Birds and the Bees and Other Nonsense

I lifted this from a Facebook friend today:

No need to explain yourself -- your friends don't need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

A block preview:

unstitched, the bird will get an eye, and I have some bee charms on order or I'll look for some more realistic looking buttons.  (Eclipse Quilt, of course!)  I used a McKenna Ryan pattern for the flower and made the bird by tracing a bird from some fabric I had.

Still struggling over the damn College block!!!!!!!!!!!!  I even bought felt in case I went back to the pennant idea.  M wants me to do a fabric envelope with real acceptance letter.  gah  I've created a monster.

The bracelet block that I needed was released for the Twilight BOM that Cat designed.  I'll be damned if I'll use it even if I really, really want to.  I have a wolf and heart charm on order.  I should be able to work something out in EQ because, after all, all the bracelet is is an elliptical shape.  It would be so much easier to just use the stupid pattern.

Court update:  $75 court costs, $150.00 fine (deferred judgment along with fine after one year if she doesn't have any more issues.)  Two hours at courthouse.  Came home to a report in the mail of straight As which was her saving grace.

Blinking

It pains me to say it and I never thought I would say it, but I'm blinking first.

I'm not the only one with the problem.

I'm tired of the fight.  I REALLY AM!  I'm tired of the constant stress.  I just want to have fun.  I want to quilt.  I just want to do my own thing.  I want to be left alone. 
There's room in this world.

I WILL NOT BE CHASED AWAY, though.

One Little Block

How can one little block cause so much trouble?

Since we didn't use UAS and Dartmouth pennants in the Penguins. Lovely block as it had already been taken, we've been trying to figure out a way to depict Bella's college choices in a quilt block.

First we thought we'd do two pennants in one block, but that idea was discarded.

Next the idea was to do have and envelope with the UAS logo with a Dartmouth application.

I'm graphically challenged so I can't put the logos I want on this picture:

The gold between the two white fabrics is supposed to be a manila envelope (needed a color break to separate the two whites.)

This is the UAS logo:

We need help!  Ideas?  We don't really want to print everything on photo fabric.

Off to See the Wizard

C's court date for her curfew violation is today.

I'm hoping, of course, that she'll get off with a warning.  Then, WE can dole out the big punishment....

Never Far Away

My anxiety is never far away.  I'm having rough time of it today.

The toughest thing for me in trying to get better, move on, cope.... is to figure out my triggers.  I'm still struggling with that.

What's strange is that I thought I was doing a lot better.  I've found a project to work on.  I moved forward with plans for my group.  We had a nice weekend.  I shouldn't have much to be anxious about.

It's days like this that I feel the most hopeless.

Indecisive

I dislike that I am so indecisive.

I have no less than 5 patterns picked out for the Birds and the Bees block.  I bought a couple more tonight.  Ugh!  The only thing I decided on, I think...., is using a couple of charm bees for the Bees.

C's team lost their game badly and ended up in 2nd Place to finish the tournament.  They got beat up, literally, by a Nebraska team of questionable....integrity?  The tournament was only supposed to be a Rec-based tournament and Competitive teams weren't supposed to be able to play.  The rumor is that this team, who has attended for years, is a Competitive team.  Apparently they have different rules in Nebraska for how their teams and leagues are classified.  This same team is traveling to Montana next weekend--sounds competitive to me.

It also didn't help that the 16-year old ref sucked.  Our girls got beat-up physically.  At one point, he told a couple of parents from our team that they would be watching the game from their cars if they didn't shut up.  The one goal the girls scored was disallowed because supposedly the scorer was offsides.  Huh?  She had a fast break and ran around the defender by herself and she was still called offsides.

It was a crap day.  I forgot my sunscreen and didn't ask to use anyone else's, thinking that I would be okay since it was so early.  Wrong!  My arms are bright red and my face got more sunburned.  The Colorado sun is fierce!!!!

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