My preshuzzz!!!! and other saturday stuff

Ok I admit to doing a little drunken monkey dance of joy. Look what I bought today. The universe decided that it was fed up to the back teeth with having to listen to me, covet, yearn for, dream about, drool over and basically ramble on to the point of hair pulling about wanting a Kitchen Aid stand mixer. I am the only one in my family that does not have one (yeah I know, poor poor pitiful me), or was until Zellers decided to turn into Target and decided to start to sell off their inventory and had these babies on a really good sale. (Irun on sentence much?) Thanks to some puppet earned cash, this baby is mine, mine, mine.  I could not be happier. I have been fondling these darling machines in various stores for quite some time and now I have one. It was, I swear the only thing standing between me and my dreams of becoming a FABULOUS CHEF!!. (If this does not come to fruition it will be the fault of the mixer and will have nothing whatsoever to do with my cooking talents, thank you very much!! Just sayin')

 This mixer was meant for me, it came at a really good price, the store had four in stock when I went looking when they usually have only one when they have a sale like this and it's sold the instant the store doors open the first day of the sale. The only down side is it's silver. I would have rather had white but the white ones had a smaller motor size. I can live with silver. I may make a cake tomorrow just because I can mix in Martha Stewart style now. The fact that I should never, ever, ever have spent the money is neither here nor there.

So today is Saturday, I ran errands today, scooted all over town stocking up on butter. Limit of four does not stop me!! Pfft! I also made stop at my favourite butcher shop and stocked the freezer with a couple of tasty items. Then I came home and spent the majority of the rest of the day wrestling the kitchen back into looking like a kitchen. I also managed to get the stuff I rescued from the old car, sorted, purged, and stored back in the new car.

Garbage was bagged at last (due to the fact I finally managed to buy garbage bags) and hauled to the dumpster. All the recycling made the same journey out of the house to the recycle bin. Apparently this simple little job is overwhelming to me, I tend to put it off as long as humanly possible because the physical act of hauling the garbage out to the dumpster is the equal of a drug free root canal in my world. Why? I have no idea but I do struggle with it and usually have to make myself do it on threat of death. Happily the kitchen is fit for humans again. The dishwasher is chugging away and all is well with this portion of the house. The dining and craft rooms are another matter and they are a chore for another day.

For now I am going to dine on stuffed pork chops, hash brown casserole and a crisp green salad. Greek yogurt and strawberries for dessert. Then I will park my tired butt in the comfy chair, lament the fact that I cannot seem to find my ratty black sweater and knit while watching the Brit Coms on PBS. Where would I have put my ratty black sweater??? It has disappeared and I am not happy. You cannot be properly schlumpy without your ratty black sweater. Hmmph!!

I am going to start another scrap afghan that will eventually be donated to the local women's shelter. I have three made already!! Go Me!!

Toodles,
Linda

Oh my goodness I bought a car

Well that opinionated cat of mine can pick her sarcastic little self off the carpet and move on because I believe I have bought a car. I found it on the internet and I liked the look of it, the price was ok, and its a make that I know is a good car. Its an Impala and once the paper work has been signed, sealed, not to mention delivered it will be mine all mine. First car I ever found all on my own and bought all by myself. It felt right, and I go with my feelings. I feel like such a grown up. Well if feeling like a grown up means you are slighly dizzy, a little sick to the tummy and all sweaty at adding yet another debt to the budget.

Excuse me but I have to go lie down in a dark room for awhile.

Toodles,

Linda

Monday Moment with Minou

Oh I feel faint, she's going buy a car all by herself. Heaven help us all

Bye Bye Intrepid

I no longer own an Intrepid, its gone to the big scrap yard at the edge of town. I don't even have a picture of my poor crumpled baby. I am thinking the local jail is easier to break in and out of that this scrap yard. Sign in, sign out, date, time, phone number,  leave your driver's licence, phone, camera at the desk. NO PICTURES FOR ANY REASON IN THE YARD... thank you very much. Present your official letter that you and you alone are the registered owner of the car and are allowed by King and Country to enter you own car and remove your own personal items. You can only have one other person with you at the most, no children whatsoever. You will be observed at all times, (that was true, there were so many people around I could not have got away with anything). List and sign for every item you remove from the car, leave a blood sample, your first born child and then maybe you can get out of there alive. Well maybe I went overboard about the blood and kin but the rest is all true. Not to mention you have to wear a nifty orange vest so no one runs over you while you are there. Yikes.

I was amazed at how much stuff I had in the car. I had to get a little cart to haul it all away with me. Methinks I will need to purge some of the excess so that it does not all go back into the new car when I get one. Thankfully you were allowed to bulk list the items you removed, use group terms not each individual thing, I would still be there if that was the case. I am also grateful that I had lots of things in tote boxes, for easy transport.

