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Mar. 19th, 2009 07:04 pmI've decided that this Saturday needs to be devoted to laundry and mending, which I've put off for entirely too long. The mending, that is, not the laundry. Though to be fair, I'm washing everything this weekend and not just that limited subset of clothing that I wash and wear over and over again. I've saved enough coinage for four loads, which should let me do everything including bedding and towels.
Part of this is prompted by the fact that sadly I'm back to living the way I did when I was a student, only spending money on essentials with virtually no disposable income. Hell, yesterday I counted the change in my pocket and had to make a choice between taking the subway home and buying a litre of milk. I'm glad it was a nice night. So mending and patching the clothes that have been piling up in the back of my closet has become more of a necessity and less of a project that I maybe could possibly get around to one day.
And the other part is that in that accumulation of clothing I found a sweater that I haven't worn in forever. Now, I'm of a size where conventional wisdom says wearing horizontal stripes should be avoided at all costs, but this sweater looks amazing on me. It also has a few holes that need to be mended before they get any worse. Who knows what other forgotten treasures are waiting for me in there?
Although I guess I should really say that this Saturday needs to be devoted to laundry and mending and writing. I've been driving my friends crazy with this these past few days, but I'm having second thoughts about my SPN/J2 Big Bang story and giving serious thought to starting it all over again. I know this stems from a neurotic inability to commit to one idea, but a part of me really does want to scrap everything I've written and write a steampunk au instead. After having the notion haunt me for days and interfere with me working on anything else, I've decided I need to give it a shot. Either it'll click, or giving it that attention will make me realise that my original idea really is the one I want to go with.
Oh God. I just realised this all means I'm going to have a massive amount of ironing to do too. ;_; Hopefully I'll be able to unearth myself before the weekend is over.
Part of this is prompted by the fact that sadly I'm back to living the way I did when I was a student, only spending money on essentials with virtually no disposable income. Hell, yesterday I counted the change in my pocket and had to make a choice between taking the subway home and buying a litre of milk. I'm glad it was a nice night. So mending and patching the clothes that have been piling up in the back of my closet has become more of a necessity and less of a project that I maybe could possibly get around to one day.
And the other part is that in that accumulation of clothing I found a sweater that I haven't worn in forever. Now, I'm of a size where conventional wisdom says wearing horizontal stripes should be avoided at all costs, but this sweater looks amazing on me. It also has a few holes that need to be mended before they get any worse. Who knows what other forgotten treasures are waiting for me in there?
Although I guess I should really say that this Saturday needs to be devoted to laundry and mending and writing. I've been driving my friends crazy with this these past few days, but I'm having second thoughts about my SPN/J2 Big Bang story and giving serious thought to starting it all over again. I know this stems from a neurotic inability to commit to one idea, but a part of me really does want to scrap everything I've written and write a steampunk au instead. After having the notion haunt me for days and interfere with me working on anything else, I've decided I need to give it a shot. Either it'll click, or giving it that attention will make me realise that my original idea really is the one I want to go with.
Oh God. I just realised this all means I'm going to have a massive amount of ironing to do too. ;_; Hopefully I'll be able to unearth myself before the weekend is over.
