Tuesday, May 8, 2007
A few things
A few things running through my head right now.*Cake. John made a carrot cake tonight. We couldn't eat any of it because he is making it for his cake decorating class tomorrow evening. It was twenty-some dollars for the class, another twenty some for supplies, and this is NOT counting the ingredients he needed and will need to buy in order to make the cakes to practice decorating on. As happy I am for him on taking on a new adventure and learning something that interests him, I am also concerned about $$$, too. The classes are held about thirty miles ONE way from our house, so there's mileage to count in there, too. It just kind of makes me nervous. Money has never been this bad before EVER, and I am scared.
*Sewing. Today, I did something I have never done before - learned how to thread and sew on my mom's old sewing machine! She only made a couple things on it (a pair of shorts for me and a barbie dress for my doll), so it is basically in tip-top shape. I had to wait until Johnna was sleeping to run downstairs and find the manual. I had *no* idea where the manual was, but lucky for me, I found it in a bookshelf down in the basement. It took near TWO to THREE hours to figure out how to thread that thing! The Bobbin part was sooooo tricky! But I did it, and now the next step is to actually learn how to wind the bobbin. I tried but couldn't understand it. My mom had a wound-up bobbin stashed in the little storage compartment on the machine, so I just used that one. It was funny because the bobbin thread was black, and the machine thread was red! I never understood how a sewing machine works, but I am kind of learning (or so I hope). I played around with it for awhile, tried to sew Johnna a bear shaped thing, just to practice moving the fabric, BUT, it sort of went all over the place...and looks funny...but then I used the machine to sew felt eyes and a mouth on the thing. And then I cut around my sewed "borders" and it came out looking like a squirrel. It was made out of grey khaki material (John's old pants), and with the red and black thread, I told John: "LOOK! I made something. It is called a Grunge-Power-Squirrel! Johnna even shared her pacifier with the thing. Hahaha!
*Camera. I WANT MY CAMERA charged and running so I can POST AND TAKE pictures!
*an old falling apart desk. There's an old desk in the garage that I am going to clean off and haul inside and convert it into a sewing/craft supply desk.
*Hair. I cut my hair a little bit yesterday, and I am really self-concioius about it. I feel that it looks really chopped and stupid. The ironic thing is that it is basically the same cut I used to do all the time...but it just feels like I have outgrown it, and I just feel....weird. I wish I could grow it out for once.
*money
*money
*money...what do all of our money troubles actually MEAN?
*work. Should I go back to work part time? Why hasn't the lab called me back? That makes me sad. :(
*Work. John quit the magazine, and he and his boss have kind of ended it bitterly. John claims he shouldn't have to keep asking for his money (very true!) and his boss said that John was playing games with him and acting as if he was the one running the show. AHH.
*Gnats. We went to the park today, and it was hot and muggy and a gnat bit Johnna right on her eyelid. She was squealing on the swing, and I was smiling at her. All of a sudden, there was blood running across the lines in her eyelid! Talk about freaking a mommy out! No one hurts my baby, not even bugs...which leads me to my "the world CAN exist without insects" talk, but I will save that for another day.
I am tired and sore, and it is almost midnight. Plus, I think this list could go on forever...
Melissa at 11:37 PM