Seriously.
I had no idea the server upgrade would take ALL.DAY.LONG.
But, it seems that I am back in business, finally.
And I’m in such a rotten mood that I’m not going to say anything else.
As my mama said “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”
Because of the downtime, I’m going to extend the deadline to enter my quilt giveaway until MONDAY at 4PM CST.
Make sure you scroll down for all of the scoop.
Good lord, do you know how many amazing blog posts I have written in my head today, that I was unable to share with you because my websites were down?
You’ll never know, because I’ve pretty much forgotten everything in the swirl of bad words floating around in my head.
Darned computers. Who needs ‘em?
I fixed it nice and quick, but I accidentally did something stupid. Imagine that. I was trying COPY files and instead I MOVED them. Luckily it was quick and easy to move them back and nothing is permanently messed up.
Thanks for following me. I knew you would. I hoped you would.
The blog theme is going to be changing, this light-colored theme was just the easiest thing for me to do last night. The whole look and layout is going to be changing, just as soon as I figure out how to make it do what I want it to do. I have something pretty specific in mind, but I’m still working on the details of how to implement.
Last night’s idea to offer a QUILT was a spur of the moment kind of thing. Yeah, sure, a quilt, that sounds like a good idea.
I wasn’t sure WHAT quilt, but then I decided to channel Scarlett** and moved on to something else. In the light of day, I’m wondering a bit where my brain was, but I’m still committed to offering a quilt.
I started thinking about projects that are in progress, and had this vision of a top (at least I thought it was finished to the quilt top stage…) only I couldn’t find it. It wasn’t in my sort of neatened up sewing room.
That’s the trouble with having some stuff here and some stuff at the shop. Thank goodness the shop is only 2 minutes away. And the unfinished project was at the shop, only it wasn’t as finished as I thought it was, because, as I now recall having seen it, I’m not sure WHAT to do to finish it. Nothing at the shop or in my stash will suffice. Phooey.
So, Plan B. Look for something else in-progress. (And here she starts channeling Goldilocks, too small, too big, too complicated…)
Or Plan C. Start something new.
Cause you know I don’t have anything else going on.
So, Plan D for now is to leave it as a to-be-determined quilt of my choosing, and maybe while I’m not watching the Superbowl later I’ll come up with some great idea.
Haven’t signed up yet for your chance to win this amorphous prize? See my previous post.
And thank you. Thank you all for being my friends. I make myself laugh, and it makes me feel better to know that you are laughing with me.
You are laughing with me, right?
Not at me?
Suzanne aka Easily Paranoid Girl
**If you didn’t get the Scarlett reference, I don’t want to know about it.
Thanks for putting up with me and following me to this new site.
If you click on the POSTS link, right above my picture (gee, it looks like I’m looking at those links up there in the corner)… you can subscribe to my new blog in your favorite blog reader. (I like Google Reader, myself.)
And in your free time, if you could update your blogroll or link directory, I would really appreciate it.
And then, you can post a comment, and I’ll enter you in a drawing for a quilt (style, size, design to be determined). And maybe you could tell your friends, too?
I know you are probably shaking your head, wondering what on Earth that Suzanne is up to now. It will be come clearer eventually, just know that there is a method to my madness.
Really. There is.
Suzanne
Just once, I’d like for things to go according to plan.
Like today, for instance. I needed to arrive at the shop early enough to finish up some packages and take them to the Post Office, before I open the doors at 10.
That included printing a couple copies of my books. I didn’t get them printed last night because the toner cartridge I had just installed was leaving spots on the edge of the page, and I wasn’t able to fuss around with at the time.
Mind you, the toner cartridge I was replacing was leaving faint black lines on the pages, so it wasn’t like I could just throw that one back in.
My recent toner shipment had included 3 black toner cartridges, so I thought I’d just stick another new one in, get the stuff printed, and then deal with replacing the 2 bad cartridges later.
Ahem.
You see where this is going?
The replacement replacement had a big ole strip of NOTHING down the right side of the page.
This one leaves spots.
This one leaves stripes.
This one leaves blanks.
Thankfully (for my sanity) the FINAL new one I installed is Just Right.
I’m actually quite surprised, I’ve been using toner from this particular company for some time now, and this is only the 2nd? 3rd? (ok, 3rd, 4th, and 5th) times I’ve gotten a defective cartridge from them. As you can imagine, I’ll be calling in a bit to see about getting replacements. But that means I’ll have to package up the bad ones and take THOSE to the post office, and all I really want to do right now is QUILT.