So that was my morning today, signing the agreement for the settlement for my poor crushed car, cleaning out the old car and then getting myself to work. I still have the rental car but as of tomorrow I am paying for that baby myself. The pressure to get another car is mounting. I could not feel more overwhelmed. But hundreds, of hundreds, of thousands, of people do this car buying thing every single day and they manage it. I see no reason why I cannot do it either. The perfect car is out there waiting for me. I just need to find it. Like yesterday. Personally I just want to keep the rental car, I love it. Its a Mazda 5 and its so perfect. Lottery Gods are you listening????

Toodles
Linda

Monday Moment with Minou

OMG get off the computer already and get to work, this quilt will not make itself!!

In Mourning and Sewing

Well yesterday I got the bad news, not unexpected but bad still the same, that my car is totaled. Sigh, I am sans car and not at all happy about it. My car and my television are very important to me and both have died this month. I am not happy, I am in mourning, Part of me is stomping her little footies in frustration  but this too shall pass. It the grand scheme of things its just a minor irritation. Lots of people have far bigger problems than I.

To be honest its already getting better and brighter, thanks to my wonderful, wonderful friends. I have had so many calls and emails of concern and offers of rides, cars even, and lots of "let me know if you need anythings". I feel so special!!. Little Mommy brought me a flat screen tv as a loaner. She did not even ask, just brought it so I could watch tv in my comfy chair. She thought that would make me feel better while I missed my car. I also have a rental car at the moment so I am mobile again. Its a lovey Mazda 5. I would like to keep it but that would take a major lottery win. Are you listening Universe???? Major lottery win would be helpful, I'm just sayin'.

So I have tv and a car, the world has righted itself for a moment and all is well in Lindaland. I will find out on Monday or Tuesday how much they will offer on my car. Once I know that, I will know where I stand on getting another one. Until then I am just going to have to let things slide. I cannot control it until I know what I am dealing with. I would really like to get another car without having to borrow money. Its wonderful to borrow it but then the buggers want you to pay it back. Imagine? T he nerve!!

Enough about that, whilst I have been mourning the premature death of my beloved car, I have been sewing. Happily sewing on a king sized quilt that I have owed to a lady for three years now. Ack!! Shame on me. My plan is to have it completed so she can pick it up in mid April.

Yesterday I finally got the tubs of material out and found the bits and pieces I wanted for this scrappy creation. Once I had the sewing table mounded with material I commenced cutting and sewing on this quilt I am calling "Square Dance"

As I cannot be trusted to sew anything these days
on my own, the house Snoopervisor took up residence on my material and did her best to hinder
help me get the job done.

Even my trick of taking a break to noodle around on the computer failed to move her off my work. She mearly shifted position to keep an eye on what I was up to.

She has that exasperated look on her face doesn't she? Like she is fed up that I am on the 'puter and not at the sewing machine. Baby girl takes her job of supervising me very seriously

She eventually decided that I could be left to sew on may own and moved her royal butt off my material and I could make headway much quicker. Personally I think being disturbed by me pulling material out from under her had something to do with it. She squeaks at me every time I do it. Its rather funny, this annoyed little squeak she give. Minou does not meow, she squeaks, croaks, grunts and chirps but she does not meow.

So the piles of material have gone, they are packed  back into the storage tubs to await the next quilt and I have  piles of these now, completed squares, waiting to be assembled into the beginnings of a quilt top. I am not usually so tidy about my work but this time I took the time and I am glad. The sewing.craft room has limited space and I am trying to keep it from becoming a disaster.

I cannot tell you the joy I feel when I am quilting. It's one of my most favourite thing to do. I love making something from scraps of nothing. A beautiful, practical, useful something. These squares will form the center of the quilt, 7x7 rows of squares that are 12" square. (yeah I'm old school, I still do inches, not metric). Each square consists of a center 6" square with 12 3" squares dancing around it hence the name Square Dance.

I have the windows open today, enjoying the spring like weather. I have taken a short break to blog this and now I am going back to the machine to start sewing the squares together. Oh it is a happy day after all. All the bad things can drift away while I am busy creating.

Later!!
Toodles,
Linda

UPDATE::

The center section of this quilt is put together. Oh it
has been a good, good day here on the homestead.

Tomorrow I will get back at puppet making and try to finish the  university order. Only five left to make.

Whoot!!

Purpler!!

For those that are curious, my seat belt bruise bloomed last night. It went from this

To this overnight.


The plus side is it looks worse than it feels. I am amazingly almost pain free this morning, not nearly as stiff as I had feared I would be. Thank goodness for Ibuprofen.!!

Toodles,
Linda