I've got a nasty blister

Doing nothing today, and it's brilliant. I mean, I did go to the bank, post office, and grocery store, but mainly I'm sitting around watching Mad Men and internetting. I'm going to make cookies in a bit, I think. Right now I'm taking pictures off my camera and wondering why my forehead is SO BIG and why I pulled my hair back so tightly last night. FML, Monday I'll go to Sally Beauty Supply and look at switches so that I never have to look like that again.

(I think my favorite photo so far is this one that's candid and everyone is looking around, but Julie's in the background and is making a Photo Face. You are always there, girl!)

(Okay, no, my favorite favorite is the fashion-plate one where Julie's facing one way and I'm facing the other.)

All the lessons I learned from this outing: don't make your bustle with basket reed (and don't sit on it if you do), don't make your overskirt fasten in front unless it does so smoothly, put insoles and maybe moleskin in your shoes, damn it my forehead is unfairly large, it's really unreasonable.

I was going to stop in at the quilt shop to get fabric to start Marci's baby quilt (she's showing!), but that was too close to sewing - and I don't want to do any of that this weekend - and I'm not quite sure what I'm going to do. She doesn't know the sex yet and I'm not into strict gender roles re: colors, so I'm probably just going to go for a range of pale tones, but I'm torn between:
- a very plain, almost Amish-style quilt with a pieced border and a plain center, with a lot of decorative quilting in the center
- a puff quilt
- this modern stripe pattern

I do this a lot with graveyards, too.

The thing that always gets me with Mad Men - and a lot of historical fiction - is thinking about the everyday differences between the characters' childhoods and the present of the show. From the end of WWII to now there's obviously been a lot of social and technological change, but I cannot even imagine going from the '20s and '30s to the '50s. Completely different worlds and standards of living.

Especially with the older characters. Like Burt Cooper says about Ida Blankenship when she dies - "She was born in 1898 in a barn. She died on the 37th floor of a skyscraper. She was an astronaut." CANNOT IMAGINE.