Daily Archives: February 26, 2009

I think I still have that cone of thread

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pc040002 I think I still have that cone of thread

Last week my sister was up late one night, unable to sleep, and for some crazy reason she started going through old e-mail and forwarding it to me.

And by old, I mean prehistoric.  That picture was taken on December 4, 2001, the day my first quilting machine arrived.

Where do I start?  The hair?  The glasses?  The deer-in-the-headlight-look?

The other stuff she sent me was about the boys when they were really small — some really cute photos I had shared.  What was really funny, though, was the e-mail I had sent (to my whole family!) about potty-training.   I do NOT remember this, but Will would sit and say “two more squirts” and then and then after one squirt, he’d say “two more squirts” and keeps going like that….

Aren’t you glad I shared?

Oh look — here’s the two cute-kid photos she shared.  Mark even looks like a baby in this one:

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(November 2000)

And this one just makes laugh:

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(September 19, 2001).  They were posing, saying “Hmmmm.”  Don’t you want to just reach out and poke those bellies?

I could get lost for hours looking at old pictures.  As much as I enjoy playing with my pictures digitally, I need to spend some time actually printing some, I think the boys would enjoy paging through them, too.

I’ll get on that tomorrow.

Or maybe the day after.

Suzanne

Go Away Murphy

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dsc09119 Go Away Murphy

Dear Murphy,
Didn’t you have enough fun with me yesterday?  It’s not that you ruined my day, but you sure didn’t make it all that great, either.  I won’t even list it all, you know the kind of havoc you wreaked on my yesterday.

Don’t shake your head at me like that and give me that wide-eyed innocent look.  You do too know.

You just can’t help yourself, can you?

First, the order from the distributor — the 2 things I especially need for customers?  You just HAD to make sure that those were on backorder.  Very kind of you.

And now this quilt?  COME ON ALREADY.

I know I checked the measurements.  Well, OK.  I checked before I squared it up, but sheesh, I didn’t take that much off in order to square the fabric up.  And yes, i should have measured it again before I got it pinned all the way on, but if I had, I’m guessing you wouldn’t have felt the need to interfere with me.

So, you’ve had your fun.

Please go bother someone else,

Sincerely,

suzannesig Go Away Murphy

5 minutes + 5 dollars = 1 happy camper

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I won’t show you a picture of my repaired glasses, but I do have TWO new replacement nosepads, and can no longer blame my crabbiness on metal digging into the side of my nose.

I’ll have to find something else to blame my crabbiness on.  Either that, or I’ll have to get UNcrabby.  I bet the arrival of the UPS truck will do the trick.  Well, assuming the order from my distributor is on the truck, that is.  I ran out of batting, so it’s hard for me to do any quilting, and I’m getting tired of catching up on my bookkeeping

pixel 5 minutes + 5 dollars = 1 happy camper