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Sunday, Sweet Sunday
15/5/11 19:22Rogers and Hammerstein had no grasp on the real Sunday of an American woman. To wit:
1) New farmers' market opened up in our neighborhood today. We went down--Avocado, the Spouse and I--and having resolved to turn over a new leaf and eat healthier, bought quantities of fruits and vegetables. (I even got them to try Brussels sprout slaw, and they kind of liked it!). The day turned out to be beautiful, after an unpromising start, and everyone was at the market buying stuff, being seen by their neighbors. It was delicious and swell.
2) Avocado asked me yesterday if I could look through the costume boxes and old clothes (yes, mine is the sort of household that has boxes of old costume pieces, because you never know) for herself and three classmates. They're doing the "I look to like if looking liking move" scene from Act II of Romeo and Juliet, so I needed to provide costumes for Juliet, Lady Capulet, the Nurse, and a serving man. In the event, the serving man was easiest: I turned my SFWA Musketeers tabard inside out, paired it with the poufy shirt I made to go with the tabard, and told the girl to wear it with leggings. One down. Avocado will wear a costume bodice I made for her sister some years ago, and I'll whip up a skirt out of a sheet, because really: I'm not losing any sleep over this. Somehow I will contrive a wimple for her out of left over sheet, and it will be swell. Two down. Juliet gets the other costume bodice, plus another costume skirt, over a white shirt. I'm making a Juliet cap, as they used to call them, but that's the extent of my largesse. And Lady C (who was the last one to arrive) gets a long velour dress with a little satin corselet over it, and a blue and black spangled scarf to turn into a turban. I do not doubt that they'll be the best turned out group in class. My reputation as someone's insane mother is safe once more.
3) Went to hear John Scalzi read at Borderlands. He swore us to secrecy, so I cannot tell you what he read from or what it's about, but it should be out in 2012 (I think) and if the bit he read is any evidence, it's fabulous. I also found out that I am now officially an Old Crock: standing for an hour and a half destroyed my back and knee. I repaired home with a glass of wine and a heating pad. There will be potroast shortly, but I set that in motion before I left the house.
Somewhere in there I watched Four Musketeers and read the Times's Style Section and the Magazine, but I haven't even looked at the crossword puzzle yet. Sweet Sunday indeed.
1) New farmers' market opened up in our neighborhood today. We went down--Avocado, the Spouse and I--and having resolved to turn over a new leaf and eat healthier, bought quantities of fruits and vegetables. (I even got them to try Brussels sprout slaw, and they kind of liked it!). The day turned out to be beautiful, after an unpromising start, and everyone was at the market buying stuff, being seen by their neighbors. It was delicious and swell.
2) Avocado asked me yesterday if I could look through the costume boxes and old clothes (yes, mine is the sort of household that has boxes of old costume pieces, because you never know) for herself and three classmates. They're doing the "I look to like if looking liking move" scene from Act II of Romeo and Juliet, so I needed to provide costumes for Juliet, Lady Capulet, the Nurse, and a serving man. In the event, the serving man was easiest: I turned my SFWA Musketeers tabard inside out, paired it with the poufy shirt I made to go with the tabard, and told the girl to wear it with leggings. One down. Avocado will wear a costume bodice I made for her sister some years ago, and I'll whip up a skirt out of a sheet, because really: I'm not losing any sleep over this. Somehow I will contrive a wimple for her out of left over sheet, and it will be swell. Two down. Juliet gets the other costume bodice, plus another costume skirt, over a white shirt. I'm making a Juliet cap, as they used to call them, but that's the extent of my largesse. And Lady C (who was the last one to arrive) gets a long velour dress with a little satin corselet over it, and a blue and black spangled scarf to turn into a turban. I do not doubt that they'll be the best turned out group in class. My reputation as someone's insane mother is safe once more.
3) Went to hear John Scalzi read at Borderlands. He swore us to secrecy, so I cannot tell you what he read from or what it's about, but it should be out in 2012 (I think) and if the bit he read is any evidence, it's fabulous. I also found out that I am now officially an Old Crock: standing for an hour and a half destroyed my back and knee. I repaired home with a glass of wine and a heating pad. There will be potroast shortly, but I set that in motion before I left the house.
Somewhere in there I watched Four Musketeers and read the Times's Style Section and the Magazine, but I haven't even looked at the crossword puzzle yet. Sweet Sunday indeed.