piecing together

Life rolls on.

The dress using the hideous fabric is nearly done. I have to adjust the arms/neckline a wee bit because it's a bit loose and I don't want to show my bra to everyone (I'm selective), but I will probably wear this a lot this summer. Ideally, I would have a second dress cut out and half done as well, but the pattern I bought for it contained the wrong size in the envelope, so I had to go back to West Van to get a new one, but they were sold out of it. This means I have to go to Marine Drive. Another trip to the fabric store frightens me. I always come home with more fabric (I bought 3.8 metres of dreadful blue and green swirlies bargain fabric). This means more dresses. I haven't gotten around to even thinking about skirts yet. Dresses are so much more complete. All I have to do is match shoes and a cardi (work is cold); with skirts, there are more things to match.

Today my sofabed arrived and I'm trying to figure out the best place for it. I feel almost adult-like, except for still having a poorly laid out apartment and certain pieces of furniture that I've had since I was 17. I sometimes dream about owning an apartment of my very own, but that's really not attainable. It's virtually impossible for me to be able to afford anything on my own unless I suddenly come into a lot of money, which isn't a good way to plan for the future. I wish I could win the lottery. (Actually, one of my friend's brothers won the lottery, about $100,000, and paid off his student loans and took a trip to South America and Easter Island, and now has no money and no job.) Sometimes it feels like people are lapping me in life; owning my own home is the most basic thing and I can't even do that. Drat.

Fun stuff the last week or so:
1) Rose Melberg, Chain & the Gang, Calvin Johnson's new band Hive Dwellers at Little Mountain. Really fun, though the start of sweating-like-hell-at-live-venues season. Pre-show I had ikayaki at Lihn and Stewart's (Lihn made them!), which was totally awesome. Post-show we went to the Foundation with Eva and Marc for the enormous tray of nachos.

2) Went to buy a bunch of booze at the Cambie booze emporium and then had okonomiyaki at the Clubhouse with Lihn and Stewart as a bribe...

3) Caught a ride to the Transfer Station in South Vancouver to dump my futon partly in the metal recycling station and partly in the dumping building. Being able to get rid of my stupid death trap futon I gladly passed over the $6. Got a few pictures, too, including a few powerlines across from the station. Stewart and I agreed the light was awesome on Monday for photos.

4) More shifts at Langara! I hope to be competent at work soon.

I have to prep for a committee meeting tomorrow morning, but really just want to lie around on my couch for a while. This weekend I'm going to Camera Obscura and Jens Lekman (different days), and having a preserving/canning meeting Saturday night to discuss strategy for small batch production with Jill. I mentioned to my mom that I'd be home this summer with friends to can and she was enthusiastic. I wish I'd paid more attention to canning when I was younger; my life would feel so much more accomplished (I'm not even joking. It's a real skill that I've always felt weird about not having, based on where I grew up).

Day 4 of 14 days in a row.