Thoroughly modern Manda…

(what my com­puter sees…)

Sher­man gets a good chuckle out of me.  I sit here, sewing machine to my left, lap­top to my right; both angled just the right direc­tion for me to be able to work some­what simultaneously.

What can I say, I’m a woman who likes my tech­nol­ogy, both old and new.  If I can’t deci­pher how the heck to gather the sleeves on this dress from the pat­tern instruc­tions I can reach over, Google “gather, sewing machine” and get at least eight great tuto­ri­als. Its a gift from the tech­nol­ogy gods (and pro­tec­tion for the sewing machine).  If it wasn’t an option I’m pretty sure every­thing I ever made would be sleeveless. 

Stream­ing The Cur­rent on MPR works quite well with the sewing machines hum.  It’s amaz­ing how hear­ing “Weird Sci­ence” by Oingo Boingo can bring a smile to my face as I am futz­ing with the recently learned gath­er­ing method.  I can lis­ten to the news and check out the most recent elec­tion rumors! 

Being able to hold a con­ver­sa­tion with a friend across the coun­try, or a hus­band down the street while still mak­ing cute crit­ters for Comma make me happy.

I’ll admit, my atten­tion span is..well…lacking some­times, hav­ing every­thing set up within easy reach is my ver­sion of Ridlen. 

All I’m miss­ing now is the baby in the Johnny Jump Up (see my store if you are inter­ested in adding to the con­fu­sion ) hang­ing from the door­way.  I can enter­tain baby and cats by mak­ing puffy lit­tle lumps that are eas­ily tossed as a dis­trac­tion.  Ver­bal­ize can make the baby laugh as I make the com­puter read my most recent blog post in the “Good News” goofy voice.

Hon­estly it’s be great if the table were bigger…I could have a place to roll out pas­try dough when the machine jams up.

Tags: MPR, new mom, parenting, sewing