Prelude to Being on a Boat

It makes me smile to think of the day that I just had.

Contentment.

I feel like I've reached the top of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs pyramid. :D

Why?

When I arrived at home, I decided that waffles were the way to go - so I made a batch of waffles and shared them with my awesome older sister, who works with my mom, so was at the house. Mmmmm waffles. There were even leftovers, so I froze them for her to have on other days.

I then cut apart the dress pattern I got the day before from Walmart, in the hopes of making a Roughrider green dress to go with the Rider theme the DragonBoat team I'm on has (we're called the "Raftriders"... tee hee). After cutting apart the pattern, I laid out the fabric I'd gotten, and that my mommy had so thoughtfully washed and preshrunk for me the night before, and cut out the pieces I would need to sew my dress.

I then hunkered in for a 6 hour afternoon of sewing. There were many exclamations of wishing the dress would come together more quickly, and realizations that I really lack the patience for sewing; I am too much a part of the "instant gratification" mindset that my generation has.

By 5:30, the dress was done. I must admit, I'm quite impressed with my sewing prowess. It will never compare to any of my mom's seamstress skills (she's got mad sewing kung fu... "sew fu" if you will), but nonetheless, still decent enough to make a dress (and my annual toga for Toga Small Town Dry).

Now my bag is finally packed for tomorrow... made sure I have anything I might need while spending the day at Rotary Park. Anyone in Saskatoon tomorrow should definitely stop by and watch a couple races!

And so ends my day. I need to sleep NOW because Britt and I are planning to be "team show-up-at-5:30-a.m.-in-order-to-get-a-decent-parking-space"....

So, good night!