I'm still here

I think I've been sucked into some kind of time wasting vortex. 

Vacation feels like it was 2 months ago instead of 2 weeks ago!

 Time flies, apparently whether I'm having fun or not!

I did start quilting again on Libby's quilt-that I had loaded and quilted one pass on BEFORE we left for vacation.

border peek

all-over feathers

If I can get myself out of this black hole of paperwork and what feels like a to do list that's a mile long. It really isn't but cement is in my shoes or so it seems. 

I would have posted sooner, I do have things to say/share. But I was having trouble getting used to the new computers' photo editing software. 

 I think this one is actually better than what I had on the old computer, it's learning how to use it and remembering the next time I upload that is making me more nutso than I like to be on a daily basis. For example, last night I uploaded the 2 pictures above and this one too.

There were 2 other pictures from a weekend bike trip we took.  But when I put the card in my computer,  I must have clicked on a different wrong button for 'where' to upload to. Because it then took me an hour to find them. And actually I didn't find them I juststumbled on found the right place and re-uploaded them. 

And now I can't seem to locate the bike pictures anyway. 

(I can hear the swoosh of the black hole of time coming to envelop me again...ahhhhhhgggggg)

Then I stayed up until 1:30 making folders for the nearly 3000 (OK only about 2700, I tend to exaggerate!) pictures that I transferred from the old computer. Sadly, most of them now have a date stamp of August 2 2011, which is the date of the transfer.  I'm sure I screwed that up somehow when I did it. Although some of them will show the correct date when I click "insert date" but the majority say "8/2/2011". So weird. 

It has sure made it NOT FUN to try to find a picture. 

I made folders for My Quilts, Customer Quilts and OBX Vacation 2007 and 2011.  As you can guess the quilt folders are what took all night to do.
 And to think I only have maybe 1000 1500 pictures yet to go.
 And why did I do vacations 07 and 11 but skipped 08 and 10? (we didn't go in 09) WHO KNOWS.

 This is what I mean about the time wasting vortex.
 I'm not being my usual organized, OCD, list making, list crosser-offer self.  I'm starting to think I'm sick or maybe it's all the walking we did on vacation and we've kept it up here at home.

That would just be my luck: regular exercise makes me lose organizational skills! 

 Maybe it's stored in the belly fat I carry around!  And I thought it was just a protective layer of flub cushioning my wash board abs. (You know the abs you can't see because of the protective layer...)
 We all have them some of us just don't like to flaunt them.

Fun times, fun times...Life is Good.

Design Wall Monday (1/24/2011)

My design wall was the same as last week...

Evening Shadows

Finally, decided on a name for this one so no more calling it a bl-a-day top,

but I didn't feel like sewing on borders.....so I took it down and put up these squares to made another Quilts for Kids quilt.  I'm thinking because of all the block construction I did last year I'm just rebelling and enjoying mindless sewing and quick completions. 

This morning after spending over an hour cleaning out the refrigerator. (what? you don't normally clean out your fridge at 6:45am?) 

Oh me either, but when I reached in to get the Coffee mate Peppermint Mocha creamer for my coffee I somehow knocked over a covered pitcher with about 2 cups of iced tea in it.  Of course it tipped over easily since it was almost empty and the lid came off all the sticky iced tea goodness went  towards the back of the fridge and ran down to under the produce drawers.....I could not react fast enough to stop it!

Only on a Monday.

*smile* 

I also finished the binding on my Crumbs Quilt.

I have a label ready in EQ6 but my stupid old computer troubles have started again and now my printer isn't being recognized....uninstall, reinstall, trip to Best Buy new connector thingy, do it again.....hot steam coming out of my ears (that would be the bad words I'm trying not to say).  

I give up. It's not the printer-- it's the ole computer...Perhaps tomorrow I will venture out and be overwhelmed by all the new computer options and how smart these 12 year old Geek squad people are, and how uneducated I am about such techno stuff.  I see how they try really hard not to crack a smile when I ask my questions.  (I can almost hear them thinking "oh man, she's just like my mom!") At least I hope that's what their thinking!!!

... or maybe if I just shut this down everything will be better when I boot it back up later..or tomorrow, it probably just needs a  good rest.  I know wishful thinking and actually, I already tried it.

If only it were that easy.

 And dang it!

I think it should be.