Saturday, March 14
Mar. 14th, 2026 12:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gottawonderToday I am grateful for:
My Sweetie got up to go to town, though it meant I just didn't sleep. There were just too many "things" going on today in the house and I can't sleep knowing that my husband is heading out, and Dan is on the way, and so on.
It sucks.
I often feel like in order to have things progress on the house, I just have to live with the lack of sleep.
Anyhow, my husband did go to the pottery studio, and no one showed up. It's not his fault, though it didn't help that he waited a long time to actually commit to doing it, and took his sweet time getting his outline to the person organizing it, and so on.
He did stay and condition some old clay of ours that I was soaking.
Then he did drop off the truck load of things we were happy to move along to the ReStore (I'm happy that I made that suggesting so that he didn't waste a trip to town).
Then he went to H&R Block to look at the tax paperwork, only to discover that they didn't include the tax deductions from our contributions to RRSPs. I mean, that information shows up when you look people up on Revenue Canada...? We even TOLD them we made contributions.
So I guess now we have to get a form from the bank, but I don't know why we didn't get one already? We made the contribution in January.
Dan did show up at 1pm, just like we agreed, and started working on the floor. He will have to come back tomorrow morning. Sigh.
We need to figure out now what we will use to seal the floor. Dan is suggesting this wax/oil based sealant, and I guess he's used it before. I need to research this, as I have concerns about what would happen if you want to sand it again later, etc.
Then we went to the city. We tried to pick up the mail, but the post office is closed Saturdays. Sigh.
We went to a costume store to see if they had a cape similar to a bullfighter's cape that I might use in my Liberty Freestyle. They did, but only as a rental (three days and too much money).
I almost laughed at the "spanish bolero" you could rent. It was not very well made by cutting down a men's formal jacket with some bad trim added to it. You could rent it for three days for SIXTY DOLLARS.
I had hoped to buy a cape, but instead they had patterns. I'm not much of a seamstress, but maybe I could manage a simple cape.
Then we went to a fabric store, and I bought some very cheap red fabric to make a first attempt, maybe more (there's lots of it) and some nice red satin if I feel confident enough to cut it. I bought some nice gold trim for adding to a vest or a jacket.
We then went to a thrift store and found a plain black vest that will look "Spanish" if I add the gold trim and maybe change the buttons. I can wear it over a white shirt, add a black ribbon tie, and off we go.
Then we ate at one of last "usual" vegan places, and I was happy to be there. They did a good job on the Brussels sprouts.
Then we came home, and watched "Deadpool vs. Wolverine" which is mindless tripe for the most part, but fun to watch.
My Sweetie got up to go to town, though it meant I just didn't sleep. There were just too many "things" going on today in the house and I can't sleep knowing that my husband is heading out, and Dan is on the way, and so on.
It sucks.
I often feel like in order to have things progress on the house, I just have to live with the lack of sleep.
Anyhow, my husband did go to the pottery studio, and no one showed up. It's not his fault, though it didn't help that he waited a long time to actually commit to doing it, and took his sweet time getting his outline to the person organizing it, and so on.
He did stay and condition some old clay of ours that I was soaking.
Then he did drop off the truck load of things we were happy to move along to the ReStore (I'm happy that I made that suggesting so that he didn't waste a trip to town).
Then he went to H&R Block to look at the tax paperwork, only to discover that they didn't include the tax deductions from our contributions to RRSPs. I mean, that information shows up when you look people up on Revenue Canada...? We even TOLD them we made contributions.
So I guess now we have to get a form from the bank, but I don't know why we didn't get one already? We made the contribution in January.
Dan did show up at 1pm, just like we agreed, and started working on the floor. He will have to come back tomorrow morning. Sigh.
We need to figure out now what we will use to seal the floor. Dan is suggesting this wax/oil based sealant, and I guess he's used it before. I need to research this, as I have concerns about what would happen if you want to sand it again later, etc.
Then we went to the city. We tried to pick up the mail, but the post office is closed Saturdays. Sigh.
We went to a costume store to see if they had a cape similar to a bullfighter's cape that I might use in my Liberty Freestyle. They did, but only as a rental (three days and too much money).
I almost laughed at the "spanish bolero" you could rent. It was not very well made by cutting down a men's formal jacket with some bad trim added to it. You could rent it for three days for SIXTY DOLLARS.
I had hoped to buy a cape, but instead they had patterns. I'm not much of a seamstress, but maybe I could manage a simple cape.
Then we went to a fabric store, and I bought some very cheap red fabric to make a first attempt, maybe more (there's lots of it) and some nice red satin if I feel confident enough to cut it. I bought some nice gold trim for adding to a vest or a jacket.
We then went to a thrift store and found a plain black vest that will look "Spanish" if I add the gold trim and maybe change the buttons. I can wear it over a white shirt, add a black ribbon tie, and off we go.
Then we ate at one of last "usual" vegan places, and I was happy to be there. They did a good job on the Brussels sprouts.
Then we came home, and watched "Deadpool vs. Wolverine" which is mindless tripe for the most part, but fun to watch.
