Catching Up

Gah!

So tomorrow we go sign papers and give away a rather large chunk of money and become homeowners again.  Stressful~!  Then we need to deal with moving again.

On top of which, tomorrow morning is Squiddle's first day of "Jumpstart," which is basically a few weeks of practice kindergarten, from nine to noon.  Which he is doing at the school for where we currently live, but then we need to get him transferred over to the school where we will be living.

Aside from that, I've been making some blackberry and some blueberry jams from what I've picked, and been washing, drying, and freezing blackberries then transferring them into quart bags for the freezer.  Did I mention the house's owner is leaving the deep-freeze for us? ^_^  I've also actually been sewing a little - Niecelet's Christmas quilt is half done, and I started working more on the Double Irish Chain quilt that I've decided is probably for my own bed.

And a couple weeks ago there was Costume College, which I still haven't blogged about.  The boys and I flew down on the Wednesday before it so we could spend some time with my parents, and on the Thursday I took the boys for dental appointments (no cavities!) and haircuts and we went to downtown Disney for lunch.  So hot~!  I also did a drive-by on our old house in Anaheim and was surprised to see the new owners hadn't changed anything yet except for a new front door.  Which had long been on our to-do list anyway.

Friday I borrowed my mother's CRV and drove up to Woodland Hills for Costume College.  Not knowing if I was staying there or not, since my theoretical roommate never answered her phone or responded to my voicemails or texts, I took my stuff with me and told my mother I'd let her know.  Long story short, I ran into said theoretical roomie and she was rooming with someone else.  Whatever; she added about six hours of commuting to my weekend but I'm over it now.  (I wasn't then, but I was polite.)

The classes I took were interesting: Making a Miniature Top Hat, Elytra Beetle Wing Embroidery, Gold Bullion Embroidery, and Italian Hem-Stitching.  I've only got my sample for that last one complete yet.  And the class I taught, Beginning Blackwork, went extremely well.  I feel that all fourteen of my students left feeling confident in their newly-acquired skills.

I kind of want to go to Costume College again, but... it's no longer geographically convenient.  In addition to registration, there will henceforth be plane flights, shuttling to and from the hotel, room costs, and meal costs.  And I'm a SAHM.  So I need to think on it.

I did manage to scavenge the Bargain Basement when it hit the point of "free, please haul it away" and got mostly quilting fabric, about half of which I donated to one of my quilt guilds down in Orange County.

Because while I was down there, I managed to meet up with my quilt guild friends, and also with my writing class friends!  Though that latter actually ended badly, when I got a call from my mother that Jazzy had gotten into her pill sorter and taken some of her meds.  Most of which were benign, but we took him to the ER about her diabetes medication.  In the end, he didn't need to be admitted, but it was quite a scare.  And quite reminiscent of the time Squiddle did the same thing with Wonderful Husband's meds almost three years ago.  (Although he was admitted, and six months we later found the pills under the fridge, so he didn't actually take them, whereas Jazzy definitely did.)

Still, overall it was a good trip...