here and there

The weekend followed a general pattern of busy mornings, afternoons of Taking Care of Business (with a Bonus! Chest! X-ray! for princessboredom), and then slacktastic evenings in which my sink wasn't at all shiny. Not so bad. Also, not so newsworthy, when it comes to making LJ updates. Except for the Other Nikki's hadfasting, which is her story to tell and not mine, since I didn't *actually* punch anybody. :)

It's looking like Thanksgiving is going to be very quiet for me. The girls will be enjoying some extended time with agrnmn and company; diermuid's clan will be journeying to Arkansas; and Jackly Wackly (the puppy) will be getting fixed on that Friday morning. I have a very aggressive plan to eat turkey pot pie with some nummy (yet much-maligned) jellied cranberry.

There are a bazillion little things I could do. Or, you know, NOT. I'm already counting down the days!

local reference?

What was the name of the KC-area (JoCo, I think) shop that folks bring their sewing machines to for service and repairs?

I'd like to buckle down on some unfinished and new projects soon, but I think a tune-up is in order. Mine is not a very complicated machine, but it's showing the need for a good cleaning/oiling/recalibrating. I remember thinking it was somewhere near 95th & Antioch, but I can't recall exactly!

Thanks. :)

ETA: This has been very helpful. If folks have a non-JoCo option that's not too far away to recommend, I'd be grateful. Mostly, I was failing to remember the specific name/location of a specific place I'd seen recommended before. It's the sort of thing that keeps me up at night, you know?

multi-purpose post: Stepping Away from the Thought-Provoking Machine(tm)

It's been one heckuva year, and it ain't nearly over yet. I've drifted over-far into the "all drudge, all the time" side of things (even though these are not sad-making things I've chosen to undertake) and want to remedy that, as well as a regrettable lapse in devotional work with my patron, who is not a fellow who advocates drudgery. I'm pretty sure drudgery isn't even an Alternate Virtue.

Going to take this November Thankfulness thing and twist it just a bit. For the remainder of this calendar year, I will do or say (quite possibly on LJ) something that's joyous or silly or sweet. Maybe even a bit sparkly or goofy. We'll see.

For starters, I will share this: Kira Deara gets to play a peacock in her school's Thanksgiving Friendship Play. Everyone else in the play is a turkey...and the point of it (I think) is that the turkeys make fun of the peacock for being not as marvelous as they are, when everyone is young. Later, of course, the peacock is fabulous, and then there is some sort of Lesson About Friendship. It makes my eyes go all squinty when she reads the story, but I have thus far managed not to interrupt her with, "Yes, but don't you see?" in ways that will ruin its splendor for her right now. Those lessons can wait until after the play, I suppose.

But here's the sweet part: She knows that the peacocks who have the beautiful feathers are the boys. And she thinks that's fine. Because, as she told me, "Mommy, I can totally act like a really pretty boy. Do you think I could wear make-up for this?"