The thing making me battiest in this moment is how inconsitently my new laptop connects to my home wifi. There are 30 something devices connected to this wifi – but the Lenovo laptops occasionally crash out over the idea.

I suppose if this is my biggest issue – I’m doing fine.

I went to an open mic night of sorts on Friday. Only to watch, not to speak….although the idea of participating in something like that is intriguing. The theme for this one was “I had to laugh”, stories where things were going so wrong for people and they chose to just dig in and laugh about it. Some were great. Others had potential but the actual story teller made herself so unlikeable immediately that it didn’t work out. This group hosts these occasional themed nights and the next one is:

Surely there is a story in my life that fits this. The one that immediately came to mind was about the woman Ex Husband was seeing a bit after we were divorced. And when they broke up she did not handle it well and took a couple of boxes I had left in the basement of the house and used those to get in touch with me. She wanted to commiserate on how much Ex Husband was a louse and a lunatic and I quickly realized she was not super stable and tried to get out of there. Told her it was fine, she was better off, I had met some fun characters online and dating again would be okay! Only for her to keep revealing layers of this story… ultimately that Ex Hubs had painted me out as this gold-digger…only for the big reveal later that night of finding out the two of them met on Seeking Arrangements, a website for actual gold diggers!!! That was quite an Excuse Me, What kind of moment. I need to figure out if I can tell this in a way that is funny… I mean, I think it’s hilarous now, but does it come across that way to new people. I remember when I told the chocolate milk story (for another time) and thought it was funny and Claire and Becky assured me it was just sad.

Another mild annoyance is the fact that I want all the sewing patterns in the world, and it’s amazing that I can get anything instantly downloaded as long as I’m willing to print it up in 40 pages and tape it all together. This is a real good deal/bad deal situation. I realllly want to try and make this vest by the time we leave for vacation on Friday. I think it will go with the “cruise pants” I made with the Mood Fabric.

The other option I have is trying to alter a couple of tops that I own that are too big now. Or, you know, wearing anything else since my wardrobe has opened up a lot since losing the weight.