I was in luck yesterday - Sandy took in the shirt that majorly needed it. I’m not going to do anything with the blazer because like my other suggested, I might want to wear something bulkier than a dress shirt under it at some point. We did some laundry while we were over there, which was helpful.

We also got a new light for the license plate holder on the car, so I can stop freaking out about it.

This week I’m working all nights because of the vacationing tech. This means that Eddie will be eating dinner at Mom’s house all week except for Wednesday and Thursday, and I’ll be doing my typical 10pm foraging for something to eat. Thankfully I wasn’t roped into working any extra days this week (although I was volunteered for Columbus day next week because of my kidless status). I forgot to check and see if I’m still working a short shift tomorrow; I’m pretty sure that I still am which makes me happy, since I love my half-day of work followed by a day off. However, I’m completely pissed that I’ll be missing all the shows I usually watch: Heroes, Survivor, ER, and CSI (so if anyone can point me towards someplace to find the episodes, I’ll be very happy!).

It’s amazing what you can do with a $15 jersey-knit sheet set from Wal*Mart and a sewing machine. I think it took me about 90 minutes or so to make - I spent more time cutting out the 4 pieces than I did sewing them together.

The last few days are a blur. This is strange,s ince we really didn’t do anything.

Saturday we stayed home and played FFXI. I worked on my skirt, which turned out great but just needs to be modified slightly. Unfortunately, while trying to remove a pin I came very close to actually sewing my thumb to my skirt after impaling myself with the machine’s needle. Eddie and I had a couple of missions to finish up in the game, and so we gathered up a party of 6 and managed to kick the shit out of everything. We then got a tour of a newly accessable area, explored a bit, finished another short quest for maps of the new areas, and logged off for the night. I messed around with some screenshots, chatted a bit, and we headed into the bedroom just in time to see Antonio Banderas claim to be a woman named Guadalupe on SNL.

Yesterday we went to my mother’s, where we had chicken wings, watched a few hours worth of Mythbusters repeats, and watched the last hour or so of Nascar. We had dinner and chatted with Danielle and talked about going to see the Lipizzaner stallions in a couple of weeks. I was exhausted for some reason, so when we got home I surfed the web a bit, and then we watched Crossing Jordan. Last night one of the neighbors decided that 11pm was the best time to play their Spanish music, and so I fell asleep trying to ignore the terrible beat. Then I woke up at least twice because I was having nightmares that Eddie left me.

Today Eddie didn’t need to be in until 8am, so we slept in an extra hour. I didn’t need to be in until 10am, so I bought a book and sat in the car for a bit until it was time for me to go in. Today was better than it has been. While I was working up front on the register for half the day, once the other newbies came in I got to go in the back and actually fill some scripts for a couple of hours before taking over the drive through again because it got busy. My feet barely hurt during the day, although right now my entire lower body aches. We stopped on the way home and got hot weiners for dinner because Eddie was craving them.

We were supposed to go out with Mom to plant some flowers today, but it’s raining today and so the planting was cancelled due to mud. So what’s a girl to do? Why, finish the Geisha, of course!

Yes, she’s finally finished. I snapped a few more pictures of her this morning. And because I’m a stickler for details, here’s a bunch of them:

• made from one pair of big-assed wool socks, trimmed down to a mostly manageable size for her arms and legs.
• embroidered lips in bright red
• kimono, juban, and obi, all done up according to Japanese patterns and customs. Did you know that kimono and juban lapels should be wrapped left over right, except when dressing a body for burial and it’s done right over left? Neither did I, but you’d better believe this one is dressed properly.



• Long black hair, because I couldn’t get the traditional geisha style to work, nor could I find a tiny geisha wig. However, she does have a pair of pretty coiled buns on the top, complete with flowers and ribbon decorations.
• Tiny “tail obi” - I felt the tail needed a little something extra, so I made a little obi for the tail out of a bit of kimono fabric.

Eddie’s going to be getting me a box from work, so she should be heading off to her new home sometime next week! Tomorrow, she goes to my Mom’s house to show her off one last time.

The Bride was turned over without any problems. To kill time this morning I hit a craft store to find out if there were any pretty appliques in there and ended up spending about $5 on some tiny fake flower, embroidery floss, and scissors to make the bride a bouquet. What bride is complete without one? It took me all of 10 minutes to make while I waited for the fabric store on the other side of the parking lot to open up for the day.

I managed to score an awesome deal on 2 yards of gorgeous satin Asian-themed fabrics to make 2 monkey-sized kimonos and 2 yards of a matching fabric for jubans and obis. Sometime next week I should get the socks (or even tomorrow, depending on how fast mail is running from NC this week) and can get started on the first of the two geisha monkeys I’m making (one for myself and one for Sarah, but Sarah gets hers first). By good deal, I mean that I managed to get what was easily at least $50 worth of fabric, a few spools of thread and a spool of ribbon for $30.

Tomorrow we’re supposed to go to Mom’s for lunch and to assist with the removal and installation of the giant bay window in the front of their house. That should be fun.

School starts on Tuesday. I’m hitting that nervous point, and now I’m fretting over shit I haven’t been nervous about since the first week I was at college in ‘95. What if I go to the wrong place? What if I can’t find my classroom? What if no one likes me? I picked up a small notebook today to right down assignment stuff in, because I know how I get when it comes to homework. As it stands, the current plan for my days will consist of school in the morning, lunch, and then homework before I pick up Eddie at work at 4pm. He’s already agreed to quiz me and leave me alone in the bedroom if I need study while he’s at home with me.