This thread is dedicated to all my blonde moments. 'Nuf said.

Last Sunday I was rushing around my house trying to get a ton of stuff done so that I would (1) have a clean room, (2) get to watch the Sopranos, (3) be able to relax spinning fire, and (4) still be able to get obscenely early to go to work. So ... I was scurrying, putting things away, hanging them up, and organizing.

I see my favorite pair of jeans lying on the floor and ask myself if I should throw them away. The drawstrings have broken so I have had to resort to rolling the waistband down to keep them up. But recently the button has gone missing from the front, so rolling them down isn't even effective ... and it just looks ghetto. But they are so comfortable! And the cuffs are frayed just right!

It occurs to me that sewing a button on isn't beyond my capabilities so I toss the jeans, a new spare button that came with a new pair of jeans, a pair of scissors and my sewing kit onto my leather chair in the livingroom. In this manner I hope to be efficient while watching the Sopranos - by sewing! Kindof. I think coupling a task with a pleasure could make for it not being such a chore.

After much more picking up, it is time to see what the mafia has been up to this week and I settle in to dredge up clues and decipher what is *really* being said by my favorite TV Italians. Meanwhile, I sew. I choose a pretty light blue thread, thread the needle, tie the knot in the end and set to work. I am very careful to center the button, use lots of stiches since I don't want to do it AGAIN next week, and tie it all off with several knots on the back side. Satisfied and feeling homemakerish, I fold up the jeans, put them in my room, and return to the antics of Ade and Christopher.

The next morning while dressing for work, I spot my jeans, momentarily forgetting that I have fixed them. I pass them up knowing that pants that fall down aren't acceptable in my workplace, as casual as it is. Then I remember, with glee, the button sewn on with blue thread! I can wear them! I pull them on and go to button the new button and my spirits plummet. I have sewn it on the wrong side.

*sigh*

The button was supposed to be INSIDE the waistband ... not outside. If I look on the bright side, though, even in the daylight, it was perfectly centered and the blue thread *was* pretty.