Well, I should be going to bed, but I thought I would ramble on for awhile. Since November and the completion of the T-shirt quilt, I've been working on my bookshelf quilt. It is almost done ... but I want to enjoy the finishing touches and not feel "driven" to do it. So, everyone at our quilting group comes past my machine and wonders whether I'm finished it. No, I'm not. I have finished a few other things though, as you can see above. I've also done a couple little projects ... quilted pads that go under our sewing machines and a"thread-catcher".
I really need to wrap up a few of my little projects as spring is finally beginning to happen, and soon the quilting season will be over. (What? It has a season?) Our quilting group will be meeting into the month of May and then will just have a few get-togethers over the summer.
What have I been up to besides quilting? There was income tax to send in, for myself, husband, daughter, mother and mother-in-law. I discovered that I had 5 employers last year ... which would really confuse the Employment Insurance office if I submitted a claim. Two substitute teaching jobs, two secretarial, and then O'Keefe Ranch. My 2 sons have started working on weekends ... so I suppose next year I'll have 7 tax forms to prepare. There's Facebook ... I resisted the Timeline as long as possible and then got enthusiastic about putting my life history (and appropriate photos) into it. There's also a new group for some of the TW alumni ... and we've been doing a lot of reminiscing. Trinity Western is celebrating their 50th anniversary this year, and it will be my 30 year reunion as well ... I would really love to go. We'll see.
Books and papers ... someone recommended a particular author for our church library. I hadn't read anything by her before, so I went on-line to the regional library and requested some of her books. I've read 3 so far and don't think she's appropriate for the church library, but is definitely a writer of absorbing books. I've also been helping my daughter with her papers for university ... times have sure changed! I used to have to take out books from the library or travel 45 minutes or more from Trinity to UBC to do research in the "big" library. My kid can go on-line, sign in to the UBC library, and then download journal articles from around the world! She'll probably never know the feeling of being in the stacks 4 or 5 floors down, until 10 pm or so (Hogwarts library or the one in Ghostbusters must have been in one of these university libraries to get their ideas. Although I've never had a book yell at me.)
Sons were on Spring Break ... I tried to continue life as normal, with quilting, New Hope, and a new secretarial job for Canadian Kindness Society. For some reason, they seem to think I am the source of all cooked food in the house. Sigh. I'm not even that fond of cooking when they are only home for one meal a day (yes, they are breakfast-skippers).
Two minutes to midnight. Time to wrap up the ramble, take some medication, and get to bed.
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