Iced in

I got up this morning to get ready to go to work as I always do. After listening to the news on the radio and taking a peak out the window I saw that our entire street was covered in ice. I decided then that it would be a better idea to stay at home rather than risk going out on ice. So here we are.

Shawn is working from home (lucky guy) and I'm just cleaning up a bit around the house. I also took the time to update our quilt blog. We're up to about 33 squares now, we still have a long way to go. If anybody is interested in exchanging squares and we haven't done so yet, just email me and I'll happily get a square out to you.

They're here!

This week, I received a couple of more squishes from Valerie and Kelly from our October DTC group. Thank you very much, slowly but surely we're crawling our way to 100 pieces.

One day when I was browsing the blogs I normally do I found some cookie cutters on Terri's blog that her secret friend got for her. I loved them so much so I asked where she got them from and Terri kindly told me she got them from an online store called Adopt Shoppe. Once I found out I quickly ordered them and they finally arrived today! Now, does anyone have a low fat cookie receipe I can use with these?

Train woes

I have stated before that winter is not my favourite time of year. If I could hibernate between November and March I would. Either that or go to Barbados for the winter, I'm good either way. Well yesterday morning, being a Monday, getting out of bed on a cold winter day was not the easiest thing, but I managed to do it.

On the raido I heard that the commuter trains were running late but did not hear that my line was running late so I didn't worry about it too much. It seems that when the weather gets cold, they're always delayed. I got to the station and my train was on time. Everything was fine then at one of the stops I heard the magical words "We're having mechanical trouble. We have the engineer working on it and hope to move quickly." Great. Then I hear "The train is not going to Union, please catch the next train which will be on the other side of the platform." Double great. The kicker, "The next train is running late." The next train was 40 minutes late! I couldn't feel my toes by the time it finally rolled in. I was almost an hour late for work. Not a good way to start the week.

When I got in though, my friend Vicki, who is our office manager gave me two squishes, you'll find them here. She couldn't decide which one to pick so she picked both! Thank you so much! Today we got two more, one from Shandra and the other from Cyndi from our October 2006 DTC Yahoo group. We are slowly but surely getting there.

Shawn, Jazz and the Quilt Exchange

I have to admit, I have a pretty good husband. I realized that I did not purchase enough fabric for my DTC group quilt exchange so Shawn and I went out and purchased some more, then Shawn helped me measure and cut the pieces. The only thing is, he wasn't alone. Jazz also decided that she was going to get in on the action. It was so funny, she kept going under the fabric, watching as we measured and cut the fabric. So to my group, if you find yourself with some black fur in your envelope, it's courtesy of my very furry baby.