aaahhh...home sweet home

Well, I'm back home again. I had a ton of fun on vacation, however, it is always nice to return home again. It was hard last night to settle. I went from having three weeks filled with people noise and hustle bustle to...a large empty quiet house. My puppy wasn't even here yet. (I pick her up from the sitters later this morning.) my last few hours in California were a bit of a drag, as I finally got ahold of the insurence people concerning my car. It is a total loss, and they aren't even offering us enough money to pay off the loan, let alone put anything down on a new car. My FIL thinks we should fight it, and at least try to get the remainder of what it would cost to pay off the loan. Oh and also! They originally told me that I should have a rental car for 30 days, now because it was considered a total loss I only get it for another ten days. What the hell am I supposed to do for the rest of the time DH is in Iraq?! Walk in 100+ degree heat to work, half an hour each way?! I could take the bus, but this hell hole town has the crappiest bus service I have ever seen! They don't even run their buses past 6 in the evening!!! And no service at all on Sundays! I am so pissed! This isn't even my fault! It's not my fault that kid didn't know that when a car is going through a green light you don't turn left into them! Stupid hick! Ugh!!!! It's his screw up and I am @$$ out now! The whole reason why I hurried up and got my driver's licence was so that I would have transportation while DH is gone, and now! I'm screwed! what makes it so bad is that I am being punished for someone else's mistake, HE ran into me! and I have to deal with all this!
::Rant over:: If anyone has any advice for me I will gladly take it! I have never had to deal with anything like this and I don't even know where to start. I feel so alone, as my DH isn't even here to help me.
Onto better and brighter news!
STITCHING! The one thing that helps me keep my sanity.
Here is a photo of my progress on Snow Valley Express. This is at 19 hours. I think it is coming along alright, even if it is slow. There is so much detail that the pattern is sort of hard to read, and so it seems slow going, but I think I should be able to get it done by Christmas. I have decided I don't think I will try to rush it like I did with my mom's. Mostly because I really want to have time to do some of the projects I want to do for ME.
Well, I was going to post a photo of me at the wedding, but blogger has decided I only get to post one picture today. How nice. So I will save that one for tomorrow! I am off to stitch a bit before I head out to pick up my puppy. Bye!

A little more stitching, and early morning musings

Well, yesterday I did get a bit more stitching in, before heading off for Santa Barbera. I'd say about 45-60 minutes more, not a whole lot. This mroning, I woke up at 4 in the morning, for whatever reason, and couldn't go back to sleep. And I started thinking about diet and exercise. I am planning on having a tiny wedding ceremony in December, for family and friends, and I want to look good in my wedding gown (not to mention the cruise my hubby istaking me on in Nov. ) but right now, despite various efforts, I am 5 pounds overweight. It's funny, because when I look at myself, or look in the mirror, I don't see it, but when I look at pictures...I see it! I was looking at the pictures from the wedding I was in this past weekend, and I was not happy. I weighed myself on my mom's bathroom scale, and....ugh. But yet, I keep eating. It's easy to do on vacation, you don't have a lot of time to work out,a nd you eat, that is just what vacations are for. I for one, LOVE food, Juicy hamburgers, spaghetti, fried junk, i love it all. I love to eat, and i do enjoy exerceise, but tend to start off strong, then a few weeks later, I'm lucky to go for a stroll once a week. I don't know how t stay motivated. I have tried everything, even putting pictures of girls from fitness mags up on my fridge. This is coming froma girl who up until she was 22 years old was fluctuating between 99 and 105 pounds for most of her teen and early adult hood life. Then! I went to college. I still exercised but I ate alot too. and ever since then I have just had the hardest time managing the weight that I would like to be. It is hard, because for so long, i could get away with eating anything I wanted, and I didn't have to worry about weight gain, now, though...I guess with getting older comes a freaked out metabolism, and i know the best way to keep on top of it is to work out. But, I try and I always loose interest after a few weeks. I try to diet but then I break down and give in to my cravings.

My mom has really been a motivating factor in this thought process I am going through this morning, because she has just recently lost 20 pounds, and I think if she can do it, I certainly can, as my mom is older and crippled. She eats very little but she is a very busy lady despite her handicaps. So what's my problem?! How come I can't seem to loose weight? I know that consistency is the key, and that is the hardest part for me. I always think once I start to look good again that I can slack off in my exercise or my eating habits, and then it is like a snowball rolling downhill, before i know it, I find myself eating whatever i want, and not doing any workouts at all, or very little, again.

Anyway, sorry you had to listen to all that mumbling. I just wish I could have more motivation to loose weight, but I have what I can "New Years resolution syndrome" You start off strong and within a month you can't even remember what your resolutions were. I guesss the only thing i can do is start again!

I got some stitching in...

