Man, I really hate dentists. Well, no. I hate the things that dentists do to me. In defense of my dentist, I felt hardly anything when he gave me the injection. He is actually a really good dentist, it's just that it's been so long since I went that my teeth are basically cores of decay with a brittle but hard outer coating. Niiiiiice.
This means that he had to put ozone on my teeth to stop the decay so I wouldn't need a root canal. I'm all for that, even if it does cost another $90. EEEK! So, he was saying while he was doing it that my teeth were much worse than he thought and the fillings were hard to do, etc.
He had me shove my lower jaw out to the right while he drilled, and I had to hold it there so long that my entire jaw seized up and I couldn't close it. I didn't panic because I knew it was his fault and that he'd fix it for me. It's weird not being able to shut your mouth. Really weird. Obviously he did fix it and I feel fine now, numbness fading slowly from the injection.
At the end he told me he thought I was really brave. That made me feel both good and like I was about five years old. Not going again til the end of May. That'll teach him.
1. In bed with the warm covers and it's dark and it's time to sleep and there's spooning. Bliss.
2. Well fed.
3. Time off work to do whatever you want, like go to movies or mooch around the house doing nothing.
4. Craft project completed!
5. Giving people presents and seeing real joy in receiving. Knowing you picked the right thing.
This morning I had a very vivid dream. The library had bought a class set of mini rubber duckies. I was taking them to a school to do a class visit thing, and trying to carry them all in my arms. They were cute as anything, but it's hard to hold on to thirty of the things and I eventually tracked down the baggie they'd come in for easy of carrying.
Sometimes the duckies turned into cartoon duckies so they could do cute expressions and move and stuff. The class visit I did invovled throwing handfuls of duckies under my car and getting the kids to tell me what shapes the landed duckies formed. For example, one landed partially on it's beak and the rear end standing up formed a kind of sharky shadow. After a while I became concerned because there was a lot of traffic on the road and I didn't want the duckies to get run over. I cut the class visit short and packed up the duckies.
One boy in the class wanted to keep a duckie and I said it was OK. The ducky turned cartoon and did the cutest little big eyes sad expression at me, wiggling it's bottom and meeping, but I still made it go with the boy. This seems contrary to what I'd do in real life, so that's interesting.
Not sure where that dream came from. I watched a marathon 5 episodes of Greg the Bunny last night which means I only have one to go and then Matt and Debbie can have their DVDs back. I had a meeting in town today which was very fun and nice.
I'm thinking about doing a lot of dedicated crafting over the weekend. If anyone wants to come over and do crafts at my house they are hereby invited. I'm thinking of a Spotlight mission on Saturday morning.
Wedding show on Sunday morning, w00t! I'll get free things for being The Bride. I quite want a tshirt that says "Bride" on it really big so I can wear it to this kind of thing and my sister doesn't have to keep saying it's not *her* getting married. Then later I can wear it and pretend to be Uma Thurman. Heh.
I don't feel stupid any more. I feel like duckies. Soft, fluffy duckies.
It's amazing how people giving you money can make you feel better :)
Right, excited about the 48 hour film comp. I wonder if we'll even get accepted to enter? Huh, if we don't I guess we can just have a party or something instead that weekend.
We played Changeling last night, and it was good, if a bit scatty. Actually it seems like maybe we were all in slightly bad moods, since the game of Apples to Apples we played waiting for Seraph to turn up turned quite mean. It was pretty fun though....
Seraph came and met me for lunch today, that was nice. Last week Giffy and Phreq came and had lunch with me and that was nice too. More people should meet me for lunch!
Woke up at 2.30am because my leg was aching. The reason it was aching was that I was too cold! An extra blanket took care of that rather quickly. I have learned my lesson. Last night was the first night since the Ice Age hit that I haven't had the heater on in the bedroom. No more. Tonight it goes on again and my legs will not ache.
...is what I am. There is no way I am going to save any money for the wedding ever. Especially since I just registered for the 48 hour film competition and it's $150 to enter.
Silly, silly Jenni. If I hadn't spent that money I could have had most of my beautiful boots. I could have out the money towards the dentist which I am going to on Friday. I could have saved it for the wedding!
I found new DVDs I want too. Curse you Real Groovy! Curse you and your range of awesome DVDS! What I need is for someone to pay like, $200 for my Daddy Cat. Or offer cash money for jeans quilts. *le sigh*. Money sucks.
