Archive for September, 2009
Full Moon Buy Night Date: Thursday, October 1 Time: 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM Location: Jack London Square, Oakland (Broadway at Embarcadero) Cost: Free and Open to the Public On the evening of October 1st, Jack London Square will host Full Moon Buy Night, a night market in the festive tradition of Italian village fairs, [...]
Things I could do today: – sweep the front porch – stress about our 5,000$ LESS than the other bidder bid on the house that is adorable, huge, has cute period details and a SECRET PASSAGE. – work on cleaning the craft room (endless project that will never be done because it has me totally [...]
Jack had those super crappy days last week but then went back to his most cheerful normal self. Although he still freaks out that Vim was getting him milk and not me. The house we bid on got another offer that is supposedly better than ours but still the bank hasn’t appointed anyone to look [...]
So yesterday was the worst day ever and then I had some wine and a margarita and it was still the worst day ever. Next time I am totally doing the mascara trick. Brilliant. Today is better but there is no nap happening and it’s making me squirrely and making me feel incompetent. Should I [...]
Today is not a good day. In fact there have been quite a few not good days around here recently. I’m tetchy and a bit depressed. I’m soldiering on but I’m sure I am no joy to hang around with. Jack is heinous right now. He’s getting some back molars and is just generally 2.5 [...]
A surefire way to get Jack to quietly play by himself is for me to need to go somewhere. I’ve been planning a trip to the grocery store all damn day and now it is 4pm. He’s over there playing legos very peacefully. FAIL/WIN Another good thing to do is act like you absolutely must [...]
gray hair Originally uploaded by Minnibird My hair is on a horrible stage of being grown out. I do not know why I have been in a snit about seeing my natural color. I know I hate it, why must I torment myself? But I can see a bunch of grey coming out and I [...]
This is the dress I would like to make, the variation with sleeves. I’m looking a bit angry in this photo. Pay it no mind. So the pattern calls for lt.wt crepe, lt wt pique, or lt wt linen. I found a gorgeous purple silk chiffon that I want to use instead. can I use [...]

