Swimming brain

This morning's swim was divided into two sections... 1 was planning upcoming sewing projects and the second one was evaluating the wedding day schedule that my brother's new daughter in law handed out.

• I love that she wrote it all down.


• I love her writing/her tone/her total lack of grammatical errors and typos.


• I love that she handed it out days early. My brother got his upon arrival Wednesday for the Saturday wedding.


• I love that my nephew is marrying someone who owns a house!


• I love that she's so anti-bridezilla and this is her first wedding (she's mid-30's).


• I love what this says about her sense of self.


• I love what this says about her relationships with family and new in-laws.


• I love that she's having the wedding at her own house.


• I really love that she's smart enough to invite the neighbors.


• I love her tolerance for and kindness towards smokers.


• I love that she was so detailed.


• I love that she has a plan!

I'm fascinated/intrigued and slightly obsessed with this new family member. I'll likely never get to meet her but that's ok. I know she's there and has everything under control.

My whacko next door neighbor - the one who steals the masking tape and offers up goodies baked with and without cannabis - left, in the door this morning, an invitation to his wedding next Thursday. It did not not include an RSVP. It did include both of their names which I had not known before.

I think there may be a Costco run today. Maybe.

Yeah well that's what 30 years will do...

The last time I saw my nephew's mother was maybe 30 years ago. Donna. She was my brother's first wife. We were all so so so young.

He has this new (to us) software that makes video communications easier than I've ever seen it. He sends a link in a text, I click on it and bam, he's there with me in the corner faster than anything with no lag. It also has record capabilities so he thinks he's going to try and record the wedding with it. (I can watch and he can record all at the same time.) So he just did a test.

He started out in the front yard and showed me the yard and the house and then took me into the back yard where all of a sudden there were people - my nephews. Cool. But then he flashed on this really old woman who was waving and saying hi to me and it was Donna! I had no clue until she smiled. Wow. She was tall and big - not fat but filled out. Now she's sinewy and wrinkled.

Of course, she wasn't surprised by me. After all, it was her ex-husband holding my me up on his phone and telling everyone to say hi but I'll bet she was thinking... holy crap, she's really put on a pound or two hundred. And when did she get so old???? ha.

It's 90 degrees there. But, I did get a glimpse of the really nice covered deck where they are going to do the wedding. The bride was sweeping leaves while my two nephews watched. She needs to deed that broom over to one or both of them.

My tweets

• Thu, 22:09: Amazon fucked up a Kindle purchase of mine so I got my money back and then bought it from Google.
• Fri, 09:35: Who needs hardware store weights for cutting out?? Not me. My assistant died the job nicely. #sewing… https://t.co/58DL0XmYtL
• Fri, 11:37: Boobs and butts... Oh my! https://t.co/pgymFx5Rpk https://t.co/Hdh65eUKZm

I'm sure not sending this back!!

I had no idea how fast I'd fall in love with me. Seriously.

The dress form arrived along with a package of pads.



The dress form instructions were really minimal but it went together pretty easily. And was not nearly as unstable and wobbly as the reviews in Amazon indicated it might be. And then I started stuffing it. I don't know about other fat people but I'm not nearly as big in my head as the measuring tape says I am. More stuffing. Moving the boobs down from perky was pretty hilarious. And finally it matched me.

I do not make tight fitting clothes because I do not wear tight fitting clothes and don't want to. But, if the sleeve seams do not sit exactly on top of my shoulders, it makes me nuts. And, of course, it needs to clear my generous hips and ass. And not be so wide in the middle that it looks like I'm ready to store sleeping bags.

And my new dress form does all of that PERFECTLY!!!

I grabbed a shirt I wore the other day that fits perfectly in the shoulders and everywhere else except it's about 2 inches shorter than I would like.



LOOK at how that fits! I'm so thrilled I cannot stand it. I don't even care that I have no place to keep it. It can stand in the middle of the sewing room. In all it's padded glory. I can play Project Runway now. For reals. Yahoooo!!!