This weekend I assembled the top of my first jeans quilt. It was fun and not as hard as I thought it might be. I finished it this afternoon.
It looks like this when Lee holds it up and peeks over it. I am very very pleased with how it looks and can't wait til I get paid again so I can buy batting and backing and make it into a proper quilt. Still trying to decide what to back it with. I want something heavier than a sheet. Polar Fleece would be very warm so that's tempting, but maybe something a bit waterproof so it's a good picnic blanket?
I remember why I enjoy quilting so much :)
I've also done a bunch of scrapbooking pages which makes me feel happy and virtuous. It's the sense of accomplishment that makes it virtuous I think.
Watched Tokyo Godfathers last night which I liked immensely. Although I think it's a bit maudlin for me to want to watch over and over. Now, off to sit in front of the heater.
Is anyone else concerned about the ice age that's hit Wellington? The thunder and lightning yesterday was way cool, and I loved the intense rainbow on Saturday afternoon but the cold I can't handle. I need warm!
...with the coolest boots ever yesterday.
They are $200 and they live at dressmart. They are white and black leather with buckles on the sides and a plastic panel on the front. They have metal heels. They are like Star Wars Stormtrooper rebellious punk teenager boots. I wants them. I wants them very much.
The movie Robots is very good. I went in with fairly low hopes and I laughed and laughed and it was great and unexpectedly funny and actually, I think Robin Williams wasn't needed. The movie was awesome enough without him. I loved the Wonderbot. It was like Grr off Invader Zim.
I have read the newest Jacqui Wilson book: Clean Break. It was very good, but weirdly self-referential. She has put a version of herself into the universe her characters inhabit and referred to a bunch of her earlier books as being written by this other self. They had slightly different names but the same plots. Weirdness.
Am now reading A Chinese Cinderella bu Adeline Yen Mah which is fantastic and sad. A real life horror story of a tragic childhood, with the same kind of grating unfairness displayed in A Little Princess. I know this story ends happily, but I kind of fear what will happen before then in the story.
Had a night out on Friday and a night out last night. Being social is a good thing. Great India is a lovely place to dine but rather expensive and I found the waiting staff a little too attentive. Probably it's just that I'm not used to it, but it was a bit creepy. Hot minty towels at the end of the night were all good though. All restaurants should offer this hot minty towel service.
I was late to work yesterday, that's how in slow motion I am. I did all the same things I normally do before work and I was ten minutes late.
My cold is clinging on like a cliffhanger. I am prising off its fingers one at a time.
I have watched the first disc of Full Metal Alchemist now and I really like it. Edward Elric is somewhat dreamy. I *heart* this anime! I also *heart* the limited edition tin it came in. If only I had thought to buy cute little plastic figurines of the characters, wait Gamesman were selling them, maybe I can still buy them! I am Queen of the Consumer Whores!
Also watched the first two episodes of She: the Ultimate Weapon which I quite like but Lee finds slow. The animation style isn't my favourite ever but it's quite a moving story and exciting with the war and everything. This anime is about a guy whose girlfriend gets turned into a Weapon of Mass Destruction and how they deal with that.
Ewww the weather is icky!
I read Fruits Basket manga last night. *sighs with contentment.* The editions I have are different to the ones Evie lent me. They have a dustcover and a plain book cover underneath so I don't need to duraseal them. Not sure if they'll have all the extra profile stuff at the end, as have only opened the first one so far.
Ok, I'd better get to work.
...I just ran a "space base" holiday program in which me and Celeste and a bunch of kids stuck things together to make rockets and stuff. It was cool fun and I learnt some important things:
The Dept of Internal Affairs just took $71 off me for my passport, so I guess the application is going through. (Fingers crossed.)
I don't really have any news although my cold has progressed to the annoying tickle in the throat and nose blowing is down to sporadic attacks.
The sky is grey
the sun is out
I have a word
I like to shout.
Anyone recognise the song lyric in the title?
Dum de dum.
My friends don't blog enough, I have nothing to read!
I wish I'd had cash with me on Sunday so I could have bought some pencil boards and anime pins. If I'd been feeling onto it I would have gone and got some from a cash machine but the closest one was ANZ which I can't use so I would have had to wander and as I said, I wasn't feeling onto it.
