I believe I'm starting to lose it.
I have really been slipping lately... at work I make mistakes for which I have no excuse. At home I misplace things *constantly*.
Yesterday I spent about 6 hours looking for the buttonhole foot for my sewing machine. I used it the last time I used the machine, so I knew it had to be around somewhere. I looked in the bag with the rest of the various sewing machine accessories, and it was not there.
I cleaned off the Craft Table, hoping that maybe I'd just left it out the last time I used it. It wasn't there.
I went through every single box under the craft table, hoping that maybe in a hurry I'd thrown it in somewhere that it didn't belong. No luck.
I went through my sewing box three times. The first time was a cursory search. The second and third times I removed everything (read: up-end box and put everything back). No buttonhole foot.
I played some Zelda: Ocarina of Time. Got stuck. Went back to looking high and low for the buttonhole foot.
Ate dinner, watched TV, pretty much giving up on the case because I was so distraught. I wondered several times if I could just go to Joann's and buy a new foot that would fit my machine.
Long about the time we were getting ready to go to bed, I realized that the apartment looked like there had been a tornado, and I'd better at least move stuff out of the way so that the fire exits weren't obstructed.
I also decided to pack up the sewing machine since it was on the breakfast table, and it would be an extreme nuisance when I wanted to eat my Cheerios and drink some coffee in the morning.
I don't know why or how it occurred to me, but I suddenly remembered that there's a thing on the machine that detaches so that you can get to the bobbin. In the detachable thingy, there's a little storage compartment.
I FOUND MY BUTTONHOLE FOOT!
I don't know why I didn't think to look there before. It's like that little compartment DIDN'T EXIST in the hours when I had been searching before.
I wasted the whole damn day, and couldn't even get started on my sewing project, because the first step is to make two little buttonholes. Hope everyone else had a Happy Easter.
Apr.12.04 at 9:16 AM
AVERAGE JOE writes:
Chalk it up to a combination of stress and old age... ;)
tim writes:
You lost it years ago.
the Loop writes:
so there is someone else who plays zelda to vent...
Mom writes:
Welcome to the land of the lost. Your description reminds me of the last time I looked for my zipper foot.
The mistakes at work are because the work is not particularly challenging and so you don't pay attention as well as you might, I think.
diane writes:
Yeah, I don't give a crap about work.
athena writes:
hehe! you should have called me! I would have told you to check that compartment...I remember it because it is one of the way cool features about your machine! ;) hehe! You'll never forget to check it now... :) so it's a learning experience! ;)
Ma' writes:
I thought sure you were going to say it was on your machine! That's a little like me looking for my glasses...when I'm wearing them! But I'm so blind that eventually I WILL realize that I can see too well to NOT have my glasses on. Welcome to the world of the distracted.