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I shall call them ‘sleeves’.

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Why, oh why, do I wait until the bitter end of the day to make a post?  My last shreds of consciousness long to go to couch bed, but there’s still this final task to complete.  Tonight is even worse because I forgot my camera at school, so I have to dig through old ‘possible post’ photos.  I’ll show you the socks.

I don’t mind walking in the cold, as long as nearly every part of my skin is enclosed in fabric.  I wear tank tops under my shirt to prevent windy-belly-syndrome, pulled-up socks so my ankles don’t get cold, a scarf & hat, and long sleeves sealed up by gloves.  When it was super-cold I wore the big ugly down coat and chopped the feet off some long socks so they could be used as quasi-legwarmers.  (Under my pants, not like a bad 80’s nightmare.)   One day it wasn’t freezing cold so I just wore my regular coat and a sweater with 1/2 sleeves.  My wrists! My wrists were going to feel the wind!  Nooooooo!!!!  Enter the chopped socks.

Please observe the blindingly white skin of my elbow.

I think the cat hairs really add something.

Solved.

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I have three pairs of ‘good’ jeans.  (I don’t count my painting jeans or fleecy jeans as ‘good’, just ‘useful’.)  They are all the same brand, same style, but bought at different times.  One pair is getting old , one pair is so-so, and one pair is way too short, but works when I’m just going barefoot around the house. Unfortunately I never know which pair is which, and often find myself looking down at my short pants when I’m definitely not barefoot at home – like at Target, standing by the cute fashionable girls in my high waters.

No more!

I hope the ink didn’t leak through to the back.

A blast from the past

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Happy Birthday, Keren!

Keren is my sister who lives in Alaska. She is an art professor who works mainly in textiles. I have one of her early pieces, knitted for me when I was still in high school. This won’t make sense to many of you, but allow me this self-indulgent walk through memory lane. When I was young, t.v. was still in its larval stage and only had four channels, one of which was PBS. In my early years I watched Sesame Street (old-school style), Electric Company, and Mister Rogers. In later years, Frugal Gourmet, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Doctor Who!!!! (It’s a British sci-fi show about a Time Lord who has all sorts of well-accented adventures through time and space.) I came in during the Tom Baker years, and later fell in love when he regenerated (‘cuz you can do that when you’re pretend) into Peter Davison. Peter was cute, but Tom had super-style. His signature piece was a 20-foot long scarf, and my loving sister knitted one for me. She’s awesome.

Recently I found out that there is a guy who has a whole website dedicated to Doctor Who’s scarf. I dug mine out of storage and sent him this picture to see if I can join the ranks of Whovian dorks. (Using the most loving form of the word ‘dork’.) That scarf’s old enough to drink, people.

It’s my best impression.

Thanks, Keren! Happy Birthday!

Ties and fun

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First of all, safe and happy travels to Deanne and family! I hope you have a grand time in Thailand. Fortunately for us, we have our own Thailand in Lloyd’s closet.

har har har

In other news, Lloyd had his party last night. Middle School Fun Night! I stopped in at the beginning and it looked like everyone was having a great time. I wish I had a video camera when one young lady was screaming breathlessly, “Theyhaveguitarhero anddancedancerevolution andIcan’tbelieveheWON!!!!!” She wasn’t screaming at me, of course, just near me. They were all so cute. It’s a pretty good setup – a dance, dodge ball, the aforementioned Dance Dance Revolution and Guitar Hero (played while projected onto the giant projector screens), board games, a ‘tattoo’ parlor (face painting), a photo booth, and pizza and snacks. I wish Lloyd had been my middle school teacher. You let me down, Miss Hansen. You let me down.

This is the only non-blurry shot I got. Lloyd and his minions are setting up for the dance. I sure hope that spotlight was there to enhance the musical fun, not to point out particularly bad dancers.

maybe it's a robot. a DANCING robot.

Note from Lloyd: here are some pictures from the Fun Night® photo booth, and if you want to have your own middle school fun night, here are the 20 pages of instructions.

Buns of Steel

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Lloyd has a story to tell, but he’s working on stuff for school and he asked me to tell it.  Apparently, during one of his computer classes he walked past the eraser tray of the whiteboard and caught his pants.  All twelve boys heard them tear, and he said, “Well, looks like I ripped my pants.  Who’s got duct tape?”  One of the guys threw some at him (I just have to say – what’s up with that?) and Lloyd got them started on a project, then patched his pants.  Such resourcefulness!  I think I’ll have him hem my skirt.  No hair jokes, please.

If it's broke, duct it.