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another cheap, easy meal: those Maruchan ramen packs, and a can of the good soup. combine in a big bowl, let the noods soak up the liquid, and eat. can be especially hearty and filling if you use one of their meat and 'taters ones.

Also, I am working on a VERY extensive and kinda labor-intensive project right now. I have a BUNCH of Victorian-era Women's periodicals from Germany that have supplemental patterns included. The way the patterns are included is there's a bunch of 'em on one "insert", and you basically trace 'em out onto a separate piece of paper.

Someone took the time to digitize the whole mess of 'em, and I'm working on the 1886 collection. I'm 10 patterns in. on the first insert. I'm tracing from my laptop screen, and assembling the individual pattern pieces as I go. my hands are already a bit sore, but I'm keeping track of where I am. just in the 1886 issue, there's 47 or 48 (I kinda lost count) inserts.

I'm going to be at it for awhile. I started going at around 1AM. I can tell what some pieces are supposed to be, based on what I know about Victorian-era patterns, like figure 9 and 10 are sleeve and undersleeve patterns, respectively. I'm going to get figure 10 done, then go to bed.