need motivation
Jul. 29th, 2004 12:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzskiI really should get started on commissions, even though no one has actually paid me for them. (I know I know - the check is in the mail). I pre-washed a lot of fabric last night, some of it for the second time. I'm of the "boil it before you sew, and nothing worse will ever happen to it afterwards" school of costuming.
But I have a big fit of the lazies today. It's warm and sticky, and I'm totally un-motivated to sew. I really should stay off the computer most of the afternoon, so potential interviews can actually get through. I baked like a fiend yesterday, so I have a freezer full of breadness. I did some picking up too. But all I wanna do is lie on the sofa, drink iced tea, and read.
Am reading "British History of Dummies", which is absolutely fricking hilarious for a history nut like me. I think my favorite phrase so far is "Exactly how these people worked out that you can shear a sheep, play about with the wool, and tease it into a long thread to be used in making cloth no one really knows. It's not, you must admit, the most obvious use of a sheep". Right now I'm in the chapter called "Simon (de Montfort) says", which explains gently that the 'Provisions of Oxford' is not a marmalade shop. (hee!)
But I have a big fit of the lazies today. It's warm and sticky, and I'm totally un-motivated to sew. I really should stay off the computer most of the afternoon, so potential interviews can actually get through. I baked like a fiend yesterday, so I have a freezer full of breadness. I did some picking up too. But all I wanna do is lie on the sofa, drink iced tea, and read.
Am reading "British History of Dummies", which is absolutely fricking hilarious for a history nut like me. I think my favorite phrase so far is "Exactly how these people worked out that you can shear a sheep, play about with the wool, and tease it into a long thread to be used in making cloth no one really knows. It's not, you must admit, the most obvious use of a sheep". Right now I'm in the chapter called "Simon (de Montfort) says", which explains gently that the 'Provisions of Oxford' is not a marmalade shop. (hee!)
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Date: 2004-07-29 11:07 am (UTC)I still want to know who decided that sheep's innards, barley, and stock, cooked in a sheep's stomach sounded like a tasty idea.
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Date: 2004-07-29 11:19 am (UTC)(And I'm still online because the Reader ads hit the net early today, so I'm sending resumes on slooooow dial-up)
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Date: 2004-07-29 11:23 am (UTC)Yeah - I've been like that all week. ;)
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Date: 2004-07-29 11:32 am (UTC)Is that OF or FOR...
They both sound amusing to me! ^_~
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Date: 2004-07-29 11:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-07-29 12:07 pm (UTC)Probably a good thing I'm NOT sewing then.