No News is…

Good News? We’re still waiting. Poor little Tim…he has spent many hours lately sitting around in waiting rooms of doctors, specialists, labs and emergency rooms to get scanned, xrayed, poked, prodded and required to give up specimens. He is alive and doing ok, and we might have a real diagnosis by Friday, as opposed to the random guessing of a diagnosis by different doctors and scary internet research on our part.

Doing some of this waiting with Tim has given me some good time to work on the SGBC January selection. While Love in the time of Cholera isn’t hard reading like I anticipated, it is long. And maybe it is because I just read the book on syphillis, I don’t understand why the book isn’t called Love in the Time of Chlamydia based on the activities of Florentino Ariza who passes up real adult relationships with deserving women based on a teenager’s crush. Anywho, I hope to finish it up soon to move on to The Virgin Suicides.

I have been putting off actually doing it, but I think I need to change my 101 List a little bit. I do not think that I am going to be riding RAGBRAI this summer as originally planned in favor of taking a trip abroad with my family and Tim. We haven’t decided where we are going yet, but research is being undertaken for a few different locations in Northern and Western Europe. So the Travel, Exercise and Quilt sections may change a little bit in the 101 list in the next month or so.

Despite either feeling obscenely stuffy, or zombie like due to the Allegra, I am trying to finish up last year’s Block of the Month quilt. Making the 12 blocks are just one little part! I framed the blocks and trimmed them up all to the same size and have added sashing and cornerstones. But you don’t piece together all of the sections, as we are going to quilt them in smaller sections and then put them all together AFTER the quilting. I will end up with a queen sized quilt and haven’t ever made something so big, or done the quilting in sections so that will be interesting. I am currently working on the borders and have two more classes to work on getting it finished up. Would like to get it done and displayed in the guest bedroom…also have more ideas for quilts that I would like to start as well. Though might need to decide on one for Gina’s baby boy due this spring!

Also…thought it was going to be the Colts year. *sigh*