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Jun. 14th, 2015 08:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotPaid all my bills/loans today! Apparently I forgot the electricity last month. Oops.
I've been having a blah issue lately with dinners. There's not a ton of food in my fridge/cupboards at any time, so I end up doing things like getting enough ingredients for one thing, and having it three or four nights in a row until one ingredient's gone, then getting something else. When I start trying to make do with what's there I end up having buttered noodles etc. But today I managed to be a little more creative, and cooked Israeli couscous (bought when I was getting arborio rice to make risotto; it seems similar but is much, much cheaper) in vegetable broth (from the same day) with mushrooms and marjoram, chili powder, and coriander. It was delicious! I like the Israeli couscous - it has a chewy texture, kind of like the tapioca in bubble tea but without making me feel sick afterward.
Started working on shirting dress. I added some fabric here and there to make it fit better, then realized as I started sewing that it would have fit just fine without any adjustments. STUPID. I've fixed it by now but it would have been much simpler to do it right the first time - although it's a tricky pattern anyway, because it has right-angled seams, which are the actual worst. I thought zippers were the worst but that's because I forgot about right-angled seams. But the hard part's all done now! I'll start tomorrow on the skirt, which is getting pockets added because every full skirt I make from now on is getting pockets. I know how to do them now.
I'm actually wanting a housedress now, which is something I thought I would never ever say. (One of my mother's grandmothers HATED housedresses and housecoats and wouldn't be caught in them. The other wore them even out of the house. Go figure.) Definitely would be nice to put on while sewing/trying on, and after work, since my waist just kind of wants to expand at that point and my waistbands are generally pretty fitted. The more that I wear dresses and skirts, the more pants don't feel like the obvious comfy choice - I didn't notice the leg constriction before so much. Socialization! Five-through-eleven-year-old me knew what was going on. (Okay, no, I just wanted to be a Victorian.)
I'm ... a little disappointed with the CW dress I bought. It's a not-totally-period cotton print, see, and I thought it was at least solid and kind of sheer. But it is better than nothing, and while I'm getting SO much better and more confident in my sewing abilities with all of this, I can accept that it would be nothing if I hadn't bought it. So it goes. I still need to buy the hoop but I'm spending so much lately that it's hard to bring myself to do it.
Speaking of trying to save money, I went to a matinee today ($6.50! but dang I spend so much on movies lately, more in the past few months than in the past few YEARS because I never used to go unless someone else was paying) for Spy, which is incredibly raunchy but v. fun. It was a bit awkward as the theater was empty apart from me, in the dead center, and this elderly couple in the back. They were laughing but it was a lot of "fuck"s to hear in the company of grandparents, even if they weren't mine.
I've been having a blah issue lately with dinners. There's not a ton of food in my fridge/cupboards at any time, so I end up doing things like getting enough ingredients for one thing, and having it three or four nights in a row until one ingredient's gone, then getting something else. When I start trying to make do with what's there I end up having buttered noodles etc. But today I managed to be a little more creative, and cooked Israeli couscous (bought when I was getting arborio rice to make risotto; it seems similar but is much, much cheaper) in vegetable broth (from the same day) with mushrooms and marjoram, chili powder, and coriander. It was delicious! I like the Israeli couscous - it has a chewy texture, kind of like the tapioca in bubble tea but without making me feel sick afterward.
Started working on shirting dress. I added some fabric here and there to make it fit better, then realized as I started sewing that it would have fit just fine without any adjustments. STUPID. I've fixed it by now but it would have been much simpler to do it right the first time - although it's a tricky pattern anyway, because it has right-angled seams, which are the actual worst. I thought zippers were the worst but that's because I forgot about right-angled seams. But the hard part's all done now! I'll start tomorrow on the skirt, which is getting pockets added because every full skirt I make from now on is getting pockets. I know how to do them now.
I'm actually wanting a housedress now, which is something I thought I would never ever say. (One of my mother's grandmothers HATED housedresses and housecoats and wouldn't be caught in them. The other wore them even out of the house. Go figure.) Definitely would be nice to put on while sewing/trying on, and after work, since my waist just kind of wants to expand at that point and my waistbands are generally pretty fitted. The more that I wear dresses and skirts, the more pants don't feel like the obvious comfy choice - I didn't notice the leg constriction before so much. Socialization! Five-through-eleven-year-old me knew what was going on. (Okay, no, I just wanted to be a Victorian.)
I'm ... a little disappointed with the CW dress I bought. It's a not-totally-period cotton print, see, and I thought it was at least solid and kind of sheer. But it is better than nothing, and while I'm getting SO much better and more confident in my sewing abilities with all of this, I can accept that it would be nothing if I hadn't bought it. So it goes. I still need to buy the hoop but I'm spending so much lately that it's hard to bring myself to do it.
Speaking of trying to save money, I went to a matinee today ($6.50! but dang I spend so much on movies lately, more in the past few months than in the past few YEARS because I never used to go unless someone else was paying) for Spy, which is incredibly raunchy but v. fun. It was a bit awkward as the theater was empty apart from me, in the dead center, and this elderly couple in the back. They were laughing but it was a lot of "fuck"s to hear in the company of grandparents, even if they weren't mine.
