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sillyTopic: Cats, Catz and Kats
MONDAY THE 13TH! The only day worse than friday the thirteenth, at least according to Garfield the Cat.
So what happened this weekend? On Saturday I went to the kitchener market. Now that they've chased away all the tourists the market focuses on what's important: FOOD! No more crocheted doilies in flaming green, no more wood plaques with pictures of outhouses burned into them. I'm not kidding, there was a merchant who sold wood burned plaques and his best seller was an outhouse with a couple's name on it and the slogan, "Our happy little home" Now it focuses on food. I bought some of the best wheat free bread on the face of the earth from "The British Bakery" I also got pizza crusts and hot dog buns. I had toast with breakfast this morning. This bread is so good it tastes ike bread, not sawdust. I don't even need to toast it, I can eat it buttered like regular wheat bread. We got some pork sausage, some summer sausage, tenderloins, bacon, and a whole bunch of veggies. One compartment in my fridge is now full to the top with garlic, onions, red peppers, and snow-peas. Sort of like a stir fry waiting to happen. We also got 30 eggs and a big basket of red potatoes.
We also went to Len's. I got some underlining for my denim, it's nylon on one side and polymerized on the other and the nylon side says "Waterproof" "Windproof" So this will be perfect. They also had trench coat fabric; poly cotton poplin weave with a polymerized underside and finished topside. I like the pale grey better than the beige, which had an odd yellowish undertone. I also got two meters of fake fur for either lining or for cutting into strips and using as a trim. It's very long haired and looks like a muppet. I got some white stretch lace to make a nice top for christmas parties. I can pair it with a couple different skirts. I also found a simple white batiste embroidered with some pinky-brown satin thread and sprinkled with some pinky brown sequins. This will be made into a simple raglan hippy blouse with white satin cord in the drawstring neck. One can never have too many hippy style blouses.
I finished the paisley shirt-dress. YAY! I finished the matching corset-belt. YAY! All the buttons were half price at Len's so I got the heavy copper buttons that I wanted in the first place. I gave up on finding the small copper D-rings for the corset and just used rouleux tubes for the lacings. I got some hook and eye tape and sewed it at the center front. It's not reversible now, that would have required hand sewing in twenty hooks and eyes right into the center front seam. No. Not doing that, and the paisley and blue looks fine the way it is.
I finished the pinstripe skirt. Using the stretch lace instead of grosgrain ribbon turns out to be a clever idea; the lace grips the waist better the the ribbon, and it's more comfortable to move in. I cut out a sleeveless top with a flared peplum hemline to go with the skirt. It should take little time to sew as it's just a very basic shape and a style I've made many times before. I want a bit of a Swing Era vibe to the outfit, and I think it will turn out quite nice.
AND NOW FOR SOME PICTURES! Here's a bunch of Purrty pictures of nature things like skies and waterfalls. Gosh, I feel the need to put on "Dan Gibson" music. And if you feel the need to scroll through a bunch of picture "kitten War" style, here's the place: thefairest.info
And if you need a little laugh, or if you want to see where farkers get all those cute and clever pictures, check out this list of top ten funniest intarweb pictures. Included are the hilarious invisible bike and the much loved darth kitty and the one and only jedi squirrels. This is what makes me wake up every morning and say THANK THE FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTER FOR THE INTARTUBES! And here's a whole Fark thread devoted to the other five hundred interweb cliché photos that the top twenty didn't include.
And here's a bunch of funny kitty kat pictures. my favourite is...all of them!
OH NOES! More silly Kat Memes! I'm in UR ____ stealing UR ____ while U _____ This has got to stop.
Enough silliness! This is far too silly. Now for something serious. How do you amuse someone with a mensa level IQ, other than the previous silly pictures, which I found highly amusing. I'm so happy you asked! Here's the Mensa gift guide for smart mensa people. I had a mensa card once upon a time, There was nothing better for squelching a conversation than pulling out the mensa card and showing it off when contradicting someone's point. (What are you, some sort of mensa member? why yes, here's my card.) Of all the things on that page...i want...um...none of those. Either I'm no longer mensa material, or the gifts listed are really stupid. Stupid gifts for smart people!
Here's a cool little toy that I found on "mental floss" It's a Mousetrap game that sticks to your fridge! I think that would provide me with minutes of fun and entertainment. Or I would also like a USB turntable so I can convert some of my old records to MP3's
So what else is cluttering up the litterbox? Not much. It's time for me to finish up here and go do some other things. See y'all later!
