I would like...

[kyburg]

A mimosa as big as my head. Refillable, please.

Some classes in stained glass, complete with kiln privileges. Ditto ceramics, and please have a wheel that works.

A place to lay out fabric and patterns that I don't have to walk on later because I always lose pins in the process and guess how I find them later. No, really. Guess.

A place to take all of my dolls out of storage and display them. This hasn't existed since I was 12. When I was expected to put my dolls aside and grow up, I tossed Life the figure and kept them. But they've been in storage almost as long as that decision. *sigh* (People would probably be shocked at my fashion design skills - I had to make all the clothes for the dolls, sometimes even the dolls themselves - and sometimes, even out of toliet paper and paper towels. Missed my calling much? Hey, I like eating.)

Even the ones I made myself when the house burned down when I was 13. Out of torn sheets we were using for rags, faces colored in with colored pencils I dipped in water.

Someone with patience enough to practice sign language with me. I literally sit on my hands when in the presence of a deaf person. I am THAT bad. And if you know how much I love words and being able to express them properly, you know the shame that brings me. I can't talk to you. And I can't even say how sorry I am about it.

I'd like a few more days off. I don't need many. Just, perhaps one a month or so.

Think I'll go get some chocolate before I go home. That, I can have.

Comments

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I can't help with the lack of time and space much, but I really recommend gluing a couple of magnets to the edge of the vacuum cleaner head. Finds pins and a few other pointy things, and may make the vac bag last longer if you use bags, and may prevent clogging. And does seem to help vs. stepping on the pointy things. I think she got much more diligent about this when sewing for/around a toddler.

IIRC my mum stuck a couple more magnets to one of her yardsticks and would "sweep" the floor vs. pins the easy way when she cleaned up the pattern stuff. Also meant she could hang the yardstick off of a metal cabinet convenient to hand. Also convenient vs. fishing metal things out from behind furniture.

And I'm going to actually do what I meant to when I got up this morning, and sketch some designs for things that I'll never make. At last that way I'll have the designs and the mental exercise.

[sekl.livejournal.com]

I'll never forget my first really bad mistake in ASL. I managed to say it's great to be a tree instead of it's great to be alive. I got called Tree by my instructor for the next two days. Being a hotheaded teenager, I dropped the class rather than be teased more. It seems so silly now. It's a beautiful language, I hope you find a good partner or teacher.

[purrplexitty.livejournal.com]

I'd love to learn too. Maybe we can find someone to teach over video chats?

[nagasvoice.livejournal.com]

It was either American Scientific and Surplus, or ThinkGeek, that had telescoping rods with strong pin-finding magents on the ned. These were fo finding screws under narrow engine-type spaces, for instance, but equally good for pins. I think they ran about $10-15 or so? Telescoping is nice for when you need to put it away!!