Another One Bites the Dust!

I did it! I finished the quilt that will be my stepson's Christmas present this year. What do you think? He said he needed some color for his [very beige] apartment -- I hope it's not *too* much color for him.

Today was a very good day. DD#1 came over so her mommy could make her waffles for breakfast while her hubby was off playing golf. While she was here, we shopped online for bedding for her baby, and I actually got to feel my grandprincess moving in her tummy just a tiny little bit. It's such a wonderful feeling, waiting to meet this new little member of our family. It's just as exciting as it was waiting for the first grandchild. I suppose it's like waiting for your own babies to be born, in the sense that each child is unique and a special treasure in and of themselves.

After that wonderful morning I got back to work on this quilt and finished it just in time for supper. I can't think of a much better day -- breakfast with DH, DD#1, and the future little princess followed by an afternoon of constructive sewing, ending with proof that I got something done this weekend. Life is grand, isn't it?

Mumbled and Gumbled

Don't you love this quilt? It's a pattern called "Mumbo Gumbo" by Pie in the Sky Quilts (and what's not to love about their name, even without their cool quilt patterns). This is one of the quilts on my "wanna do" list. It looks simple enough; I just have to get started.

I keep a picture of this quilt on my office bulletin board. It cheers me up -- and wakes me up -- when I need a diversion at work. ;-)

Today, this quilt and its name describe how I'm feeling. Mumbled. Gumbled. Out of sorts. Ticked off, and trying not to be. Frustrated with health care issues.

Aha! Health care in the U.S. is a soap box I'm sure many of you could climb on and stay for quite awhile, right? I feel guilty complaining at all; after all, I *do* have insurance. I know too many people don't. And I think that's very unfair.

*My* problem is finding a good doctor. One who will take me seriously. One who will actually be concerned about my health. This is a problem many women share with me, I know. My biggest problem lately is my blood pressure. It's way too high. I'm on medication, I'm watching what I eat, I'm working on losing weight, I work out regularly (although probably not as vigorously as I should), I don't smoke -- heck, even my husband quit smoking around me. But the BP gets higher, and higher, and higher. My doctor increased the dosage of the drug I'm currently taking -- in fact, I'm taking the highest dose they make now. It isn't helping. This morning, when I checked my BP, it was so high my husband was shocked. He looked at me really funny and said, "Do you feel okay?!?" Um, no, not really ...

So, I'm looking for a new doctor. There's a whole other rant waiting to happen. But that is my personal assignment for me today. Wish me luck, won't you? And if you're in the Houston metro area, and know any good internists or endocrinologists somewhere between Pearland and Galveston, send me their name!

A Question for the Experts

Is "online blogging" redundant? I think it might be, but I need an expert to weigh in and bring me into the 21st century.

Thank you.

(This quilt has nothing to do with redundancy or anything else -- I just like how it looks. I made it for my sister's 50th birthday, which was February 2006, but she doesn't have it as of this writing. I just got it quilted and now I have to bind it -- *then* I'll send it along to her. I call it "Storms of Life"; appropriate, I thought, for someone turning 50, and with everything else going on in her life at the time ... the pattern is actually called Storm at Sea and it's a traditional pieced pattern.)

Blog Beginnings

So I've joined the online blogging population. Now what am I supposed to do? Talk about whatever thoughts enter my head? Whine and complain about what I *don't* like about my world? Brag about my kids, or my grandkids?

Okay -- Here's one thing: my daughter, my "baby", is having a baby, and we just found out IT'S A GIRL! I'm very excited about this, as is she -- our fear was that if their first baby was a boy, her DH would want to stop there. Now, with their first baby being a GIRL, he'll probably want to have another baby one of these days, in hopes of having a son. Works for me!

We already have two grandsons. They're precious and I'd never trade them for anything in the world. There's just something extra-special about your daughter having a daughter -- to me. So maybe I'm weird. But maybe that's why I'm known as the "Queen of the Space Cadets". (And I even have a badge to prove it. Somewhere.)