It's about time! I was finally able to get a bit of stitching in on dad's piece yesterday morning. I worked on it about 1 and a hlaf hours, and you can barely see the progress. Today I am going to Santa Barbera with mom to go shopping. So, I guess I could have gotten up and stitched a bit while she is getting ready, but instead I am reading blogs. I am reading Bellastitcher (?) I think that is the name, it is really good, and inspiring. Makes me just want to sit down with my needle. so, I think I am going to go get ready and maybe I will have a bit of time to sit and get some stitching in before we leave. My mom takes FOREVER to get ready! So, I should have some time before we leave and maybe i can take it with me and work on it in the car. (as it takes about an hour to get there from my parent's home.)

still having fun!

Well, I just returned yesterday to my parent's home in Southern California from going up to midstate to be in my best friend's wedding. It was so beautiful!!! And! I actually, amongst all the hoopla, got a little bit of stitching in. One day we drove to Monteray from Santa Cruz where my friend lives, and it is about an hour's drive, so I got a bit of stitching in the car, and then later that day I had about an hour of time to myself while my friend went to San Jose to a doctor's appointment, other than that, no stitching.

I go back home on Thursday so I still have a few days to visit my family here. today is going to be a relaxing, kick back day and then tomorrow me and mom are going to Santa Barbera and go shopping, then Wednesday we are going to meet up with some family and have dinner, and that is my first year Wedding anniversary, so I have to wait around the house because my honey is having something delivered for me. And Thursday, my wonderful vacation ends. I am sort of looking forward to getting back to my home, and the quiet and solitude, with time to stitch and read and do all the things I enjoy doing, and I will have my puppy with me again. I miss her so much! I hear that she is having fun at the place where she is, there are other doggies to play with. She may not want to come home!

Well, not much to report, I have pictures of the wedding and such to show, but my parents don't have a scanner to put them in on the computer so I will have to wait until I get home to show you all my dress, and other pictures. Hope you are all having a wonderful Monday!

A California girl is "home"

Hello! I am at my parents house right now visiting, and havign a great tiem. yesterday we went to the beach, which I love and miss like crazy. My little nephew is here for the weekend, and we bought him a new scooter, because he had an excellent report card. so, yesterday was a pretty fun day Today and tomorrow I think that I am going to hang out and play with my nephew, and just relax. afterall isn't that what vacations are all about?

But I could just kick myself int he butt! I brought stitching with me, but! I brought my dad's birthday gift to work on, Well, I very well cannot work on it here, he'll see it! UGH! Oh well, On Monday I will be flying up north, to my best friends wedding. I am her Matron of Honor, and so I have to be there extra early, and so I will probably have time to work on it there. I only have a million other projects going, and I had to bring THAT one! Oh well, I was trying to be logical...I know that is the next project I need to finish next, so I wanted to bring it with me so I'd be sure to work on it. So, in a way I was thinking, but just forgot that I couldn't stitch that project in front of my dad. ooops.

Well, I am enjoying my time here very much, and I will try to write a bit while I'm here.

still here.

Well, things have been busy. I don't think I mentioned it, but I was in a car wreck on Thursday, the very day my mother came in, I was on my way to the airport to pick her up and I was going through a green light and the guy coming towards me making a left hand turn turned right into me. Whammmo! Barely had my licence 3 months, and my first car accident!!! Thank goodness we have some great insurence through my husbands job, and stuff. I was able to get a rental car the very next morning, and yes, I was able to get a ride to the airport to get my mom.
And to think I waited all this time, I just turned 28 to get my license because I was so afraid to get hit, and here-I get hit! But! I thought it would totally freak me out and make me not want to drive, and I couldn't wait to get my rental car and keep on going! There are so many idiots out there! And wouldn't you know? the first day I got the rental car,(the very day after my car accident) I was coming home from work and missed getting hit again by just inches by someone who ran a stop sign!
Anyway, I am enjoying my visit with mom so much! Her and I were best friends as I was growing up and then we sorta grew apart, as I got older and I sorta got my own friends and went away to college, but now that I am married and am on my own, we have grown so close again! My hubby and my dad are so much alike it's comical, and we are always sharing stories about our men! I mean we stay up and just laugh, and have such a good time.
However, with all this fun of hanging out with mom I have not had much of a chance to stitch at all. I think I put maybe 20 stitches in as I was waiting for her to get ready for us to go to breakfast, the other day but other than that none at all, and I have hardly read any blogs either, because everytime I start to, she will come in and we start chatting again. Oh well, it's no big deal. I will just have to catch up when I get back from Cali.
Well, I will return soon. Just going on a little trip. and I hope to have a photo of Nov. Quilt when I get home, my mom took a pic of it with her digi cam, but she doesn't have the connection cable with her to print it out, so I have to wait unitl I get to her house and then maybe I can put it on here.
Happy Fourth of July! I hope you all have a beautiful, safe holiday!

disappearing acts.

Well, so sorry I will probably disappear here for a bit, as my mom is here for the week, then I will be flying to california for awhile to visit family and friends. so, I am not thinking there will be much stitching or blogging in my near future. sorry! And thank you to all of you who left comments on my finish, I was able to get a self matting/ frame that fit November quilt to a T, and I love it, and my mother loves it as well. So, I guess my next big project will have to be my father's birthday gift which is overdue as well. Talk with you all later!