*sigh*. I wish I had plushies and pins and pencil boards.
I've just made a submission to the council about the proposed V8 supercar races in Wellington.
You should too. It's easy and online.
Thanks to Iona for reminding me.
I am in slow motion still. On Saturday night after we had people over for a roast chicken dinner I tried to get a nice long sleep so that I could feel better. (The cold was extremely runny-nosed and sneezy, even after a post-Yum Char nap and relaxation period.) Unfortunately my nose had other ideas and I had one of those terrible nights of watching the clock tick the time over while wishing I was alseep.
It's a testament to how sick I was that I didn't get angry about not sleeping, I just kept on blowing my nose and turning over and wishing to sleep. I must have been pretty close to sleeping much of the time because after 4ish hours of proper sleep I actually didn't feel too bad. I spent Sunday morning in the animation room at Armageddon helping to run it, but really just watching anime. I saw: first three episodes of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex which I found entertaining but inherently creepy and disturbing. I think I'll watch the rest of the series but not re-watch it.
First two episodes of Mezzo: DSA which I really enjoyed. It's about an organisation of well, kinda mercanaries. It's silly and funny and the main chick is really cute and tough and right up my cosplay alley. Hee hee.
First two episodes of Twelve Kingdoms which seems really cool except for the incredibly annoying whiney main character. Maybe it'd be less annoying in Japanese with English subs?
Then I wandered around the expo in a kind of cold-sickness daze and met up with Matt, Debbie, Luke and Sam. They are nice people. Then I had to get chnaged into most of my costume and wait for Giffy so we could be judged for the cosplay.
On average the standard of costuming in the competition was very high. I was a little disappointed that so many people were wearing outfits made by just one or two people. Some of those people won prizes that I hope they passed on to their seamstresses! I'm glad the question "who made your costume" is in the registration form so no one is confused.
I was very impressed with a lot of the costumes. Especially the adorable Chii and the Father and Son Jedi combo. Giffy and I were dressed as Tomoyo and Sakura from Cardcaptor Sakura and we had a borrowed toddler dressed as Kero so we got the cuteness award. Well, we got into the top ten mostly on the cute vote I think. That and the hats I made for us and our attention to hair detail! We actually looked quite good which I was faintly surprised about because we left the costumes so late and spent very little time working on them.
Giffy and I have agreed not to cosplay school girls at Armageddon again. We're too old and it's getting obvious! I don't mind cosplaying, but when practically all the rest of the entrants are teenagers it makes me feel much older.
In between the judging and the stage show for Cosplay I wandered around a bit more. Saw Muggle and her boy, Evie and Jarratt, Frank and numerous friendly cosplayers. Didn't buy anything due to lack of cash money, which was probably all for the best. I did get a free beanie baby, though which I am unexpectedly really happy with. He's a teal triceratops with a red neck frill. I love him. I need a name for him though....
Anyway, I was chuffed that we got in the cosplay top ten and now Giffy and I have a new DVD. We got Mezzo DSA because it was cool, and most of the really awesome ones had already been picked....Then it was a bit of posing for photos and then home. I was pretty wiped so I watched some Azumanga Daioh and the news in case the TV camera that filmed me was working for the news, and then I watched Two Weeks Notice and some more Azumanga and then I went to bed. Lee was home pretty late after network gaming so I had been trying to stay up for him but I gave up.
Thankfully my sleep on Sunday night was warm and deep and uninterrupted. I don't feel entirely better today, as I am still in slow motion. My nose has eased up somewhat though and for that I am likewise thankful.
So I went in to Armageddon bright and early and I bought a bunch of stuff on Svend's behalf and got NO FREE THINGS!
On the other hand I bought a bunch of stuff I've been wanting for me and that makes me happy. I now have a complete set of Hellsing for example, plus the pretty box to put it in. I bought the boxed set of Habane Renmai for $50 and I also got the first four manga of Fruits Basket. They're a different edition to the ones Evie has and I'm not sure I like them as much actually. I also got nearly the whole series of Azumanga Daioh. One more disc to go, which means the box is nearly full and I got another brooch!
I also bought the first disc of Full Metal Alchemist which came in a sexy tin and has a free cd soundtrack. Awesome.
So I have post consumer happiness. Now. On to Yum Char!
I thought that song went "way! Tomb Raider" for the longest time. I was singing along to it when Lee pointed out my error.
