Need to eat lunch

Okay, I feel better this morning. Long night's sleep will do that. (I've been sleeping really late lately because it's so much darker in the morning - I'm really sensitive to light.) Also I found a ton of 1900-1930 dressmaking books in the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections and pinned them so I can always find them.

I ended up getting a new external HD yesterday. Sadface, hate spending money, but the old one's table issues were continuing. I'm going to plug it in every so often and hope that it will, at some point, let me in again so I can copy the stuff over since I'd really like to have it. I'm going to be more careful with the new one, though, try to keep it off the warm floor or something. I also got beige nail polish and dark blue eyeshadow the woman at Sally Hansen Beauty Supply recommended from the cheap rack, and a purple pattern marker that has a thick end and a fine end. Stay sewing is moving on apace! I need to stop and finish my demi-polonaise, though, because I'm so bad at finishing projects and it's nice to go, ha, Dad, see, I finished a project.

I'm really enjoying this game, Demon Shift - it's tricky enough that I don't get bored, but not hard enough (except the level I'm stuck on right now) to make me decide I don't want to spend the time it would take to become competent at it, which is rare. Unfortunately it does occasionally stop responding which is a huge pain as it's a game that's very dependent on timing. (Is it the site or my computer? Who knows.)

I forget the title

I really want to like this kind of ... I want to call it "jaunty" romance novel, but every once in a while it just, well, "enrages me" is a little strong for it, but it's so frustrating that every so often I feel like I'm running into a wall. It's a stupid issue but it's hard to get over.

The author wants the heroine to be super-fashionable. (Oh, you knew it was in this line.) So she critiques people's color choices a lot. And that's not a bad thing, but half the time it feels like she's picking colors at random to clash with someone's complexion (or being confusing about it - what is "in primose she would like like Banquo's ghost at a wedding" supposed to mean?), and the other half ... is puce. There is nothing really wrong with puce, and it's got a couple of different shades anyway, and what really irritates me is that it gets picked on (in historical romances in general) because Georgette Heyer didn't like it. Georgette Heyer sometimes using it as a joke about ugly clothes and bad taste =/= the color was thought to be unattractive in the period. I can find many references to it in high fashion.

Also, from cultural references in the text about what was happening ~20 years ago, I'm pretty sure this is set in the early/mid-1830s, but I have a sneaking suspicion the writer is still imagining it as the 1810s.