hm, i saw THAT coming. i'm kind of proud of myself actually. i'm getting better at this game.
my work desk is all cleared. i've stacked everything on a table outside my cube with a note that says "lesley's stuff is here on temporary assignment while her cube gets renovated. please don't touch. thanx!" i've heard two people discussing it and wondering what i'm doing. oddly enough they didn't come and ask me. i find that strange, i wonder if i'm unapproachable or something. they start renos tomorrow morning. YAY! it gives me some anxiety seeing my cube all undone like that. i get emotionally attached to things when i've grown accustomed to them. in a way it's dangerous for me to get used to anything. although, i know i'm going to LOVE having my desk raised and i'll be able to arrange things all over again. being in my naked cube was unnerving. frank and i agreed it makes it seem darker and not very homey. it reminds me of moving day or when i repaint a room - bare walls, empty nails jutting out. they start work first thing tomorrow. i hope it's done by noon.
i shrunk my new pants! i shrunk my favourite pants! i turns out they're dry-clean only. i put them on this morning and realized something was terribly wrong. i asked marilyn when i arrived at work if it was noticeable, she said it was. so upsetting! however, we took a look at the hem and decided there was more than enough fabric to have them taken down again. which is kind of annoying because i had them shortened only to now have them let down. oh well, i'm glad they can be salvaged. i was planning on dropping them off on the way home tonight until i remembered i had nothing to change into and i'd have to leave pantless. i figured it was too cold for that.
i have to admit something to you. i feel jealous when i hear of young couples being invited over to older couples houses for dinner. it makes me feel really excluded. i'm certain that if the young couples were not in relationships, they wouldn't be invited over for dinner either. and i know that some day i'll be in a relationship and will get dinner invites and what-have-you, but that doesn't really diminish my current feelings of being a freak. i know i'm not a freak, but stuff like that just makes me feel like the last kid being picked in gym class.
all our ideas hold no water, but we use them like a damn.
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My mom once washed a pair of Jason's linen pants (back in the days when he had more than one outfit). They came out a size that would have probably fit Astrid quite nicely. There was no saving them.
wow! that's hilarious! is that he reason why jason's wardrobe is so limited? :p
What kind of pants were yours?
they're 60% wool dress pants. is there any way of getting around the whole "dry-clean only" thing?
I use the 'dryel' packet in my dryer instead of taking stuff to the dry cleaner.
that would work, but i don't have a washing machine/dryer. maybe i'll have to do that at my mom's place during sunday lunch every other week.
don't sweat in them, and then you don't need to wash them as often? haha :)
While washing Thomas's favourite sweater i also dryed it... oops. Oh well... Jul wears it now.
You are welcome to come over to our house for supper whenever you please!!! Just as long as we arent the "old couple".
haha. i've heard of such things, but i've never seen it before. that's so funny!
thanks for the open invite. i'll take you up on that sometime. i don't think of you as an old couple, weathered perhaps, but not old. i mean that in a good way :)
Jase says his current wardrobe just means one less thing to think about in the morning!
I wash wool sweaters in my washing machine with no problem, but my machine actually has a "hand wash cycle". I don't have a dryer, so I don't have to worry about accidentally shrinking them in there.
jason is a clever guy. i actually really like that he wears the same thing all the time. there's a level of comfort to it, it makes me feel that no matter how random and unpredictable life can be, that SOMETHING stays the same. we can always count on jase :)
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