No word on the work stuff yet…not until after the holiday. 
Adventures of Molli did lead me to I can has cheezburger? and that did wonders for cheering me up! Thank you!
My TIB order arrived today with shoes for Gracie as well as 2 rement boxes and two pairs of socks.
Then last night I ordered this from Claudia at Le Petit Boutique.
So mom takes me outside to take pictures of my neat new top and when I come inside I sit on the chair to watch the US Open. While mom is uploading the pictures Napoleon the ferret knocks me off the chair! Then KoKo the cat launches another attack on me and my glasses! Mom rescued me before I was hurt but sheesh boys are rough!
Then I guess mom is all bummed about work. She mutters to herself and talks to Pixel the cat…did you know that…is that normal for people? Anyways as long as she gets to come home to play with me and make me clothes everything else will fall in to place so she can stop fussing. I guess she also has some other stuff going on which I assume has to do with the guy to brings over Kitaro the dog but I dunno. I thought that Kitaro was just in college or something and came home on weekends but I gather from Pixel that dogs don’t go to school.
Ooo and I just checked on Molli and Zelda which in turn lead me to this etsy shop with the coolest clothes! Le Petit Boutique is the place and I know where some of mom’s paycheck is going. Some of the rest if going to get some fraycheck since that is what the pros use. Though to give her a little cradit she uses her serger sometimes to give nice edges.
So, that whole hopeful that things were going to get better at work soon…not too sure on that now. Well, it still might…but I’ve been pretty much kicked out of the decision making process so I have no insight in to if it will work out well or be an utter failure. So here I sit and wait for the decisions to be made so then I can decide if I want any part in it. It is seeming more and more like it may come down to deciding to take a demotion which I’m not certain I am ready for. Ugh. It just really sucks that something that could be so awesome might fizzle.
Meh. With that said I want to go home and do fun stuff like work on my quilt or or do something else crafty. And play with the ‘kids’ like mr. ferret pants Napoleon. ^_^
Okay so looking around at the Internet I see that despite being told that I am being well taken care of there are a lot of things I am missing out on. Now I am not the type of dolly to expect the moon and stars, I am a reasonable girl. But for reference I think a wishlist of some type needs to be compiled.
* An apartment…or a room…something. Molli and Zelda have a pretty apartment. I have a couch and ever since KoKo attacked me I have been sitting in a wardrobe…alone…in the dark…on a box. The couch is a good start…let’s get crackin’ mommy on some more.
* A bike and/or scooter. Mommy rides a scooter, she says cars are scary to drive. The house is pretty big so a scooter would be a perfect way to get around. Mommy and I could even start a scooter gang.
* A sister. As much as I like being the center of attention it would be nice to have someone else to chat with who understands what it is like being a little plastic girl in a big plastic world. Mommy mentioned finding someone named Nobby so I guess we will have to find her. Apparently she looks like a Rainy Day Parade but might look different so we will just have to keep an eye out.
* Shoes! I guess I have a pair on the way, but with my foot condition I need a lot more…it is a medical reason! Who would turn down a girl’s medical needs?!
Okay, that is enough for now. I am going to go get the closet door open in the sewing room and find fabric for a new dress.
Yeah so this week has been a week of me spending time on things I probably should spend so much time on. Take for for example, I spent a lot of time refashioning the weekly metric report for my division. Did I need to? No. Did anyone ask me to? No. I did it anyways. It was data, and I love to play with data and turn it into information. I’m weird like that. It was nice to extract some joy out of work though since it has been such hell lately.
There may be more good things on the horizon so I am letting myself get a little hopeful. I haven’t been asked to but tonight I am going to try and put together a Roles & Responsibilites document for a new team that really is the reformation of an old team. I’m excited at the prospect that the team may happen and that I didn’t even have to ask for it, but at the same time it looks like it may wind up under some people that I don’t exactly know what needs to be done with it so I’m going out on a limb and drafting what the team would be in hopes I can influence the decisions. I shudder to think that it would be done the wrong way and rather than help the company and a lot of people wreck things further. If I get to lead the team (I hope manage but we will see what I decide if they want me to step down to lead or supervisor) I would have to chage bosses…again…but if it will wind up as I hope then I will deal with it. Worst case I stay where I am, best case I get my team back and I work my arse off to make it kick ass. I really want to tell them to just let me put it together the way it should be and leave me to it, but I suppose I need to find a way of saying that that is a little less cocky…I dunno.
I should be working on that document or working on a special craft project. But what am I doing? I worked on a quilt for my sister and on clothes for my Blythe. Oh yes, and checking Flickr and blogs of people I don’t know. In recent weeks I’ve really been feeling the lack of real-life friends that have anything in common with me. I have one here locally that actually crafts. I can’t name any locally that aren’t ‘work friends’. I am of a mind that by my age (31) people already have their friends so there won’t be much luck in finding any around here to craft or Blythe around with. Not real optimistic I know but there it is. Not that any of my pals back in Indiana craft either but at least they wold be people to hang out with (I miss you guys!!!).
Also, I should be doing laundry and cleaning my house…but I am writing a blog entry. Tsk tsk. 3pm already and I’ve gone to the store twice and took some pictures of Gracie. That is my accomplishment list for the day.
