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I actually have been up and moving and busy since like. 8:30 this morning. with fewer breaks than I’d take at work.
Finished my coffee, got up from the computer, and started on laundry and made a list of everything we needed to do today. Some errands– we’re tasked with appetizers on christmas day, and so i thought a cheese plate would be the thing, with some smoked sausages– well, there’s a shop that mostly just does meats and such, we should go there. also we needed things from the liquor store. and we needed a few groceries. and I wanted to buy some cider from the new cider place on Niagara St. also i needed to finish the fabric giftwrapping i was making, and to wrap all the gifts.
Dude graciously volunteered to go do the shopping, but to come home so we could both go to the cider place. He was gone from about 9:30 until almost 1, though he stopped back home to drop things off several times. Listen we got the good kabanosy. Xmas is gonna be lit.
I counted up the furoshiki I’d made and came up two short, somehow, so I set about making two more, using an old twin sheet that mice had nibbled and my sister had discarded. I’ve made a number of things out of them over the years, but there was enough left for two largeish furoshiki… except that one would need to be pieced, and also had some holes gnawed in it. So I’ve pieced it, and now am doing a reverse applique, though I haven’t decided what shape to cut out where the gnaw-holes are. It could be a flower, maybe, or a unicorn, or… hm. Still deciding.
I may finally have finished the pojagi-pieced pink confection I was intending to wrap Farmkid’s gifts and also become a doll blanket for her afterward. The last border was exhaustingly fiddly because I was stingy with the fabric and then had to last-minute finagle several very tiny gap-filling pieces into it. I’ll take photos of it tomorrow in the daylight.
Dude brought home a sub from the grocery store for lunch, and we split that and then I came with him to the cider place. They didn’t have anything on tap, though– we’d wanted to sit and do a tasting, but they’re not ready for that. So we bought some bottles, and then went to the Cider Hall, which has been open a year or two now, and we sat there and drank cider, bought a couple more bottles, and ate some pierogis– and I sat and worked on my reverse-applique, which is what I posted on Instagram a moment ago.
From there we went to yet another grocery store to get the last things. Local cheeses, and some more flour and granola and such, and some frozen easy meals to have in the freezer for the various arrivals-home-from-traveling we’ll be doing in the coming weeks, wherein I am sure we won’t have food in the house.
And I bought myself a cupcake, which I shall eat presently, and to which I am looking forward immensely.
Tomorrow I need to make piragi, because I want them, and that will take a few hours, and I also need to put labels on and wrap the last gifts, and put nametags onto all of them of course. But I don’t think we have to do anything else. Maybe we’ll be able to cram in a viewing of That Infernal Star War Movie so that I can properly enjoy the wanton semi-untagged spoilers that are flying about. (I gave up on not being spoiled, there’s just no way. The Internet, collectively, are animals. Also, the people writing those movies don’t actually warrant the embargo. I’m one thousand percent sure they did all kinds of plot shit just to fuck with the fans, and so I don’t care to avoid spoilers, because it’s literally not worth the fuss. But I’m not going to post about them or reblog the ones I see.)
Maybe I’ll go to the movies, maybe i won’t. We’ll see. If I don’t, I literally don’t know when I’ll get to it. We’re going to my folks on Monday evening, spending Xmas Eve and Xmas there, then driving back out Thursday morning, i’m working Friday, then we’re getting on a train to a plane to Iceland on Sunday, and we’ll be gone until Jan 6th, and then I’m working the 7th for some reason. (My supervisor was like “won’t you want to come in the 6th?” and I was like “it’s a five hour time difference, I don’t think I will” and he seemed surprised. Like. y’all pay me less than twelve bucks an hour, you think it’s worth it to me to get the hours?? I come in every day I can because I feel bad taking basically all summer off but that doesn’t mean it’s worth doing. I’m not about to suffer for it, man.)
Anyhow. I forgot I wore eye makeup today, I look cute. OK back to work on that reverse applique, you can’t finish wrapping gifts until you finish sewing…
I actually have been up and moving and busy since like. 8:30 this morning. with fewer breaks than I’d take at work.
