More annals of my fascinating life

Though I'd set my alarm for a little before 9, I awoke with a start at exactly the moment it would have gone off had this been a weekday. I can't quite figure out why, because the sky was still dark and everything was dead silent. I was so awake that it took me a little while to get back to sleep. So now it's 9:19, I'm up and breakfasted and I have lots to do today before 6 o'clock, such as:

- shower and get dressed
- wash dishes and clean up kitchen to clear up sewing space
- tidy up rest of a partment and vacuum
- go to the laundromat
- start costumes
- cook scalloped patates for the Potato Party this evening (one of my students is hosting)

For my costumes I got a Vogue pattern that asks for 19 buttons down the back. *ahem* Hah! Do I look like I want to make 19 buttonholes? It'll be snap button for me, with real buttons for show on the outside.

Yesterday afternoon I played Cranium (in French, of course) with my students and we laughed so hard. They're not that advanced, so they had to look up quite a few words but ran into trouble with things such as "gaufres aux bleuets" because the dictionary one of them was using gave a weird translation for gaufre and for bleuet said "bachelor's button" because French people are weird and don't know blueberries. The funniest part, though, was during a drawing challenge. A woman and two men were drawing and the woman (of course) knew how to use her dictionary and correctly found "kite" when she looked up "cerf-volant" but the men looked the words up separately and were drawing flying deer. *sweatdrop* I thought he was drawing a reindeer, so I was shouting things like "Santa Claus! Rudolph! Flying reindeer! Christmas!"

Moving right along

Well. I guess sliced potatoes take up more space than whole ones, because I ended up with 4 leftover spuds, even though I filled up my containers as I peeled to make sure I had the right amount. So now I have lots of food cooking and I'm starting to wonder if I'm even going to go to the party... Be social, or work on my costume? I mean, I'm going karaokeing anyway later on, so it's not as though I'd be closeting myself away... Let's see how I feel in an hour.

The top half of my costume looks really cute already, but it's mostly been an exercise in re-threading my sewing machine. First I had to sew darts and I thought I'd do it in white (though the fabric's green) because the lace, the next step, is white. So I did that, but then I remembered that the blue lace I added to the pattern had to be sewn on first, so I had change to blue, then go back to white. After I'm done with that, I'll hopefully be able to stick to green for a while.