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An old fuddy duddy
I’m still crabby about yesterday afternoon’s basketball experience, so I probably shouldn’t be posting, but I need to rant.
When my boys were younger and we’d be in public, I was often reminded that even though they were driving ME crazy, most everyone else thought they were being cute — like when they’d talk in church or something.
And now that I’m older, most of the time I do find other people’s kids cute as opposed to obnoxious, but wow, I was not impressed with the people I was forced to sit with at the basketball game yesterday.
I’m talking about little kids (2 to 4 year olds) who were all over my personal space. Some of it was cute, the little guy with freckles that kept peeking at me and looking into my knitting bag. But the one that was behind that kept bashing into me? And standing on my stuff? Or the one that grabbed the boys’ basketball and wandered off to play with it?
Or the ones climbing up and down and up and down???
TELLING your kid to “Knock it off” and then ignoring them does NOT get them to stop what they are doing. They are ignoring YOU. And they are completely and totally bored with having to sit in those hard bleachers for 2 hours with nothing to do but stand on top of me. OH, and all of the sugar you are feeding them from the concession stand isn’t helping anything, either.
I guess I’ve never had to deal with younger siblings being dragged to the older kids’ sporting events, but I’m pretty sure that if we had other kids, they would NOT be allowed to act they way all of these youngsters were acting.
Or maybe I’m just turning to a wicked old witch who should just stay home and knit.
What I did while my blog was on vacation
1. Spent way too much time checking to see if my blog and e-mail and other websites were BACK from vacation.
2. Played Pathwords on Facebook.
3. Tried to quilt a finish quilting a quilt that I’m having trouble with (choosing a design, the fabric is super-busy and I don’t know what to do. Didn’t know what to do. I figured it out, but now I have to execute).
4. Cut out the pieces for two quilts and started piecing one of them. Almost finished piecing the one, actually. I squishy-heart-love checkerboards and churn dash blocks. Pictures later…
5. Spent way too much time checking to see if my blog and e-mail and other websites were BACK from vacation.
6. Ate way too many Hershey kisses while checking to see…
7. Did a radio interview. More about my 10 minutes of fame later…
8. Started reading my new books.
9. Spent way too much time checking to see if my blog and e-mail and other websites were BACK from vacation.
10. Tried to teach Joe how to crochet. He decided he preferred knitting. Maybe because he enjoyed reading Franklin Habit‘s book so much:
11. Spent way too much time checking to see if my blog and e-mail and other websites were BACK from vacation.
Looking for the giveaway quilt? There’s still time to sign up and spread the word, scroll down or click here. I’m extending the deadline until Monday, since it was kinda hard for people to sign up when the site was down.
TTFN-
Suzanne
Thwarted Blogger
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?
Are we there yet?
RIght now I’m wishing I had chosen to vote early so that when I get phone calls I could say “Yes, I have voted. And no, I’m not going to tell you who I voted for.”
Instead I’m saying “Yes, I’m going to vote, Yes, I have made up my mind and NO, I’m not going to tell you who I’m voting for.”
