Baby Steps

Thanks to everyone for the comments on Friday's posts. I'll be picking the winners and announcing them tomorrow.

I really, really hate to dwell on the fact that I'm still sick, but only how it relates to what today's post is all about. So bear with me - there is quilting stuff here!

Baby steps in that today it took less time to get functional, although my 30 minute nap became one hour. How can that be when I'm not doing anything strenouous, I'm sleeping lots and not waking up in the night, I'm napping when I get home.  Let's just say that I will not be a good candidate to lose physical abilities and still have a sharp mind. BUT  - I did come home from the quilting class I taught yesterday inspired to sew.

Baby steps in that today, I'm not using either of my laptops to blog. Yikes!   It's about time that I make that move.  It's not easy because the keyboard on this computer has a few things in different spots and I can't seem to capitilize words!  And I'm going to load the trial version of the photo editing software on here and when the trial runs out, I'll cough up the money to pay for it. I'm liking the new software as I'm using it on a regular basis on my work laptop.  Then to get an external hard disk to transfer everything over and I'll be done!

Baby steps in that today, I went down to the studio when I got up because I have a lot of work to get done today.  I managed to cut three squares! Well actually I just had to trim them down. I used my small cutter which was conveniently located on the cutting table.  Then when I needed to cut a couple of strips, I couldn't find my mid-sized rotary cutter. Thinking I had left it at the class yesterday, I used my large cutter. But it needed a new blade. I proceeded to throw some of the bits of the cutter in the garbage, along with the lint from the cutter. Rummaged through the garbage to rescue the bits and the rotary cutter is now operational. However I was a tad afraid to use it.  Here's a brand new blade in a large cutter and my brain seems to be a tad foggy. But I managed to successfully cut several strips and didn't cut myself so that was a good sign. But I needed a nap after those few cuts. Not a good sign!

Baby steps in that today we'll see how far my patience can go.  Why can't I change my e-mail address in Facebook?   It keeps asking me for my old e-mail address which is long gone.  Grant me patience, lots of it.  But that is definitely not someting that I'm going to touch today. This is one of those technical issues because I'm on this other computer.  Nope - not going to happen today on that one!

Baby steps in that yesterday, I actually felt like eating something except there was nothing to eat in the house. I really must take over the grocery shopping. This is getting a wee bit ridiculous.  There is zero comfort food in our house. There is zero emergency meals in the freezer and we were down to one container of soup and that's all I'd eaten all week, I couldn't stomach more soup.  So at 6:30 last night when we knew the prepared hot food would be gone, we headed to the grocery store. Not even going to grumble about that one, but it wasn't my choice!  I managed to snag some shepherd's pie which is what I wanted and I threw it in the microwave and I was a happy camper!

And now while I would love to go for a nap, I can't - not yet.  I must get some work done and then - I'll have that nap.

Have a super day!!!!

Ciao!!

Please forgive any spelling or grammar errors - my checker isn't working yet - well it was when I started and then it disappeared and my Facebook account won't let me reload it until the e-mail is changed?  I have no idea and brain doesn't want to deal with those issues today!