I thought I had lost my original blog because every time I tried to access it, the page would pop up for a second, disappear, and go to some weird link, so I started creating a new blog. Then, when I was messing around with "Adsense" all of a sudden my old blog popped up! Talk about releasing a considerable sigh 😎. I then combined the two, deleted the new one I had started on, and updated the look and feel. I hope it looks better.
Hubby went fishing with daddy today so I've got the day to do whatever I want without too much interruption. I'm currently listening to "The Map of Bones", book 2 in the Fire Sermon trilogy by Fancesca Haig, cleaning up the quilting emails that I've hung onto for years, saving them into OneNote, while waiting on my grandson to wake up so I can sew some today and then hopefully finish watching From on Amazon Prime with my daughter, I'm just dying to find out what the heck is going on. We recently finished season 2 of Yellowjackets, which we absolutely loved!
My weight has gone up since being placed on insulin. I can no longer take any of the newer medications like Victoza, Trulicity, and Monjauro because they have caused pancreatitis, which is not a fun thing. So I'm now up to my highest weight and struggling to lose it, especially since my spinal surgery. I'm in constant pain, but it is a struggle to do anything that remotely involves walking or exercising because of the pain, which means, even if I were to starve myself, I couldn't lose weight because I'm not able to burn the calories necessary based on my daily intake to stay alive. What a vicious cycle right? So I continue to struggle and focus on the best life I can live with pain.
So as far as my quilting goes, I've been in a pretty bad depression ever since momma passed, and it's been 9 years now! It's been so hard for me to get in here and sew, mainly because I'm using momma's Babyloc machine and we did a lot of this together. But it's also been difficult because my daughter and grandson Xaiden, who will be 2 in December, moved in, and he is all about PawPaw and Nana. Even if my door is closed, he will come up to it and knock and holler out Nana, Nana! Love my boy but makes it hard to get, and stay, motivated. I have purchased Kathryn Kerr's Aves quilt project and am also working on her 365 Challenge quilt that I never finished, not the new one called Star of Wonder that came out in 2022, although I would love to work on that one too, it's closed now. And I am also working on the Jane A. Stickle Dear Jane quilt but using paper-piecing techniques thanks to Susan Gatewood and Electric Quilt. But I am also working on my WIPs that have been shoved into the closet for 9 years now waiting on me to bring them into the light of day. I have to make my quilting a priority again because it makes me happy, and I want to be happy.
That's about it for now. I decided since I spent a couple of days after work updating my blog, that I should at least post something, and I have managed to do that. Since I started this post my daughter and grandson have woken up from their nap and are waiting on me. Have a fantastic rest of your day!
Until next time....
