The problem is there are always two hands

I don't know if I mentioned here, b/c I certainly burned my coworker's ear with it, but my mother has been getting on me lately about my wardrobe. Or lack of same. Over the last 5 years or so, I've let my "grown up" wardrobe go to pieces since I don't really need it at work. And I usually don't care. Unfortunately this has also included my wardrobe for church. I've lucked out in that we're not a super-fancy church and I don't need diamonds and pearls to be presentable. Showing up fully dressed and halfway decent is really enough for us...but I know I can do better. Heck, yesterday we were going through old family pictures and I was wearing Dior at 4 yrs (admittedly things like that contributed to my mother going into horrendous debt, but that's not the point). My godfather once brought me back a whole wardrobe from Paris. Back before I dressed myself, I was the cat's meow!

Anyway, the long and short is that my mother has been very vocally pointing out my lack, while I've been sub-vocally lamenting my lack.( Read more... )

In other news, I won't be around tomorrow night. For the first time in years we're going to Watchnight service. Usually we're traveling on New Year's Day, and so going to a service that doesn't let out until about 1 a.m. when you plan to be on the road at 5 or 6 a.m. really doesn't work out too well. So, no me tomorrow night. I may or may not be on during the day.

I also finished my first scarf....only to realize that I had no idea how to cast off. Gram and I thought that was a hoot. I've found a page on how to cast off, so I should be straight. Hopefully :D

So in unrelated news: fics that ppl wrote for me for yuletide have been getting recced...and I admit it's almost like the recs are for me. lol. Is that wrong? But I get as excited that something that was written for me has been recced as I would if it was my stuff being recced. Almost as if it was something for a friend being recced. I dunno. I've been enjoying my first yuletide thus far.