green_martha

Lady Darkstone has named 2011 "the year of crap". Because small annoyances of no life-threatening nature tend to crop up with alarming regularity. Explaining how, for example, my website is now on its fourth version since January (and a lot emptier) - my Mom had a hard time grasping that no, there wasn't one particular reason like repeated failure of one single item behind this. Just lot of small crap.
So right now, tonight, I discovered that my website is once again broken (it happens regularly when you have a geek coding around on it. Except said geek hasn't been coding around on it lately. So : NOT normal). And then the scanner did "rbtbrtbrtbrbtbrtbrtbrt" and refused to scan more than one fifth of a page. Not normal either. I kinda suspect it didn't like me flopping it over onto old books rather than the opposite.
Well, the books aren't replacable, the scanner is. The website, though its precise current status remains unknown, is fixable - in the broader meaning of the word : I can make it again if necessary. So there's a pile of small crap again but dammit, I'm not going to let it get me down. Of course both things annoy me to no end and keep me awake. I used that awake time to get most of the work done on colouring the birth announcement card. Now I need to let the picture rest until I have some daylight to adjust some things but really, I'm quite happy with how it turned out, and getting it to a "mostly done" state has lifted a huge weight from my shoulders.

I have a lot of other things to post about, like some late teens/early 1920s costuming plans, or the 18th century extant gowns, but I'd want to post pictures and right now, I can't. besides, I'm starting to finally get tired enought o go to sleep, and my feet are complaining that I've sat on my chair for too long. Just a short note : if any of you happen to be near Lyon between now and September, there's a great costume exbhition there.

Yes, all my pictures are down. My site has been down now and then all week and now it's just... mostly dead. The server died. Oh wait, it's not really dead-dead. We were able to restore it. The wrong way around. So instead of copying the 2010 version on both discs, it copied the 2007 one. Yup, 2007. Anything posterior is gone. Scans, research work, wikis, pictures,it's all gone. Wedding pictures, the birth of our son, everything on my site from the last three years, the supersekrit project, it's all dead. Some things can be remade. Some pictures have been saved or printed by friends. The rest isn't replacable.
I'm just speechless.

I've just started a new corset (it's almost all Heileen's fault... ^^) and guess what ? TheTank ( aka my regular sewing machine) decides not to work anymore. I have to sew a corset with TheBitch. Blergh. And bring TheTank to the repairman. *sniffles* Life is soooo unfair !

I'm also desperately looking for the list of classes that were offered at past Costume Colleges... Does anyone know where I could find those ? Puhleeze ?

... this crosspoting thing.

Still nothing going on sewing-wise here. Mostly tired and Heimlich won't let me much. Knitting is easier, as long as he doesn't dcide he needs to play with the needle or the yarn himself. I almost have one completed sleeve for the sweater I started back when Heimlich was in hospital - I could actually have a grand new fitting warm woollen sweater in time for this winter, wOOt !

Right now I'm just having breakfast, waiting for the little angel to wake up, and I wish I could spent the day huddled under a blanket until my cold goes away. It feels like I didn't get any sleep last night. don't want to face air-conditionning at work today. Meh...

I spent the night worrying my parents' cat would escape and disappear again before my parents come to pick it up today. Great... So I finally got up at 4, only to go back to bed at 7 because I was so darn tired.
In the meantime I managed to cut, sew and bone with cable ties the base of my stomacher. That's already something, right ? Now I'd want to go on with the decorative layer but I have to go to the market first, blech. Don't even want to go out... And will have to go again later this afternoon to find a butcher who's not on vacation. So that I have something to feed my guests tonight.

The heat here is seriously becoming a problem. I had to leave the house yesterday between 2 and 4 PM, and that totally wiped me off. Clever people at the hospital, if you're going to tell me that I should move to the mountains for a few weeks, would you please first think about the time you give me an appointment ? Especially considering I have to take the bus or some other kind of public transportation since there's nowhere to park in your area ? *shakes head in disbelief* My next appointment there ? 3:15 in the afternoon... It's not even funny.
Anyway, last night the temperature finally dropped a little. I didn't checck this morning, but I slept better, my feet are a tad less swollen, and right now I'm feeling good, not already-bloody-too-hot.
So maybe today I'll have enough energy to get a ltitle something done ? Yesterday I spent the afternoon vegging out and knitting in front of the computer... *sigh*

Here at the foot of a wood-covered hill, on th eborder of the city, it's 35° Celsius in the shade.It must be around 37 degrees in town. I'm usually quite tolerant to heat but his it too much. Especially in MAY ! We keep everything closed and the blind half down in the computer/drawing/working room and it's still around 30 degrees in here. The rest of the house is thankfully cooler (only 26), I'm going to flee into the sewing room very soon and work on the baby's sleeping overall. I'm a bit panicky about how far up the temperature can still go in the next two months... Eeeeeep ! I don't want to be 7 months pregnant when it's *over* 35°C outside !

Otherwise I'd just admit to be swamped by working full time*, betablockers, pregnancy and trying to get my birds in a row to sell my artwork. Not mentionning trying to have a normal social life and taking care of my marriage and household.
But I decided I'd finish assembling the blouse today, and I did it ! *throws confetti* It's not done, it has no hems, I nedd to shorten the sleeves, face the neckline yoke, add bits and bobs of trimming, maybe tack down the pleats in the back... Still, I think it looks cute. It's light and comfy to wear, seems rather flattering on me and should comfortably hold a baby bump. And still be wearable afterwards. In the end I ruled out smocking, I think bows will look cuter.

* I should add that a storm hit one of my colleagues (and good friend of my manager), who's now having a quite gorey divorce** and is completely at a loss at the moment. Overtime and moral support here I come !

**I should also add that I've rarely been so grateful for my exceptionnal HG. Some men are just evil, unreliable, manipulative bastards. Geez !

We were away yesterday and today visiting the HG's uncle and aunt in the mountain. They've rented an apartment in a ski station for two weeks, about 100km from here. We came yesterday, the HG and his uncle skied for the afternoon and this morning, while I just sat in the sun and chatted with his aunt. And now I'm. Completely. Utterly. Exhausted.
I had some doubts about whether I'd be fit enough to handle a day in costume, that obviously solves it. *sad panda* I'm really sorry to let you down like that, esp. as I was feeling very motivated again (and I have fixed the straps on my bodiced petticoat), but getting enough rest for the baby and me is a priority.
Right now, all our Paris plans are in the air, we don't know how long we'll stay nor where we'll stay, but will probably concentrate on some family members who've been too sick to come to the wedding (including the HG's lost uncle, who's been confined home with sciatic problems).
Right now I'm going to lie down until I feel vaguely human again, then maybe I'll try ont he bodice petticoat to check that the strap problem is indeed solved.

I'm just SO tired tonight... I know it's partly due to my lungs slowly healing (three weeks, the doc said) and to the pollution peek we currently have here. Bad bad combo.
So I have the sewing supplies I missed this week-end, but absolutaly no energy for anything else than going to sleep. Tis what I'm going to do, actually. I figured I'll be more efficient tomorrow morning if I'm well rested. And besides, I can't wrap my brain around how to make the back closure on the bodice.
Okay, checking the above lines for typos convinced me : I NEED some sleep. Now.