Mommy Time

It's only appropriate that after my post about my lack of mommy time, that I took a little time for myself last night. For the past couple of weeks, I have been diligently working on a quilt. Ok, Ok, Ok, maybe not so diligently... but I have been working on it.

I finally got through piecing together the whole front, stitched on the border, stitched ont he binding and stuck the three layers (front, stuffing and back) together with pins. I'm now at the first of the two dreaded levels of making a quilt: the actual quilting!

The quilt I'm making is a queen size quilt (do you have in your mind the size of the average queen size quilt?). Ok... now, imagine a sewing machine. Imagine moving something that large in and out of a sewing machine, rolling it here, stuffing it there, twisting it like that, all while trying to make it look beautiful. Yeah - that's the part I'm at.

So, I had been invited to a quilt group a little while back and thought I'd take them up on the offer. It's a bunch of women that my mom and aunt are friends with who all get together every Monday night and just talk... I mean quilt all night long. I left Jude to Ryan and packed up my belongings and headed out. It was lovely. I got about 3/4 of the actual quilting completed, which is more than I'm imagining I would have done if I were at home. Most of the time spent was trying to figure out how exactly I wanted the quilting pattern to look and how exactly I should go about making it look that way. once I got going and got the hang of things, it was kind of a breeze.

While I was there, I also got a phone call inviting me to a movie! I love me some movies, so accepted. I saw Dear John, which was... interesting. I got home much later than I had expected (considering I was only planning on quilting) and am paying for my late night this morning... but all in all, it was a wonderful evening.

*** Stay tuned for pictures of the quilt within the next couple of weeks... I will only be posting the finished product***

A Christmas Story

I FINALLY took the time to watch "A Christmas Story". My brother and Ryan (among others) are baffled that I'm 25 and this was the first time I've watched it, but I finally got around to it!

Midnight Movie Madness

Last night I was asked if I wanted to see the midnight showing of "New Moon". I had just recently seen the first installation "twilight" within the past few weeks and thought it was "decent". It's hard to say how I really felt about it. I mean it's obviously cheesy and geared towards the young teeny-bopper type crowd, but whatever. I appreciated it for what it was.

After watching it, I assumed I'd at some point see the second, just to see 'what happens next'. Whether this was in theaters or at some point down the road when it came out on DVD or on Demand...I didn't know.

When I was asked to go to the midnight show and I had nothing else to do, I figured, what the heck, why not. The parking lot was much less crowded than expected and I was surprised to see that even close to 45 min before the movies started, people had already been let into the theaters - no long lines or screaming people in the lobby. Of course when we got there, the theater was already pretty much full and we ended up with "front row seats". But it wasn't bad at all.

The movie was surprisingly better than I had expected and dare I say... enjoyable?? I have no idea what happens next (as I haven't read the books), but I'm interested in seeing the third. They really left it in a "...to be continued..." spot and some random characters need to be wrapped up, so I'm curious to see what happens.

This morning was super rough. I never got to bed until about 3 o'clock and Jude was up around 5:30 to eat. He's had a little bit of a runny nose, so it was hard for him to get back to sleep. Since he sucks his thumb, when his nose is runny, it's hard to breath. After about 30 minutes and a good cleaning with the nose pump thing, he was back out and I was too. We slept in a little and I feel good to go!

It was totally worth it in my opinion... and a much needed time out of the house.

Another One Down

I just finished "The Time Traveler's Wife"! My August book. One month to go!

As a special treat I plan to see the movie tonight! Yippee!