Grass and Sky

Holy crap, Pens, wtf!?! End of the second period, you're up 4-2, end of the game you're down 4-7? How does that even happen? So annoyed.

eve11 and I watched the game at Silky's. Eve's 'lite' beers were apparently not so lite, so I ended up driving us home. I haven't driven a car in something like four years so it was an adrenaline-filled adventure but it was only 1.5 miles and it was late enough that there was almost no traffic. We made it back to my place without incident, yay! And there was a wide open swath of sidewalk with no cars, so I didn't have to parallel park. This is key, since I somehow managed to get a license (I'm still not sure how I managed to get a license in the first place) without ever learning how to parallel park.

Only 80 days until Dragon*con. Good thing I actually worked on that costume yesterday and today. It's coming along nicely. I have the pattern pretty much worked out, just have to figure the peplum out. I'm pretty sure that's how it's made, but I haven't decided for 100% certain. I've also started preparing to quilt the vest fabric. It would have been nice if I could have found prequilted fabric, but I didn't so I'll do it by hand. I've got the quilt pattern nearly all laid out, just have to finish one set of diagonals. Then I have to make a quick trip to Walmart or somewhere similar and buy a quilting hoop, seeing as I failed to think ahead and keep that with me (sent it off to Harrisburg without a second thought).

Did some more driving today. I've gotten pretty comfortable with cruising along at 40mph on dinky little, perpetually empty roads, but today my sister surprised me by heading out on the highway with a 55mph limit. It was a nice wide, empty highway so it was great to be able to get a little speed. So far we've spent most of my driving time on roads that don't get a lot of traffic, but P seems to think I need to start doing some driving in town, dealing with intersections and traffic and other such unavoidables of driving. I can do that. I'm sure I can. *tenses up just slightly* I'm also spending a lot of time practicing things like parking and reversing and parking while reversing. I haven't hit anything, so I suppose I'm doing okay. But we'll keep practicing, lol. P's plan is that by next Friday, when we drive to Boston, I can help with the driving on the interstate. I suppose that's a good thing. It scares the hell out of me, but I have to get over that fear if I want to be a person who drives.

Getting closer every day to having internet on my computer again (please let me have internet on my computer soon). We got the DSL hooked up on P and Mr. P's computer this evening, but we need to acquire networking cables and such before we can establish a network and then hook me up to that network. But it will happen sometime this week, with any luck.

ETA: Let me just add, DSL is so much faster than dial-up! I had forgotten what it feels like to not need something to do while I'm waiting for each screen to load. :D