What Are Quilters Blogging About Today?

Thanks for the advice on the Christmas cactus. It did cross my mind that this may not be the best time to disturb it. I'll just keep adding water and leave it alone. What is it about neglect and this type of plant? I may just move one of those tables to the kitchen window, just a few feet from where it resides today, and put the bowl on that table to give the plant more room and support. 

And KUDOS on the experimenting with the sock knitting. If you get it right the first time, you are not ...

OH MY!!!! Yes—those Olfa cutting mats are expensive!!!! I agree about not buying one - I just think it's a cute story. BTW—I had a dream about your company last night. Yep—I had a dream that I stopped in at Northcott Fabrics, where I used to work. I was there to find some fabric? I was trying to find the shade cards, and well, it ended up turning into a nightmare because someone tried to follow me into my car. But not an employee! A stranger. 

When I woke up, I was at someone's house, waiting ...

I have to laugh at how DH and I are the same and yet we are different! Obviously, we have quite different jobs, and our personalities are almost polar opposites. BUT, the underlying gel that holds us together is so similar. 

I am a storyteller - I think you all know that, and I was really hoping to be finished with these couple of magazines I went through the other day, but alas, you are going to get one more day of the stories from those couple of magazines tomorrow. Then I hope to be done!

Anyway, I try to spin ...

Oh my!!! Yes, Jackie - you have a point. My list was mostly "don't do this," and it's always better to keep it positive rather than negative. So I will turn that list around, but not today. However you prefer to see your lists, that list is a very important one for quilters/crafters. I'm going to blame it all on those marketing people who created the NEED for us to want more and more and more! 

I couldn't agree more about the magazine titles. Some titles are strictly fluff, and I will have no qualms about ...

OH MY GOSH --- there are some great ideas for whittling down the stash and the books/magazines. That darn Elle wants me to do some hard work! A magazine before I get the fun of working on a puzzle. She would make an excellent professional declutterer. But she is right! I will take that upon myself when I get home. 

I know part of that task will be tough, so I'll be careful about which magazines I start culling. 

As many of you know who have been around the quilting world for a while, there have been loads of ...

LOL --- Soon the comments will be more entertaining than the blog!!! I love it all! And yes, each of us handles our stash differently. I know tons of organizations take donations, and that may be what happens, but I also want to have fun with that stash, and I'm trying to think of creative ways to get rid of it. And who knows, I may just end up keeping it all until I don't need it anymore. But the books and magazines? Those have to go! 

I laugh when I read that paragraph back. Who would have thought ...

 I love your comments!!! It makes me smile before I start writing! And the blog will be late today because I slept in. I had trouble sleeping last night, and since I have a travel day (by car), I'm not in any hurry to hit the road. 

And yes -- I think Elle and I are within a few years of each other. People have tried to pin down the year I was born, and it would be easy to tell you, but what is the point? I am not defined by my age. I know what would happen: people ...

The book I finished yesterday (I couldn't help myself) is Picking Up the Pieces by J. B. Abbott. 

Jigsaw puzzle mystery

If you Google fiction jigsaw puzzle books, you'll find a few more. They are light fluff, like the knitting, scrapbooking, quilting murder mysteries, but it's good to read light fluff from time to time. It gives the brain a break!! I believe I ordered two more (physical) ones from the library!

What was the title of yesterday's blog? "If things aren't right, fix them now!" 

Well, I did it again. I had a few ...

After last week's decluttering, I surveyed this office this morning, and YIKES!!!! I had better get my act together. Actually, I have a pile of books in boxes that were supposed to be picked up in September, but that didn't happen, and now the new date is in November. Then, as I did at my aunt's, I should just start at one side and work my way around. 

I have several bags of books to deal with, a lamp to assemble, and a box for my stick vacuum to recycle. It's amazing how quickly we "unsee ...

 And just like that, I'm home, and soon I'll be off on another grand adventure (just for the day), and it involves packing! No decluttering, but loads of packing. 

I got up early and moved all the glassware to the garage! It wasn't as cool in the morning as it is here, and you could see the stars, so I snapped this with my cell phone. Not bad for a cell phone. But that's why cell phones are so expensive today: it's the camera, not the phone part. That probably costs a few dollars! 

