Got walloped by the PMDD stick yesterday

[chocolatepot]

It was not good ... No executive function and I was coming to some horrible conclusions about my fitness for, well, anything and also stayed up two hours after bedtime obsessing over the fact that this is the second winter in a row that the lake and river haven't frozen over. Today was much better but the aches did kick in, and the lack of preparation meant that dinner did not really happen.

Trying to port my blog over to WordPress and it's not going well! The backup/export process is very simple and the import process is also very simple, so ... I don't think it can be a problem on my end.

Absolutely slaughtered one of my stockings today. It looks like it wore through at the heel and then laddered up and down from there. Fortunately I just ordered three new pairs and they're supposed to arrive tomorrow! (It took me weeks to get around to ordering them.) Hopefully they fit - Secrets in Lace doesn't have a good size for me, it goes from Medium to Long and Long is very long on me.

Desperately need to make some new dresses!!! I want to make this one for a wedding I'm going to this summer, so I might as well start it now. Torn between doing a full wearable mockup so I'll have two dresses and just doing a half bodice in muslin so it won't take as long. But at least my wool skirt is nearly done - I just need to go buy some of the wide hooks and eyes and hem it.

Comments

[danabren]

That's a pretty dress.

Who forces you to wear stockings at work? That's positively primeval!

[chocolatepot]

It's so pretty! I'm a bit afraid of the horizontal dart-replacement in the bodice because it could visually shorten my waist even more, but it's very cool and interesting. And I feel like the skirt will swish nicely.

The thing about the stockings! See! I used to wear sweater tights and pantyhose (either depending on the weather, not both at once), but I found them to rip really easily in the crotch because of how thicc I am, no matter what size, especially because I do a lot of bending and squatting when moving/looking at artworks, bugs in traps, etc. Stockings give way more of a range of motion because they don't go all the way up, they're way more comfortable.

[danabren]

Leggings, maybe?