Busy Busy Busy

Holy crap, I've been so friggin' busy!  Good busy, but still...busy.

The instructions and photos/illustrations for my fat quarter quilt had to be in by Monday, but since I'm going to be busy with family stuff for the next few days, I had to get done early.  This is no easy feat for me, lemme tell ya!  I'm usually the one who's scrambling at the last minute.  In this case, however, there were other deadlines to deal with so I had to set that one up to be earlier.  Got it done and turned in on Friday-I sure hope that the technical editor who's working on it isn't going to hate me!  I decided to call the quilt "Retrolicious!" by the way.

B's cousin and his wife are visiting from San Antonio, TX and B's niece and her family are here from Norway.  We had a big family reunion BBQ at my sister-in-laws' house yesterday and it was one awesome day.  But before we left, we had to get started on housework, because cousin Kennedy and his wife (Paula) will be hanging out with us from Mon-Wed.  I doubt I can avoid having them actually enter my house! Those of you who are not like me (aka, clean freaks) just do not understand this having to pick up the house and figure out what to do with all the clutter.  I had this discussion with a like-minded family member (you know who you are!) at the BBQ yesterday.  We are totally clueless on how this business of "a place for everything and everything in it's place" works.  It's like there's a data chip missing in our brain; what is so natural to most completely stymies us messy-chaos-clutter types.  As much as it pains me to admit it, it is who I am.  I hate it.  I've always felt so inadequate and like a lazy bum, but seriously-you see everything you have to do and your brain explodes.  Sure, I could do a little every day, but that doesn't work because whatever little thing you do is quickly undone.  So it turns into a great big cleaning production.  I always vow to stay on top of it and somehow it still gets away from me.  We all have our "projects" going on and they eventually take over the living/dining room.  To make matters worse, I don't have a separate room for my sewing so it's in a corner of the dining room.  Even when it's all "straightened up", it probably looks messy to others.  Frustrating.  So once I've posted this (avoidance maybe??) I'm back to it until it's time for us to see the Rat City Roller Girls this afternoon. 

Tomorrow B, Maddy and I are driving up to Bellingham with Kennedy and Paula and boarding a boat to cruise the San Juan Islands for the day.  I hope to see some Orca whales!  I'll try and post photos.

Have a great day!  ~C