No Hair Silly Goose

This is me.

(not really me but you know what I mean)

I brought myself a Christmas present over the holidays - a brand new lap top just for me.  Not for anyone else, no one else's sticky fingers are going to go near it.  

I had fabulous visions of it being my blog laptop.  Currently I have a home email, a work email, a blog email - and it makes life hard.  I wanted to streamline my life.  I thought I'd be so clever and confine all my blog stuff to the one laptop, it would all work so seamlessly and I'd be a computer genius.

Well, that's all fine in theory but now Google (ohhhh I loathe Google with its tentacles that stretch into everything - picasa anyone?) has decided that the password I have used for my sillygoosequilts@hotmail.com account is no longer valid.  I've not changed it, I've done nothing wrong except to try and set up my new laptop to receive my emails there.  But it's spat the dummy at me and I swear, if it didn't cost me money, I'd be chucking that new laptop into the swimming pool.

So - now I can't sign in with my email to the new laptop or the old laptop.  I can't log into blogger on the old laptop, the old laptop has decided my flickr account login (same as the hotmail.com login) won't work - and I'm ready to just pull the plug on the whole stoopid thing.

And don't get me started on Windows 8.  I couldn't even get past the first screen.  Where's the start button?  Where's the control panel?  Why do these companies change things simply for change's sake?

So, if you see a lone laptop floating down the river nearby, or find a crazy woman who's got no hair left - you were warned!

I'm just going to go quilting now.  At least my lovely Pfaff doesn't let me down.

Till tomorrow,

Suzie

p/s I've worked out how to navigate Windows 8 (mostly) now - all of it just taking up valuable quilting time.

So…..

I’ve been UFO’ing today.

I was supposed to make 100 of these:

Instead, I made 100 of these:

Frustrated.

Do you ever do that?  In the completion of one UFO, you inadvertently create a second one?

Happens to me all the time.

Till tomorrow,

Suzie

Head down bum up

My little people have been back at school this week and despite all my promises to myself that I would get my life together, I'm flailing a little.  It didn't help that I left yesterday's instalment of Bountiful Bouquet until the last minute, normally I'm a little more organised than that.

But it's done now, and I'm listening to the washing machine whirr away (it's the noisiest damn thing on the planet, the dishes are at least in the sink, and the beds are made.  So far so good.

I've been tinkering (again) and added a translate button to the top of the webpage so that you girls who need it can use it.  I've cleaned out the side bar thingies and got rid of a few.  But hopefully in the next week or so I'll add a few new ones.

I discovered the other day that a woman is taking over our old shop site (to refresh your memory - I used to own a quilt shop but closed it, sadly in 2009) and will be opening her own in the next few weeks.  I'm so conflicted about this.  I'm so happy that we will once again have a shop that supports our local quilters, because I really did feel badly about letting them down when we left.  But so much of me wishes that it was me who was opening it.  She seems a very nice lady, and I know she will do very well.  But I feel - kinda wistful I guess.

I couldn't keep going with the shop - two kids, an aging mother (who will kill me for saying that), life just got too hard to keep up with and something had to go.  Each time we got sick, we got REALLY sick and it just wasn't something we could carry on with.  I've missed it every day since then but I know deep down that I had made the right decision for my family.  And sometimes (often, if I admit) we need to make the decisions for the greater good of our family.  So what we did was right.

I miss it though. 

Anyway.  Wistful old me is off to hang another load of washing on the line.  Never Ending God Awful Washing Washing Washing.

Suzie

Housekeeping

So I added a link to Bonnie Hunter's Orca Bay Mystery there on the right.  See it?

Whilst I was doing that I thought I would change my background colour.

Didn't totally work, managed to stuff up a few things that wouldn't be outwardly noticeable to too many people but to an editing freak like me, and it's driving me bananas.  Things aren't justified, they don't line up - it's all tooooo harrrrdddddddddddddddd.

And I've spent too long on it already.  So this battle to learn computing via the blog is hard.  Whine moan pout.

I wish things like this come easily.  Technology sucks.  I had to ring a man to come and set up my television/DVD/cable set up because I can't do that either.

Thank god for needle and thread.  Hasn't changed in a thousand years.  Still works as good as it did then.

All the best for now,

Suzie

p.s.  hopefully I'll be back with my colour choices for the mystery quilt today, if technology decides to let me.

Bereft

After piecing a small baby quilt perfectly yesterday, for no apparent reason my Pfaff machine broke. Sob. It's in the doctors today, it's got a broken spindle on the spool and the timing is out. For those of you like me, to whom that means nothing, it means you break many needles and the machine is angry.

So today, for the first time in a LONG time, I haven't pieced anything! It's a bit of a dangerous time really. I tend to get itchy feet (or hands?) and start something new when I can't finish something old, which is why I have so many UFO's. One day I'll show you my UFO cupboard.

How are we all going with the first month of Bountiful Bouquet? I'll confess I haven't even started stitching mine. But I have pieced next months' blocks so I will be ready to post them on the 1st November.

Must away, tea to cook. See you tomorrow!

When the world gets too much...

Today has been one of those days.  It shouldn't have been, it started out fine.  Child one at school, child two at a rare morning of daycare.  Free time for me. 

And my free time was lovely, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.  I even pushed the boat out and brought two lattes in the one morning - what a splurge!

But then I picked child two up from daycare at lunch time and for whatever reason it went down hill from there.  It began with me breaking my tooth and now having only half what was there originally, and it ended ten minutes ago with child one having a rare lapse and peeing her child seat on the way home from school.  But not in my daggy old car that doesn't really matter.  Oh no, in my husband's spick and span work car that he is very, VERY precious about.  I'm surprised he even lets us mere mortals in his work car.

And there was a whole lot of boring crapola in between that didn't go my way.  Pout.

So I'm supposed to be helping child one with her homework and instead, I'm stealing ten minutes to myself. 

I find when the world all gets too much, like today - all I want to do is escape into my sewing room and shut the door.  I don't want music, movies, distractions.  I want to just put my head down, bum up and sew all afternoon.  Those times are so few now.  I love my family to pieces but I do find the older they get, the more they demand of my time.  There are parties to go to, ballet lessons to drive to, netball lessons to attend.  And I know it will only get worse. 

Anyway.  Big deep breath, happy face on.  Tomorrow I'll try and unearth the digital camera from underneath the mountain of crap that it's hiding in and show you some quilt eye candy.  Or Quilt Porn, if you're naughty.  I'm not naughty, of course. 

:)

Happy quilting!