It's been a long two weeks. It is totally amazing to me how someone who was in decent shape (myself) goes through something like I did with my heart...a years plus worth of medical treatment and sitting out on life...how quickly that affects how much, or the lack there of that one remainss in shape after recovery.
I get up ... I go to work ... I come home and put my PJ's on ... take a rest .... cook dinner ... get the kids to bed and go to bed myself. I'm still falling behind on life. There are a ton of projects to complete....
I did manage to get Jamie's quilt top finished and Zachary's started before I went back to work...but I haven't touched them since :( I came home from work one day this past week and helped Gary go through some of the junk in the basement....more of a reorganization than decluttering though :(
Today I hope to get the kids rooms somewhat back to normal...hopefully Gary will be able to work on the floor. His insurance got messed up thanks to an over zealous insurance person who did not listen to what he was told....however, it appears all is well now, but he had to wait several days for his scripts to be processed because his previous insurance had been cancelled by said insurance person :( That's days without meds which will make the next few days less than comfortable....but hopefully the living room can get done this weekend. The clutter has become overwhelming...
I did get one of the sewing machine desks up into Anna's room...then did a little research...seems my budding little seamstress will be inheriting a good solid old machine...a Singer 201 from the late 1950's. She is a beauty, but I will have to find her some polish to bring back her original luster. "Mom's Metal Polish" will take care of the stainless metal areas....the throat plate...the wheel...however, she will have to wait to have her beauty treatment until later this spring. The rest of the house is going to undergo major declutter .... sewing room is getting major reorganization ... the office is getting major reorganization ...
Life is getting major reorganization.....
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Friday, January 7, 2011
Finally Something Sewn
I finally finished up the quilt top that I cut to piece nearly 20 years ago...yeah...that has to be a running record for a UFO...lol...so while I was not able to do anything else...I pieced...
Several months back with DH let me get my Singer 221, I pieced much of it...I had two rows left...had the blocks pieced for one row, just not put in a row...but did not have the patchwork blocks put together for the last row...neither was I sure that I still had all the pieces....thankfully..I found them all and put the blocks together last night and put the borders on today...it's a good thing I can sew semi-reclined with that little machine...it's such a nice and even stitch...and strong too...
This is for Jamie....it didn't start out that way but when I pulled it out last summer, I decided it was for him. DH likes it and doesn't want me to send it to him...lol...
Now mind you this is only the front that is pieced in this picture...the back is the blue that is laying on top of it...which I had to piece...I was upcycling some stuff I was given...and it was just a few inches shy...
Several months back with DH let me get my Singer 221, I pieced much of it...I had two rows left...had the blocks pieced for one row, just not put in a row...but did not have the patchwork blocks put together for the last row...neither was I sure that I still had all the pieces....thankfully..I found them all and put the blocks together last night and put the borders on today...it's a good thing I can sew semi-reclined with that little machine...it's such a nice and even stitch...and strong too...
This is for Jamie....it didn't start out that way but when I pulled it out last summer, I decided it was for him. DH likes it and doesn't want me to send it to him...lol...
Now mind you this is only the front that is pieced in this picture...the back is the blue that is laying on top of it...which I had to piece...I was upcycling some stuff I was given...and it was just a few inches shy...
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Frustrations
Well...so I still can't do much...and I am in a semi reclined position most of the time still. I managed yesterday to finally get hold of the Fridgidaire repair person. All new appliances and all four of them have "issues"...so I called Fridgidaire and we are getting new gallon jug shelfs for the door....new rubber feet for the cast iron grids on the stove....the repairman will fix whatever issue is going on with the vent on the dishwasher and install a new upper rack that already has rusty sprockets...and fix whatever caused there to be a haze inside the microwave door...
My other "fight" yesterday was with a computer company who shall remain nameless...unlike Fridgidaire who is doing everything to keep us happy...this comany...until threatened with legal action...was steadfastly refusing to replace a battery on a "refurbished" computer that they had sent us to replace a lemon. Now...we have had this replacement less than a year and in that time it has already required a hard drive replacement and a CD/DVD drive replacement...we then developed issuese with the power on the computer because it kept telling us to hook it up to a 65 W power supply cord...well...it was...and it was the one sent with the computer...thus it is our firm belief that the battery that the computer now tells us needs replacing was damaged by the faulty power supply....either that or the battery was just bad from the get go... What got me is that we had to buy a new warranty for this 'refurbished" computer....but they date the computer for battery replacement back to the date which we purchased the one they had to replace....definitely not ethical business practice and in my opinion borders on illegal...but not to worry...apparently I was "squeaky" enough and when I had to call back today to correct phone number information which I have corrected twice in the last year alone...the agent suddenly decided he could replace the battery at no charge to us....guess they got wise...because I wasn't going to back down....
However, we still probably won't buy anymore of this particular brand...though we had become very loyal to them for over the last 10 years...and that's pretty much all we own right now. Although....with the recent issues with what we have now, when we saw another branded laptop on sale...we bought it for Ian's graduation present this June.
Other than that, I have done very little at all. We went out Tuesday for a couple of hours and I was wiped. Came home and woke up the next day feeling pretty good, but by midday I was done in....Then last night I started having pain in my chest...yeah...time to call the dr...so since it's closing time for them...I will have to call them tomorrow...I was trying to figure out if it was a pulled muscle or if it is really a pain inside my chest....Unfortunately, I'm leaning toward the latter right now....so we will see what the dr has to say...
