I'm Procrastinating

That's a big word for sitting on my butt doing nothing.  I really need to step up the pace and get out the door, otherwise my butt is NOT going to fit in those two pair of jeans I finally got into yesterday.

I picked up the house a little, trying to make it LOOK like I cleaned for my company, when I didn't.  I procrastinated until she arrived at 10:30, whereupon we wandered off to Applebee's, our best restaurant in town.

It took thirty minutes to get our meals, with only six people there for lunch.  I took not one picture, but the bourbon shrimp and chicken was at least edible.  Get this ..... I got a PLASTIC straw with my water.  Now I'm on a mission to find out just WHO is handing out paper straws.

Then I found this .... I AM self medicating with fabric.  That's my new excuse.

At any rate, my company didn't stay the night after all, so I washed those sheets just for the exercise of trying to make them fit back on the mattress, coughing all the while.  That left the entire afternoon to try and figure out WHY my sewing machine is STILL gathering the seams instead of sewing them flat, even after that repair/cleaning.

That was made even harder by the fact that the above panel measurements were NOT the same as the green border measurements next to it.  The green was over an inch too short.  Of course I had already cut the border to the size the directions told me.  That meant trimming the panel, which of course had major repercussions.  The 26 pieces making up the NEXT border ALL had to be adjusted too.  It was a mathematical nightmare!

As an excuse to stop sewing, I proceeded to the living room where sat a box full of wooden pieces.  One of the ladies at the Pumpkin Patch had lost her mother over a year previous.  Seems her mother was a quilter.  

I mentioned I might be looking for a quilting machine, whereupon she brought me this big box and gifted me her mother's frame, which never got put together.  She cried as she put it in my Jeep.  I knew not what to say.  She asked if maybe I could make her a quilt some day.

So now I have a BIG problem!  It's a very fancy frame, hand made in Salt Lake City, all wood similar to this one.  Trouble is, I have no inclination to hand quilt ANYTHING.  I want a computer-type machine quilter with metal frame.  Now what do I do???

I make pie of course!!  Here's a little taste of heaven, at least for me.  It's low carb frozen peanut butter pie.  Peanut butter, cream cheese and whipped cream.  What could be better??

I didn't procrastinate one single minute .... I cut a slice and enjoyed every bite outside on my patio where the weather has been between 55 and 75 every day and night.  It's fabulous .. both the weather AND the pie.

It's time to man up, or woman up as the case may be.  This house definitely needs a cleaning, room by room.  No more procrastinating!!!  Just as soon as I finish my coffee, and sit with the puppies for a minute, and maybe have another piece of pie while playing Words with friends and ..... and .........