Not being Attenborough, I couldn't think of anything better to say.

Keeping busy, sorta.
Well, as usual, here I am posting about how I've been avoiding livejournal, blah blah blah. At least I've been doing other interesting stuff, namely sewing.

Work is work- the new owners haven't had a whole lot of impact on the pit, aside from firing the nerdy pit boss that I used to talk about South Park with. The two new bosses are not interested in that stuff at all, so I don't really converse with them much. Business has picked up again after a post-Christmas slump, so I haven't been standing around bored all the time, like I was for a while. And of course, more players mean more money, since it's a tip-based job.

Anyway, while not at work, I've mostly been cooking and sewing, because that's the kind of stuff I like to do, certainly not because Bill expects it of me. Hehehe, he used to do the cooking, but he was stuck on meat and potatoes, so I took over the cooking. On today's menu, meat loaf stuffed bell peppers and leek buttermilk mashed potatoes. Yeah, yeah, meat and potatoes, but I mix in a lot of pastas and vegetables on other days.

I make the meat loaf with ground beef, onion, grated carrot, an egg, cooked brown rice, cumin, and garlic powder, then I stuff it in the bell peppers and bake them for an hour. I make the mashed potatoes by baking little yellow potatoes until the skins are crispy, cooking a chopped leek in a little buttermilk until it's soft, then mashing it all up together, leaving the skins on the potatoes. (I ought to be posting this on

domestigeeks, eh?)

As for sewing, I can't remember if I posted about the dress I made for Christmas or not, and I am too lazy to check my earlier posts, so I'll talk about it again. I made a floor-length, dark green, stretch velvet dress with a small, cream lace ruffle around the scoop neckline, and long bell sleeves lined with gold satin. The dress is semi-fitted, just like a stretchy top would be, but the velvet is quite heavy, so it's kind of half-fitted and half-draped. Once again on the laziness, there are pictures of the dress somewhere, but I'm not sure where they are in the family computer system (I think they're on my brother's computer, which does me a fat lot of good), and I am not getting around to taking more photos.

I just finished making a knee-length (well, slightly longer) full skirt in chicken print fabric. There is an attached cream-colored petticoat, and the chicken print is mostly in shades of brown, but there are some blues and greens and greys in the pattern as well, so I put a dark blue waistband on the skirt. I hemmed both the skirt and petticoat pretty much by hand, which must mean I've gained some patience in my old age, because I used to hate handstitching because it was so slow, but now I prefer for a lot of things because it feels more in control than sewing with the machine. At least for hems and zippers and whatnot (especially since I have no zipper foot for my sewing machine).

In progress, I have a green floral print dress with a full skirt and fitted bodice for my sister, which has been in the works for at least six months while I keep getting distracted by other things. I'm also making her another prom dress, this time in cream satin completely overlaid with black lace. It has a corset-style bodice and a separate full skirt, because that's the sort of thing my sister likes. Last year, I made her almost the same thing in lime green satin, only the skirt and bodice were connected. This year, she'll have mix-and-match pieces for later wear, since black and white (or off-white) go with lots of other things. Also also in progress, a knee-length, burgundy, crinkle satin skirt. I put a self waistband on it, and it doesn't look right, so I'm thinking of replacing it with a black grosgrain waistband, probably faced in satin because grosgrain is not all that comfortable next to the skin, and I have several untucked tops that would go with said skirt.

I'm thinking about rounding up the dresses and whatnot I've made for myself and my sister and my mom, and getting my sister to help me take a bunch of pictures. I already have a bunch of pictures on Bill's camera that still need to be transferred over to postable format, but I just keep on cooking and sewing and working (and molesting Bill, ha!) instead of keeping in touch with all of my livejournal buddies. Sorry, all. I am a not-very-social weiner.

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