Tea, Cake and Big Dresses

Due to popular demand (i.e. one person who I believe to be popular), I bring to you my other blog which will be about what I sew.

I have called it "Tea, Cake and Big Dresses". My sewing projects are likely to be centred around big dresses. Big dresses are suitable attire in which to take afternoon tea and to eat cake. I may also blog about tea and cake. And small dresses.

I haven't posted anything yet although I have written something which is at home on my laptop. It will be posted when either I connect to the internet at home or find my memory stick and bring the post into work (there's only so much rummaging around for memory sticks one can do with sinus pain).

Of Blockages, Topology and Spiders

It seems I spoke a little too soon. No sooner am I ready to take on the world again, the goo in my head takes over. So much so that the very painful earache and the oops-I've-gone-deaf unlocked my childhood memories of ear infections (I could almost taste the aspirin and jam (but not the medicine that allegedly tastes of banana - I think that may be one of those brain-blocked-out-the-trauma incidents)).

The doctor I saw was considerably more friendly than his brother and didn't make me feel like an idiot for going to see a doctor because my ear needs to pop. I like to think he understood that in situations like this, ear infections are easily caught and someone experiencing ear pain that keeps her awake all night and that ibuprofen can't combat is going to be a bit cautious.

Thanks to my sister, who is unexpectedly knowledgeable about ears, I can tell you that my Eustachian tube is blocked. I keep wanting to call it my Etruscan tube which makes me think of an Etruscan Venus. But then I couldn't remember what an Etruscan Venus is other than it's what you get when you do something to a Klein bottle.

So I tried Wikipedia and much to my amazement "Etruscan Venus" doesn't have an entry!* I thought Wikipedia could tell you anything!

And there was a spider on my lightbulb that made me laugh. As the bulb got hot he jumped down his string, waited for a bit, climbed back up, burnt his feet, jumped down his string, waited for a bit, climbed back up, burnt his feet, jumped onto the floor.

Erm… yes.


* I looked it up elsewhere and it's the three dimensional shadow of a Klein bottle.

Stop the World (for a bit)!

Quite a bit has happened since last I wrote and much of it has been unpleasant.

Now the sun is having a go at shining (or at least it did yesterday) and for the first time in six days I actually feel fit and well (apart from the head that wants to explode and the cough and the phlegm and the headache).

You see, I went and caught the World's Worst Cold (this is different to the Worst Cold in the World which I caught last July). As did my Mum and my sister.

And because of this and the prior family business that needed attention I haven't been able to get done things that I needed to get done. Now, with my new lease of life, I can get on with my Spring cleaning and hair dying and nail cutting and clothes washing and dress sewing and exam studying and appointment making.

In addition to this I also have to learn how to use my inherited microwave oven and refurbish an inherited coal scuttle.

On a completely different note I have been thinking about setting up a new blog to tell the world about all the things I sew but I think I may be a little too shy for that.

Atchoo!

As you have probably noticed I haven't posted anything in a while. In fact, I have missed out on March altogether so none of you know what I am doing (arguably, other than my complaints about work and my search for space age stockings, my posts don't really give much information about what I do anyway).

So these are some things I have been doing that don't involve work:

1) Sneezing
2) Thinking about how I'd like to learn to play the piano
3) Gaining a greater peace of mind
4) Filing my bills
5) Studying for CT5 (kind of work related but not in an I'm-too-busy or I-hate-brokers or they're-trying-to-sack-me-again type way)
6) Turning my mattress
7) Thinking about going to Bath

Regarding point 5), this week I have been learning how to derive the expected values and variances of life annuities and how to construct a life table (I would argue that I already have reasonable knowledge of these topics - my exam results, however, would argue otherwise).


Today's music in my head: "Cologne Cerrone Houdini" by Goldfrapp