Flypaper thoughts

• Finished my housecoaty thing.
• I have a beautiful slip stitch.
• Who decided cover-it-all loungers had to go out and unwrapping robes with bulky ties that make you look pregnant even when you are post menopausal had to come in?
• I saw snow out my own window yesterday.
• It melted but I know it is waiting.
• Miss Scarlett told me I was a good girl.
• Don't you think Demi Moore has to be happy she no longer has try to be younger than she really is any more?
• She seems to have to come up with a new boob size for every man.
• That's got to wear on you.
• One month and a bit to Christmas.
• Does anyone bake anymore?
• Are there any old guys still left who eat fruit cake?
• You don't think it was the fruit cake do you?
• I am going to spend the next two weeks when the marking is done making home made presents.
• I am going to spend the two weeks after that trying to find somethings I can buy that are the value of home made presents.
• I have to find my Temptations Christmas CD somewhere.
• I am getting myself the movie channel the minute that man leaves the house.
• I think I am going to make a shocking pink velour lounger with a zipper up the front.
• So there.
• I think Demi should have one too.
• Anyone have a recipe for cinnamon rolls that won't kill you. Whole wheat maybe?
• If I am going to be making my own coffee in the a.m. for a bit there's going to be good self-care.
• Particularly once it snows.

Flypaper night

You know, like put it up there and see what sticks?


One of my favourite things to read in other blogs are the random stuff lists. They really give you some sense of who you are reading.


Since tomorrow is Miss Scarlett's birthday, tonight is all about putting the hooded sweater I have been inexpertly knitting together and getting the zipper in. No sewing. It has been a frantic week and at the end of it, here's what's sticking:

• Fake leather is a lot easier to sew than I thought it would be. 
• I hate ripping out anyway.
• My husband does an amazing Cookie Monster voice.
• I picked up the costume this afternoon. 
• I should never go anywhere without a camera.
• Whose dumb idea was it for me to do a double course load this fall to have the winter off?
• Oh me.
• Every spring my mother-in-law calls in from the country to tell us when she sees the first robin.
• Next month she is moving into an apartment block near me in the city.
• I have a yard.
• My daughter's boyfriend from grade nine is in one of my classes.
• He is now bald.
• My sister is the only licensed deaf female fork lift operator in Canada.
• 47 different variations of BMV pattern sales must mean that some new Vogues will be out soon.
• Please.
• I need to sew jackets.
• I need to start my Christmas sewing.
• I want to make something I don't need.
• Have you ever shared a bed with a man who snores and a fox terrier who paces?
• Do you want to?
• My son gave me the "Human Manure Composting Handbook" to read.
• This is not a joke.
• Page two is more interesting than page one.
• Page three is pictures.
• Might not get to page four.
• No pattern proof reader job offers have come in yet.
• I am pretty surprised about that.
• Ordered real leather once.
• The bullet hole at the top got me.
• I have my own skin don't need anyone else's.
• Except as an accessory.
• I want to buy Miss Scarlett Mr. Roger's dvds.
• Tomorrow an invisible zipper in the leatherette.
• Hope I am not too excited to sleep.