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https://www.joann.com/black-cats-on-floral-novelty-cotton-fabric/18671610.html

This was the fabric I tried ordering from Joann's, but got delivered to the old address somehow.

Am I going to try again? Yep. One can never have to much cat fabric. *laughs helplessly*

Have I dont it yet? Nope. Not sure how much to get for a dress length...

*sigh* Haven't felt much like writing anything lately. Maybe it's due to the season being one of drawing in instead of outward expansion? IDK, but it's not happening much lately.

I have been "nesting" of a sort. NoNewSewMo saw me doing a deep dive into The Stash - only one box wasn't gone through - and I pulled out 2 boxes worth of fabric I no longer want. WHY did I ever buy khaki cotton?? That was a complete mental lapse on my part. And WHY do I have SO MUCH lilac colored linen??

NoNewSewMo also saw me cutting off a lot of hems on things in my Mending pile. Too many things in that pile are there because they need to be shortened. It's pretty common when you're only 6'1" tall, and the trend is for looong skirts/dresses. Don't get me wrong - I've always liked mid to lower calf hems, but the maxi length means it puddles on the ground for me. Annoying.

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I've also culled my books of things I've already read and don't want to read again, or books I no longer want to read. Also a few that I want to read, but don't need to keep because I can borrow from the library in ebook form. That's mainly fiction, but not exclusively.

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I haven't bothered watching any of the Democratic Primary Debates - mainly because the field is just too big. I like the positions all of them espouse so much better than I do the current officeholder, so I'm not worried about who will eventually get the nomination. My only worry is that there are still too many people running. It's high time to narrow the field down to maybe 5 so the party isn't too divided to win on election day.

Likewise, I am not watching the Impeachment hearings. It's just makes me too angry too fast to watch. The conclusion is clear to me that the idiot needs to be removed as quickly as possible, but the next in line scares me too. The U.S. is NOT a Christian democracy, it's a secular democracy, and needs to stop tending towards preferrential treatment for one religion over any other. And our VP is only going to do his best to hasten the slids in the wrong direction.

But enough about politics. I'll just work myself into a bad mood.

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Mr Ct gave us a scare a couple weeks ago. He suddenly started acting "of" for no reason, and rather dramatically. He was spending at LOT of time hiding under the bed, and didn't want to come out even when food was being offered. The few times we got him out he would simply curl up on the bed for a few minutes, and the next time we checked, he would be back under the bed. Sometimes he would eat a few kibbles if we hand fed him, other times he would refuse it. The afternoon before we took him to the Vet, I didn't know if it would be his last visit, or even if he wasn't already dead since I couldn't get down to look under the bed.

But he was alive, and the bloodwork done at the Vet showed nothing but high blood sugar and dehydration. So they gave him fluids and an appetite stimulant and we took him home. And he did recover, so we're happy. Still no idea what happened, but he is back to being highly food motivated, and we've him playing with Livia and us. He does seem to be moving a little slower, so maybe he's just feeling his age.

OMG! Just raw the promo for the new Maleficent movie, and I simply cannot wait to see it! Teh Pretty calls like a siren song.


Last night I tried taking double my normal dose of melatonin at 8:30pm, and while I didn't need the Xanax to help me sleep, I did go to bed with a headache tht sat just above my brows like a sinus headache, and my sleep felt restless. So I don't want that to be my normal evening routine.

But I did wake up earlier than usual - mainly due to L hip pain that radiated into my femur. It's gone now, but it wasn't fun, I hope that's not a sign of further arthritis arthritis damage. The surgeon who X-Ray'd it told me it was bad enough he'd recommend replacement if I weren't so young. I was only 35, and I was there due to an injury, so wasn't interested. Now, the transplant makes me even less of a candidate for replacement, so...


I need to sit down and figure ou what's going on with my sewing machine. Last time I tried to use it, it wasn't behaving. I need to fnd out if it was the item or the machine being difficult. And if it's the machine, it almost certainly needs a a servicing. I wonder if there's a tutorial on YouTube for it, otherwise I'll have to pay almost enough to get a brand new machine, and they'll hassle me to buy a new, fancier one when I neither want or ned one from that overpriced place.

So last night, as I was trying to prepare dinner, both the Microwave and the toaster oven decided to not work. And while the microwave is over 20 years old and more than deserves to rest in peace after years of faithful service, the toaster oven is relatively new.

Or maybe not. Now that I think about it I realize it's more than 7 or 8 years old. Does that still count as 'new' in today's disposable culture? Anyways - looks like we know what we're getting each other as a Giftmas gift!

And yes - last night's dinner was a cold one. :(



Sewing has happened. Or more correctly - mending has happened. The zipper closure on my lingerie bag had come unstitched so that zipping it closed only closed the zipper and not the bag. The gap was big enough the bag wasn't usable. It has been restitched and returned to service. Not my best work, but no one's going to see it.


I finally finished Caitlyn Doughty's book 'Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: Tales From The Crematoria' Interesting and entertaining book. And while I do agree with her that we as a culture are i Death Denial, I disagree with her on what she seems to think we should do instead. I found her to be a little heavy-handed side of the sale of what she believes we should do. But it's worth the read, and I would recommend it to anyone who doesn't think anything on the 'Death and Dying' subject is automatically morbid or depressing.

Any place in Central Texas that gets it's water supply from the City of Austin is now being advised to stop drinking the tap water and use bottled water for drinking and cooking. (And to be on the safe side, use boiled water for washing dishes.) Bo lawn watering or car washing either until further notice.

We've even been asked to reduce our shower times.

All because of the historic flooding upstream and the debris and silt it's put into the water supply that becomes our drinking water. The water processing plant is still working, but it's taking longer to process the water and the equipment needs to taken offline more often for cleaning and maintenance.

We've been lucky the past 2 days because it hasn't rained, but the forecast shows an increasing chance of rain for the next 3 days, and it wouldn't tale ,uch to cause even more flooding. Here's hoping Hurricane Willa will go much further S than it currently looks.


Been pondering the NONEWSEWMO challenge the past couple of days. I certainly have enough UFOs to join in! U could even put the pieces that need repair work at the top of the list and reduce the appearance of clutter around here too! It might even fet me back into a creative headspace again - I've been missing that a lot lately.

Hmm...I've got a week to think/ponder...

So I've been going through part of my Fabric Stash looking for a navy or indigo medium or heavy weight linen to make pants out of, and I have yet to find ANY dark blue linen. I found dark blue cotton, several pieces of linen in sky blue, purple, and red, even a couple pieces in light green, but not one of dark blue.

WHAT?

(I was so hoping to use up something from the stash...but at least I have a little bit less dark blue cotton now...)