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I Got Nothing

Monday, January 14th, 2013

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I have been pretty much working on registration for the SDA Conference.  We had several glitches at the beginning, but basically, people are finding the website easy to navigate. The problems are the behind the scenes stuff, verifying payments, getting proper reports, etc. It has been very time consuming and going on since Saturday night.

Scooter and I walked down to the Rhodie Garden this morning and it started to snow.

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I always look at the ducks and geese in the water when it is so cold and wonder how they deal with it.

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In the winter the graphically interesting Buffleheads are at the garden. I love seeing them.

 

buffleheads

 

I was going to post that I felt I had to give up on my drawing a day. I have not had time for days. Then, when I opened up to my blog just now, I saw the last drawings that I did and I was quite happy to see them. It made me want to find a way to keep it up.

I have finally stopped the incessant coughing. I still need about a box of tissues a day, however. Also, an update on my hip pain. The exercise has been working, but I was assigned to do it for another two weeks. Then, I will start on another routine. I feel so much better than I did a couple of months ago.

Yesterday morning I helped with Sunday School at Trinity. They had an amazing display and activities for the kids about many of the world religions. Each station had a beautiful banner and objects from that religion which the kids could pick up and examine.

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There were many art projects about the different religions.

Decorating candles with colored wax pieces. Prayer bundles that were fashioned into a necklace to wear, prayer bead bracelets, prayer flags, etc.

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prayerflags

 

So there you have it. My sort of nothing post!!

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The Art of Doing Nothing…

Wednesday, January 9th, 2013

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I have been perfecting it for the last 5 days. It is all quite a blur. Where was I when I was rudely interrupted by a vicious upper respiratory bug. I helped to test the new online registration system for the SDA conference. I have little memory of it as I was in a stupor, but there were enough glitches that we postponed the opening of registration to next week-end.

Mr C and I went to see The Book of Mormon on Saturday night. It was so hilarious, I almost forgot that I was sick. We paid too much for the tickets to miss it.

Since Sunday, I have pretty much been in my PJ’s in  bed. I was supposed to make a big pot of soup for commission meeting night at Trinity last night. I got dressed and Mr C took me to the store to buy ingredients for white bean, kale and sausage soup. I chopped veggies in my Cuisinart and sauteed then sausage. I packed everything up with detailed instructions and sent him off to meet my friend, Diane. With her help, he actually made the soup and got kudos for how delicious it was.

Today, I went to see the Dr and started on antibiotics. The most annoying thing is the awful cough. I feel better tonight and scanned my drawings with my iPhone scanner. Mr C said it was nice to see me doing something. Here they are.

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So there you have it. I am supposed to go to STASH tomorrow, but I don’t think I will make it. I still feel quite wiped out.

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What Are You Scared Of?

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

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First of all, Happy New Year. I have been cleaning up, putting away, doing laundry, shopping for food, and deliberating on whether I would do a daily art project and if so what. I thought of doing a weekly or monthly project, but I think it would be too easy to get off track.

I was going to do a small simple collage using found objects. I nixed that. I kept dancing around doing the thing that scares me the most — doing a drawing or sketch every day. I have often said that I can not draw, but what if I worked at it every day?

So, that is what I am doing. I have started with a very small Moleskine sketchbook, about the size of my iPhone. I trust that you will bear with me as I work through this experiment.

Here is my first drawing from yesterday.

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And here is today’s

1-2-13 drawing

 

Whew! I did it. Now, I suppose, I am committed. I plan to move on to a larger sketchbook and play with some color, eventually.

Today, I did a lot of SDA catchup work. We are getting ready to test the online registration system for the San Antonio Conference which goes live next week and my work begins. I am currently composing a confirmation letter to all the registrants with info on San Antonio and the conference.

I also finished the quilting on the Rosales Organ Piece. I need to add some finishing touches and decide how to do the edges and move on to something new.

I am missing my peeps, but they are all happy to be home and back to their routines.

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Toot Sweet

Thursday, December 6th, 2012

I had a minor disaster yesterday. I lost the screw from the hinge on my new red glasses. I know there are repair kits, but these were so new that I wanted to make sure they got repaired properly. That was not my disaster. I went out to the Kaiser Vision Center to get them fixed after lunch. I also stopped at Macy’s to find something to wear to my upcoming semi-fancy holiday events. I found a nice glittery gold sweater that I can wear with black or brown pants. That was easy.

I got home with just barely enough time to dial in for an SDA teleconference with the San Antonio conference staff. My computer was not behaving. I couldn’t open mail where the e-mail with the phone  and code were. It said I had to close mail and restart to repair the index. It proceeded to download over 10000 e-mails, most were in my delete file. It took almost an hour to get the e-mail working again. Some of the retrieved e-mails were totally blank. So that was my disaster. I missed the tele-conference and had to apologize to every one.

This morning we were to have new insulated honeycomb shades installed in the kitchen. He was supposed to come between 9 and 11. At 11, I made a call to find out what was up. He was running late which was a problem because Scooter needed to be taken for a walk, Mr C had a dental hygiene appt. and I had a hair cut appt.  He turned up at 11:30 and took no time at all to do the install. Scooter got walked and we made our appts. The shades are beautiful – bronze in color – to match the woodwork and the granite counter top. I loved the curtains that I had made from a mid-century fabric, but they got too messy over the sink. We decided we wanted a cleaner, less fussy look.

I have been working on the next and last 12 x 20 piece for the Twelve blog. The theme is sweet. I came up with jazz as my quilt theme because you know, jazz is s-weet! Here are some of the fabrics I am working with and for once, I am not going out to buy more batiks.

I am having fun working on this. The reveal is 12/12/2012!!

Here is today’s 3 x 3.

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What the Heck?

Wednesday, November 14th, 2012

I saw the physical therapist yesterday. Her assessment is that there really isn’t much wrong with my knees, it is my left hip that is causing the knees to hurt. I have had a problem with that hip since I was in an automobile accident back in 2003. My friend, Pat, and I were driving to PIQF in Santa Clara. We were almost there and BAM, a woman ran a red light and hit my car broadside and it seemed like we spun around and around and around. The Lexus was 2 months old, but it protected us from serious injuries. My door nor the sun roof could be opened so the policeman asked if I could climb out the passenger’s side. Ahem. I am not a small woman. Nothing worked in the car so we could not move the seats back. I was in shock anyway. So I managed to maneuver out from behind the steering wheel and out of the car.

Soon after, I started having pain in my left hip. I was diagnosed with a torn piriformis muscle. I walked with a cane until it was better. However, I have had pain in that hip off an on since then. I have almost become immune to the pain. The pain in my knees was new and I didn’t realize they were connected. Long story short, I have to have the hip x-rayed and in the meantime, I have to walk with a cane, again. Scooter does not like the cane and thinks I am walking to slowly. I am not a happy camper. It is most painful to do stairs, and I am always up and down to my studio so I have tried to manage my day better so that I stay down or up for longer periods of time.

I have been working on Constant Contact e-mails and going to appointments and thus, slacking in the studio. I did get a couple of 3 x 3’s done. I think I am clear to get back to quilting tomorrow.

At least the weather has been sunny, but cool. I think we have one more day to enjoy before the rains return.

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