Comments on: tyranny of the urgent? http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/04/tyranny-of-the-urgent/ A woman with a husband, four kids, and the occasional witty anecdote. Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:23:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Anonymous http://www.makingthingsup.com/2008/04/tyranny-of-the-urgent/comment-page-1/#comment-2937 Anonymous Thu, 08 May 2008 02:33:00 +0000 http://www.makingthingsup.com/?p=963#comment-2937 I actually bought needles and thread when I became a foster parent...yes I am very idealistic. You are not alone, obviously from the comments. My fix it piles end up in shopping bags from cool stores, migrate to a safe dark place in the back of the closet and eventually come out years later when everything is out of style. The same goes with my dry-cleaning pile; only eventually clothes that need dry cleaned start to rot...minor difference.<br/><br/>I almost got motivated to write a blog entry a few months ago about when I sewed up a hole in a favorite pair of lounging pants--it was that monumental! I felt like a domestic goddess that day:)<br/><br/>Since my mom lives so far away I'll try to get your mom to sub-in once she has her cool new sewing room!! yahoo...hey I might even join her on her machine and hem a curtain or two...<br/><br/>i'll be a super-goddess then.<br/><br/>it's a good feeling, agreed.<br/><br/>you know who... (MH) I actually bought needles and thread when I became a foster parent…yes I am very idealistic. You are not alone, obviously from the comments. My fix it piles end up in shopping bags from cool stores, migrate to a safe dark place in the back of the closet and eventually come out years later when everything is out of style. The same goes with my dry-cleaning pile; only eventually clothes that need dry cleaned start to rot…minor difference.

I almost got motivated to write a blog entry a few months ago about when I sewed up a hole in a favorite pair of lounging pants–it was that monumental! I felt like a domestic goddess that day:)

Since my mom lives so far away I’ll try to get your mom to sub-in once she has her cool new sewing room!! yahoo…hey I might even join her on her machine and hem a curtain or two…

i’ll be a super-goddess then.

it’s a good feeling, agreed.

you know who… (MH)

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