat, but the steering wheel is like ice. The gloves somehow made me realize that the steering wheel isn't nearly as nice as my old car's steering wheel. It's just plastic with no covering. I've had steering wheel covers before and didn't really want something bulky, but apparently you can get custom ones to exactly fit. I got dark green with blue stitching. It comes with needle and thread and a tool to push it in the spaces. Hopefully it'll get here during break!

I've decided to try to be somewhat mature about my car. I doubt I'll ever like it, but I think I can become indifferent to it. I can at least try to make it a little more comfortable!

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