I know....I KNOW!

I've been MIA....but I can explain...sorta.

First off I got a job about A month ago and if you know me you know that is a very big deal! I had to provide my own computer and it is only a contract job but still...I am working and that is a very good thing! I love the job, nuff said!

I have 4 quilts for others here in the house and I haven't been quilting at all. BAD GIRL! I am changing that this week for sure. I have so much I want to get done in the next month, it is crazy.
I have been sick for a week. Kind of a bronchitis type thing. How sick you ask? Sich enough that I missed 3 days of work and cancelled my trip to Quilting with Machines that I was totally looking forward to and had already paid for all my classes. Hopefully some of my classes sold so I can get back a little of my money. At any rate, I've spent 5 days in the spare room on the pull out sofa and it isn't comfortable. Slept in my own bed last night and it felt great! I am definately better now and will be going to work tomorrow. I spent the day yesterday, changing sheets and doing laundry and cleaning up the house. I just bought all new pillows, sheets and towels at Kohl's a few weeks ago. Everything 50% off! I love Kohl's! So I am washing my old pillows today and Mark will bring a couple up to the motor home next time he goes. They washed up a lot better than I thought they would (feather and down).
So I had big quilting plans for today and I WILL quilt some later. Right now I am cleaning out my closet and making a big bag for Purple Heart pick-up. I am tired of having so many clothes stuffed in my closet and still have nothing to wear.
My list of things to do today is:

• press and cut strips for strip exchange
• finish washing pillows
• clean and mop kitchen
• make cole slaw for dinnner
• finish cleaning out closet
• quilt at least 2 hrs

Now it's just hot!

As I suspected, I couldn't sleep last night. I finally gave up the fight and went to bed at around 3am but didn't fall asleep until around 5:30 and woke up a few times before I got up at 9. I will NOT sleep during the day anymore no matter how tired I get.
Started quilting today doing lots of SID and I had a heck of a time pulling the thread up using the Madiera Monolon and Bottom line in the bobbin. I know, I know....I should use a cotton thread in the bobbin but I don't have any and I didn't want to wait. I got it to work so far. It's so dang hot though, I am not getting much quilting done....hmmm, maybe at midnight it will be cooler :-)

What a wasted day!

I slept almost ALL day today. I don't know why except I just wasn't feeling like doing anything and I was tired. I woke up late and fiddled around on the internet and had a bologna sandwich for lunch. Then I laid on the sofa and fell sound asleep until my dog went bazerk because the mailman was here with a delivery.
It was a big box from Ronda with a quilt EZ template I will be needing for my new quilt (she is loaning it to me) and some batting and marking tools...she is just too good to me and I don't know why cause I don't deserve it....well I sure appreciate it though.....I called her to let her know it all arrived safely and to thank her in person.
I then went back to my room and laid down in front of the fan and fell back asleep. I didn't wake up until after 7 and Mark had dinner almost ready. Now it is midnight and I am wide awake and feel like cleaning. I have a load of laundry in and cleaned the kitchen already. I am going to attempt to go to bed in an hour or so and get up around 5am. I have to break this bad habit!
It is hell being home all day. I don't know what to do with myself!

Thursday to myself

I unexpectedly have the day off from babysitting. So I plan to try to get more done today. I have some laundry in and picked up a bit but the house work is pretty much caught up. So I plan on working on 3 items today

1. Finish making blocks for the spring Yellow Brick Road quilt I started last week. This will give the girls something to do on Monday. They love to play with my fabric and design board and I will let them layout the quilt. I figure a yellow brick road...they can do a pretty good job w/o much help from me...and it will keep them occupied.
2. Quilt EZ swirls on a customer quilt today.
3. Start getting fabric cut out and quarter square triangles made for my new quilt that Ronda sent me all the fabric and pattern for. Gees, I got it a week ago and just now getting to it. I really wanted to complete a couple things first.

Sunday Stuff

Well Mark is back home and things are mostly back to normal. He just made a potato salad and put BBQ pulled pork in a crock pot for dinner so I don't have to cook. I just finished scanning and shredding the bills for the month and there will be some sewing today. Let's see how much I can accomplish. I will post pictures of whatever I decide to work on later.