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A Monday-ish Tuesday
Feb. 20th, 2024 01:55 pm Yesterday was a very odd little Federal holiday (bank holiday to the rest of the world): President's Day.
What do you do for presidents' day? Your guess is as good as mine. It seems that, in accordance to the laws of the United States of America, you go shopping, I guess???? I really have ZERO idea how this so-called holiday is otherwise supposed to be celebrated, but there are always "Presidents Day Sales" on things like refrigerators, washing machines, and other appliances for some reason. It's sort of like Memorial Day, except that I actually know what we're supposed to be celebrating on that day.
My wife works for the State of Minnesota, and so because state government employees tend to follow the Federal government employees, she had the day off. We decided we were going to celebrate President Obama and possibly President Carter (or possibly the bi/gay presidents Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan) by having a "crafting day."
Shawn has been taking an online course in sashiko and so she spent a good portion of her day learning some of the first patterns. Just learning to trace them over and over again on a piece of paper. She hasn't even moved up to tracing them on fabric yet. Her instructor, Futatsuya Atsushi, is kind of a hoot. His dry sense of humor is very Minnesotan in a lot of ways, particularly if you read between the lines (which we have gotten used to doing with my Japanese pen pal.) I've been enjoying listening in to those.
She also got a chance to do some looming.
I started the day making a journal entry for a role-playing game that's designed to be a journal passed between at least three players. The one my family is playing is called The Machine. It's a horror RPG. Shawn did the first set of entries and so now it has been passed to me. Because our characters are supposedly building a machine of some sort, I spent some time drawing some fake designs and doing fake math. It was pretty entertaining.
Then, I did a lot of sewing on my latest quilt, which I'm pretty darned pleased with. (I have someone in mind that I want to surprise this one with. It will be a Crazy Cat Zucchini!!)
Image: Cats and colorful squares in pastel "windows."
It was fairly perfect day off, honestly. We've decided that we might have to plan for a few more of these spontaneous craft days.
What do you do for presidents' day? Your guess is as good as mine. It seems that, in accordance to the laws of the United States of America, you go shopping, I guess???? I really have ZERO idea how this so-called holiday is otherwise supposed to be celebrated, but there are always "Presidents Day Sales" on things like refrigerators, washing machines, and other appliances for some reason. It's sort of like Memorial Day, except that I actually know what we're supposed to be celebrating on that day.
My wife works for the State of Minnesota, and so because state government employees tend to follow the Federal government employees, she had the day off. We decided we were going to celebrate President Obama and possibly President Carter (or possibly the bi/gay presidents Abraham Lincoln and James Buchanan) by having a "crafting day."
Shawn has been taking an online course in sashiko and so she spent a good portion of her day learning some of the first patterns. Just learning to trace them over and over again on a piece of paper. She hasn't even moved up to tracing them on fabric yet. Her instructor, Futatsuya Atsushi, is kind of a hoot. His dry sense of humor is very Minnesotan in a lot of ways, particularly if you read between the lines (which we have gotten used to doing with my Japanese pen pal.) I've been enjoying listening in to those.
She also got a chance to do some looming.
I started the day making a journal entry for a role-playing game that's designed to be a journal passed between at least three players. The one my family is playing is called The Machine. It's a horror RPG. Shawn did the first set of entries and so now it has been passed to me. Because our characters are supposedly building a machine of some sort, I spent some time drawing some fake designs and doing fake math. It was pretty entertaining.
Then, I did a lot of sewing on my latest quilt, which I'm pretty darned pleased with. (I have someone in mind that I want to surprise this one with. It will be a Crazy Cat Zucchini!!)
Image: Cats and colorful squares in pastel "windows."
It was fairly perfect day off, honestly. We've decided that we might have to plan for a few more of these spontaneous craft days.