Not On Top of My Game

So, I'm not the most "with it" person I know.  There are others who are worse, yes.  A friend from grad school just posted a picture of her PhD husband who had opened a resealable bag of shredded cheese from the wrong side.  She "Doc shamed" him.  I couldn't stop laughing, but perhaps I should have, because friend?  The mighty have fallen.  

There are also those who are better at being on top of their game than I am.

Enter: Handsome.

He has a system.  Many systems.  He keeps his wallet either in his back right pocket, or beside the sink.  If its not in his pocket, and its not beside the sink, it is legitimately lost.  Truck keys go front-left or on top of the microwave.  The system may not seem to make sense, but he has a system and always knows where stuff is.  Compare this to him asking me where my keys where.  Which is a regular q&a that sometimes has an answer and often ends with big sighs on his part.

This last time it went like so: "Where are the keys?"  "In my purse" "Where's your purse?" "Uhm... I think its in the car.  Yes, in the car, passenger seat.  The keys are in the inside pocket of my purse that is in the car, on the passenger seat.  The purse is also full of peaches." "I hate you."  He doesn't hate me, of course, but our ways of keeping track of stuff are a wee bit different from each other's.  And his is right.  I admit it.

I have other problems, though, besides keeping track of stuff.  Like literacy.  Sometimes I think I know what something says, so I don't really read it, and then I end up sewing the ends of a boxy pouch together the wrong way.  Hypothetically.  Or, I see an adorable little purse pinned on Pinterest, and see that there's a sew-a-long, and that she's going to post the pictures on Monday, so I do my darndest to sew one up this weekend.

Giveaway (sur)prizes for the fabric survey winners!

I didn't really take much more away from the pin I saw, other than the roundness, the fold-over-ness, and the ruffle.  I made it, though, and it looked like what I saw in my head, which is the ultimate success of any project.  And I got on today and looked for that sew-a-long so I could post my ruffly clutch.

I couldn't find it in my blogroll (that list at the bottom of this page), which was weird, since I knew it was recent.  So I went to google and searched a couple of links, and then I found it!

Linked Here

Do you see what I see?  Or rather, what I didn't see?  Yes, dear gentle reader, this sew-a-long took place over 2 years ago.  I'm a little late to the party.  So late that I can't even comment on Kate's post and admit what a dummy I sometimes am.  "Precious" as I would call a student who did the same.  Sometimes I am just precious.

<3 M.