I finished 1984 last night...joy! Freedom! Mind-fuck! It was good, but unpleasant. It was nasty and depressing and ended without hope. I liked it, but I don't know about reading it again. Maybe one day. It is very clever and I like Newspeak a lot.
Last night I made wings for a baby Kero. I did no other sewing because I am a lazy lazy person. I found out this morning that I have a cold so it may have been something to do with coming down with it that made me so very tired yesterday. Or I could just be very lazy indeed.
I am working at not clenching my teeth. I do it more than I had realised and it is a Very Bad Habit Indeed. No more clenching, allow your jaw to relax.
It had become very cold. The weather freezes me. I know that it is very cold because I wore long sleeved top to bed last night with my flannel pj pants and I didn't get too hot. Lee and I were fighting over the duvet as well. Might have to bring in another duvet so we have one each. Mmmmm bliss.
The dentist visit was fine. I have to go back for four fillings (two on each side of the mouth) and a visit with the dental hygienist BUT at least my wisdom teeth aren't a problem.
My gums are very sore now because of the prodding and the new flossing technique the dentist taught me. Things I learned today include: Keep flossing when your gums bleed. In fact floss more there, because that'll get rid of the bacteria and in a couple of weeks the bleeding will stop.
He also told me to stop eating cakes and sweets. Like that'll happen. I bought myself a mini fruit tart from the petit Bordeaux bakery to console myself after the gum-prodding so you can see how seriously I take this stuff. At lease I hardly drink soft drinks anymore. (Note to self, stopping drinking soft drinks all together is better than mostly stopping.)
Who else felt the earthquake last night? Mostly it went BOOM! and then our building did the old earthquake-sway that I am so fond of. Lee didn't believe me for a while that it was an earthquake, he thought something had dropped. The BOOM! was big so I don't know what he thought had dropped? A train off the top of the building perhaps?
Tried to watch the Hunting of the President last night, but it was a pretty poor documentary. Very sensationalist and one-sided. Like watching American TV! So we watched Star Wars episode 2 and verily it was crappy but fun to make snide comments about. I *heart* Yoda.
Which reminds me that I never blogged about Friday, and I should. Ok, pretend it's Friday again.
I came home and Lee was doing the dishes. Joy!
Then Rachel made us dinner. PlusJoy!
...and dessert! DoublePlusJoy!
Then we watched I *heart* Huckabees which I didn't love as much as Rachel does, but I did enjoy. The mind-fuck wasn't what I expected it to be, but the film itself is hilarious and wonderful and Jude Law is a cutie and yeah. I liked it.
I love when people come over to my house and then cook me things. It's neat. Especially when they are desserts. (No! Scream Jenni's gums and teeth.)
>Comments are still down so I'll post this at my lj again, you can comment all you like there.
Well, within reason.
Don't go crazy over there with the commenting.
Alright?
Alright.
For my 500th entry on my beloved talula I will be performing tricks with hoops and little dogs that jump through them. Then we'll all sit down and watch Tony Jaa do amazing Muay Thai feats of physical prowess.
Afterwards there'll be punch and pie. Or cake and candy. Or carrot sticks and fruit juice.
I didn't get an interview *again* for That Job so I suspect my dogged determination doesn't impress them. This leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth and a desire to move on. The question is: Where to?
Ultimately I want to start a craft based business with Muggle and Evie. Maybe it's be a shop or a cafe that sells things we've made. Evie would work from her home. What we need here is a backer. (Movie quote! "What's a backer?" "Someone with money, who's stupid.") How dangerous would it be to start something like that? How much money could we lose?
In other news: I spent the weekend visiting people. Evie and Jarratt's house is very nice, all surrounded by evil bush and painted a gorgeous reddy colour in the lounge.
Svend invited Lee and me over to watch some Ghibli. We started with Pon Poko which Matt and Debz had told me a little about beforehand, so I wasn't too shocked by the male Tanuki's expanding balls. It was disquieting all the same. I found it as a movie to be a bit depressing. I guess a movie about animals whose home forest is being destroyed so humans can build houses is never really going to sort out all nicely, but I can hope.
We watched Kiki's delivery service after that. I suspect the English version to have a poor script, so we switched back to Japanese.
On Sunday we visited my parents and Giffy and Margie and Sass's house warming. I was very sleepy yesterday.
