thegatorgirl

I bought an easel today.  Found it on Craigslist.  It was $35, metal, old, but I talked him down to $30 because two of the 'stability pins' are missing.  I'm working now (I work full-time-plus, dammit!  WTF!  I was in school 10 months ago!) but in my head I'm already biking to the hardware store to buy replacements.  I can see what I want.  Either a sliding pin with a pull-loop to the end.. attached to the easel with braided yarn so I don't lose them.  Or, if it would work out/is threaded, maybe even a kind of screw to be extra secure. I'm here in the mountains.  I have no graduation in front of me, no relationship that will lead to babies,

So I'm in my bedroom and I'm about to die of hunger.  There's food downstairs; however, as cold as it is outside it is too hot in here to wear much more than nothing, and I'm not in the mood to go downstairs naked.  So I'm cooped up in here.  Within view are: two unfinished quilts; a bin half-full of fabric for piecing; one and a half pairs of knitted socks that just need toes put in, plus an almost-finished knitted toy needing googlie eyes, a test-swatch for a hat, an a sea-urchin hat needing tentaclies; old dishes needing doing; math books and thesis notes that need to be dealt with; and a bottle of spiced rum at my feet.  Directly behind m

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