Yesterday I had a Me Day. It involved a)not getting out of my jammies until it was time to go back to bed, b)a hell of a lot of sitting-on-my-ass, c)11 episodes of Homicide: Life on the Streets (the end of season 4 and the beginning of season 5 to be specific), d)the first baked acorn squash of the season (for me anyway. fresh from the garden.)(and OMG I had totally forgotten how yummy that is*), e)hot kettle corn from the Whirley Pop, and f)bubbles in my tub. Through most of that I knit the second sleeve of Shoal Waters. For whatever reason that sleeve felt like it took forever, and not just the whole day. Alas. This morning I picked up the majority of the roughly 450 stitches all the way around the front for the button bands and trim, so, with any luck I’ll be able to finish it off tonight. And then comes…. buttons. I will be getting ‘real’ buttons for it when I go to Vancouver in November, but in the mean time I’ll have to find some temps. Have I mentioned how much I hate shopping for buttons? Maybe I’ll just go back to the quilt store and the vat of vintage buttons and pick three random ones. Probably save myself a LOT of grief that way…
* Remember when you were a kid and your mom used to have this obsession with baked squash during the fall and you thought licking the cat’s ass might be preferable to ever putting another forkful of baked squash in your mouth? And your mom totally didn’t get why you did not feel the love that was baked squash? Um… yeah. So now I’m all growed up and… um… my daughter loathes baked squash more even than the green vegetables and brushing her hair, and… um…. I TOTALLY DON’T GET IT. And no. I have no clue when the baked squash suddenly became not just palatable to me, but downright OMG wonderful, but it did (it was probably the first time CritterBoy made it for me). The Booger doesn’t believe me when I tell her it will happen to her too, and that suddenly one day that’s all she’s going to want to eat forever. Ha!
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