I am so pleased with my dress! I can still do this!

I took a half day at work because I was on prep and caught up and why stay when there's nothing to do? Monday is staff development day so an easy day to come back to. I'm excited for a mini vacation! I'll only be gone one full day, but it feels like I packed for a month.

With a night to spare! I'm very happy with it! As usual, floor pictures require imagination...

The dress is close to done. I'll hopefully get everything but the flowers and skirt drapery done tonight.

One sleeve is mostly done. The cutouts are hemmed and the slightly fuller lining is basted in. It just needs the seam and hem. I'm going to put a drawstring in the hem to draw it up slightly. The second sleeve has the cutouts ironed open so they'll be easier to hem. As easy as what's basically a slit ever is. I'm glad I like normal hems because I didn't want the weight of binding. I'll hopefully finish the sleeves and start the skirt tomorrow.

Taking a break until at least after dinner because today's work was the type that makes you fizz. Breaks are important too!

This morning when I turned on the street near my school, it sounded like I ran over something. There was a kind of flappy sound. I looked when I parked but couldn't see anything. I forgot about it.

When I left work, flappy sound. I needed gas anyway, so decided to stop and look. The flappy sound stopped halfway to the gas station, so I thought whatever lodged itself there unlodged itself. I checked the tire pressure and it was fine.

(The tap to pay at the gas station didn't work and then I accidentally chose the 91 gas the Fiat needed instead of the 87 the Subaru likes, so that was fun).

I looked under the car. I didn't see anything stray and it looked like a car. I know nothing.

Then about halfway home, beep! Tire pressure! I turned to the tire pressure screen. Three 30 something tires, one 25. Then 24. All the way down to 20 by the time I got to the tire store.

The tire guy saw the razor right away and said they usually can't fix razors. Noooooo. All wheel drive cars need four tires at once because the treads have to match.

It was also going to be at least a 45 minute wait. I called my mom and she came for me. Tire guy two said don't leave quite yet, we need to talk about tires. So I went in, and tire guy one gave me the good news. And only about 15 minutes to fix it! So I sent my mom home. We live five minutes away if you hit the light wrong.

And it was free! Fortunately I had a $10 bill for a tip. I trust that it actually was repairable because they wouldn't lose a good sale for a free repair. It still felt delicate driving home though!

Thankfully it's over! 🤞

Home now with a latte and I just finished some croissants. And am soooo relieved!

The heat was blasting in school today and my classroom was 100 degrees, so I went home. I think I actually had a little bit of a panic attack because I don't deal with heat well at all. When our rooms were heated in the low 80s I couldn't handle it. The air conditioning didn't work right in my old classroom and now that I'm out of it, I realize how much it affected my teaching. I can't think straight when I'm hot.

I didn't need much convincing, but my friend told me to go home. And I did. I really didn't want to after missing last week, but I'm still getting better and that would make dealing with 100 degrees even worse. My friend's room actually got up to 107.

Even worse, I didn't enjoy or feel relaxed today. I thought maybe I'd work on my dress or just take an extra day to feel better, but I've just been tense. Welcome to the hellscape that's 2026, I suppose. Sigh.