Current Mood : Wiped out !
Spent on fabric, stars, and kaleidoscopes today : $2.90
Busy day - I'm about to fall over ! But I got a lot done.
‘Test proctoring' basically means I sit in a classroom for two hours, and sign a document stating that I saw nothing unusual. No teachers giving answers, no kids passing out, nothing of note. So it wasn't bad, but I really got bored. I can't do anything else but observe, so watching kids take tests isn't that thrilling, but I was glad I could help.
Turned in two of our last three library books, including the still-useless-to-me Digitizing. I was glad to dump that off ! Most of the designs I liked on the CD-Rom were too big for my Brody ! Of the 25 designs, only about ten were usable. And, of course, the only way to find the sizes is to download the whole set, and look at each file, one by one. You'd think ‘Mr. Digitizer Supreme' would know that most folk kinda need to know the pattern's size. Baka. This afternoon, I found our last checked-out book, and I'll return it tomorrow, nearly a full week before it's due. I am so good...
Got the groceries done, and picked up my prescriptions. Darn it. Next month, I have to see the Nurse Practitioners, so they'll renew my ‘scripts. I'm hoping we'll be a bit better off next month. I'm a little worried. Kept the groceries down and made up a menu before I left the house. When I ask what everyone wants for dinner, nobody knows what they want, just that everything I suggest is unappealing. When I make up a ‘we're eating this' menu, nobody whines. And it keeps us from going out to eat so much.
Even stopped in at GoodWill - and I did a sorta bad thing. Found a great kaleidoscope (50c) and a Lucite star (25c) that evidently once had perfume or panties inside, given the ‘Victoria's Secret' ribbon decorating the top. Replaced that with a silver cord I had lying around the sewing desk, and hung it on the Wall of Stars outside the Lab. Neither of these are bad things, even though I really didn't need either. What was bad was the $2. bag of fabric...
I was so proud of using most of the fabric I messed up trying to make the dining area curtains last year, on everything from doll clothes to Brody design stitch-outs. It was great fabric for what I was doing, too - that sort of oatmeal-colored unbleached muslin was so easy to work with. Still, I was glad I used nearly all of it. So why I went and bought more of it (admittedly, it was part of a big bag of similar material ) is odd, and kind of silly. But I'm glad I have more of it !
There's about eight different kinds of fabric in there, just about everything from what feels like soft bedsheets to some stiffer olive-drab scraps. No prints, mostly white and off-white colors. I'll probably empty a spool of thread cheap-serging it all !
Still got my three tasks done - but it wasn't easy. Still, having a clean living room, clean fridge, clean hallway, and vacuumed floors is really nice. Too bad I broke the vacuum. Seriously. The one Beloved Hubby just bought last year. It's a canister vac, a very nice one, but the hose that leads from the cleaning heads to the canister pulled out completely from the nozzle that joins them. With the vacuums I'm used to, you'd just pop it back in place, but this thing's electric all the way - there's wires coming out of the hose !
And I couldn't see how it'd go back together, even with the thin manual. So I called the long-distance Customer Service number, and yaaay ! According to the serial number, it's still under warranty. Wasn't made until June '08, and I don't think we bought it until the end of August last year. Tomorrow, I'll drive it up to the town where DM&FIL live, our nearest service center, and let them fix it. Bill goes to the manufacturer ! What a relief ! When I looked it up on their site, a new hose is $43. !
Also, Dearest Son's latest toy, the U-Repair Wall-E, arrived today. And he is in love. It's bigger than I thought, and the swap-around parts are magnetic. No exposed magnets - they're all well-buried in plastic, with maybe part of a silver orb showing on the arms - and there's a ‘trash' compartment, pre-loaded with garbage ! Here's the one we bought.
So far, so sturdy - and much more detailed than the little action figure and the birthday cake figure were. About on par with the ‘iDance' Wall-E. The hand joint is really tiny, though, so I'm not sure how durable it will be. But it's so cute when Dearest joins Wall-E's hands together, tilts his head to one side, and says he's thinking of EVE.
For the interested, the packaging and sales info says 20 parts are included - but I'm not sure where. In ours, there was the body ‘cube', a panel that covers where his head normally originates, two free-wheeling tire treads, four arms, and his head/neck assembly. It's well-articulated and delightfully poseable, but unless the hands detach (along with other parts), I still don't know how they got a count of 20, unless they include the box, the liner, the tray, and the tape pieces that held the box shut.
But, in the final analysis, who cares ? Dearest loves him, and that's what matters. The eyes on this one really melt me. The others were painted plastic, and it's obvious, but this one has such a deep gaze, it's hard to not look at him, and say, ‘Aaawwwww...'. Even out loud !
