Jul. 30th, 2017

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I was so exhausted from the sun that I fell asleep at 9:30 and slept 9 hours nearly without moving.

A few notes. 1. I plan on getting a 20 game ticket pack next year. If there are any afternoon games in the mix, unless they are on Sunday (best meal), I will likely sell them. 2. The Mets had more fans there (and more organized - all the same section dressed alike) than Boston does and Boston has a lot. They had way more than the Yankees and they were way nicer about it, too. (Of course, we only play the Mets about once every five years so that's maybe some of the reason.)

And 3. Clothes. I sit on the last row of the premium seats. There are 8 rows between me and home plate and lots of those rows have rich people sitting in them. I'm fascinated by rich people clothes. Two matinees in a week. The one on Wednesday, had lots of very nice and interesting men's clothes. Beautiful fabrics with amazing detail in the seams and collars and interesting fits. It was really fascinating.

On Saturday, the men were wearing stuff but the women! Really interesting styles and, again, luxury fabrics. There was a white cotton blouse that was the prettiest woven fabric I think I'd ever seen. I was dying to feel it. And there was another really interesting blouse that had kind of a cape for sleeves that sounds uggy but was very attractive.

I have thought that next year, I want a seat that is closer to the aisle and closer to the field but now I am rethinking. [livejournal.com profile] mindyklasky pointed out that being in the center of the aisle means way less traffic climbing over you and I now see her point but yesterday I was sandwiched between two very large people (and I'm not tiny by a long fucking shot) and it was pretty miserable. So I'm going back and forth about that. But I'm nearly abandoning the closer to the field desire. I have decided that watching rich baseball fans is a big plus.

After my swim today, I stopped at the place I've been going to on Saturdays. I've missed the last two Saturdays so I thought I'd give it a Sunday go. Bad move. Either they have completely tanked in two weeks or the Sunday chef is a loser. The potatoes were rubbery and the eggs were clearly cooked by someone who truly did not give a shit. Also the service was a little shoddy. I will likely give them another Saturday try but I'm pretty sad faced about today.

Last year the Seahawks put something like 4,000 tickets up for sale at the end of July at the stadium, 4 to a customer. People started lining up on Sunday even though the Seahawks said no lining up before Monday. No tents. No overnights. etc. etc. Then, because they said no to all of that, there was no organization and on Monday morning there were fist fights and mayhem. But... did they learn? NFW. Their website clearly says the same stuff. No tents, no overnight, no queue of any time before Monday.

When I headed out to the pool this morning, there were already about 25 tents and about 200 people lined up and the population doubled by the time I got back. The tickets go on sale Monday. No control. No organization. Besides the fact that I don't know anything about or any any appreciation for football, I think the Seahawks organization has their head up their ass.

Here inside (where the air conditioner is king), there's a baseball game at 1 and while they play, I'm going to continue on my pattern project. Before then I'm going to finish up my sweater/jacket thing. I was going to read the paper first but...



No breaking news, I'm sure... it will all wait until she's found someplace else to sit.

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Jul. 30th, 2017 12:00 pm
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Yeah, timing is wrong BUT... I'm going to love this so much. If I live til cold weather, this will be my uniform. It is so warm and cuddly.



And a few notes.

1. Dear self, do not EVER EVER EVER be tempted to use this fabric ever again. Enjoy this wrap and know it will be your last minky anything ever. It's wonderful to have on your skin. It's a royal bitch and a half to work with.

2. Also, self, that camera on the Echo Show is only good in a pinch and then 'good' is probably the wrong word.

The road to here with this crappy photo was overly long and wind-y. Find shot in Amazon storage and download. Upload to Google for croping. Download so that I can upload to Flickr. IF either Amazon or Google allowed single photo URLs, steps could have been eliminated. Also if Flickr would get their editor back in place... I also could have uploaded to LJ but once a picture gets into the LJ Scrapbook, I can never find it again. My photo issues are many.

I was listening to podcast when I finished the green wrap and I didn't want to interrupt the podcast so I stayed at the sewing machine and made a doll.



Now it's time to read the paper and watch the game and convert some more patterns to the good paper.

p.s. I just read on Twitter that a whole new Vera season is coming to Acorn in August so I guess I can't cancel that subscription after all. Bolicks (bolox? bollix? whatever)

Oh yeah...

Jul. 30th, 2017 04:33 pm
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My pattern project is a little bigger than I anticipated. I mean it's taking me a long time to do each pattern but I am being very careful and doing every single piece. For instance, Instead of guessing at the short sleeve from a long sleeve pattern piece I am making a separate pattern piece foe each. Come cutting out time, it's going to be a breeze! I only got two done today but both were multiple pattern pieces.

Here's my current, soon to be old way:



Takes up too much room real estate and the pattern pieces are fiddly after they've been rolled up like that.

Here's my new way:



Nice, flat, not wrinkled pattern pieces.

And while I was doing that, the Mariners skunked the Mets nicely. Win Win all around.

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