It has been a very long week at work, accentuated by my tiredness, homework pressures, and not having anything to do (or at least nothing that requires the use of my brain). Today, thankfully, is Friday. But, one of the other girls who answers the phones is gone, as is my boss, so I am stuck here (with one backup). Of course, this makes me want to leave, which I can’t.
Secondly, I didn’t get to shower today because the alarm clock won today’s battle (or maybe I did? I sure don’t feel like I won though). Just to prove I’m not the only person who feels this way about our alarm clock, here’s an article on This Is Broken about the poor button placement on our Bose radio. And here is a picture. Now, listen to me carefully. I realize that the Snooze button is larger than the Off button. I realize that in an ideal world we would all be born morning people and just pop out of bed every day at 5:30 without any alarm clock at all. However, some of us are not those people and are never gonna be those people. Some of us are the kind of people who can sleep through half an hour of blaring buzzing alarms, who can turn off quite complicated alarm clock systems in our sleep, and who could easily sleep until 9:30 every day and not feel guilty about it if we didn’t have to talk to morning people.
I’m a little tired of the holier-than-thou comments by people who happen to be born early risers, as if they are genetically superior but also that they somehow choose to be that way, and I am choosing to be a disgusting, lazy person. The comments on that This Is Broken post got me all riled up, and since I have nothing else to think about or do at the moment, I’ll stop being bored for 5 minutes and deal with that.
Last night, we went to Home Depot and, for $17, made it possible for me to use my cutting mat on the table instead of the floor, which was a wonderful idea (that I didn’t have or suggest, strangely). Amazing what two 3×3 squares of pressboard can do (that, by the way, is how big my cutting mat is, 3′x6′). So after dinner, I cut out 350+ inches of the black polka dot fabric in 4-inch-wide strips (wait, that’s unclear… 4″ by 350″ is what I cut out, in 7 segments), on the bias. Sewn all together, and then ironed a lot to make it double-fold bias tape, I plan on sewing it onto the edge of the mock quilt, perhaps this weekend on the car ride to the cabin. (It’s either that or work on knitting this baby blanket, which I haven’t worked on in at least 7 months.) I’d love to machine-stitch it on, but without the proper $40 foot, there’s no way that’s going to happen, and I’m actually a bit skeptical that my machine will be able to handle quilting at all. So, hand stitching it is. I’m sure, if I work on it this weekend, I’ll complain about it Monday. But maybe I’ll have a nice photo for you too.
We emailed our Realtor to tell him that we pre-approve any house tours that might want to happen this weekend, since we will be basically without cell service or email. The cabin is like that. Thankfully, I don’t need any of that for the homework I have, which is studying for a test, writing a reflection paper or two (I’m a little unclear on what my homework is now that the second teacher for my night class showed up on Wednesday, totally changed the syllabus, and doubled our homework load), and doing a lot of reading.
I just realized that I don’t think we actually have any luggage in the house to pack for the weekend. I think it’s all in storage. Hmm. That could be fun.
