All Right, So Sue Me (I Neglected To Blog On My Birthday)

Let's not get too excited, this is NOT the Birthday giveaway, this was the birthday gift from the hubs. Strangely, I didn't get a 12-needle Babylock Embellisher (and he'll likely tell you that's because I refused to tell him what I wanted the day before my birthday, when at the cookout he asked me if I wanted an iPad (I do not)). So, in desperation, the afternoon of my birthday, he decided that I needed to be upgraded from this:

My little 15" flat screen and our old DVD player.

To this:

A 19" High Def flatscreen with a DVD player built in. Of course this also meant I needed to run out after work and stand in line at the cable company to pick up a new high def cable box, and upgrade the service--what's the point of having an HD set if you've not got an HD connection. Anyway, he comes home after softball, takes one look at it and says it's not big enough. He didn't realize that I had that much space available. Whatever. Unless he's going to pack it back up and exchange it, it can stay.

So, the daughter and the boyfriend come over (dutifully). To her credit, she did offer to pick up dinner and bring it, but since my BIL had 4 dozen crabs left over from the cookout that I took home and spent 3 hours and 40 minutes picking Monday night, rather than watch him throw them away, I figured, birthday or not, I needed to make a dozen crab cakes, so yes, I made my own birthday dinner. (But she did bring a chocolate ganache-covered ice cream cake from Coldstone Creamery that was to.die.for.

Along with a few Vera Bradley desk accessories and a Lolita 'Birthday Girl' martini glass. They all have a drink recipe on their bases...check out mine:

 

I'll be picking up some pineapple juice after work (along with a Powerball ticket....(closing eyes) wish, wish, wish--come on, it was my birthday yesterday....), and giving this a try out with tonight's dinner of lobster tail...also courtesy of my over-buying BIL. (He sent me home with three of them.) I'll let you know how it tastes. Think we'll need to skip the olives in this one. I've got some raspberries and blackberries in the fridge that might be good substitutions.

Okay, now for the monthly giveaway......since I made a bunch of scissor bling for the tutorial (see the photo below on the post for May 23rd), I'm going to give those away this month. And since it was my birthday, instead of only having one winner, let's have two winners this month. Post a comment telling me your favorite summer drink, no later than midnight on Saturday, and I'll phone one of my human random number generators and ask them to pick the winners. And note, if your name doesn't link back to a blog that includes your email address in your profile, be sure to include it in your comment. If there's no address, I'm going to move down the list to the next person that has one.

I hope to work on quilting Neptune tonight. I'm itching to cut something with my new Drunkard's Path templates, or to make something Kaffe Fassett, and I've told myself that I may not play with rotary cutters or plastic templates until I finish quilting the two quilts that are sandwiched. (I swear, sometimes it sucks to be Miss Organization.)

Good luck on the giveaway! Tomorrow I'll post a photo of the exact bling you'll be playing for.

Happy Memorial Day

Obviously, reflect on the holiday. Enjoy the beginning of summer and whatever it is you have planned for today. I hope everyone is having wonderful weather, and a relaxed day. Tomorrow it's back to work :-(.

So far it's been a great day. Spent the morning making the fruit salad and deviled eggs for the picnic at the BILs later this afternoon. The hubs went out to pick up the corn. I don't think he was gone long enough to shuck it, so we'll put the niece on that when we arrive. Yesterday I made the potato salad, so all that's left now is to get myself ready and get out of here. It is going to be quite the feast this afternoon (crabs, ribs, burgers, dogs, tenderloin....yes, my BIL is crazy).

Managed to qulit another row of blocks on Neptune this morning after I was done with my chores. It always helps to spend even a small bit of time on something creative. I was hoping to have finished it so I could sit on the deck today and sew binding, but alas, not in the cards.

Tomorrow's my birthday, so check back for the birthday giveaway. For a moment there, I was thinking of offering up the hubs, particularly when he asks me this morning what I want for my birthday tomorrow (and he happens to be playing softball tomorrow night). But he does have some redeeming qualities, so I think I'll keep him around a bit longer and giveaway something that won't cost quite so much to ship.

See 'ya tomorrow!

Billy The Exterminator

So sue me, I've only quilted one row across Neptune. I went into the studio and turned on the tv. Lord knows how it was on Channel 50 (A&E), but it was. A wicked twist of fate. And they are apparently running a 'Billy the Exterminator' marathon today. That was at 4:00. It's 8:45 and I'm sitting downstairs in front of the 60", Dirty Martini (2 olives, fat), breeze from the ceiling fan, feet on the coffee table quilt....hooked. And unconcerned about finishing Neptune in May

If you've never seen it, I recommend you watch a couple episodes.

http://www.aetv.com/billy-the-exterminator/index.jsp

Sometimes I am so hopeless. Oh wait, madam..is your glass empty? Another? Please. Shaken, not stirred, and Brian (my fantasy womanservant), let's spring for 3 olives this time, okay?