Challenges and Triumphs

What a morning! It seemed harmless enough when the alarm went off at 6:30...I mean, the auto-program on the coffee maker had my brew ready when I came down the stairs, the car started so I could get Maddy where she needed to be, the garage door opener worked and the sun came out enough that I could take the quilt pics I needed to take. Sounds pretty good, right? Yup. Right until I sat down at the computer and tried to start a Facebook Fan Page for my business. That's when things really started to go south. I'll spare you all the gorey details and just say that I clicked a few wrong buttons and wound up sending a whole bunch of people a friend request for a new personal page with my name (not my business) and no picture. There was no easy fix. I was embarassed and super frustrated. But that's life and I'm moving on!

Enter my new twitter account! I'm a 100% newbie to twitter, but it seems pretty easy even for me in my technologically challenged state. I'm shamelessly seeking followers, so if you're interested pop over and click all the right buttons to make it happen, and while you're there, wish me luck!

My other success this morning I owe in large part to God, who saw fit to let the sun shine enough for me to take the pictures I need to list my newly completed Fall Batik quilt that I mentioned in a previous post.

Pop over to my shop and take a better look! And head on over to my playlist for my song of the day. There's something about folk music that makes me feel all fallish :) so have a helping of Nick Drake to ease you into your day.

Driving to Philly, Adding a Soundtrack & Slaying Dragons

I'm a small town girl. The town I grew up in had 1 blinking light and a post office. I could walk up the street and buy fresh eggs from my neighbor. We didn't have cable because it wasn't available in our area. I went to sleep with the windows open and the doors unlocked, listening to the sounds of the not-so-distant train whistle and awoke to the crow of roosters. We didn't have a computer, or internet (but then who did in the early 80s?).

Fast forward 30 years to this morning. I live in a suburb not too far from Philly but I'm still that small town girl, so knowing that I had to battle rush hour to deliver Maddy and her friend to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia nearly gave me heart palpitations. I awoke at 6:00 and poured an uber large travel mug of my favorite coffe (8 O'clock Columbian :), toasted a bagel to go & smeared it with Philadelphia Cream Cheese in honor of the trek ahead of me, climbed into the cockpit of my sexy beige minivan & hit the road. And you know what? It wasn't that bad. I did it! No accidents. No profanity. No tense moments of confusion or massive traffic jams. I'm kind of proud of me.

I arrived home with every intention of heading out to the backyard for some much needed weeding and pruning. It's another gorgeous day here and I thought I'd seize the opportunity to make my house look inhabited again. But the computer beckoned to me...I've been admiring the blogs of others and longing to follow in their footsteps by adding a music player to mine (because what is life without good music? to truly get to know me you need to hear my soundtrack), but I'm technologically challenged and had no idea how make it happen. There was something about successfully executing that trip to Philly this morning though, that made me say "I can do this! I can figure this out!", so inside I went and down I sat. And again, success! So when you get chance (and your boss isn't around) check out my playlist. I'll be adding music often, so stop back and see if you share my taste in tunes.

What challenges will you accept today? What dragons will you slay?

Now, off to tackle those weeds...