So I’m all about taking short cuts if I can get away with it. Why expend all that energy if you don’t have to right? So I bought this jacket on the 75% off rack at Macy’s a few years back. I like it but really haven’t worn it much. Since then I’ve lost some weight etc. and thought – Cor either get the thing taken in so it fits well or give it to the Sally Anne. I had attempted to make it fit right by taking up the sleeves a turn. I have notoriously short arms (not enough ape chromosone) and just turned them up with some of that no-sew tape that you iron on.

So I go to my favourite tailor who keeps me looking somewhat spiffy and she pins in the spots to take in the jacket. And then I think, if you’re going to do it right, you might as well get the sleeves done up properly too. So I ask her about the sleeves and said I’d tacked them up and she gives them a squeeze and says “it sounds like there’s gum wrapper in there”. Ha! And it struck me – sometimes I get away with doing things half-assed and sometimes they’re just half-assed.

So today’s Serenity Prayer is – God grant me the serenity to know what I can’t get away with, the courage to get away with what I can and the wisdom to know when I’m just being half-assed about it.