So back I go to spending my time however it seems to go…
So this bulletin board has been through several phases. First it was a regular bulletin board with black cork and a faux wood frame. Then I put purple fabric on it and painted the frame in white crackle with a blank undercoat. Then I didn’t like that so I painted the frame dark purple and put white ribbon around the edge of the fabric.
That brings us to this weekend. The dark purple was covered over with a mixture of coats of white, light green, and pink. I was going to crackle again this time with two light colors but I think I gave away my crackle paint. I took off the purple fabric, put on bedsheet fabric instead (tucked into the frame this time rather than glued). Then to secure the ribbon I covered thumbtacks with buttons using hot glue. I had just enough thumbtacks a junk drawer for it too. I say ‘a’ junk drawer rather than ‘the’ junk drawer as I have many junk drawers, bags, piles, and boxes. *sigh* I am currently on a quest to rid myself of all of these junk areas and in the process…the junk.
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So it was not in my plans to make a potholder this weekend. But I found an In Stitches Sew Along group and I do have the book and a few of the people seem to also be in Arizona. I made this last night with the sushi fabric for the kttchen and some green from the stash. Not the greatest binding job but meh I think it will work. A couple more pics on my flickr. The patchwork is supposed to be wonky but I’m not certain I like it. Someone else mentioned it too, it doesn’t look like a neat design detail but instead like I cut the thing drunk.
This weekend I also got my hair cut, took Kitaro on a walk, worked on a wallet for a swap partner, gave Napoleon his melatonin (and got him to take ferratone today woo! he never used to like it), and have been slowly working on cleaning. Ugh I have to get some laundry done today too so I have something to wear tomorrow.. Oh yeah and I found a high-shank walking foot on All Brands so I ordered that. I hope it works on my Kenmore. C’s quilt that she used her quilting foot on turned out really nice.
I think I mentioned that the AC went out last Saturday. It was about 95 in the house for the rest of the weekend until it was fixed on Tuesday. Ugh. B took Napoleon to his place along with Kitaro. The cats and I stayed at home and dealt with the heat. Lovely end to my vacation.
But everything is fixed now and it is a normal temperature in the house. So far I have finished the quilt top for a lap quilt I am making for my sister (shhh she doesn’t know…I am terrible about keeping in touch), and have been workiing on my coin quilt. Let’s see…also made a little case for my new camera and recovered/repainted the bulletin board for the sewing room.
This weekend I need to get some crafting done for a swap partner and get some cleaning done around the house.
Yep, I am at it again with the Tree of LIfe. I made this one for a Blythe Swap on Craftster. The regular ones are 1.5″ across so this little one is about .75″ across. I’m calling it an apple tree. 
So yesterday was a mixed bag. On the good side I scooted my way to JoAnns. ‘Big deal’ you may think…but for the scared-to-drive girl it was pretty darn good to go down Chandler Blvd on Saturday morning the 3-4 miles to the store…then to the bank…then to the grocery. Woo hoo and ‘go me’/
And then things went bad from there. The AC was making an odd rattling noise…before that it sounded odd when it turned off. I didn’t think much of either of these things. Then yesterday afternoon the burning smell started. Now that I thought something of. I turned off the the AC. Tried it again and no cold air. I called the repair people (found someone in the phone book that didn’t charge extra for weekends) and they were going to have someone come out Sunday. About an hour later they called again and were sending someone out that night since they had a cancellation.
The blower motor is unbalanced (pretty much meaning not there isn’t ANYTHING balanced in my life) and a bad bearing yadda yadda. They guy had the right motor but in the unit I have now the bracket is fused to the motor so the guy had no way to put the new one in. Mornday the motor and wheel will be ordered and I can get those put in. So much for the savings pike I had started to accumulate.
Ferrets don’t do well in the heat so I was really freaked out about my baby. I called B and he said he would get him in the morning. So I slept in small slices throughout and the night, awaking to check on Napoleon and put ice near him and wet him (ferrets can’t sweat to a fan alone doesn’t do much). The thermostat read 90 so I was really paranoid since that is around the temp where he could have had heatstroke. His little footpads were warm and I had to keep checking if they and his nise looked too pink.
B came this morning and took Napoleon until Thursday and took Kitaro too. I miss that little guy so much. So it is just me and the cats here for now. We’ve got the front and back door open and all fans going. Those new windows can’t get here fast enough!
I suspect Napoleon has rat tail (but there is also a chance of adrenal disease) so he is going to the vet Thursday along with B’s kitten.
And this is my last day of vacation. I really want to cry. I don’t want to go back to that place. I feel my soul dying already. I have more than enough to deal with in my life that I don’t need the drama of that place.
Let’s recap though that I did get done over my vacation:
* cleaned sewing room including the closet!
* rode scooter a lot
* whacked weeds in the back
* ordered new windows
* finished a quilt
* started 2 new quilts
* sent a swap package
* kept the house picked up
* saw Louis CK at the Improv
* made lots of Blythe clothes for Gracie
* emailed an old friend
* tried meditation
I did want to get the bathrooms cleaned but I think that will have to wait until I get the AC fixed. I did way more crafting than I did cleaning but eh I figure I needed the crafting due to all the stress I have right now.