Friday, August 02, 2002

I fell asleep as predicted, but as of last night, I had already made 44 hours for the week. As Mike pointed out, all I have to do is work a regular 8 today and I'll still be over 50 hours and thus, make my $50/hour. Despite my sleeping last night, neither of us slept much this morning, however. I think we need to pull that massage table out of the garage and dust the damned thing off so we can use it. I was massaging him and him me and we were both groaning and moaning like the soundtrack to a porn flick and we weren't doing anything pornographic...at the time.

I bit my tongue in my sleep though and all I have to say is,"Ow, like totally Ow." I think I may have lived in California too long, I sound like a Valley Girl. Of course, what I get a kick out of lately is when I am talking, I am realizing my recent trip back east has brought back my New Hampsha accent. (Like Totally.)

My online friend, CS, is a diabetic and pregnant with her third and has had kind of a harried pregnancy, but yesterday she found out she's having a healthy boy. Woohoo! I know by that time, I'll actually have money to send adorable clothing and I'll break down and make a blanket. My old neighbor has this one kind she makes that I could probably have her show me how to do, so I could make one for CS. If all else fails, I'm buying a pre-made block, buying some pretty genderized trim and sewing that and sending it.

I'd really like to figure out how to make a quilt. They have all those really cute pre-cut sets in a lot of the fabric stores that I'd be totally happy to experiment with. I'm thinking if I can get that down, that I might even break down and cut my own out. Knowing how much I like to cut fabric, I am sooo doubting that,though. The other thing is that with quilting there seems to be so damned much equipment. I've seen the quilting shows in PBS and they have one of those roller cutting blades with the special cutting mat, and then you're supposed to hang/stretch them, too. It just all seems like an awful lot of work for a blanket. Though, the store bought quilt I have on my bed is really awesome.

I guess if I was going to make a quilt, I'd make a really large one that would have bedspread dimensions for our king-sized bed. The quilts I've seen that I like the best are the ones that look like a mural of something. And I think those might be a bit out of my league yet.

Well, I really should get to work. We'll see how later in the day goes.


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