Is it Tuesday Again Already?

 I got most of the things on last week's list done. Sort of. I did no work on the RSC blocks. And my tables are all still cluttered even though I had moved a lot of stuff. 

And what does Chris have on her tables in the Blue Room aka Quilt Room/Office?

Here is the FPP paraphernalia for the Wedding Quilt. Notice the vintage Singer Featherweight and 3 lamps 

Beside that is the 6 foot ironing board sitting atop the ends of both 8 foot tables. This is a pile of blocks that have been prepped for at least a couple of years. Some longer. I thought if I made just 1 block a day I would have noticeable progress. Did not happen.

This is the small design wall sitting on top of one of the 7 tables in the room. The Wedding Quilt blocks were up the day I took these pictures. It changes often. In front is the box of notes for the books I am writing. No progress on them either. On the floor behind are containers of photographs from the past 50 years. I have a plan for them.

Moving to the left is the big desk calendar I use to plan out and track my monthly goals. On top of that is a see through lid from butter cookies, which are quite yummy. I love using these as shallow trays to keep my hand stitching things from wandering away like onto the floor. I was working on a Morrell block.

Moving more to the left is my Morning Pages notebook. I have eased up on how often I write them. I no longer write them if I sleep in. Sleep in you say? Sure. I do that 2-3 times a week when I stay up half the night reading or playing, but seldom working. Sleeping in is getting up after 8 am. 

I keep a plant nearby to dump the left over water from my cup. It has thrived. The yellow one is plastic. What can I say? It was a gift from my Sweetie. It stays. I had been reading the Bible chronologically over the past few years and this week I finished it. Behind that are about a third of my journals. I was looking for some information from a few years back and ended up sitting up half the night a couple of times reading. I love reading my old journals! Besides having memories on a time line, I can see how far I have come over the years and how I am still writing up the same goals and to-do lists. Too bad no one else will be able to read my hand writing. It has not improved with age. 

What has in proved with age is my attitude about a lot of things. This book landed in my hands the other day and I am so excited about it! It is 40 essays written by 40 Christian women over 40 on aging, faith, beauty, and strength. It is right up my alley. I am giving serious consideration to doing a book study this summer with my Women's Small Group. It can be 40 days. Reading 1 chapter a day. 

I even have a small notebook I use to plan out my weekly To-Do Tuesday lists. This week:

1. Write 3 times. Already wrote today and taking part in a Virtual Writing Retreat later this week. 
2. Do not touch Lucy this week. I will to put her out of the way.
3. Sew one, just one Morrell block. I have had it ready for more than 4 years. It should take an hour. 
4. Sew one Bright Jane block for RSC. No point in pretending to be part of the group if I do not actually participate. One block? How hard can it be?
5. 15 Minutes a Day Sewing.
6. And my darling eldest granddaughter conned me into doing a Whole30 clean eating program with her. We started yesterday. That means no sugar, no grains, no dairy, no legumes, no additives or chemicals. Sigh. I probably will thank her for the prompts. She is trying to figure our her acne and I need to feel better. She is reading the labels and had Grampa take her shopping to buy some compliant foods. Basically meat and vegetables with a bit of fruit and plated fats. It's only 30 days. No, its only 28 more days. We can do this.

Blessings,

Chris 

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Day 9

One challenge I am working on is the omg-one-monthly-goal.
My December quilting goal is to complete the Simple Simon quilt top. I have not touched it for a whole two weeks. That will be my task today. To touch it. There are ten days until the end of the month. That means I should try to get at least three blocks assembled each day. Since most of the smaller units are already done, that should work. This is what four blocks together look like so far. Only 32 more to go.

I often bite off more than I can chew. I thought it would be fun to join in on the 2016-31-day-blog-writing-challenge/ and it is. However, I have to discipline myself to sit here every day and write something worth reading, I can write something every day, but is it worth reading? I love to read, I spend way too much time reading blogs and facebook. I should spend more time reading my textbooks and my Bible.

But the challenge states that we will build habits. I need to build habits. Some of the ones I have now are not working for me. For example, I go to bed way too late. To my defense, I get a second wind and my brain is alive and active after 9 pm. But often it is reading or playing computer games. And I cannot stop a game that I have not competed. Sometimes I just put my computer to sleep so I can come back to it the next day.
Then I get up way to late in the morning.  This being retried has its moments. But I do get to spend time with my grandchildren. Like having the three and a half year old here all day yesterday and babysitting all the girls last night. So that must be why I did not get anything else done. And I forgot my project bag.

Blessings,
Chris