U I vethed na I onnad

My project is complete. (The skirt is unrelated.)

( Cut to spare the masses my ugly, ugly hands and SUPER scary eyes 0.o )

The Gibson Girl blouse in progress. In place of a real diary, each picture has a short description. 8Db

Now I can start on my jacket mock-up. 8DDDDb I also gave in and bought two 'beginner' embroidery kits in my quest to learn how to embroider. We'll see how this works out. >.>

Bullet points of life:

♠I got to talk to Dana today. That was awesome.

♠I watched Star Trek: The Voyage Home last night, in tiny screen on capncosmo's laptop. That was also awesome, in a very 'LOL the 80s!' way.

♠I keep forgetting to post about it, but I finished my Gibson Girl blouse. It is shiny. I need to upload and post my pictures.

♠LOL Troublemaker PV. I knew I was going to love it and I do.

♠I think I'm getting a sore throat/cough. Tea and cough drops do not seem to be doing much good. Boo.

♠I sent the Dear Old Company an e-mail telling them that I will not be attending training. I bought my tickets, I don't know what my contract for next year will be, and well, I deserve more notice of dates. No answer on that front yet, and I probably won't get one until March 19th. Oh well.

♠I finished Hotel Dusk on the train today. I need new DS games. T^T

♠I did a bunch of cleaning when I got back. Now I must put away my laundry.

Macchi was on Utaban tonight, and he killed (and introduced Arashi for next week). Because the last time he was on Utaban presented him with a bike that he really, really wanted, he said "Nandemo yarimasu". Not a good idea when you're on a show with Taka-san and Nakai. Nakai took advantage of VTR to call Macchi Macchi to his face, and then make him do ridiculous things.

So of course Macchi used the opportunity to dokkiri Nakai and send him into a whimpering ball of Johnny, whining "I REALLY WANTED TO DIE" and "IS IT OKAY FOR ME TO QUIT JOHNNY'S????"

LOL.

... Mikhail Gorbachev is on SMAPxSMAP tonight. I knew about it from capncosmo, but seeing it... How on EARTH did SMAP manage that??? I do not have an icon that properly expresses my bewilderment.

PS: OH MY GOD Shukudai-kun is going to KILL me tonight. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

I don't think I've ever really iterated how much I love mens' figure skating. I really love mens' figure skating. Like burning. I just saw Plushenko, and that makes me happy, but hot damn was Takahashi's routine good.

And they're first and second. I can agree with this.

Awwwwwwwwww Arashi look so sad without Sho on Music Station tonight. XD YUKI and Porno Graffiti are both on, making this well worth it. (We'll pretend KAT-TUN don't exist because um, Jin. Cut the skeezy hair for real.) Also, the Backstreet Boys are on. It's going to be HILARIOUS.

ETA: The awesome is already starting with Taka-san making fun of them with Nino while hiding behind a giant picture of Tamori-san.

ETA II: LOL Nino pointing out that MS had forgotten KAT-TUN. Also Kame, please keep your hair short always. You actually look good like this. (Super super LOL because Nino is too short and is being blocked by DJ Ozma's and Kinashi's enormous hair.)

ETA III: Digital Sho is hilarious. They should do that for the whole Olympics.

Oh, here we go.

Waratte Koraete's New York special, and the guy managed to hit the East Village. Within the diameter of his compass, the Bowery, Broadway, and "3丁目" (uh, no dude, no such thing) were all included. The lady is going with the ubiquitous fake nose, blond curly wig, and is dressed in the flag. Yeah, this is going to be one of those specials, where everything they put on TV is going to be the "weird side of America".

ETA: Looooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool and the first lady the TV hostess goes to see starts laaaaaaaaaaaughing and asks "WHY???"

ETA II: I LOVE NEW YORKERS. The old man tells the lady to turn the "kinda famous" statue and then says "I think so. I've never done it."

ETA III: They found the rick-shaw guy who is dressed up as Spider Man and does acrobatics. orz

ETA IV: One of the things I find really funny about this? They're RIGHT NEXT to 8th street, where all the Japanese restaurants are. But instead they're going to pubs that have been there since 1854 (which, you know, I can understand - it's an awesome place).

ETA V: Looooool they just got roped into going into the Astor Place barber shop by a big Italian man.

ETA VI: Oh, there we go. They found the gay men. With the accents, lisps and skinny jeans. Who dress in drag and do the hula. Yep, yep, there we go.

ETA VII: And it ends with that. So everybody can talk about how scary it is. Except they cut a lot of the talking. That's good at least.

Yay new projects.

With the dress finished as much as she can be - the seams are all set and so far I've only found some fairly ugly and very much not 1910 eyelet lace - I'm hanging her up for the moment. (Literally 8Db)

In her place I will begin work on the Edwardian walking jacket pattern - if I buckle down I should have that done by March, in time for real wearing. The plan is to read the instructions as soon as I get home and hopefully get all that fabric cut out. We'll see about starting actual sewing work when that is done with.

Waratte Koraete is apparently having a New York special tonight. I'm a little afraid.

Speaking of TV: WHY ARE THEY TAKING MY SHUKUDAI-KUN AWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY? T______________________T

Now I must finish sewing lace and decide what to do about dinner.

So that dress? ( We have pictures~! )

It's not the most colorful thing, mostly because I chose fabrics on the cheaper end of the range. (The most expensive stuff was the sash.) It's my first hand-sewn dress after all. Now that I've done with this one, there are a million things I know to do differently to make a better one, so there will definitely be another version - hopefully with a more interesting color combination. (But I also have a blouse and a jacket to make, must get on those right away. 8D)

I still have the top hem to do, as I mentioned, and then I plan on adding lace to the front, because the seam is ugly. Seriously ugly. Aaaaand, I need to move the top most eye over, because as it is right now the hook doesn't stay. XD;

Other than that, however, it's totally complete.