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Friday, August 20, 2004

a bit of an improvement

Screwy things about today:

• Being awakened by a daughter who needed a bath (yeah, that's why) to find we'd run out of propane for the second time in three months, and hence had no hot water.
• That whole humble-groveling-please thing, dealing with the propane company to whom we owed a big stack of money because for some reason our propane usage has skyrocketed lately.
• Silver tissue lamé. OH MY GOSH never buy this fabric. OK? OK. I am making a very dear person a Peggy-Sue-Got-Married-style dress out of it, for her wedding (hey, it's her wedding, lay off! And at least it's not Tinkerbell...). It's lovely and sparkly and shiny. It also has been stupid enough to declare a running feud with my sewing machine in spite of the fact that it will always, always lose.

Happy things about today:

• The propane guy finding a leak on the tank, followed quickly by my realization that the stack of money we owe that company will be shrinking. (yay!)
• Slicing tomatoes, still warm from the garden, onto a BLT.
• Thinking I was going to have to buy a zipper foot, but finding one while I was looking for something else.
• Getting paid almost twice what I billed my FIL, for the data-entry job I was doing for him. (I don't know why he's being nice. It's kind of scary. What can he be plotting? Darth Sidious is never nice)

So my day has improved. I have made it most of the way through it, and resisted the urge to smash my china. I did do some aggressive box-kicking early on, however. It helped quite a bit.