Finished my coffee, got up from the computer, and started on laundry and made a list of everything we needed to do today. Some errands– we’re tasked with appetizers on christmas day, and so i thought a cheese plate would be the thing, with some smoked sausages– well, there’s a shop that mostly just does meats and such, we should go there. also we needed things from the liquor store. and we needed a few groceries. and I wanted to buy some cider from the new cider place on Niagara St. also i needed to finish the fabric giftwrapping i was making, and to wrap all the gifts.
Dude graciously volunteered to go do the shopping, but to come home so we could both go to the cider place. He was gone from about 9:30 until almost 1, though he stopped back home to drop things off several times. Listen we got the good kabanosy. Xmas is gonna be lit.
I counted up the furoshiki I’d made and came up two short, somehow, so I set about making two more, using an old twin sheet that mice had nibbled and my sister had discarded. I’ve made a number of things out of them over the years, but there was enough left for two largeish furoshiki… except that one would need to be pieced, and also had some holes gnawed in it. So I’ve pieced it, and now am doing a reverse applique, though I haven’t decided what shape to cut out where the gnaw-holes are. It could be a flower, maybe, or a unicorn, or… hm. Still deciding.
I may finally have finished the pojagi-pieced pink confection I was intending to wrap Farmkid’s gifts and also become a doll blanket for her afterward. The last border was exhaustingly fiddly because I was stingy with the fabric and then had to last-minute finagle several very tiny gap-filling pieces into it. I’ll take photos of it tomorrow in the daylight.
Dude brought home a sub from the grocery store for lunch, and we split that and then I came with him to the cider place. They didn’t have anything on tap, though– we’d wanted to sit and do a tasting, but they’re not ready for that. So we bought some bottles, and then went to the Cider Hall, which has been open a year or two now, and we sat there and drank cider, bought a couple more bottles, and ate some pierogis– and I sat and worked on my reverse-applique, which is what I posted on Instagram a moment ago.
From there we went to yet another grocery store to get the last things. Local cheeses, and some more flour and granola and such, and some frozen easy meals to have in the freezer for the various arrivals-home-from-traveling we’ll be doing in the coming weeks, wherein I am sure we won’t have food in the house.
And I bought myself a cupcake, which I shall eat presently, and to which I am looking forward immensely.
Tomorrow I need to make piragi, because I want them, and that will take a few hours, and I also need to put labels on and wrap the last gifts, and put nametags onto all of them of course. But I don’t think we have to do anything else. Maybe we’ll be able to cram in a viewing of That Infernal Star War Movie so that I can properly enjoy the wanton semi-untagged spoilers that are flying about. (I gave up on not being spoiled, there’s just no way. The Internet, collectively, are animals. Also, the people writing those movies don’t actually warrant the embargo. I’m one thousand percent sure they did all kinds of plot shit just to fuck with the fans, and so I don’t care to avoid spoilers, because it’s literally not worth the fuss. But I’m not going to post about them or reblog the ones I see.)
Maybe I’ll go to the movies, maybe i won’t. We’ll see. If I don’t, I literally don’t know when I’ll get to it. We’re going to my folks on Monday evening, spending Xmas Eve and Xmas there, then driving back out Thursday morning, i’m working Friday, then we’re getting on a train to a plane to Iceland on Sunday, and we’ll be gone until Jan 6th, and then I’m working the 7th for some reason. (My supervisor was like “won’t you want to come in the 6th?” and I was like “it’s a five hour time difference, I don’t think I will” and he seemed surprised. Like. y’all pay me less than twelve bucks an hour, you think it’s worth it to me to get the hours?? I come in every day I can because I feel bad taking basically all summer off but that doesn’t mean it’s worth doing. I’m not about to suffer for it, man.)
Anyhow. I forgot I wore eye makeup today, I look cute. OK back to work on that reverse applique, you can’t finish wrapping gifts until you finish sewing…
