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It is amazing how easy it is to blog on BART. Went into the city tonight for a lawyers engineers architect accountants dentists women’s dinner. It was great, nice to meet some non engineers. The women were beautiful all in suits feminine and professional – it was nice to see – I do not get to interact with professional women very often.
I had a few glasses of wine, dinner and delicious dessert, fortunately the friendly gal next to me kept me from devouring the entire thing which I fully intended to do.
One of the ladies stressed me out and wanted to walk me to the bart station, I think she wasa counting how many glasses of wine I had! I made it to the bart safe and sound all by myself didn’t even stumble, trip or twist my knee.
Side note: over the weekend I burned my cheek with my curling iron, I look like Elliott beats me. I think that’s why I have been getting so much sympathy. I considered burning the other side so I at least looked symmetrical, kind of like semi permanent make up but I talked myself out of it.
Anywat gotta run almost to my final destination Dublin/Pleasanton station.
All is well here, way too busy and close to a major melt down at work but other than that things are great!
Will report back soon.

Elliott and I took a trip to Joann’s for fabric.  It was a trip down memory lane for Elliott and I who both remember running through the aisles of fabric as kids.  For us it was Cloth World, Krista and I played hide and seek, I remember the layout like that of a clothing store which allowed for hiding inside of the varied patterns of flannel and silk.  I was on a mission for gold material.  Each year at the national SWE conference the regions have a spirit contest.  Our region is Region A – The Golden West Region.  Last year we simply wore gold.  This year we have decided to wear gold capes, and I haven’t sold it yet to the rest of the region leadership team but I think a fun theme would be the Super SWEsters!  Would you believe Elliott came up with that….  he actually didn’t invent SWEsters as far as I know Elizabeth our Region Governor invented that term.

After dinner we walked into Joann’s having a conversation about what these capes were going to cost.  Elliott is supportive of SWE up to a point.  I told him it would be a dollar or two a cape, 20 capes, $40 max, he told me I was crazy – he was right.  I thought I could find some cheapo gold fabric that no one else wanted apparently gold is still in.  I did however find quite a few really cute options, one with stars and even one with flames!  One of the employees came over to assist as I was grasping a piece of the golden starred material over my shoulders trying to convince Elliott that this whole cape business could be cheap and easy.  She asked if we needed help, I explained simply that I needed material to make a few capes.  She eloquently asked did I want something that looked like a cape or something that just looked like fabric attached to my shoulders.  I explained that if it required sowing it wasn’t going to happen.  Using me for demonstration she showed Elliott how drapping the material at the top would dress up the rectangle of fabric and make it look like a more legit super hero accessory.  Fabulous.

She cut 20 (1) yard segments of the varied patterns as I shopped for pom poms, pipe dowels, ribbon and various admornments for the super capes.

Meanwhile Elliott found a pair of pants he wants to make in a magazine.  The pattern requires less than 2 yards of material so determined that if he could get someone to make the pants for him they would be rather inexpensive, which odd is an odd thing to excite the man who I struggle to get to look at the sale racks at Macy’s.  Furthermore, I not sure who that someone is who will be cutting and sowing the patters together, the closest I get to crafty is saving the extra buttons from my recent clothing purchases.

We finally left our childhood memory behind, $160 later… I hope the Super SWEsters appreciate their golden capes.