Mom's gone back.
Dad's come back.
House hunting still...
Still anxious.....
Still unsettled...
Need Sacher Torte!
It begins..again
Another week to look forward to. More 'things-to-do' up my sleeves. More homeschooling work and goals to monitor. More of folded laundry to put away (at least they are folded!!).
Less of Mr.Darcy.
Less of Mr.Darcy.
What I Learned This Week
That the BFF's idea of having a "What I learned This Week" is a fantastic idea, one that is to be copied!That the kids prefer cookies than cakes/cupcakes! I still adamantly bake cakes because I know it stays just that much longer in the fridge, you know in case we get unexpected visitors. Cookies simply disappears and nobody owns up. Who dunnit??
That in doing up a bucketlist and a 5 year to-do-list, you realise how much time you've wasted in the last 37 years. That you're never really too old and never too late to start anything.
That I am not that good at listing what I've learned this week! So till next time!
Unfinished business
My "May Wedding" quilt, which I began mid-through the year before last is unfinished. I am missing my Pfaff machine terribly - still in her box. Its hard to start anything when you're still in transition mode. Still waiting to come across a house to rent, we're are living out of our boxes, so to say. So until we find a house, the machine stays in the box! 
This quilt project has to be one of my most ambitious, thus far. My first attempt at a 'crazy' hard quilt was the Train-Set quilt, I made for J before M was born. I was mighty proud of that one with panels and panels of applique forming a locomotive pulling its many-many trucks, ending with a caboose! From there, many other lap quilts and single bed quilts came to being! "May Wedding" quilt is a queen-size quilt, with over 30 blocks to assemble. The fabrics I personally selected for project is beautiful. Just handling these fine printed art, is theraphy in itself. Quilting, being an art of precision (bet, you didn't know that, huh??) is a perfect outlet for the pedantic person that I am. I love it! But unfinished, all the same!
Next are my tonnes of photographs needing album space. J & M simply adore their scrapbook albums! Rightly so. I am leaving them their memories, to last a lifetime (with CM, it should!!) But as with my quilting 'excuse' 
above, I lack space to spread my wings and fly with these babies!I had more than 2o boxes of CM stuff loaded into our 40foot container. But this is 'all' it is?? I had expected more. Maybe there are still more boxes lurking downstairs?
Unfinished business....
And my beads! I love stringing beads and creating personal jewellery. BUT I don't wear them. Not as frequent, anyway. I am fascinated by the beauty of semi-precious stones, swarovski crytals and pearls. Pearls being my favourite. I habitually restringing and redesigning my design, over and over again! Am still hunting for the 'right' kind of look for my 'collection.' Hence another unfinished business!37 and counting
So I am officially going over the hill!
Spent a quiet evening with the family, over dinner at our favourite Italian Restaurant, celebrating that milestone! Was a bit dissappointed that the waiter didn't take Mr. Darcy seriously when he insinuated that it was my birthday dinner. In fact, I thought the waiter was rather an ass! That's for another post!
It was nonetheless, a delicious dinner (as always, at this joint!). Mom loved the pizza so much, that we decided to drop by for supper, the evening after!
Anyway, I am being in a very reflective mood, right now and it doesn't help that I am verging over-the-hill-ness!
Today sitting at the lawyer's office, looking at his credentials hanging on the wall, being surrounded by books on Torts and Contracts, I wonder how different my life would've been if I had pursued my teenage dream of becoming a lawyer. I reckon I would've been a kick-ass lawyer! But that didn't happen. Instead I obeyed and took up accounts instead. I enjoy the work, although I am so mediocre at the job!! Would I have been a better lawyer? I wonder....
Then there was that inkling of a possibility that I might have taken up Musicology, but I was too ill-talented in the midst of the blazing glory of other aspiring music students. I would've taken piano performance and voice, maybe even dabble a little in musical theater. Would I have been a good 'musician'? I wonder...
So sitting here, listening to Avalon's "Can't Live a Day", I ponder at my life....and its not bad, not bad at all....
.....it could be worse......
Spent a quiet evening with the family, over dinner at our favourite Italian Restaurant, celebrating that milestone! Was a bit dissappointed that the waiter didn't take Mr. Darcy seriously when he insinuated that it was my birthday dinner. In fact, I thought the waiter was rather an ass! That's for another post!
It was nonetheless, a delicious dinner (as always, at this joint!). Mom loved the pizza so much, that we decided to drop by for supper, the evening after!
Anyway, I am being in a very reflective mood, right now and it doesn't help that I am verging over-the-hill-ness!
Today sitting at the lawyer's office, looking at his credentials hanging on the wall, being surrounded by books on Torts and Contracts, I wonder how different my life would've been if I had pursued my teenage dream of becoming a lawyer. I reckon I would've been a kick-ass lawyer! But that didn't happen. Instead I obeyed and took up accounts instead. I enjoy the work, although I am so mediocre at the job!! Would I have been a better lawyer? I wonder....
Then there was that inkling of a possibility that I might have taken up Musicology, but I was too ill-talented in the midst of the blazing glory of other aspiring music students. I would've taken piano performance and voice, maybe even dabble a little in musical theater. Would I have been a good 'musician'? I wonder...
So sitting here, listening to Avalon's "Can't Live a Day", I ponder at my life....and its not bad, not bad at all....
.....it could be worse......
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