Velvet Raccoons

After taking my computer back in, it's looking like it is a motherboard issue. The repair place is looking at it just in case it's not that, and I will know by the end of the week, but most likely I will be looking at having to get a new laptop. I'm just hoping that my phone has no issues between now and the time I am able to have a computer again! It's been acting up ever since I accidentally updated to the new operating system. Damn it!

I have a back log of things I want to post about, but it's really hard to do so on my phone! As a peace offering, please accept this beyond amazing velvet painting I found for five dollars.

Stuffie Billie Holiday, dead computer

Quick post to say my computer is still dead, but I've listed a new stuffie! Yay!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/166779019/felty-billie-holiday?ref=cat_gallery_1

Brief Programming Note

Here's the deal: 

My computer ate it hard, and I have to take it into a repair shop. Due to the holiday weekend, I most likely won't be able to get it in until Tuesday, and I have no idea how long it will take, so I will be unable to update for I have no idea how long.  

Everything's the worst!!

I really hope they are able to repair it and that it won't be too expensive! Argh! 

Thanks Obamacare!

While many people are weirdly angry about the affordable care act going through, I couldn't be happier.  Maybe it's because I'm a  self-absorbed, lazy, no good, doesn't know the sting of a hard day's work  millennial, but for the first time in years, I am able to get heath insurance! Which means, I'm able to go to the optometrist and finally get glasses after needing them for at least five years!

In celebration, I've been creeping around the internet, browsing frame options, and am posting some of my favorites here.

These would look terrible on me, but I think they are hilarious anyway. Also, I'd be going for the 1930s kooky secretary look, while the rest of the world only would see "HARRY POTTER AHHH", which no.

all from zennioptical.com

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These are my favorite, but at over $100, that's probably not going to happen anytime soon.

ok so maybe i'm not cloudy with a chance of meatballs ok

October is in the air, and I'm having a Halloween crisis.

I'm knee deep in my 2SPOOKY2013 outfit, but then I watch the season opener of SNL and remember that  Drunk Uncle exists???????

I don't know what my plans will be for the day, but I will probably work. And I will probably be working at the job I'm assuming has a stick up it's ass and doesn't allow dressing up. Theoretically, I could get away with wearing my 1920s outfit (mostly) to that job and stay within dress code. I could also change out of that costume and into Drunk Uncle after working there (if I open). That's what I did last year with Grumpy Cat and Vince Noir...

2SPOOKY2COSTUMES2013: IT'S HAPPENING.

Day Three of Guaranteed Seven Day Cold/Bird Flu/Rubella

    Yesterday I started on a 2SPOOKY2013 update but got sidetracked due to the amount of nyquil I had taken and raged about how awful my job is instead.   I called in sick to the bookstore (I was going to be a real american and soldier through, but after making it through only an hour and a half of the second job before hiding in the back room wheezing from what I'm assuming is SARS or the final remains of swine flu, I wussed out and called in. Isn't working while contagious the best??!?), and should have called in to the second job too, but I didn't want to deal with the drama-laden hassle.

    Anyway, I will post what I had originally intended to post yesterday right now.

    I've had a few hang ups when it comes to the fabric, as usual, every damn time. I had originally wanted the main dress to be dark blue or navy with red accents. I was worried it might look sailor-y but it looked pretty solid in my head. I went to Joann's three different times and was unable to make a decision on fabric. I finally ended up deciding on a dark blue polyester peachskin that had an ok drape and was a nice color. It was more per yard than I wanted to spend, since I'm winging it and need to buy more than I really need, that kind of put a ding in my plan.

     

   I had a coupon, but since it was already on sale for a smaller percentage off, I couldn’t use it, and since it wasn’t really what I had in mind,  I ended up not getting it and going to Fabric Depot just to see what they had. Fabric Depot, while more expensive, has everything. EVERYTHING.  Everything, except a dark blue fashion fabric. None. The one blue they had was a bright royal blue, which screeched bad packaged “Miss High Seas Hottie” costume. My next choice was black, which could work with my theme,  but I was afraid the black/red combo would end up being something I would have been really into in junior high, which is a time in my life I wish to not revisit.  The only other fabrics they had in a weight I could work with were a medium grey and a hot pink. 

    By this point, I’d been in the store waffling between the Ho of the Sea blue and My Chemical Romance approved black for an hour and a half (though a good portion of that was also spent poring over every other piece of fabric looking for an apparently mythical black on white windowpane check. IT DOES NOT EXIST).  After a hour bus ride to get there, plus the knowledge that there was a Burgerville across the street and that it was sweet potato fry season, I gave up and just got the grey.

     It’s not my original first choice, but I think it’ll be fine. I’ve had to give up on my idea of the windowpane check inset, because as previously mentioned, it is a figment of my imagination and apparently does not actually exist in reality.  However, I did manage to get some free sample drapery fabrics from my second job in some interesting deco-ish patterns on similar grey backgrounds, so I’m going to mess around with those and see if I can incorporate any of them into it to jazz it up a bit.  There is enough that I may end up making the skirt out of the pattern and leave the bodice the plain grey.  Still no idea what to do with the inset.

   

 A few days ago, I made up the beginning of my pattern, and it came together pretty fast. October is just around the corner, so I really need to get my ass in gear and get going on this thing.

bleh

I was originally going to post a halloween update, but I'm sick and grouchy, so allow me to bitch and moan about how, due to the ridiculous scheduling practices of my second job that completely ignore the needs of it's employees, if I can't give away some of my hours (which is not looking likely), I will be working at least a month without getting a day off.

I know everyone is saying, you wanted a second job, you should be happy to be getting any hours at all.

Well, fuck that shit.

I need a damn day off. One day out of thirty. One day.

Meanwhile, there are other people at that store, in my department, who are parents, who only have one job, ect, ect, who are only receiving the bare minimum hours (if they get any at all). I need hours. But I don't need ALL the hours. I have two jobs, I do not want to be having to work 60 hours a week, because I do not need 60 hours a week. Other people NEED those hours to survive. It makes me so angry. It is so unfair to everyone involved. I'm thankful for the hours I need, but having too many is grinding me into the ground. If that makes me ungrateful, or whiney, then I guess that's how I am.

I've applied to a couple other places, but am so tired when I get home, I have no energy. Looking for a job is in itself a full time job.  I really need to get on it though, because I do not want to be at the second place through the end of november, as it is required that every employee work a ten hour shift on black friday. I'd rather be hit by a truck than be in that level of hell for ten hours (my shift would probably be 6 AM-4PM, and I'd have to take a cab to get there, since my bus doesn't run that early) THEN go to the bookstore to close.

 I applied for a position at the bookstore that will give me four more hours a week there (that was originally rumored to be a full time position, but that turned out to be just that). THAT'S the job I want to work full time for! Not the shithole that is the other store! Argh!

I will be updating with more 2SPOOKY2013 things in the near future, but I just needed to vent about this for a while. I've had a rough few weeks, and it seems as though it will stay there for an unspecified amount of time.