Sometime last night I woke up and my
feet were freezing and I couldn't warm them up. I ended up having to
put another blanket on the end of my bed and put on a pair of socks.
I never sleep with socks on but it did the trick.
I managed to sleep until almost
noon, which is ridiculous, and woke up to a text from the lady who
cuts my hair reminding me that I had a haircut at one o'clock. Thank
goodness for that reminder because I had completely forgotten. The
last time I got my hair cut I got a card with the next haircut on it,
rather than putting that information directly into my phone. Not
good. But I had time to take a shower and get ready, and I actually
went early because she had a lot of cancellations due to the weather.
Or most likely, the forecasted weather. I think we were supposed to
get a lot more snow but instead we got maybe an inch, and there was
so much wind that not much stuck. The roads were a bit slick,
though. On my way down the curvy road by my house I slid a bit and
performed an unintentional, yet sweet one-handed drift on one of the
curves. One-handed because I was changing the radio station at the
time (with my eyes on the road, so I wasn't being irresponsible).
I'll once again credit my video game skills. I learned a lot about
driving in video games.
After my haircut I came home and had
lunch. Then I set up my sewing machine. I cleaned up all my cross
stitch stuff and made room on my desk for the sewing machine. Next I
started going through the manual, starting with getting thread on the
bobbin. That was fairly straightforward. As was threading the top
thread through the machine. I hit my first hurdle trying to thread
the bobbin up from the bottom of the machine. After spending way too
much time trying to figure it out, I discovered I just wasn't letting
the needle go far enough. I was stopping it when I thought it should
have been done but when I let it go a bit further, the bobbin thread
popped up.
The first couple of practice
stitches went well and then I started to mess with things, like the
type of stitch and the length. Even that went pretty well at first
but then it started going downhill. I went through many more
attempts and I just kept getting really loose stitches, no matter
what knob I turned. It became very frustrating. I took a break for
dinner and video games and when I came back to the sewing I had a
little moment of genius. Maybe. I pulled the bobbin thread out from
the bottom and re-threaded it. After that, I was able to create
stitches that didn't have big loops on the underside. I also noticed
that the thread coming from the bobbin was much tighter after I
re-threaded it. Before dinner it was really loose and I am assuming
that was the issue. Hopefully. That will be the first thing I check
the next time it starts screwing up.
I played Tera tonight
and ran through a new dungeon a few times. I think I only have one
or two instance-matched dungeons to go in order to get the
achievement. Getting the mount is looking less likely because the
bonds of friendship achievement. Having to go on five dungeon runs
with the same person is a tall ask, especially when I don't actually
know anyone in the game. It doesn't help that it is currently the
holiday season and people aren't in the game as much. I haven't seen
any of the people online that I already have bonds of friendship with
since before Christmas. The only people that seem to be online are
the hardcore guys that are already max-level (65) and I'm only 51.
When I get more desperate I might see if I can get one of them to go
through some dungeons with me. I'm not sure if you are blocked from
dungeons if you are too high a level for them. Maybe we'll find out.
Tomorrow, who knows. Probably more
sewing practice and video games. Hopefully some reading, as well.
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