life and links

[tielan]

After making a Regency-style dress yesterday, the join points on my right leg muscles are absolutely on fire, and my back is making twingy feelings. Actually everything on my right side that twinges is all twinging today. Eyeball, upper gum, wrist, fingers, lower back, gluteus maximum, calf point...

I just want to lie down. Pain is tiring.

But the dress, so far!



I don't like the way I've done the zipper, but I'm not sure I have an alternative right now.

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A few links.

Canto Mooncake Recipe
Very classic, non-blog style recipe.

If we’re going to be shameless about bodies and sex, do it. Talk about menstruation, childbirth, menopause, everything. Use all of it to think about God. Have a theology of periods, preached from the pulpit on Sunday morning.

How the New Testament Turned Marriage in the Ancient World on Its Head
It's an actual essay with an abstract and downloadable bits. I was going to read this, but I'm not sure I have the brain for it right now.

“Classical Fundamentalism” vs “Ideological Neo-Fundamentalism”: How do we change lives?
I'm not sure I understand all this, but it's surely interesting.

Women-Only Housing in Britain
This is an interesting article to me: in part because I fall into the demographic space of a single, childless woman, but not into the demographic space of a woman who can't afford her own roof and lifestyle. In Jane Austen language: I am Emma Woodhouse, rather than Harriet Smith or Miss Bates (well, I might be Miss Bates, but if so nobody has yet set me down Emma-style).

Finally, I've been going through my old journal entries and found this rant. How little has changed about my id in 14 years...

Comments

[raine]

Great dress!
Hope you get to feeling better soon, though - muscle aches are not fun.

[beatrice_otter]

Thank you for the links! Also, the patterns on the dress are interesting. I get that it is a mockup, but I'd finish it and keep it as a sundress or something.

[senmut]

Hey that is so pretty.

[timespirt]

That is a great dress. You look wonderful.

"HUGS"

[adafrog]

Pretty. I like the fabric.

[timespirt]

I felt like you did all day and still do. Want to be off to bed. It's been raining a lot here.

[edenfalling]

That is such a pretty dress!