Wild & Windy

It is so windy today here! I just can't keep warm! Crazy weather lol.

Well yesterday was a different day that's for sure! Started off nice & early with an appt with the Diabetes educator - My recent Hba1c results I had recently were pretty bloody awful to be honest. So GP made an appt for me to go to the educator. If I sound unenthusiastic about that it's probably because I am lol. I'm not saying I know everything about diabetes by any means, but gosh it's tedious sitting in the room for an hour or so going over everything that I know I should be doing & all of that when I just haven't. I know what i'm doing wrong, I know that I need to pay better attention, but I am just sick & tired of it sometimes (all the time). I need to get it under control & I want to, but it's bloody hard to motivate myself day after day. Especially in winter - anyone else have that problem. Motivation seems to disappear during the cold months I find. Maybe it's just me!

Anyway, after that delightful appt, I decided to do something that I haven't done alone with Miss Abby yet after 14mths (almost)... go to the shops alone with her! And believe me, it was hard. I felt like I had an anxiety attack walking out the door to get into the car to go to the train station! Yikes! I wanted to go & thought it was a good opportunity to do it while hubby was working from home yesterday, as he usually does that when I have appts because i'm deaf I obviously have a hard time at appts on my own. So hubby tags along & is basically my interpreter. Sucks, but until I find a doc that is actually willing to write EVERYTHING down for me, then that's the way it's gonna be.

So we did it! We went to the big shopping mall 1hr away by train. Unfortunately for me, I forgot it was the 1st day of School holidays so of course EVERY kid in the area was probably there too Yikes! Luckily, it didn't seem too bad - at least I managed to find a seat in the food court for lunch!

Got home to find that my sewing machine has been fixed & returned! Yay 24hr service not bad! But now I want to find myself the official Bernina Bernette bobbins because I have so many odd sized ones that I don't know which is the right size & i'm sure that is contributing to the crappy sewing sometimes. So i've looked online & the only place I can find them (so far) is a US ebay seller?! Surely that can't be right. Perhaps, Bernina stockists just don't like putting the bobbins online in their shops. Who knows! My local /nearby craft shop does usually stock them, but they are currently out of stock & it might be a while til they place their next order Doh! So will see what I can do. Would hate to buy from the ebay seller & find out they were just generic ones. Would be a waste, so think I will wait for the local places to have them then I can find some cheap ones the same size. Easier I think - just will take longer lol. Nevermind! I still have all the handstitching to do on my Sudoku Quilt right!

On Sunday I ended up adding snaps to a pile of bibs that I had waiting to get their velcro sewn on. Decided that I had some spare snaps, so could reduce the pile a bit. So that was great - some more stuff taken off my UFO pile Yay!

Wonder what I can do today to reduce the pile even more ;o) I'm hoping my new toy is going to arrive today too. Haven't heard anything yet ... it's not craft related unfortunately though lol. Will reveal what it is once I have it! Hint: It's BIG! Takes up 1m x 2m of floor space! Yikes - for a small house, i'm not sure how it's going to fit but nevermind - I will find a way!

Happy crafting!