Weird Dreams

Sometimes my dreams have unusually coherent plot lines. Like this one I had last night, which featured a few characters from the t.v. show I've been watching so much of recently: Corporal Max Klinger and Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, from M*A*S*H. I think Margaret Houlihan may have been there, as well, but only in passing.

So in this dream, I'm trying to warn Major Winchester about something, though even I don't really know what it is. I just know that something is wrong with him, and if it's not addressed, something very bad could happen in the near future. The problem is, I'm a ghost, and nobody can see or hear me. Except for Klinger, which isn't terribly helpful, because everyone knows he's always trying to act crazy, anyway.

So Klinger's trying his best to help me figure out what's wrong with Winchester, but no one pays him any attention, and we don't have much to go on because I don't even know what we're supposed to be looking for.

There follow several disjointed scenes of me floating Winchester's slippers, and such-like poltergeistery, and a scene with the three of us plus Houlihan in my Grandmother's living room . . . and some other random dream stuff.

Skip to the end: Klinger and I discover, in the nick of time, that Winchester isn't really Winchester at all, but an alien clone! The real Winchester is cocooned in some sticky web thing in the alien's lair. We rescue him and expose the alien just in time to get everyone out of the dirt fort--yeah. Dirt fort.--before the alien's bomb explodes and caves it all in! Klinger is the last one to escape, with me doing my incorporeal best to help him along. then everyone's safe, the real Winchester recovers, and everyone lives happily ever after. :D

I don't know what happened to the alien.

Dun

dun

DUNNNN!

I'm just so gosh-darn clever! ;)

So, we all know I got myself a cute little netbook for my birthday (more or less). It looks like so:

Cute, no?

I also got a cheap little slip cover for it, which is nice and handy, but not the sort of thing you can just tote the laptop in all by itself. No shoulder strap or extra room, and the like. So I decided to make my own laptop bag! :D

After scouring the internet for examples, patterns, advice, etc., I picked some fabric and started in. I screwed up several times, because I really didn't go into it with the most solid game plan in the world. I completely scratched my first attempt, and started over. Unfortunately, I didn't think to take a bunch of pictures of the process (which was long and haphazard), but here are a bunch of pics of the finished product, of which I am so proud:

Messenger bags are just so cute. :) The daisy fabric is some stuff Bethany had lying around, thanks to my Grandma C. who brought all her old fabric and patterns up for Beth to play with. I bought the black canvas material, added a black ribbon and some magnetic clasps and a typical nylon handle. And it is SO CUTE! :D

The part that made me scratch the first version was trying to split the bag into two compartments and add some foamy inserts to the laptop side. But finally I succeeded! Huzzah! See? Laptop in the back, cords and other what-nots in the front. :D

You'll also notice, along the inside of the front, a little double pocket for stuff like my wallet, iPod, pens, and such-like.



Ta-daaa! It took a lot of time, several trips to the craft store (no game plan, remember? ;) ) and rather a lot of ripping out seams and re-sewing them. Because that's how I roll. :D (Oh, and I'll probably need to go back in and reinforce that magnetic clasp . . . it's a bit stronger that I'd expected, and keeps trying to rip through the fabric instead of just opening. Silly thing. :D