The ...

I just want to say THANK YOU to those who follow the blog. While I don't know all of you personally, you are always there for me; you provide loads of support and always have great ideas. If you didn't know, you are helping motivate me to get my life in order. And I love all your comments. I love that some of you are, or have already, tackled your houses and the decluttering process; I love that you are getting off the bus one stop earlier than necessary and adding a few extra steps to your day ...

I'm not sure how my aunt is faring, but I have to say I go to bed exhausted each night, both physically and mentally. Never let anyone tell you that moving is easy. There is so much to do, I can see why it is overwhelming. And the older you get, the more overwhelming it can be. 

So sadly, I'm going to give you more advice today! You are going to be tired of me telling you this, but you will love me when it's your time to move. 

I think the best advice of all is ...

I'm so glad to hear that I am not alone in my AI thoughts. I love the comment that it's literally one giant dictionary; however, that's what AI is. It scours the internet for information faster than the speed of sound. If it scours a source with incorrect or outdated information, it will give you that. At THIS POINT in time, AI can't discern right from wrong; it has no "intelligence" per se, and it has no consciousness. But at the rate they are developing it, BEWARE. 

Developers and people in that industry are saying we ...

Pepper on cottage cheese? OK -- I must try that. I'm away this coming week (AGAIN!), but I'll try it when I get home. I still have two road trips before the end of the year and one and perhaps two plane trips. Wait -- and a weekend quilt retreat. It's going to be silly. 

PHEW -- both presentations are done for this morning. I swear it's amassing my photos for the darn things that can take so long. Thankfully, I have a very good filing system for my pictures - NOT perfect by any means, but not bad. But ...

I get spam in the blog comments all the time, and I try to delete it every day. They still come back, and it's amazing what triggers the comments. 

But yesterday I got spammed differently. And I "almost" got scammed. I received an email from an acquaintance, but she was also part of an organization I belong to. Since the information was vague, I asked for more details. The response came back with legitimate information, although still somewhat vague, and I will say that it crossed my mind why this person would contact me. 

Then I got an email ...

I love how we are all working together to keep our houses neat and decluttered. YES—I have an older laptop and a desktop that both need cleaning up; it shouldn't take too much time (right?), and then we can donate them. There is no sense in keeping them. I also kept my desktop "just in case." Actually, the old desktop was needed to print things, but the new computer prints just fine now. So both can go. They are in the office and will have to wait until I can get there. 

Elle - you can continue to regale ...

It's another day! Of course it is. Well, if I take the book I'm reading into account, who knows what day it really is. It's called My Husband's Wife by Alice Feeney, and — well —it's bizarre. At first, I thought it would be boring, but then there was a plot twist, then another, and then another. And I'm now so turned around - well, I'll just have to listen to the last 5 hours to see what happens. 

I have a road trip today; however, I have company, so I won't be able ...

Thanks for all the birthday wishes. While it wasn't my most exciting birthday, nor my most productive, I was happy to just putter around. And that's what life is like when you're as "old" as I am! 

I'm just kidding—someone mentioned that old is ten years older than you actually are, and I think that about sums it up. 

The good news is that my leg, sciatic, and knees seem to be doing so well. Knock on wood! We don't want to jinx anything. But I'm feeling so much better from the stretching ...

Yes --- so true about the words of wisdom. There are times when we feel compelled to criticize a loved one - usually our significant other. But was that absolutely necessary? NO -- so the next time you want to be the backseat driver, or mention that the dishwasher shouldn't be loaded that way, just be quiet. They are loading the dishwasher - be grateful! 

Not saying things that you know will cause issues can improve a situation by 1000%. Don't be the one who invokes the negativity! As they say in Frozen - "let it go!"

OK -- I confess - I was a ...

I thought I had a system to remind myself to take my once-a-week bone density meds, but I haven't done it in weeks! I got an auto-renewal at the drug store, and I'm weeks behind. I'm going to have to set a task on my phone to remind me early Sunday morning. It is the most ridiculous thing in the world. I told the doctor to not give me that prescription, and when I renewed it, they forgot and sent the old one to the drugstore instead of the one I can take with food. Sigh..................

Hopefully ...