Setting Calendar View

Switching Microsoft Calendar View from Month, which I was using to view the future, over to Week to see this week's work schedule. 

Along the way, I hovered over the more efficient choice of Work Week View, but rejected it with a shiver.

I choose the complete Week View, where I can still see all the meetings, but also Sunday (yay!) and Saturday (sleep!).

It's bleak to look at a week without weekends.

Stray thoughts

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My ancestors came from the Pale of Settlement.

An oddly appropriate place for a person of no color to originate.

Witty review of sweatshirt by Anonymous4567 (not me!)

One star review from 

https://www.nordstrom.com/s/sweaty-betty-athlete-hooded-long-sleeve-top/6499496

by Anonymous4567  

Truly awful 

Verified purchase   

Feb 26, 2022 

Size purchased: Large 

Color: SUNSET PINK

If I could give this negative stars, I would. I am always leery of ordering items from SB -- you can tell that they don't employ any designers who get any actual exercise, or test out their clothing on athletes. Sometimes they get it right (appears to be pure luck--or maybe it's the items that are made of natural materials with a looser fit), but this time their luck ran out. This is made out of the cheapest, most awful fabric. Like plastic (maybe because it is -- could be some petroleum derivative). And it's absolutely skin tight -- I ordered a size larger than usual (per other reviews) and I could still barely get it on. No actual athlete wants to run in skin-tight clothing (I'm running, not trying to earn my living as a streetwalker). Lastly, I ordered the sunset pink, which appears to be a beautiful peach color on the website--in real life it's a 90s fluorescent coral.

Scrolling through designer clothes

 I don't know why, but I have lately found comfort in looking at designer clothing. My Instagram feed is full of runway photos from different designers. I've even bought a few labelled designer items -- I wonder if I'm in some databases classified as a "bottom-feeder". Item has to be severely discounted to enter my sphere. And in XL too. 

Discounts are so often when only XXS remains. If that's your size, you should really wait for things to go on sale. I used to see beautiful sample sales of that size in Building 19, and lovely vintage finds too-small-for-me at Goodwill.

Anyway, today scrolling through Sacks 5th Ave Sale for Women;

• The Classic Crew Distressed Tee - no thanks, I distress my own Tee's. 
• What's more, I wear holes in my own jeans, and patch them too.
•  I need to buy replacement jeans the next time I'm at the LLBean outlet...
• Crop top, crop top,  - I bought one beautiful crop sweatshirt from Nordstrom last year because I couldn't resist, and thought, well, it's XL and I'm short. It is not too badly cropped.
• It is pretty, cheers me up to wear it, but the cropped length means my belly's exposed when I lift my arms. Not too bad for a sweatshirt, since there's always another shirt underneath. 
• But I resolved never to buy any other top with the word "cropped"
• There was a funny tweet suggesting to clothes-makers that many women do want to cover the bottom half of their belly. I wish I could remember the quote.
• Sports bras - also need to be tried on. I did order one online from Venus Williams Eleven, on-sale and made in the USA. Their largest size was too small. Mailed it back.
• Koral leggings. - I bought my kid a pair of these because she needed long-underwear/leggings and these were made in USA and also an OK price on-sale. Don't need any more.
• The depressing thing about sorting price low to high is you have to scroll through a lot of underpants and bikini bottoms. 

• I'm also trying to not buy clothes labelled "Imported" unless I know it's not from China.
• I also don't need more clothes. I need to save $. I need to de-clutter.
• This weekend I was crocheting a weird probably-a-vest. This seems to be a somewhat reasonable way to satisfy my urge for silly new clothes.
• downside - could better spend time cleaning up, writing my novel, playing lute?
• then again, if I use up the yarn I have and don't cave into urge to buy more, that sort of helps the decluttering.
• I've also crocheted some pieces from slashed up old clothes. Another good way to be frugal and de-clutter.

It's better if I spend lunch-hour walking up the block and down again. Not at desk doing not-work.

Off.

angelic profiles

Scrolling through Instagram: This miumiu post with the model's face in profile, with curly hair and feathery textured backpack made me think of a Renaissance angel.

Then I saw this similar image in an ad for an exhibition Love Stories at the Worcester Art Museum

 Dame_byGeorgeFredericWatts.jpg (893×1200) (worcesterart.org)

George Frederic Watts, Ellen Terry ('Choosing'), 1864, oil on strawboard mounted on Gatorfoam, 472 x 352 mm. National Portrait Gallery, London. Accepted in lieu of tax by H.M. Government and allocated to the Gallery, 1975. © National Portrait Gallery, London

Now I shall have to collect these here.

I'm sure there are some pre-Raphaelite paintings to include.

For now, a family snapshot: