The Queen's Rambles

Anyone watch Lost? No spoilers, I promise, but what the hell? Talk about a mind trip. I guess I’ll spend all day tomorrow obsessing over the forums and blogs.

We’re supposed to be getting a big storm tonight. Ugh. That probably means there won’t be school tomorrow, which is not ideal. Erik was just about on my last nerve tonight, even with him going to a babysitter and his exercise class today. I am just not a good night mommy.

Ok, now I’m even more confused. Is there another episode? I guess so.

How am I supposed to write an entry and watch another Lost episode at the same time?

Anyway, I signed Erik up for swim classes through the British Swim School today. It’s a lot cheaper and more effective than the county classes, but Erik is already freaking out because he doesn’t want to get his face wet. The first class is going to be a disaster. They basically throw them in and try to get them to come up, roll over and float. They start with survival swimming before moving up to real swimming. I know other people in the program and it is supposed to be very good, if scary at first. I hope I am able to stand watching Erik be tortured. It is all for the greater good, I know. He wants to swim without his jacket this summer so he is going to have to know how to handle himself in water.

Remember how I told you I got the major up sell when I was trying to re-order my 10X10 picture of Erik? I thought I had just ordered a framed 10X10 print. I was looking at the receipt and I ordered a 16×16 framed print. Holy shit! That’s going to be huge! Where am I going to put it? The shrine of Erik? I love pictures of him, of course, but that seems more than a wee bit excessive. It is a beautiful picture of him and will look great, I’m sure, but man. Big! And, of course, that means that in a few years I’m going to have to order a giant picture of Elsa so she’s not sad. At least I’ll know to order it in January after the Christmas rush. It was certainly not the price I would expect to pay for a huge ass framed picture.

I spent a lot of the day quilting! Whoo-hoo! I’ve totally lost my quilting mojo. My LJ friend, Ofenjen, is collecting orphan blocks and log cabin blocks that she’ll turn into charity quilts. I went through and found several blocks I can send, but then decided to try my hand at making a couple of log cabin blocks. Ha! I read the directions, but sort of skipped over the part where they were for 10″ blocks instead of 12″ blocks. My brain was not functioning. I was not thinking about seam allowances at all, so eventually I realized I wasn’t going to get the right sized block. I started slicing stuff from the edges and using different sized strips and eventually ended up with the right sized blocks, but they sure don’t look good! Plus, I was making them really scrappy and boy oh boy are they scrappy. The overly bright, scrappy look combined with the ever blinking CFL bulb in my lamp just about gave me a seizure. Kids like bright things, right?

I’m excited to be back into the quilting game. I finished a quilt top for Elsa and just ordered some batting from overstock.com. It’s annoying to spend a bunch on batting when I know they sell it for half the price at a little shop up in Lancaster County. I was ready to hop in the car and drive up there on Sunday, except it was snowing and the Amish shops are closed on Sunday. I suppose a five hour round trip wouldn’t save me money in the long run, especially with Erik in the back seat.