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I rescheduled my car service because I need nothing this weekend. *thud*

20/20 in my operated eye! I see better with it and my -9 prescription right eye than I did with glasses!

I have another appointment in a week. My doctor wants me to tell him what I like and don't like. He said he could give me a little more near vision in my right eye, which probably sounds good.

Right now I'm borrowing my mom's reading glasses. I'll eventually get my own, correct strength, but these are good for now!

Sleeping in with purpose! As long as I don't get up, I won't notice that I want coffee or water or toast. Thankfully eye two in two weeks is in the morning! Normally I prefer afternoon things, but not when they involve fasting!

Currently the most stressful part of surgery is wondering if I'll come out of it to find nuclear war or something. I just hope I get both eyes done before the potential apocalypse...

As of now, I'm going to staff development day tomorrow. There's no need to be there, just listening to meetings, but I've taken off so much time this semester. So, I guess I'll go to work...

I decided to try to make the shoes the model is wearing in the picture with the seahorse bathing suit. It's a flat with net at the toe and laces. I ordered thin espadrille soles (https://diegos.com/collections/espadrilles-soles/products/traditional-espadrilles-soles?variant=39627609473201), a palm thimble, needle, and 4mm ivory cord from Diego's. The pictures of making them look basically like the cork shoes I've made.

I ordered sagebrush cotton in sizes 3 and 10, and a tiny crochet hook from Knit Picks. The same color as the suit. Normally I don't want to match things, but there are patterns for matched sets of other things, so why not? I also found a book of knit and crocheted shoes. (https://www.etsy.com/listing/57721702/stunning-1930s-knitted-and-crochet-shoes) I'm not planning on using the patterns, but proof that it was done!

The shoes are a mesh pattern so I looked up mesh stitches, and it looks within my crochet capabilities. Chain, single or double crochet (I found patterns using each. I like the double crochet one more, but single would be easier), keep going, next row, do the single or double crochet in the middle of the last row's single or double crochet. I think if I make the pattern in cloth, I can just make a mesh the right size.

Maybe if it works I can make that cute bathing beret. More likely I'll run from crochet, as usual. Counting is hard for me. I can count knitting because the loops are right there, but it's so hard to see the stitches in crochet to count them. To be fair, counting rows and stitches below the needle is also hard in knitting. Thankfully you rarely have to do that.

I'm finally enjoying my sweater again, but bathing suits are addictive and atherleisure posted progress on hers and now I want another one.

I decided on the first pattern I bought, years ago, when Etsy sellers still emailed patterns. I amazingly still had it in my Dropbox when I looked for it a few years ago, but I also found it in the Minerva Capri Book on Etsy. There are parts of the pattern that I don't quite believe will work, but I'm going for it anyway. It has a pointed waist for the shorts and you sew a straight halter to it. We'll see! It calls for aquamarine and chestnut yarn. I'm using Knit Picks Pallette in sagebrush and jay. The sagebrush is actually close to one of the three yarns called aquamarine in the digital Fleisher's yarn sample book I also bought on Etsy. I didn't like the idea of brown with it. Jay is close to navy.

I'm using fingering weight instead of my normal sport weight. It's 9 stitches an inch and I measured my sport weight sample (actually, failed start to the blue striped suit) done on size one needles and it was dense and 8 stitches an inch. This has a hemmed neckline channel. Too dense isn't good. I did a quick swatch if Pallette on ones, and it looks like the gauge is right, or at least close too it.

So, another bathing suit! And this will be my third seahorse themed 30s project.

My crossword streak hit 1600 today! I think I'd have had a new best time if it weren't for the typo!

But! I looked at the stats and it said two day streak! The solved puzzle said 1600! I didn't miss one!

It looks like the Monday puzzle didn't save correctly. This happened once before, and tech support fixed it. So, I wrote tech support again!

My streak is a source of joy in *gestures broadly* all this.

Like last time, daily screenshots until it's fixed! But I won't post them all...

And my dress, worn at No Kings. I love that creativity is appreciated there and in protests.