Category: Ex Trailer Trash

I woke up at 5:30 this morning, which for me is somewhat sleeping in.  Considering I’d slept through from 3-ish yesterday afternoon, it’s definitely sleeping in, heh. Ambition kicked in shortly thereafter and I whipped out a couple of sewing projects, both hand sewing. Daughter unit is still in school with her eye on a…

The car is still rattling on down the road – for the moment.  Not sure how many more moments she’s got left in her but we can’t realistically afford to replace her, not yet. I finally snapped a photo of one of the pillows I finished.  BIG pillow, just a few inches shy of fitting…

I got the sewing machine set up and running and whipped up a matching set of pillow covers for the big pillow forms we were given.  I hit the fabric store a few days ago and bought some wale-less corduroy.  Fortunately it was wider than I thought, since the pillows themselves were larger than I…

I’ve been hemming and hawing for a while about my cell phone.  I had a moderately old Blackberry that, while it looks like new, was ready for an upgrade.  I knew I was going to get a new phone, the only question was which new phone. Being the ultimate cheapskate, I made up my mind…

This morning I woke with a sense of purpose. Oh, all right, it had nothing to do with purpose.  It had to do with not being able to find jack shit in the fridge and knowing there were things there which were undoubtedly well on their way to becoming science experiments.  I pulled everything from…