Home, Sweet Home....

Awake again. Discovered the pleasant surprise that Wonderful Husband actually unpacked our luggage last night! Wonderful, wonderful, Wonderful Husband! And so I have nested the luggages back together and put them in their place, hopefully signalling to the kittycat that we are home again and staying for a while. Have written out the shopping list (...had forgotten we had no milk when we left; fortunately we have a kettle and instant oatmeal for breakfast... --;;) and watered the garden, begun the process of tidying up a bit, and in looking at my collection of con badges from '05 through '07, hung on my wall next to my desk, begin to think I should dig out all my older ones as well and find a better way of organizing them.

I don't mind sharing hotel rooms with friends, but oh how nice it was to sink once again into our own bed last night, which is a size bigger than the standard hotel bed, with a mattress solidity level that I'm familiar with, and not have to even worry about whether or not I was inadverdently flashing anyone....

Civil War/Victorian, step one....

Inspired by koshka_the_cat's always-amazing productivity, I spent this evening cutting out a chemise out of the cotton batiste I bought a while back. This involved locking the cat in the downstairs laundry/bathroom. Fortunately she didn't spend the entire time making a fuss about it. If I can pull this off, eventually I can use the undergarments both for historical costuming and for cosplay. I have Emma costumes in mind... (that is, the anime/manga of the name, not the Jane Austen novel or any adaptation of it).

I put on DVD episodes 29-30 of Ultraman Moebius to be soothing background noise while I worked. This didn't work quite as well as hoped, as I chanced to glance at the screen and was immediately captivated. I've never really appreciated the differences in video quality until you start getting down into nth-generation VHS copies (a sad thing for the daughter and granddaughter of television engineers to say), but all I could think was "My GOD, it's so clear!"

But it is well past my bedtime and Wonderful Husband is actually abed before me, so off I go. Tomorrow I shall recount to you all the tale of The Work Computer That Worked Fine When I Left Thursday Afternoon But Had Somehow Become A Paperweight Come Tuesday Morning. 'Night~~!