Nicole's Notes

I hope you are all having good St. Patrick's Days and are wearing your green. Of course, that's a pretty big holiday here in Boston, what with all the Irish. I learned a new insult from an Irish friend here: "Two-boater". It means someone who took a boat from Ireland to Canada and then moved down here. Apparently there's something not as classy about that compared to taking a boat directly here. Sounds suspicious to me!

My hair is steadily coming back. Still brown, still straight. I cut off all the straggling remnants of the strands that didn't fall out. They were wispy and probably in poor health anyhow. It was very liberating to be able to trust in the fact that my hair is coming back in normal!

I'm wearing my new green head scarf today. I made it my very own self! I went to the fabric store and got fabric, sent off to Singer to get a new copy of the sewing machine manual, and cut the fabric into a triangle and hemmed it all nicely. Well, okay, maybe nicely is an overstatement, but I hemmed it, dammit! In green thread, no less! The other two bits of fabric I bought are blue, but I don't have blue thread. Hmm. Might scavenge some from the various hotel-supplied sewing kits I have kicking around. The machine was extra tricky because it has "wind in place" bobbin. I got it from Singer for $100 because it's an overhauled machine. I bought it in a surge of ambition to make a dress. Didn't make it.

We got a ton of snow here yesterday - about 6 inches at our house, I think. It's no fun having winter when it's supposed to be spring! First day of Spring is Saturday, and we're to get more snow on Friday! How fair is that? We had spring-like weather earlier this month. Speaking of spring, I really have to start my seedlings! I bought all sorts of seeds last year and what with one thing and another, never got around to planting them. Some of them have to be started indoors, so I should get on that before it thaws and it's too late.

I went through my old cosmetic bins last night and chucked all my old lipsticks and eye makeup. I had stuff dating back to high school! Whoops! Definitely not good to use. I also, for reasons that mystify me, had two (TWO!) cordless curling irons. Considering how little use I have for curling irons in general, having two seems like a bit of overkill. They're going to Goodwill later this week.

And now it's snowing again! ARGH! There oughta be a law!