New Computer!

My "work laptop" ate it.

So, for Valentine's day, the Hubby (aka HHBG) bought me a new desktop. I spent a few hours today settig it up and installing all of my third-party software....well, most of it.

THEN I found out that I need ink for my printer....add it to the list.

At least, I should be able to get the embroidery machines churning soon.

For my birthday next Thursday.....he got me a tent. Yay!

BLAH

OK, no pics, but I DID work in the basement for 7 hours yesterday.

It's my birthday next Thursday. The hubby is taking me out for dinner...without the kids. :)

I need to be here more. Life has been crazy. I am still trying to get ready for my trip in 7 weeks....

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year!

I am publicly posting my New Year's resolution in the hopes that this year I will actually keep it:

In 2008, I resolve to actually organize my sewing room/stash.

This will be a full time job, I swear. Here are some before pictures:

Think I've got my work cut out for me, or what?

I'll post photo updates as I get things stored and organized. Should be fun! (I hope!) I will also be sewing up a storm to pay for the storage. lol.

By the way: yes, this stash is spread between my enormous attic, a finished room in said attic, and my basement work room. It will still be spread out this way after organizing. I make a number of different things, so the spread will work out, as each area will hold fabic for a different use.

I am cursed

So, while my embroidery/sewing machines were out for repairs taking 4-6 weeks, I decided to buy a new machine so I would have access to embroideries while I waited for the other machines. i then figured I could sell the extraneous machine after I got the old ones back.

BUT. The new machine was delivered damaged. *sigh* So, IT'S out for repair, too. THis repair though, should only take 4-10 days, at least.

Oh well. good thing I have a bunch of work that doesn't require embroidery, huh?

Hopefully soon, I'll be able to restock the websites adn start selling again...oh, if only!

The Sewing machine debacle

SO, I have a budding business. I call it budding, even though it has officially been a business for 2+years and has made less than $500....mostly due to the business being put to the side any time anything happens. *sigh*

SO, I finally decided that this was the year. This was when I was going to get serious and start sewing up a storm. It worked for about a week. I sewed 5 hours a day every week day for 10 days (I can only work when kiddos are in school). I finally got mostly caught up on my non-business sewing and was ready to start bearing down and working. Everything was ready to go.

Then my first sewing/embroidery machine stopped working properly. OK....there was a repair day coming up when the tech would be at the dealership, and I had the back up machine. It wasn't great, but things were OK. I continued to sew.....

Then the second embroidery/sewing machine had something completely unrelated to the other machine's problem occur. In 2 days, I was down both embroidery/sewing machines. Now, I used to SELL machines, I know I wasn't doing anything to them to cause these issues. *sigh*. I just chalked it up to bad luck, thanked my lucky stars this happened right before the repair day, brought the machines in for work and bought a back-up sewing machine while I was there.

The back up machine didn't work properly. I brought THAT ONE in for repair. HMMMMMM......no sewing for a week

Friday I went in to pick up the machines which were supposedly fixed. I sewed on them at the store to be sure. They had NOT been fixed. The manager agreed with me. In fact, one machine was worse off than when I had brought it in!! Conspiracy thoughts began swirling in my head....

The back up machine was declared a lemon. I have a new one to be picked up on Tuesday.

The 2 embroidery/sewing machines need to be sent to the repair center and be fixed because we won't let the repair guy "fix" them again....besides he won't do it until NEXT MONTH's repair day. jerk.

So, again, no sewing. no embroidery machines for 4-6 weeks.

I think the fates are trying to tell me something.....fortunately I'm too stubborn to listen.

Opening Week Sunday...random thoughts

So, being in the NY metro area, I only got to watch the Jets-Patriots game and the Bears-Chargers games...which sucks. A few things stuck with me from watching the games. Most not football related.

1. I'm relatively embarrassed to be a Jets fan this week. The loud, enthusiastic cheering when Kellen Clemens took the field after Pennington hurt his ankle in the second half was disgusting to me. Fortunately, it was disgusting to the announcers, too. What a revolting display by the crowd at the game. Pennington tried MULTIPLE TIMES to walk off what could have been a really bad injury (watch the replay if you don't believe me), and when he finally gave up and left the field, they had the nerve to cheer uproariously for his back-up? Ew.

2. By the way: Pennington looked pretty darn good for a guy everyone's been clamoring to have replaced. Clemens looked like a rookie. Just my opinion, but maybe Pennington is a little hesitant in the pre-season because of his history. He looked just fine in the opener...and darn awesome when he came back for a drive after hurting himself. Talk about proving something.

2. Ok, the "Viva Viagra" commercial is just gross....MOST ED commercials are gross...some more so than others...the others are just vague enought o be confusing. For example...what does bathing in separate tubs outdoors have to do with sex?

3. Speaking of commercials, does anyone else find it ironic that the soundtrack to the NFL commercial with Shawn Merriman and Steven Jackson "leaving nothing on the field" is a song called "the Kiss"? Hee hee. Think I'm kidding? Check out the Last of the Mohicans soundtrack. I loved that movie.

4. The networks need to figure out something with this whole "game jumping" crap. We lost the last 2 minutes (the important ones) of the Green Bay/Philly game because of "contractual obligations" to show the Bears-Chargers game. WHO CARES about the first five minutes of a game when the game is TIED with seconds left in the game?? Gah.

Ahhhh...football is back. There goes my diet. It's just not a game without beer, chips, and dip, is it?

Dreams

Have you ever had a dream that you just found to be disturbing? I woke up this morning from a dream that revealed things going on in my mind to me that, frankly, I really think I would have preferred to have left buried. I just woke up in a really "off" mood because of this, and I am really having problems shaking it. Oh well.