sillygoosegirl | Success!

I brought my sewing machine to the repair place right after work today (they close at 6pm), and was told by the front desk woman that they have a big backlog and are scheduling people for repairs the first week of December. I asked how much a repair of a bobbin winder would run me and described the problem. She went in the back and got the repair guy and I told him what the problem was and how I used to be able to tap it and it went, but now nothing seems to work. He took the little plastic cappy thing off and squirted some oil in and now it works good as new. Yay! He didn't charge me for it, but I'll be sure to bring my business there when I have real maintinance to be done. Which might be soon... I've had the thing 3 years and haven't brought it in for a tune up yet... think I'm supposed to do that annually... maybe the next time I'm scheduled 2 months in advance for a business trip I'll arrange to have it serviced while I am gone.

Then I went to the St. Vincent de Paul Josh and I visited on Sunday (which was about 3 blocks away) and purchased the cute plum dress that I tried on on Sunday but didn't buy... only to discover once we got home that Josh was really disappointed I didn't get it. And now I will take a moment to mention how wacked out women's clothing sizes are. In the last 4 days I have purchased two very attractive dresses that fit me very well. The first was a size 6 and the second was a size 10. Granted they were both lace-up-the-back dresses, so that means a little extra give in the sizing, but still. WTF?

And finally I stopped by REI which was also on the way home and returned the duplicate sleeping bag (I ordered one for delivery to the store, and then it went on back order temporarily, but they still had ones in stock so I just bought one... then my order showed up before I had a chance to cancel it). Also, said sleeping bag has gone on an even better sale, and since I bought less than 30 days ago, I get the newest best sale price and got the difference credited back to me. Incidently, though we haven't been out in them yet, our new kilo flash down sleeping bags seem really nice. And are now 35% off in case anyone was thinking of buying such a thing. (Anyone interested in a men's long of such a bag should contact me before making such a purchase and I might be able to hook you up with an even better deal.)