It works so much better when I get to use MY schedule.

9 hours Monday.

9.5 Wednesday.

11.5 Thursday -- and dead tired because I had stayed up to watch the Red Sox.

12 yesterday, catching up on things that would have happened Thursday if not for the catering order.

6 today. Including brownies that should have happened yesterday but I had too much catching up to do.

That's 3 extra hours over the "ideal," and there was a HUGE catering order in there.

And I had a Saturday without a crisis.

And the boss has said it's OK to drink a beer on the clock. And has said she'll buy some for dual-purpose cooking AND drinking.

w00t!

Yay quickie costumes

The Johnny Damon costume, which had a trial run on School Spirit Day yesterday, was less effective than hoped. Fake beards are probably not best done with a mix of cocoa powder and hair gel.

So we're back to angel-fairy. With the wings she got at the Renfaire two weeks ago.

One thing I have a lot of in my sewing stash is white fabric.

The gods were smiling on me. I found, of all things, what seemed to be a patient drape -- I do NOT know how that got into my fabric stash -- which had hemmed edges and selvages that covered both the robe hem and the sleeve edges. And it was exactly long enough, and MORE than wide enough to do batwing sleeves.

Diagonal cuts. Band of gold ribbon at the hem, another at the neck.

It's big enough to wear over full warm clothes.

And we're done.