demode

Day two went fine.

I'm good enough with technology to set up a friend's Canvas page, but I can't get the lights in my room to dim properly. Off, on, too dark, too bright, off again. What's wrong with normal dimmers? Why do lights need wifi?

And why do they have to turn off with no movement? Thankfully I have a lamp or I'd be eating lunch in a pitch black room...

I finished sleeve two last night. Now just the back is left. The first one I made was the size 32. It fit, but was a little tighter than I wanted, and definitely a little short. The pattern has three sizes, and the middle size is the large front with the small back. The sleeves are the same for medium and large.

I made the large front, planning for the medium. Now I'm wondering if I should make the large. The front is 16 inches wide, and my bust is 32 inches. But I like the first sweater, even if it's tighter than I want, so the medium is probably fine. It's a 12 stitch difference between the small and large back, so I'm really overthinking this. I should flip a coin. I actually found a penny today, so I could do this.

My new mattress was delivered today, and the delivery men were nice and efficient, and didn't ask me to carry it upstairs! I'll never get over the toilet...

New toilet in, sink fixed, plumber broke the door lock, locksmith put a key on the inside instead of a lock switch, locksmith coming back tomorrow...

Exactly what the title says. We're getting a free toilet.

It's been dumb. They scheduled us for installation when I was in LA and Tom was at the vet, so we rescheduled. When I was at the beach Monday and my mom was getting Tom ready to go, she got a text that the installer was on his way. No one told him about the cancellation. The next day the installer cancelled. This was all third party so we weren't sure what to do, so went to Lowe's and cancelled everything. Then we reordered the toilet with delivery. The woman who delivered it came when I was at work. She asked my mom to take the toilet out of her car and carry it upstairs. Um, no. If we could carry it upstairs, we'd have just put it in my car! So she left and my mom went to Lowe's. She just wanted a refund, and she referenced my successful claim with the oven against Home Depot, but after much back and forth, the manager ended up giving us the toilet. He got two guys who were there to ride with the delivery woman, who had shown up by that point, and delivered it.

So that was fun. The plumber who installed our dishwasher is coming tomorrow. Probably when I'm at work.

I needed to have lunch before I left, so I went to a beach cafe on Manhattan Beach and then spent two hours there. It was lovely! Even if I apparently applied sunscreen very badly to my chest and back. Oops. Just a little pink!

Of course, I stepped in beach tar. I bought a sponge at Albertsons when I stopped for coffee and scrubbed it off as much as it could, and put hand cream on my shoe as a barrier. Hooray for the random Starbucks I picked in GPS being in an Albertsons!

And when I got home too many hours later, all three cats said hello. A very good thing;

I will share pictures! I had two tintypes done today, and am ready for the gala!

I'm not dressing in theme, I never do except by accident, but I am wearing my striped bathing suit to the pool party!