Stuff, and 50 in '14: #9
May. 24th, 2014 05:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sakon76Wonderful Husband, the Squiddle, and I went to Downtown Disney today and got a Toothless from Build-A-Bear. Really, how wonderful is it that we can get these kind of things and pretend they're for the baby when, really, they're not? :) Shopping followed by lunch at the House of Blues and beignets at the Jazz Kitchen.
I've had a pedometer for a month or two now. You're supposed to, I believe, walk ten thousand steps a day. Most days I don't. Yesterday I did, and regretted it. But I'm slowly stretching my calves looser so the muscles in my left foot don't get irritated by the bone spurs as badly. Today I'm a bit over 6K steps so far.
Part of the reason for the sufficient walking yesterday is a current project. I went to Lowe's to get supplies. Last weekend, estate sale'ing with my mother, I spotted a slightly beat up card table. Except it wasn't a card table, it was a sewing table for the Singer 221 Featherweight. Even in beat-up form, they go for a hundred dollars. Minimum. The estate sale asked me for eight. It went home with me. Except, I don't have a 221. I wouldn't mind one, but honestly, if I'm going to add to the Singer sewing machine herd, I want an electric 127 or 128. I have a handcrank one which is purely gorgeous, but winding the bobbins on it is tedious. So I'm sanding and refinishing the table in order to sell it onward. Not sure if I'm going to put it on eBay or Craigslist. We'll see when I'm done. And if I do a good enough job on it, I'm going to apply the skills learned to refinishing the dining room table. Which also needs it.
And, book review:
Title: Unnatural Issue
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Length: 361 pages
When I'd been reading some of Lackey's 500 Kingdoms books, I'd had her Elemental Masters series recommended to me, so, on finding one at the thrift store, I picked this one up. It's set just before and during the early days of WWI, and I very much enjoyed it. It kept taking me places I didn't expect, and hinted at which bits and characters were from other books, but didn't require me to read those books to understand what was going on. Really, the only thing which slightly irked me was that the broad Yorkshire accents kept reminding me of A Secret Garden. And that the heroine took forever to figure out which guy really was the right one for her.
Verdict: Highly Recommended. I now need to go procure others from this series.
I've had a pedometer for a month or two now. You're supposed to, I believe, walk ten thousand steps a day. Most days I don't. Yesterday I did, and regretted it. But I'm slowly stretching my calves looser so the muscles in my left foot don't get irritated by the bone spurs as badly. Today I'm a bit over 6K steps so far.
Part of the reason for the sufficient walking yesterday is a current project. I went to Lowe's to get supplies. Last weekend, estate sale'ing with my mother, I spotted a slightly beat up card table. Except it wasn't a card table, it was a sewing table for the Singer 221 Featherweight. Even in beat-up form, they go for a hundred dollars. Minimum. The estate sale asked me for eight. It went home with me. Except, I don't have a 221. I wouldn't mind one, but honestly, if I'm going to add to the Singer sewing machine herd, I want an electric 127 or 128. I have a handcrank one which is purely gorgeous, but winding the bobbins on it is tedious. So I'm sanding and refinishing the table in order to sell it onward. Not sure if I'm going to put it on eBay or Craigslist. We'll see when I'm done. And if I do a good enough job on it, I'm going to apply the skills learned to refinishing the dining room table. Which also needs it.
And, book review:
Title: Unnatural Issue
Author: Mercedes Lackey
Length: 361 pages
When I'd been reading some of Lackey's 500 Kingdoms books, I'd had her Elemental Masters series recommended to me, so, on finding one at the thrift store, I picked this one up. It's set just before and during the early days of WWI, and I very much enjoyed it. It kept taking me places I didn't expect, and hinted at which bits and characters were from other books, but didn't require me to read those books to understand what was going on. Really, the only thing which slightly irked me was that the broad Yorkshire accents kept reminding me of A Secret Garden. And that the heroine took forever to figure out which guy really was the right one for her.
Verdict: Highly Recommended. I now need to go procure others from this series.