Oh and I bought myself the wedding necklace I've been drooling about for weeks. It's a blue wire crochet choker with coloured pearls and beads on it. It's completely lovely and I love it and can't wear it yet.
Edited: The comments form isn't working so I have posted this on my livejournal so you can comment there.
Or Why does she always fall down?
As it was pointed out to me by my esteemed collegue Random Kate frequently in chick flicks the lead character at some point takes a prat fall. This sometimes happens repeatedly. There are many instances of this kind of thing, see Raising Helen, things starring Sandra Bullock, Mean Girls and of course, Bridget Jones.
Why do these heroines, who are supposed to be successful women in control of their own destinies fall down?
Is it a reference to the old horror movie cliche of the fleeing heroine tripping while she tries to escape the villain? Is it a physical representation of the inner turmoil or heart flutter she feels when she sees her crush? Is it a demonstration of losing your hold on your poise when in love?
Mostly I think it's just a cheap laugh. I always love it when people fall down in movies as you all know, but as it has been brought to my attention it's almost always women who do the falling down. I cannot immediately think of any examples of the lead man falling down in a romantic comedy. Hugh Grant can't get over the fence in Notting Hill, but that's hardly the same as just tripping over your own feet. If anyone can think of an example I'd love to hear it.
Why is it that lead women are shown falling down but not lead men? Maybe it's the old claim that men are inherently more physical than women and therefore more in touch with their bodies (so to speak). Men's emotions in movies come through in eleoquent turns of phrase. Many lead women become tongue-tied at the crucial moment. (Except Bridget Jones, she always says exactly what she thinks, bless her. Even if she's just crashed landed into a pig sty.)
Exceptions to all these rules are of course everywhere. One of my favourite chick flicks Practical Magic has none of these qualities, but I suspect that is because of it's premise. When the women who lead the story have a gimmick like that they don't need to conform to any of the things I've mentioned. They're witches so they don't have high glamour jobs and they don't fall down.
This has been a Friday rambling. Not sure how much sense it makes.
Based on the following movies: 13 going on 30, Sweet Home Alabama and Raising Helen.
A woman is portrayed having a high-profile and glamourous job centred around fashion. She is a super-star at what she does and has an entire universe of friends based around this job. Best friends, Bosses who love her, mentors, etc. This kind of life is not one that most small girls dream about but is instead wish fulfillment for the grown women watching the movie, who presumably have less-than-exciting jobs. The herione is always impeccably dressed. She has all the right accessories and many pairs of shoes. Her hair is always perfectly coiffed and her make-up is always professionally applied, these are things that women have been taught they want through various medias including magazines, television and movies like the ones I'm talking about.
In the course of the movie the heroine begins to realise that there is something important missing from her glamourous life. This can vary but always is related to the traditional dreams of women: Marriage to the Right Man, becoming a Mother, having a Pink House.
She makes some mistakes along the way and eventually forsakes her glamour life for the Real Thing, which may be less glamourous but makes her happy.
Why do I love these movies so much?
I love to watch them, I guess it's the fantasy thing: These women ARE all good looking, they have fantastic lives and they end up happy. It makes me feel good to watch them. I get the warm fuzzies as if it's my life that's ending happily ever after.
One reason that Legally Blonde was a triumph is that Reese gave up the glamour life of the rich party girl and succeeded academically. However, she didn't give up her own sense of style, or way of living to do it. She remained a fashion plate and did things her way, proving you can in fact have it both ways.
If you're a fictional character that is.
This has been a Thursday musing.
I'm really bored at the moment.
I wish I could stay at home forever and ever and read books and eat chocolate and play Sims 2 University.
Exciting news?
- Changeling last night was promising. I insisted on playing next week because I want to get into the story and the teaser we played made me more anxious than anything. I like my character though, and the way she interacts with the others.
- I got a %90 score on Lost trivia. Go Team Me!
- We have somewhere to stay in Rarotonga, this will make it much easier to sleep! It was looking a bit like we'd all be sharing the rental car.
- I booked in a dentist appointment for next Tuesday. It'll be the first time I've seen a dentist since I was 18 and it was free. I suspect major fillings/wisdom tooth extractions will occur. Wish me luck on Tuesday.
- 1984 remains a disturbing read. It all hits just a little too close to home.
