Stranger things have happened

I love A. and I love my parents. After a truly lousy day yesterday, I'm feeling much better thanks to them.

A. and I ended up staying up till 1 AM, watching silly TV, picking out outfits for today, and cleaning my room while tormenting boys on IM. It was quite nice, and actually relaxing in a strange way, to spend most of the evening sitting on my bed giggling like a 12 year old school girl. I'm still stressed and confused but at least my room is a cleaner and saner place to be and I'm going to be ok with this. As my parents said, stranger things have happened than this all working out ok in the end.

Out of some burst of hopeful enthusiasm, I ordered new ski pants and a jacket. Yay! They were on sale, marked down, and one clearance, and the got the whole thing, with shipping, for $75. I'm pretty happy. My pants have left Hodgkins, Illinois, and should be here on the 1st (an otherwise black day, but at least I'll have pants!). I desperately want to go skiing sometime this year. There is a ski bus that runs between the city and various places in Tahoe, I might just give it up and take a day trip on that. Skiing by myself is sort of pathetic, but at least on the bus I might meet people and it's not like I spend much time talking to people I ski with anyway (seeing as I suck, and they mainly want to go on runs that are actually on an angel and not be embarrassed by the crazy flailing chick tumbling down the side of the mountain like Goofy).

Tonight should be fun too. A friend is coming home with me after work and I'm going to feed him crepes. Yay for eating the rest of these crepes! The buckwheat batter came out too thick, but tasty, so the crepes are not as thin as I would like. I'm going to have to work on this batter recipe some. The sweet crepes turned out perfectly, as always. I love Julia Child. She will never lead you wrong. Now it's just a matter of thawing the left over crepes out and heating them up again.

I'm looking forward to the weekend too. Saturday is the Gaskell, and I'm going to try to pour myself in the Madame X dress, now that she has a new (and hopefully more containing) corset. Aside from that, I am going to sew sew sew! And I am happy about this. I have one project to do for a Rainbow client, and then I can focus on my 1909-ish dress and maybe finish the cheongsam, which I now have no use for but since I already cut out the (hideously expensive, vintage, and irreplaceable) silk brocade I really should finish. It's going to be a lot of hand sewing. Hopefully I can get the machine work done this weekend so I have a good handwork project for the evenings next week.