So many people want to "help" me. They believe that common sense belongs to an elite subset of humanity and that most of us--me in particular--must be guided through each event in life by those possessing this Wisdom of the Ages ( Read more... )

While watching "Game of Thrones"... I do not always know why someone is somewhere or what someone is doing. I forget who is allied with whom. There's bastard sons and real sons and estranged bastard sons and estranged real sons. There's incest--I do get that. But, anyway, it's a very interesting and exciting show. Sometimes spooky, too! I just can' ( Read more... )

I'm not going to comment on Boston. Just like I didn't comment on Sandy Hook. Not because I don't care. I do care. Deeply. That is why I take medication for generalized anxiety disorder. Some think that I am too self-indulgent, that I run to the doctor for pills when some "little thing" bothers me. I would hardly define a clear-eyed reaction to ( Read more... )

Anyone ever had a condition called "frozen shoulder"? Adhesive capsulitis? It starts with a small strain or injury and over a period of time blows up into lots of shoulder pain and stiffness and, guess what? It can take a couple of years to resolve. Mine feels particularly bad...whenever it wants to. Like today, for instance. Don't feel sorry for ( Read more... )

Onward we go, ignoring politics and other upsetting things. Within La Casa IAmRightHere, nothing invades the benevolent calm except the usual Weird Neighborhood News: family of 20 purchasing 3-bedroom, 2-bath home down the block.

But we won't go there. Not today!

For your--and mostly my--delight, we have The Pansy Tunic:

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Honestly, if armed guards at schools will keep our kids safe...what about the tens of thousands of deaths and woundings that take place outside of schools? Like the four firefights shot today--two fatally--at a fireground? What about the mass murders that have taken place at shopping malls, movie theaters, etc., etc. This is a national problem, a ( Read more... )

Hello, again. Well, I've been busy with another project, this time a button-down shirt. This is the first time I've done a full bust adjustment, which took five freakin' hours!

Since I'm learning to fit patterns correctly, this one benefitted from Fit for Real People by Pat Palmer and Marta Alto. They use a tissue-fitting method, as opposed to the ( Read more... )

Today I show pix of a couple of things I've sewn recently.

First off we have the overdress/underdress number, the pattern for which I got on Ebay. (I wouldn't own anything if note if it weren't for Ebay.):


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My poor departed mother is haunting me! Rotator cuff problems in both shoulders, a brand-spanking-new backache, knees hurting--what the hell is going on? Seems like I've grown old and decrepit overnight.

After a week of sore joints and stomach issues, I took to my bed with a fever and will arise only this afternoon to attend to a few last-minute hectic matters concerning Kol Nidrei (also known as Yom Kippur Eve) at work before going back to bed for another 24 hours. Very inconvenient timing! I had hoped to withstand the deluge of responsibility at ( Read more... )