The mens suit is done. Done, Done, DONE!!!

The ballgown underskirt is done and I'm ready to start on the outer dress. Other than that I still need to figure out the hair and accessories.

The jacket for the feather duster has been started. I still need to work on the sleeves, stomacher, and trim.

Also, I'm planning on making stockings. Am I kind of obsessive? Yes I am!

I love slow days at work. I'll post pictures as soon as I get around to taking them!

Also, the underscore key no longer works on my laptop. I have to copy and paste it in anywhere I need it. In case you were wondering, this totally sucks.

So I dream that it's about five years ago and I'm still living with Mom. And for some reason she decides that it would be a really good idea to move to the moon colony. So we did. Without telling anyone. And it was awesome!!! The spaceship! Which looked just like the enterprise for some reason! The skyline! The awesome gleaming futuristic buildings! The four costumers, two historians, and three kids reading the Wreede book I refuse to read that were all on the same cabin of the ship! The fact that we somehow still had high-speed internet! The impressive percentage of extremely hot and single people on the colony!

Seriously. Best. Dream. Ever!!!

So I have three costumes I'm trying to get ready for costume college-a 1780s nobleman's suit, Bess' brown ballgown from The Duchess, and my feather duster dress.

So first the nobleman's suit. Shirt, waistcoat, and breeches are done and the coat is wearable if not exactly where I want it to be. Yay! It still needs shoes, stockings and a stock though.

The ballgown is mocked up, fabric bought (and given, thanks Jen!), and the underwear done. I just need to sew it together and work out the trim. Well, and the shoes, hair, and accessories. Serious yay though!

The feather duster is also mostly mocked up and put together. The underwear is done and the jacket mocked up. I have the fabric to make the jacket (thanks again Jen!) so I just need to actually sew that together. The skirt is a little harder as I'm still working out how to make it look like a feather duster. Suggestions welcome btw. After that I just need to put together the cap, shoes, and accessories.

So overall I think that I doing pretty good. I may actually get all of these done. Which would be seriously cool.

I have an actual morning shift tomorrow and I can't sleep because my uterus hates me. Have I mentioned recently how much I hate my life lately?

I was watching the opening to a NCIS episode and when I saw the body I thought, huh, Bones really should be looking at this. There is so not enough physical evidence for the NCIS teams. I am such a crime show geek.

I just got my official rejection e-mail from UCRs graduate history department.

I guess I don't have to save up for school then. Although I will try to appeal. Again. In a little while. When it doesn't hurt so much.

It covered the good, the bad, and the ugly. Well, not work itself, that was boring. But everything that happened while I was there. Wow.

First the good, because it was happy. I finished the shirt for my nobleman's 1700s suit. Yay!

Then the bad. I am a massive klutz. Seriously. There was a window opened during the day to let some air in which was good, but at about 10 or 11 we were starting to get seriously cold. So I get up to go shut it. It's pretty high up on the wall, so I had to stand on a chair to reach it. And then I slipped and hit my head smack on the latch. Serious owwww!!! I can feel the huge bruise that's forming every time I move my eyebrows. Fortunately it doesn't seem to be turning colors, but owww!

( The ugly is behind the cut to spare anyone who doesn't want to know how truly evil people can be. )

for a job that is totally perfect for me. So please keep your fingers crossed for me and wish me luck. I'll know on tuesday. Here's hoping.

for the last week or so it's been because my phone has been on the fritz. For the last day or so its because i lost the stupid thing.

I should have a replacement phone within a week or so and hopefully will find this one soon. Until then, e-mail me if you want to get hold of me. Stupid technology.

I have wireless!!! It only took a half dozen tries and the better part of an hour, but I HAVE WIRELESS!!!!!

Thanks hazelchaz, btw

I have five costumes that I want to have ready for Costume College. Yes, I know I'm insane. What can I say, I was still unemployed when I made the list. :)

At any rate, most of them go over the same underwear, of which I have completed the stays, pocket hoops and pockets, and I am now working on the (looks) quilted petticoat. So I guess I'll be ready for Sunday Undies?

I swear it does. The only other time in my life that I have ever gotten sick this often was in India. I have been either working, sick, or both since I started this job a month ago. I'm telling you, plague.

Amazon, I officially hate you now, so I suppose this is goodbye. It was fun while it lasted, but now you have betrayed me and I don't take that well. So good-bye, but sorry, no good luck. I'm too vengeful for that.

If you want to know what the heck I'm talking about, it more or less explains it here-http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2009/04/amazon-deranks-gayfriendly-books-the-twitterverse-notices.html

Otherwise, my wish list has been moved to powells.com

I love so many of the women I work with. They keep trying to find me a second job and they feed me and try to give me advice and are basically wonderfully sweet.

OK, so I hate customer service and therefor most of the people I deal with. I'm bored out of my ever loving mind. I want to kill half of the managers. But the women I work with are really making this bearable. Sometimes even fun.

Here's to you ladies. I hope you get all (or at least most) of what you are looking for.

But I'm sick enough that both of these feel accurate. Sigh.

I'm going!!!!!!

OK, we already knew that because I'm volunteering, but I now have a scholarship so I actually get to go to classes. Yay!!!!

So, does anyone want a roommate?

It takes a special level of skill, determination, stubbornness, and coupon clipping to go food shopping for the next two weeks and come in at under fifteen dollars. This is not a skill that comes easily to me, but I am getting better ($13.47 this time). So go me!

I have photographic proof of the stupid evil rooster across the street that keeps waking me up!

Huh. I had forgotten how inhcredibally intertaining it is to bone and sew a corset at work. Especially a non-victorian one. Absolutely everyone I work with managed to stop by at some point and ask what the heck I was doing. It's the little things that make an otherwise boring shift bearable.