Still no laptop, but...
Still no laptop. Might have a solution for that soon-ish, but trying not to get my hopes up.
Last Saturday was a complete disaster day. I was volunteered by my brother (without my consent) to make costumes for my brother's workplace and essentially spent from 3pm Friday to 10am Saturday (no sleep) working on them. I got them done enough to be worn, but I am still working on making sure all the hems and such are finished (and they had fur in them, and finishing fur is always more difficult because just sewing it really isn't an option).
My brother said he was sorry, and won't do anything like that again, but we'll see. I'm making him pay me for the materials at least, although he seems to be grumbling about that (he's also helping me with my laptop, and seems under the impression that the few hours and no money that the laptop stuff requires equates to me actually using materials and spending over 12 hours and forgoing sleep to do something I never said I would do).
So... yeah. -_- Not the most fun for me. Hoping this weekend will be better.
I was able to find a desk at Good Will that is a much better crafting desk than the set up I had (I realized it was all too claustrophobic and thus I just didn't want to do anything down there). So I've been working on getting my craft area into working order and moving the old large table out so that I can get some work done. Slowly but surely, that's coming along. Already much better, since I feel like the room isn't just one massive block of things.
In other news, ran across this, and I found it to be a very refreshing article. There's several people I wish would read this and take it seriously (although I'm betting the people it's really supposed to target are the same people who brush it off as being just mean and don't see anything wrong with themselves because they admit there may be something wrong, but they have other things to make up for that, really!; read several rebuttals that boiled down to that, and pretty much laughed my tuckus off at how butthurt the authors were about being told to suck it up). I'm certainly going to be using this in the present/future.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/
Also, still coughing. Really hope this last remnant of a cold goes away soon and it doesn't invite any buddies in its absense. :P
Last Saturday was a complete disaster day. I was volunteered by my brother (without my consent) to make costumes for my brother's workplace and essentially spent from 3pm Friday to 10am Saturday (no sleep) working on them. I got them done enough to be worn, but I am still working on making sure all the hems and such are finished (and they had fur in them, and finishing fur is always more difficult because just sewing it really isn't an option).
My brother said he was sorry, and won't do anything like that again, but we'll see. I'm making him pay me for the materials at least, although he seems to be grumbling about that (he's also helping me with my laptop, and seems under the impression that the few hours and no money that the laptop stuff requires equates to me actually using materials and spending over 12 hours and forgoing sleep to do something I never said I would do).
So... yeah. -_- Not the most fun for me. Hoping this weekend will be better.
I was able to find a desk at Good Will that is a much better crafting desk than the set up I had (I realized it was all too claustrophobic and thus I just didn't want to do anything down there). So I've been working on getting my craft area into working order and moving the old large table out so that I can get some work done. Slowly but surely, that's coming along. Already much better, since I feel like the room isn't just one massive block of things.
In other news, ran across this, and I found it to be a very refreshing article. There's several people I wish would read this and take it seriously (although I'm betting the people it's really supposed to target are the same people who brush it off as being just mean and don't see anything wrong with themselves because they admit there may be something wrong, but they have other things to make up for that, really!; read several rebuttals that boiled down to that, and pretty much laughed my tuckus off at how butthurt the authors were about being told to suck it up). I'm certainly going to be using this in the present/future.
http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-harsh-truths-that-will-make-you-better-person/
Also, still coughing. Really hope this last remnant of a cold goes away soon and it doesn't invite any buddies in its absense. :P