life got crazy

The last week was just insane. I didn't turn on my computer once. The grad party is over, camp training is over and hopefully I'll get back into a regular schedule now. I was thrown when asked Wednesday if I would play organ for the Sunday church service. Having never played the full Sunday service or the organ it was quite the whirlwind of nerves and practicing the past few days. I'm behind on so many calls and emails it's ridiculous. So I guess I'll work on catching up in the next few days if camp doesn't do me in! I have at least four more quilts awaiting my attention as well. There just isn't enough time in the day.

Well the family is gone now. Now I'm going into full party planner mode. Minus the time I'm taking the praxis music test tomorrow. Yuck...I thought I was done with standardized test stuff after high school. Amazingly I finished the quilt! I have tons of others to do, but I may take a break for a week or two...:-)

Cranky

I don't know how I'm going to keep sewing on this. I really want to but at the same time I really don't. Then I get mad because I want to do it in my head but I just can't seem to make my body agree with my mind. Plus everyone else here seems crabby which influences me to join in the crabbiness. We are having relatives stay here in a few days and a party later next week so I think the intense cranky 'we need to clean' mode has finally set in. It's been threatening all week. No more living with parents after this year - I love them but it is stressful living in someone's house after you have lived on your own.
Whatever I'm doing for the rest of the day, I'm in for a long haul. Quilting all-nighter in the near future...

Tired and out of time

I had one of those nights in which you don't sleep for millions of random reasons. So I've been up today and have accomplished very little besides staying awake. I'm making a quilt for my sister's graduation present and it has to be done by Sunday - two and half days. I've been quilting it, but for some reason I just can't get much done. I quilt a block and then I sit and stare for a while - a habit which normally only pops up during writing papers.
For those of you who quilt, I will now express my joy of quilting in a tiny space on the desk in front of my computer. It STINKS. Plus the quilt keeps getting stuck in the little hole where you drop the tower down and then pulls stuff off the side of the desk when I have to turn it. I also particularly love shoving the entire quilt through the tiny opening in the machine. I'm probably going to break a needle today.
Pictures will be up as soon as my sister actually gets the quilt (It's a surprise design - she just knows there's a quilt). I hope I can wake up enough to actually work on it.

Hello!

So this is my first blog... pretty exciting. I need to figure out how this works and upload some stuff in between sewing sessions. Or rather, quilting sessions which can be infinitely more tedious. Probably should fit some clarinet time in there too as I have fallen sadly behind in that area. Can't wait to add this to my list of hobbies...