The lady for whom I did the alterations last week came by to pick up her clothes and tried them on one more time to make sure that they fit.  My “guarantee” is that if it’s not altered enough, I’ll do it again at no charge but if it’s something new, then I will charge for it.  Out of the 12 pants and 2 skirts (yes, I went back and counted the articles), all of the pants fit perfectly; there was a sticky-outy spot (don’t you love those professional terms!) on one of the skirts but I easily fixed that by trimming back the seam a bit.  Then there was one pant that I had taken in and it got to be too short as a result– this was not a pair of pants that I was supposed to alter the length on to begin with– so I’m going to have to hem that one (for the first time) a little longer.

Then, last night, my sewing student brought by a couple more accessories that she wants made for the baby’s room and, there are still the nursing tops hanging around.  The tops are from a similar pattern to that which I sewed for Allex K a few years back so I know what to do and how to do it.

After that, I’ll be on my own again and ready to rock at quilting my quilt tops– I’m excited!!

My “To Be Read” shelf (borrowed from Barbara Thompson, of course), after catching up on the Evanovich “Stephanie Plum” series, overfloweth in mysteries but I decided to go for straight-up fiction . . . “Flowers for Algernon”.  Yeah, I know!  BUT, we went to a cheapy bookstore last fall and it was there and I thought “Wow, I haven’t read that in a long time!” so I bought it (it was exceedingly cheap at $2.98).  Yes, I’ve read the book before and yes, I’ve seen the movie but I really wanted to read it again so . . . here we are.

A good kind of busy for the day: Church, home to laundry, and in between loads, writing my “sermon” for next Sunday (as a lay speaker, I’m required to preach at least twice a year and hopefully, this is it), and then, doing some organizational work around the designs that I have for my long arm.  Yes, Angel requires her own sort of downloaded designs and no, I didn’t get an opportunity to take a picture today but I will, soon– Promise!

The upcoming week will be slower by a long shot– thankfully.  No doctor appointments or dinners out except for one night when I get to see my sister and her husband.  (That’ll be nice!)

Although I am negative for a brain, the air has no tumors, cysts, or assorted bad things in it according to the MRI.  I am okay with those results!

I went to dinner with the new pastor at our church (Margaret)– she’s a lovely lady and wonderful preacher so I’m going to enjoy having her at our church.  We found it extremely easy to speak with each other which is important.

Today, I’m downstairs playing with Angel, my Fusion.  We practiced some things and now we’re moving on to some serious quilting!  I’m going to do the borders and inside meandering for a wallhanging that I started in 2008 for our bedroom.  Yes, this one is a long time coming but the key here is: I’m loading REAL quilts onto the system now– FINALLY!!  YAYYYY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ll load some pictures later of Angel working later on–too much fun!!

This evening I went to dinner with my friend Gail from church.  She’s a lady who is about my age and is just starting to get into quilting.  Of course, I’m going to encourage that, you gotta know!

She went on a trip to Haiti a few weeks ago that was sponsored by my church and she wanted to show me her pictures.  Fabulous trip– so much to do!  She really enjoyed the time she spent there enjoying the differences between our cultures.

Tomorrow night, I’ve got dinner out with our new pastor.  Then, I think, I’m in for awhile.  Yeesh!!  I swear that’s  all it seems like I have done lately: eat out!

I say this based on the fact that I’m betting you didn’t start your day with a fasting blood test and _*CLOSED*_ in the tube MRI of my brain.  I am the Most Fortunate Person in the world for starting out my day that way!!  Yes, indeedy!!

Not to worry: the whole purpose of this is to confirm the diagnosis of “Vertigo” for the periodic episodes I’ve been having the last six or so months.  It would be nice to know what I’ve got so that it can be treated properly

Well, after two 5mg Valium tablets to calm me down, the only thing I wanted to do was sleep when I got home– four hours worth of nap!  I feel really rested, too!  (Maybe I should do that more often??  NO!!!!!!!!!!!!)

But if nothing happens, does writing that nothing happens mean something happened?  Get it?  Forest = tree . . . never mind.

So Sunday went by uneventfully except that I met the new preacher and like her a lot.  She and I are going to dinner on Friday night which should be fun.  She has a great sense of humor so I don’t expect it to be a stiff/scary dinner like it would’ve been with the minister that I great up with– he was just plain scary in any setting!

Monday I went to the hip doctor and found out that I do have some sort of “flap”, almost like a meniscus tear except there isn’t a meniscus there.  I could get it surgerized (“hip arthroscopy”) but, when I’m pretty much guaranteed a hip replacement in two or so years, why bother?  Yeah, if I had as much walking around to do as I did last summer it would be worth it but I don’t think we’re planning a trip to Paris any time soon– am I wrong, Honey?

Brian’s added all sorts of new bells-n-whistles on my composing page but hasn’t told me what they do so I still can’t link to him up there– just know that he is My Honey and there is no other.

I wanna see the new Pooh movie that’s coming out– when can I go that it won’t be filled with kids?  Yeah, right.  That’s the only thing that’s stopping me from going.

Something else that’s happened in the interim between postings here is that I’ve become a lay speaker in the Methodist church.  That means that I can cover Sunday sermons when the pastor is out.

We have a new pastor in my church; she started on July 3 and, apparently, is already scheduling time off for later this month.  I’ve been asked if I want to speak and I’m thinking about it.  I’ve got to have a topic and the lectionary isn’t helping me right now.

Hmmm . . .

It was a busy day today but mostly because I actually went OUT shopping for some fabric.  I don’t do that as a rule because I have enough fabric but when I have special projects, I sometimes have to get fabric.

Today I bought fabric for a quilt for my sewing student’s soon-to-be-born baby and for a relative’s baby (I’m not sure I’m allowed to say who is pregnant yet . . . I’ll find out, okay?).  Coincidentally, they are using much the same color scheme so they are going to get nearly identical quilts.

I met my friend Jennifer, who is moving back to Atlanta next weekend, at the Columbia Joann’s store and, fully searching their aisles (with only partial success but not the “main” fabric that I wanted), we moved on to Severna Park, Maryland’s Joann’s store.  I’ve never been to Severna Park and, frankly, wasn’t all that sure about where it was located.  Nice area.  Something to keep in mind?

You get to give security clearance references on friends and neighbors.  How weird is that?

This morning I received a coritzone shot in my left knee where the arthritis is the worst.  Lots of fun– I hate the shot [almost] worse than the pain of the arthritis!  The worst part is that I have to ice it afterward and am not “allowed” to do a substantial amount of exercise.  Lovely.

Lexi probably suffered the most because of that– got the short walk loop and, with the heat, was none too happy about that.