- My workmate Lydia has started her own livejournal. It chronicles how she's dealing with only just discovering that her brain doesn't process what she sees properly. You should read it. It's pretty amazing.
My hair is getting too long. I can tell because it's too heavy to have in a high ponytail. It gave me a headache the other day and today I had to move it down to the back of my neck.
I learnt something from my sanitary pad again. This time they said that in a study of over 200 ostriches not once did one ever bury its head in the sand. I always thought it seemed unlikely that an animal would suffocate itself, now I know I was right.
Actually, Bowling for Columbine isn't really a *nice* movie. I should have got Lee to buy me another romcom. I don't think I can bear to watch the middle part again. (The middle part shows all the statistics of people killed by American forces, and the plane hitting the two towers. Then it segues into the actual footage from the Columbine shooting.)
Also (somewhat predictably) the commentary with interns, secretary and receptionist wasn't that interesting. Kudos for trying, but maybe getting some interns that had some kind of clue what people want to hear in a commentary would be good. Reciting along with Charlton Heston "My cold dead hands" is not good.
I finished Animal Farm and am now onto 1984. It's very creepy how close this is getting to real life (or what I perceive the real life in America is becoming). These books are spooky spooky and quite frightening.
Oh and Lee got his new frivolous computer monitor. It is
I just put up my first ever trademe auction. It's a Daddy Cat* that I made. Look here.
How exciting. I wonder if I'll get any bids? Maybe (and here my dreams whizz out of control) there will be a huge demand for them and I'll make heaps of extra money!
*As in Azumanga Daioh.
I heard the Anvil Chorus this morning. It put me in a very good mood indeed, and made me want to watch and/or read Captain Correlli's Mandolin again.
Weekend in brief: Saturday morning - Astra Bridal - found a dress that I love! $2350 too expensive, so going to look for dress patterns that are similar and make it myself. Chelle knows what she wants for a dress, my sister and Giffy still deciding.
Family lunch was lovely, especially the dessert parfaits. Who doesn't love a parfait? etc.
Played the Pacman board game. Not as great a game as I recall. Still awesome to look at though.
Watched Super Size Me to educate sister and her partner. They went home and we watched Nausicaa: the Valley of the Wind which I liked. Is similar to Princess Mononoke. Cut up more jeans.
Sunday: Yum Char = delicious. Coconut buns remain teh awesome.
Shopping with Rachel for pretty jewellery cut short after Lee called me saying he'd lost his keys and they were most likely locked in the car. Didn't buy anything, rushed home. No keys in car, Lee found them in his back jeans pocket. Much laughing was done.
Mooched around in the afternoon, played a game of Trivial Pursuits which Lee won (ironic.) I cut up more jeans while Rachel doodled on some patches with fabric paint. Sewed some together, then temporarily defeated by mismatched sizes of patches. I played Sims University and scrapbooked while Lee and Rachel watched Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.
Rachel went home and we watched some eps of Wolf's Rain seen the first four now, and like it a lot. Wish I could turn into a wolf.
Jonathan Creek at 8.30 was good, but easy to work out the mystery. Well, parts of it. Lee and I working together knew what was happening. Again the question is asked: Is the show getting a bit dumber, or are we getting smarter?
I prefer to think it's the latter but Lee says the former because they're trying to appeal to the American market (see: replacing Caroline Quentin with prettier Julia Swalhala. Essentially the same character.)
Then I watched some Billy Connelly and read some Animal Farm and then sleep.
Lee and I cleaned the house last night. The house is now completely lovely. We also watched the new Lost ep, and can I just say "OMG OMG OMG!?"
Thanks.
Tried to watch God of Cookery but it was really very unpleasant. People humiliating themselves, no martial arts, no storyline after 20 minutes. We turned it off.
Had feedback burgers for dinner that took like, forever to arrive. They were nice when we finally got them.
I am reading tween age books so that I can reccommend them to the book club next week.
I have been cutting up old jeans to make into quilts. One pair was really nice. Indigo blue fairly new, Jeans West jeans and I thought "These are still good, I should give them to someone who can wear them". Then I found a hole in the crotchular area and proceeded to cut them up. Lee was entranced watching me cut up pants but not so much that he wanted a go at it. He just watched me very closely.
I painted on some patches with my fabric paints. It will be several nice quilts I make I think. Jeans donations still accepted, by the way.
