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um, strangely.. curtains, mainly.
Sep. 3rd, 2007 11:20 pmBoyo and I have been super-busy and super-productive today. This is good, because M's parents will be here in less than two weeks and I am one of those people that freak out about how my house looks when we have visitors. It's bad because now it's eleven and I am exhausted and yet, I am dying to go sew something squishy. As it turns out, sewing diapers is fun. It is a lot of fun, even. And the results are kind of impressive. That's the kind of project I like--one where people go, "you MADE that?" It's really incredible how elastic transforms fabric into something no one can believe you made yourself. Elastic is my hero.
I finally got the hang of the sling that Carrie loaned me. Now that E is big enough to control her own head, I have been sticking her in it, facing out, and walking around with her. She seems more comfortable in that one than my ring sling, though I haven't tried it recently, either. Her favorite position for being carried happens to be sitting facing outward. The child looooves to sit. She wants to sit at all times, including while she's trying to fall asleep. We have to tell her no on that one. We went to WalMart tonight in a trip that consumed three hours of our lives due to incredibly poor planning and some really shitty curtains, and she had a fabulous time, kicking her little legs and bouncing around on me while I got a nice workout. As for the three hours, it was due to getting things packed up to return* some items. We have those nine windows in the sunroom and we finally bought curtains for them. Getting nine sets of curtains up is really a time-consuming project. First, they were wrinkled from the package. I ironed one set--which took forever--and hung it up.. only to notice that two packages out of nine were a foot longer than they were supposed to be. Okay, those can be hemmed. (We bought them on clearance so exchanging them was sort of out of the question.) So I tried just sticking them in the dryer with a wet towel, but the wrinkles remained. So, I washed them, but I had to do it in two batches because.. well.. nine sets of curtains! M and I were out working on the curtains today, determined to fix them all. M hung all but two of the rods, and had five sets of curtains up when I noticed that two sets? Were more yellow than the rest of them. Also, the valences hung down two inches more than the rest of them. Oh, and two sets of curtains had dark ink spots on them. WTF. I guess we know why they were on clearance, huh? At the same time, I bought a third set of curtains to match the ones we had had in the townhouse before we moved to hang in the living room, and I had to hem the valences on the old two to match the new one. Now that that's done, one set is actually longer at the bottom than it should be, but M is trying to convince me that no one would notice. That might be true if I hadn't just told the internets about it, huh?
I bet you had no idea you would find out so much about my curtaining problems today, did you?! The sucky part is that those curtains were seven bucks a set and now we are back to square one and no curtains.
*Speaking of returning crap to WalMart, she refused to take back some stuff we bought back in April (baby stuff, of course) because it had been more than ninety days. Since when does WalMart have a ninety day return policy? These were perfectly valid returns of things we hadn't opened, with receipts. These people take back custom-mixed paint, for Pete's sake. She pointed to a sign on the wall to enforce her stand but doesn't everyone know that WalMart has an insanely lax return policy?
I finally got the hang of the sling that Carrie loaned me. Now that E is big enough to control her own head, I have been sticking her in it, facing out, and walking around with her. She seems more comfortable in that one than my ring sling, though I haven't tried it recently, either. Her favorite position for being carried happens to be sitting facing outward. The child looooves to sit. She wants to sit at all times, including while she's trying to fall asleep. We have to tell her no on that one. We went to WalMart tonight in a trip that consumed three hours of our lives due to incredibly poor planning and some really shitty curtains, and she had a fabulous time, kicking her little legs and bouncing around on me while I got a nice workout. As for the three hours, it was due to getting things packed up to return* some items. We have those nine windows in the sunroom and we finally bought curtains for them. Getting nine sets of curtains up is really a time-consuming project. First, they were wrinkled from the package. I ironed one set--which took forever--and hung it up.. only to notice that two packages out of nine were a foot longer than they were supposed to be. Okay, those can be hemmed. (We bought them on clearance so exchanging them was sort of out of the question.) So I tried just sticking them in the dryer with a wet towel, but the wrinkles remained. So, I washed them, but I had to do it in two batches because.. well.. nine sets of curtains! M and I were out working on the curtains today, determined to fix them all. M hung all but two of the rods, and had five sets of curtains up when I noticed that two sets? Were more yellow than the rest of them. Also, the valences hung down two inches more than the rest of them. Oh, and two sets of curtains had dark ink spots on them. WTF. I guess we know why they were on clearance, huh? At the same time, I bought a third set of curtains to match the ones we had had in the townhouse before we moved to hang in the living room, and I had to hem the valences on the old two to match the new one. Now that that's done, one set is actually longer at the bottom than it should be, but M is trying to convince me that no one would notice. That might be true if I hadn't just told the internets about it, huh?
I bet you had no idea you would find out so much about my curtaining problems today, did you?! The sucky part is that those curtains were seven bucks a set and now we are back to square one and no curtains.
*Speaking of returning crap to WalMart, she refused to take back some stuff we bought back in April (baby stuff, of course) because it had been more than ninety days. Since when does WalMart have a ninety day return policy? These were perfectly valid returns of things we hadn't opened, with receipts. These people take back custom-mixed paint, for Pete's sake. She pointed to a sign on the wall to enforce her stand but doesn't everyone know that WalMart has an insanely lax return policy?
