Wednesday, October 15, 2008
More Fool Me!
Through the summer I watch for sales on wall hanging/lap quilts and when they dropped to roughly 50% off I bought one. I figured I would be laid up for roughly three months so there was plenty of time. I ended up purchasing four Christmas theme to do for gifts. Never mind that my embroidery skills suck. Not thinking I might not feel like fussing with those pesky little Xs either. I put them in my closet for the coming lay up.
Now I have come to the conclusion that no way in h-e -double toothpicks am I going to get even one completed by the holidays.
I face several obstacles starting with I like to sit in the lazy boy with my feet up beside a good lamp on the table. Now Molly thinks this is her sleeping spot during the day and nothing short of turning on the vibrator will remove her from Her spot. Some days when I have other chores I’ll let her sleep but every once in a while I have to take drastic steps to gain the chair.
For awhile I tried sitting in the wheelchair at the dining room table. I separated my threads and put them on cardboard with identifying numbers but I kept knocking them in the floor. I tried thumb tacking them to the dining room wall but when I did get the chair my thread was on the wall in the dining room. I then put a dining chair beside the lazy boy and laid the threads there. But again I ended up knocking them on the floor.
But today the the light bulb that signifies bright idea flashed over my head. I am going to try to be walking now so why not use the walker for something constructive.
There you have it. Where ever I work the thread stand can be moved there. I figured it might inspire me to work on it a little more especially when I saw Molly eying all those lovely colored strings hanging down to the floor.
Now before you tell me what a dumb things that was to do let me explain. I still have Jay’s walker if I need it and I’m sure there are times when I will.
One of my other obstacles Is that I have to use the drug store reading glasses to see the the chart and the Xs on the material. After a while I feel the eyes being ‘pulled’ and I have to stop and do something else.
My last obstacle is I get bored or lazy I’m not sure which but this is not conducive to success in anything. Oh well I will muddle on anyway!
