I Owe

I owe some major postings. I'm home from CA and still waiting for DH to arrive. We flew separately as he was on a corporate account and we flew the bargain, but fun, airline, Southwest.

All I can say is we made it home early. DH had to stay in CA for almost 12 hours past his original flight time. He should be calling soon for a ride...

Who Knew?

that having fun could be so exhausting?

Yesterday was the San Diego Zoo where my son and I were attacked by a Madagascar Crested Ibis! A zookeeper was feeding the birds in one of the aviaries. And the ibis apparently really really likes grasshoppers. She moved on and the bird stayed eating his bugs. But when his bugs were gone he moved on to me and DS who were sitting on a bench. Nothing like a 10 inch long beak aimed at your barefeet in sandals. He'd run in circles underneath us and then come out looking for our feet. It was very funny.

Had a late afternoon snack on a rooftop restaurant at Pacific Beach so we could nosh and people watch.

Dinner at Hennessey's where it was Irish night. Good whiskey!

Today DH is ditching the convention early to hang with us.

crispy critter

Yesterday we went to the beach - the Silver Strand on Coronado. Lovely. Sun, surf, sand. Unfortunately for someone in my family, they did not apply sunscreen to the front of themselves. DS is a crispy critter. We've found him some aloe, but what a momo!

Even my skin along my hairline on the left side of my face was looking red last night, but this morning I am fine.

Finally got to my favorite Mexican restaurant yesterday also. Kids and I sat in the courtyard feasting and drinking and feeling good for 2 hours. Walked around Old Town sightseeing and shopping. Bought some beads for beadweaving. Today it's time to hit Balboa Park.

frustrated

Okay. I cannot for the life of me figure out why the link to the Stitch Bitch blog won't work. It is correct in my template. Oh.

Meanwhile. Here is California all is gorgeous and warm and just sunny enough.

Yesterday morning we made our way to the Big Kitchen for a breakfast that can't be beat. Judy was tres biening and singing all over the place. I had an omelet with avacado, cream cheese and chives with sourdough toast and side of tomatoes. Kids were enthralled. We'll be going back.

From there I used my radar and we found a Wal-mart to buy cheap beach towels (which I just leave here), shorts for DS to sleep in 'cause he hadn't thought about that when packing, medicine for DS because he hasn't totally kicked that cold, etc.

Then we went walking on the beach just south of the Coronado Hotel and I kept seeing things in black and white because I so want to see Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe frollicking in the surf. Best line ever in a movie: Jack Lemmon ripping off his wig at the end of Some Like It Hot - and saying "But, Cosmo, I'm a man." Cosmo replying -
"Well, nobody's perfect."

Next up: before the kids led a mutiny we needed to visit In-N-Out Burger. We arrived just in time to see a family of 3 kids and a wife removing a blindfolded, handcuffed dad from a van. LOL They had kidnapped him and brought him to In-N-Out for Father's Day. I took their picture and later got their email address to send it to them.

Then we went to the Mission San Diego de Acala. This is just such a peaceful, serene place. Took lots and lots of photos.

Next up - kids and I wandered Seaport Village while David went to an ESRI reception. Did a little shopping. Had dinner at the wonderful pink stucco Fat City Steakhouse. Absolutely gorgeous 80 year old Honduran mahogany paneling and enough stained glass to outfit the entire Titanic.

Off to hit the showers and find food.

Ah Beautiful San Diego

Just a note to say we all got here safely. Our brains are apparently scrambled and we are badly in need of food and caffeine.

Look

I fixed the link to Jenn's blog. I finally added Anna's again. I'll sit here and add a few more, then it's off to pack for CALIFORNIA!

SBQ June 14th

How do you store your WIPs and other projects that you have kitted up?

LOL
You're supposed to have a system?

Um...

Let's examine this issue more closely.

Some things are in bags from stores. Some things are in ziploc. Some things are in those heavy duty reinforced bags - some with 3 holes punched to put in notebooks. Some are just stacked up in the red leather ottoman in the living room.

Yes. This is where my organization skills fail me.

Travelling Project

I went through everything quickly again and pulled this one out to work on while travelling to/from and staying in San Diego:

Monkeyworks - "In the Sea" -

http://home.att.net/~k.cadilek/

My antique blue linen is a little lighter in color than the model. And I've chosen a darker blue silk n colours along with a waterlilies for fibers. All white - not my taste. Love the little monkey faces in the corners. I started the middle of the mermaid yesterday so that once on the plane I could just pull it out and start working.

Loaded more music on to the MP3 player which I was thinking of naming Zelda, but maybe that's not quite right because anyone younger will be thinking of gaming Zelda, not Fitzgerald. Ella? Nina? I'll figure it out.

So it's off to do laundry. A quick cleaning of the downstairs. I don't think I'll pack until tomorrow. I've got plenty of time...

crazy

This school just tried to pull an O'Neill on us and say we owed $135 for a winter track spirit pack that we paid for last October. Thank you, Ms. Jones for patiently finding our payment record. Not like I have a copy of a check from last October. I don't have any copies. So glad we did not pay cash. No money, no graduation. And you tell us about this now - right after graduation rehearsel. Duh. Duh. Duh.

Problem fixed. But first there was a little matter of a fire alarm...

PMSing, waking up at 3:40 every morning. My mind is no longer working correctly. Just when I thought I had all my ducks in a row. House is halfway clean. Stopped mail and newspaper. Just don't need any more surprises.

Picking Out the Perfect Piece

I have been trying to choose which piece of stitching to take with me to San Diego.

I have eliminated all works on dark colored fabric. Anything too large. Anything too complicated.

Current candidates are Sharon Cohen of the Nostalgic Needle's new sampler nametag.
Periwinkle Promise's - the Bluefield Sampler which has the lovely saying "I already know my alphabet"

I may have to go through the project pile one more time. I'm looking for the thing that's calling to me. I know you're in there. Speak louder, darn it!