More Monday

[susandennis]

After getting the bulk of what I wanted to do today done, I watched Boston lose their game and chances at any more play this year. It was sad. Then I took a walk up the street and hit my fitness tracker's goal. So yeah.

I decided that I hate all my pants. The ones that stay up on their own (i.e. aren't all stretched out) are shrunk so that it looks like I grew 4 inches since I bought them. Today I'm wearing a stretched out pair. I cannot put my phone in my pocket or they will fall to the ground.

So... sew. Time to see if making pants is worthwhile. If I can get a pattern so that I can just whip them out whenever, it won't be that much cheaper but it would be heaven to have pants I can wear and that look fine every single day. I found a pattern for what I want online. I have some jersey sheets from Goodwill left that are not decent enough to make clothes I'd wear out of the house. So this afternoon, I printed off the pattern and taped it all together. Tomorrow I'll cut out the fabric, sew it up and see if this is doable. I'm hopeful.

While I was taping the pattern together, I watched the Nationals get Cubbed. But, at least they are still in the running. They Yankees are ahead in their game and I'm not pleased about that. One thing that occurred to me over the past couple of days of baseball is that if the Mariners ever do make it past one round of post season, I will be very annoyed by the broadcast. The national announcers really suck. They utter something they think is brilliant and then they just keep repeating it over and over again until, finally, blessedly, there is a commercial. I would not want to hear what they had to say about my players. So, our not getting to post season is a blessing.

Sandy, the Home Owners Association president, asked me to meet with the police tomorrow. They are coming, she said, to talk to us about the homeless and the security of our doors on the alley. Other than that I am clueless. The building manager will be there so I won't be solo and clueless. Whatever. I'm cool with cops. I think.

Time now to get cool with dinner. I'm starving.

Comments

[slinkslowdown.livejournal.com]

Making a pair of pants was our ~big project~ in 8th grade sewing. I made hideous cyan bell-bottoms.

[susandennis]

hahaha - i'm impressed they even had sewing in your school. i don't think it's been taught in U.S. schools in 40 years.

[slinkslowdown.livejournal.com]

We had to take a ~skills~ class.

First semester of 8th grade, we did month-long rotations in each of the ones the school offered--cooking, sewing, and wood shop. Then we had to pick one to stick with for the whole second semester.

I did sewing for 8th grade, but 9th through 12.5th grade I did cooking instead.

[galebird.livejournal.com]

I did take sewing and cooking in 7th grade way back in the days of old (well, 1990 or so). Cooking took one half of the year, sewing took the second half of the year. 8th grade we took wood and metal shop, so everyone got a little of everything. It wasn't a bad deal at all. I enjoyed all of it and wish they still taught that kind of stuff.

Now that the memory has been jogged, my sewing projects were frequently stuffed animals that were just animal shaped pillows I made detailed with careful embroidery that likely looked like a sloppy mess to anyone but myself. Those skills came in handy in high school and college though when I kept busy with costume work for theatre so all was not lost. God save me I can barely replace a button these days.

[slinkslowdown.livejournal.com]

I was in high school from 2002 until 2008.

I didn't keep up with sewing that involved creating things, but I do still fix tears in items, replace buttons, etc.

[susandennis]

That curriculum sounds really good. In the olden days, we had sewing and cooking. The boys had wood shop and auto shop.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

Good luck with the pants and cops, two things that shouldn't be said together

[coffeeguy777.livejournal.com]

Kind of sad the Red Sox lost.It always makes playoffs more interesting if Boston & Yankees are playing each other.Seeing Yankees won last night & tied the series 2-2 Wednesday’s game will be very interesting ⚾️⚾️⚾️⚾️

[susandennis]

Yes, indeed. These playoffs have been far more interesting than I expected.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We are, of course, bummed by the result, but it was a pretty exciting game, and the crowd was really into it. (I'm always amused by the fact that the people around us raise hell if a ball-strike call goes against the Sox, as if it were possible to tell from our seats whether a pitch is inside or outside.) And it was pretty special to see that 20-year-old kid hit an inside-the-park homer in the 9th.

it wasn't until I actually saw Houston playing in the flesh that I fully realized how much smaller Jose Altuve is than anyone else on the field. If the Yankees win tomorrow (and I hope they don't), I'll have to watch some of the ALCS just for the chance to see Aaron Judge on second base.

[susandennis]

Yes, that home run was amazing. I had muted the TV and was listening to Boston radio and I was so glad because they 'colored' it perfectly.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

How do you get that to work? Around here, the radio is 5-10 seconds ahead of the TV.

[susandennis]

Oh it's a delay here, big time. For the Mariners, I can't stand it. For the playoffs, oddly, I don't mind so much. And, for yesterday's inside the park one, I actually had the radio on my phone with me in the sewing room so I couldn't see the TV.