it's like the eye of a duck

• Health: The "bunion" turned out to be just bursitis, and now I have custom orthotics to keep it from getting worse.
  
  Fun tip: stick-on velcro in the sole works well for holding orthotics in place.
  
  
• Media: have been sucked into Sleepy Hollow (makes free and loose with the history, but the characters have good chemistry) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (a couple of strong episodes but still finding it's feet).
  
  Saw Thor 2; thought the world/main characters were better than in the first one plus more Loki and Darcy = yay. Saw Ender's Game; I enjoyed it but never read the book so I didn't have nostalgia/expectations going in (yes, I know. I rationalize because D. loved the book as a kid before we all knew what a 'phobe Orson Scott Card is).
  
  Watched "Goonies" and "Beetlejuice" for the first times since…high school? jlsjlsjls: Beetlejuice may have showcased the first documented pair of swants (scroll down), and Delia's other costumes definitely pioneered Japanese designers.
  
  
• Sewing: bwahaha! Writing has eaten my sewing time.
  
  
• Writing: still consumes me though I did not do NaNoWriMo; had good writing days both alone and with dustdaughter.
  
  Teaching myself Scrivener because I'm rapidly losing track of multiple Word files.
  
  
• Reading: mostly crunchy academic tomes for the book sprinkled with occasional fiction so my brain doesn't explode. See: Hollow City, Ooomph: A Little Super Goes a Long Way, Halo Effect.
  
  
• Thanksgiving: we spent with kiya and lady_masque and friends with tons of food.
  
  Played Arkham Horror for the first time and am staggered at the complexity of the game play.
  
  Turned everyone on to Alton Brown's cocoa brownies (which I've linked to before but are so good it's worth doing again).
  
  
• Cats: routine vaccination updates turned into clearing up an aggressive ear infection for Spice; she is deaf now, though we don't know whether this is because of infection or treatment :( Due to the stress of repeated vet visits she didn't eat for a week and we're now plying her with tuna and canned food to bulk her back up.
  
  
• Fencing: competed a couple of weeks ago and am proud I was only defeated 10-6 by a scary B rated vet in my final direct elimination.
  
  Arrogantly(?) think I stand a chance of getting my D this season if I can keep my head on straight.
  
  
• Holiday: only thing planned so far is D.'s office party which is 1) 1920s themed and 2) in CA. So costume and slightly warmer weather = win.
  
  
• Whisky: hoo boy yeah!
  

• After much (well, some) indecision I finally shelled out for Seventeenth Century Women's Dress Patterns and am so glad I did! I would even offer that the authors do Janet Arnold one better: the garments are x-rayed, the photos are in blistering high-res color, and in addition to the patterns, instructions (including painstaking hand-stitching how to photos) are included! The book is so densely packed that I'm reading it slowly, a couple of pages at a time and then breaking to "digest".
  
  
• 20 lunges before and after fencing practice, plus another 20 after a 45 minute lesson. My knees and arches are cranky but I'm not in agony, nor do I feel like I've been hit by a truck. I'm taking that as evidence that my endurance is improving.
  
  
• Catching up on cheezy teevee: the second best part of watching the WTF-ery of True Blood is io9's Pro vs. Con recaps (spoilers abound). Have not seen Torchwood "Miracle Day" yet, but I am patient.
  
  
• Little blue cat is on a timed feeding schedule because she is not quite so little as once she was :P Mostly she's adapted, but on weekends still dances around singing the "Food Now? Food Now!" song every time we approach the bowl. I'd feel worse, but this is the most active she's been in months! Running around all day also means she's too tired at night to play her favorite new game, "boop" (in which she sticks her paws in my nose and mouth in order to wake me up - eeeew!)
  
  
• Turned in a groupon for an upper body massage and my first ever facial. The former was VERY good, though she couldn't quite work out the marble-like knots in my shoulders, they're looser than they were. The facial left my face soft and moisturized and quite relaxed (scalp massage!) but I'm not sure it did much to shrink my pores, but then one can't have everything.
  

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• 18:55 Musing over whether it's daring or freakish to attempt wearing white skirt with black boots. #
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• 22:44 Coy cat is coy. No way am I getting to pick her up. #

• 09:40 Dressing for the apocalypse: tinyurl.com/2ec6k82 . Nice skirts #
• 10:04 @i_clavdivs - indeedy. That Cryoflesh skirt cries out to me. #
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