* At least I got the binding all sewn on the newest quilt (No picture, it was like 8:00 when I finished it, so the light was bad and I had no energy).
I also did a couple more rows on Not Okay Bot. I want to finish this next. I also kind of want to start a G4-ized Waterfire - I have the yarn necessary for her. I dunno. Once again I feel the need to be surrounded by soft fun cute things.
But I also feel a drive to relentlessly push through all the things I have on the needles FIRST, before starting something new.
* Lunch was good at church but this afternoon I've been dealing online with a few unfortunate things, both in e-mails and in other places I hang out and I admit I'm not wild about the idea of having to go out and be around people yet again tomorrow.
* Two of the three things for my swap-partner in the latest ITFF swap have arrived but the BEST thing (ordered off Etsy last Tuesday) has not even shipped yet and if I don't hear from the seller soon I might just cancel the order and go with something else instead. I am annoyed because the feedback claims the seller "ships fast" and the people I buy Ponies from typically ship in 2-3 days, so....
* Speaking of which, I ordered a "Bright Eyes" (a less-common Twinkle-eye pony; not sure I've seen her before) from Ponies in the Sun; I just really liked her look and colors. And a Baby Blossom, because I find the baby ponies hard to resist. I expect they'll be arriving soon.
More ponies. I don't need them, except I kind of do. I have a small Pony Army for my Diana Prince (Wonder Woman) Barbie, all arranged around her. Because I'm sure if they had to, ponies could do some damage - regular horses can trample and kick, and unicorns have horns, and even pegasus ponies could, I don't know, fly up and drop stuff on enemies.
I dunno. It just amuses me to have Wonder Woman with a small pastel Pony army.
* I see at least one of the 24-hour news channels has come up with its own "little sad music riff" to introduce stories about the synagogue shooting. I don't know why that idea - using a tiny snippet of sort of generic sad music for a sad story - offends me so much, but it does. I think it's because to me it's symptomatic of the news making itself about itself - the whole Look At Me I'm Mr./Ms. Newsanchor thing. (I also object to the fact that CNN is apparently REALLY pimping the "last season of Anthony Bourdain" and it seems unseemly to me. And apparently they also have some program on "weird phenomena" and there's the line from the ad "You can really talk to [dead] Grandma?" and I admit I'm like "Then dial up Tony in the afterlife and ask him what he thinks of how you're advertising his show now."
(Yeah, my snarky 16 year old is coming out a bit much this evening)
* Maybe I need to start some kids' book. I realized just tonight that the preponderance of Folio Society books I've bought through the years have at least nominally been aimed at kids - from all the various-color Fairy Books, to the Dark is Rising sequence and the Rosemary Sutcliffe novels on Rome....and also one-offs like Moonfleet and The Ghost of Thomas Kempe (both of which I recommend).
I dunno. I think part of it is in many of those, "good" and "bad" are more-sharply drawn, and you pretty much expect "good" wins in the end, and in the Real World it's a lot more ambiguous....and sometimes I don't like ambiguity, I like to be able to look at someone and go "he's a bad 'un" and avoid him, or look at a circumstance and go "only danger can come of this" and walk the other way, and real life often isn't like that. (Though I tend to err on the side of caution and I have probably missed opportunities via playing it safe, and maybe there were people I thought of as "bad 'uns" at first who really weren't bad, they were just grumpy or awkward or something)
*Still am undecided whether to do anything different in my mode of dress for Halloween. I don't want to have to run out and buy something and anyway I haven't time. And the other ideas I've come up with (mainly: adopting the "hot mess" idea from an old Bob's Burgers: wear sloppy clothes and put paper flames on them) is dumb, and anyway, I'm enough of an actual hot mess some days that I don't like poking fun at myself by dressing as one on Halloween.
Ugh, why does having fun have to be so HARD some times?
(If I had known, if I had had time and energy? I'd have made an oribatid mite costume or similar, seeing as we're doing soil invertebrates. But there's nothing I can do fast enough that would work and not be dumb.)
* I saw a Ford commercial tonight and they used "Eastbound and Down" (from "Smokey and the Bandit") as the music, and also a tagline that was essentially "business in the front, party in the back" and I was like, wait, they're bringing back the El Camino? (Except that was Chevy). And yeah, the El Camino was what a mullet haircut would be if it were a car. (And that's not an original sentiment; my old grad-school officemate Joe espoused that idea. He also talked about the "astroturf in the back" which some people implied was.....for, ahem, "courting," (to be overly polite about it), but Joe said it really meant "you hauled pigs back there" (He was from farm country so I assumed he knew.
But at any rate: not sure where Ford is going with the new concept but I admit I laughed at the "business in the front, party in the back" bit. Maybe car commercials need to take themselves less-seriously like that.
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