Saturday, June 12, 2010
Breakfast: 16 ounces of hot tea (Tazo Awake). Yoga: standing warmup. House chores: washed dishes and windows, vacuumed. Prepared old unused items for sale. Repotted an orchid that wasn't doing very well. Washed windows. Pleasingly hot weather today. Lunch at home: organic southwestern black bean soup, 2 pieces of leftover naan from Bombay Indian. Continued watching Rashomon (1950) on Netflix DVD but after about 30 minutes it made me sleepy again. Within minutes of turning it off I was alert again. Altered 5 shirts: 1 from Gap Kids that I had previously altered (made some refinements to it) and 4 from Abercrombie. These Abercrombie button-down shirts are a pretty good fit for me right off the rack. Once they are taken in on the sides just a bit, they are a very good fit. They could be longer an inch or two, but the whole thing still works for me. Since these needed to be taken in widthwise less than all of the other shirts I have previously altered, I tried a new method: 4 lengthwise darts, about 0.25 inches wide, 2 along each seam, running from the armpit to 2 inches from the bottom hem. This method worked really well, better than the other method I had been using, and it also meant I could leave the backup buttons in place. I also added an 8-inch dart at the lower back center. The 5-dart method takes only 15 minutes whereas the previous method took over an hour. Late dinner at home: oven-baked, herb-crusted, lemon-dijon pacific salmon from frozen; organic vegetable foursome (corn, green beans, carrots, peas) from frozen; Kashi wild rice medley; cold organic green tea with honey. Finished watching Rashomon (1950) on Netflix DVD. I found the concept of the story interesting, but as a whole I did not enjoy it—way too slow for me. Edited and uploaded photos.