Until then.....time to chase DH to the grocery store to pick up the rest of dinner...lol...
My other "fight" yesterday was with a computer company who shall remain nameless...unlike Fridgidaire who is doing everything to keep us happy...this comany...until threatened with legal action...was steadfastly refusing to replace a battery on a "refurbished" computer that they had sent us to replace a lemon. Now...we have had this replacement less than a year and in that time it has already required a hard drive replacement and a CD/DVD drive replacement...we then developed issuese with the power on the computer because it kept telling us to hook it up to a 65 W power supply cord...well...it was...and it was the one sent with the computer...thus it is our firm belief that the battery that the computer now tells us needs replacing was damaged by the faulty power supply....either that or the battery was just bad from the get go... What got me is that we had to buy a new warranty for this 'refurbished" computer....but they date the computer for battery replacement back to the date which we purchased the one they had to replace....definitely not ethical business practice and in my opinion borders on illegal...but not to worry...apparently I was "squeaky" enough and when I had to call back today to correct phone number information which I have corrected twice in the last year alone...the agent suddenly decided he could replace the battery at no charge to us....guess they got wise...because I wasn't going to back down....
However, we still probably won't buy anymore of this particular brand...though we had become very loyal to them for over the last 10 years...and that's pretty much all we own right now. Although....with the recent issues with what we have now, when we saw another branded laptop on sale...we bought it for Ian's graduation present this June.
Other than that, I have done very little at all. We went out Tuesday for a couple of hours and I was wiped. Came home and woke up the next day feeling pretty good, but by midday I was done in....Then last night I started having pain in my chest...yeah...time to call the dr...so since it's closing time for them...I will have to call them tomorrow...I was trying to figure out if it was a pulled muscle or if it is really a pain inside my chest....Unfortunately, I'm leaning toward the latter right now....so we will see what the dr has to say...
Until then.....time to chase DH to the grocery store to pick up the rest of dinner...lol...
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Going stark raving mad
Post surgery is no fun...I am bored out of my mind...I can't sit up for long at all...long enough to eat a meal...I can't sit to sew...I can't sit to cut things out...I can't stand too long either...I get dizzy...but I can't continue to just lie in bed either...I'm going to go kukoo...
So....I have been playing on the computer because I can do that lying down...I have found more free sewing patterns than anyone has a legal right too...and have been making lots of plans on things to complete...The true test will be how much I manage to get done this year...lol...
Daughter Vicki and her hubby Ryan came over yesterday....she showed us her ideas for their nursery...so now the fun is on to find things that will work with her idea of "not totally speaking baby"... but still let out my creative side...lol...I love the colors she chose...absolutely LOVE 'em ...
Daughter Chrissy and her friend Chris are coming for dinner tonight.... Hope they don't mind my PJ's...I still can't wear real people clothes...
I also managed to get some pictures uploaded to Photobucket of the kitchen and how it's coming along...
So...without further ado...here's the kitchen from the dining room view (pardon the paint tape..the trim wasn't dry yet)...
And the kitchen window from the living room angle...we used "countertop" for the window sill and it turned out AMAZING and will never rot out on me...the island on the center bottom also has the Silestone, but it's moveable...so when we want it wide open we roll it around the corner
The dining room as seen from the kitchen...the hutch is not staying...we gave our old table to Vicki and Ryan and we need to sell the hutch so we can put in the built in's we want...that closet on the right side is really coming in handy
And the floor...our dear Zach accomplished his educational Xmas puzzle much quicker than we expected...guess the floor made it easy...lol
And last but not least...the day after our White Christmas...it was still snowing when I took these the day before my surgery...notice how grey the sky was...took some awesome shots on the way to the hospital too...including one of a car that almost drove into a building that the landscaped bushes saved
So....I have been playing on the computer because I can do that lying down...I have found more free sewing patterns than anyone has a legal right too...and have been making lots of plans on things to complete...The true test will be how much I manage to get done this year...lol...
Daughter Vicki and her hubby Ryan came over yesterday....she showed us her ideas for their nursery...so now the fun is on to find things that will work with her idea of "not totally speaking baby"... but still let out my creative side...lol...I love the colors she chose...absolutely LOVE 'em ...
Daughter Chrissy and her friend Chris are coming for dinner tonight.... Hope they don't mind my PJ's...I still can't wear real people clothes...
I also managed to get some pictures uploaded to Photobucket of the kitchen and how it's coming along...
So...without further ado...here's the kitchen from the dining room view (pardon the paint tape..the trim wasn't dry yet)...
And the kitchen window from the living room angle...we used "countertop" for the window sill and it turned out AMAZING and will never rot out on me...the island on the center bottom also has the Silestone, but it's moveable...so when we want it wide open we roll it around the corner
The dining room as seen from the kitchen...the hutch is not staying...we gave our old table to Vicki and Ryan and we need to sell the hutch so we can put in the built in's we want...that closet on the right side is really coming in handy
And the floor...our dear Zach accomplished his educational Xmas puzzle much quicker than we expected...guess the floor made it easy...lol
And last but not least...the day after our White Christmas...it was still snowing when I took these the day before my surgery...notice how grey the sky was...took some awesome shots on the way to the hospital too...including one of a car that almost drove into a building that the landscaped bushes saved
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