I may have shrunk in the wash, but I have a new camera...

[thanate]

I guess I knew this before, but here I am attempting to fit a dress to exactly the shape I am, and being reminded that I'm smaller than I was this time last year. (no, most of you probably haven't noticed even if you've been around me, but 5 or 10 pounds and different distribution of muscles can make a noticeable difference in one's side seams. And my ribs show again-- this is perfectly normal for my body type, but again that's about a half-inch of circumference to take in... and of course then there's the issue of not having screening muscles just now, and do I want to leave that little bit of slack in for the times when I have them...)

and, I went to get a new camera, and discovered that my technology had expired and I needed a new sort of memory card now, too. So I have a new PC-slot memory card reader, 2 new 1GB memory cards (since staples so kindly had them for about $15 each for president's day) and a new camera with 5x optical zoom and adjustible resolution. Up to 8mp, but it's now set at 5, and I can knock it down to 3.1 or 1, if I want. Now I just need the old one to return (it tried to stay at Ymir without me) so I'll have the case. And then the old one can live in my field bag or something.

Comments

[stanci.livejournal.com]

Yes! Someone else that has the same blasted body type.
We made up cotehardie patterns yesterday, which means that when I get back to what was my normal weight distribution while I was fencing, I will probably be forced to make a new pattern. Oh darn.

[thanate.livejournal.com]

I don't really mind it that much-- although I have hips about 2 clothing sizes larger than my torso to make up for it. What I mind is that I dated someone who was convinced it meant I wasn't eating enough, and that all healthy females had a sufficient layer of fat to cover their ribs.

Of course, I'm trying to do my new pattern from the old one without anybody to help pin for me...