Quiet Sunday at Home

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

This doesn’t count as noise in my book. When I went to the window to see what all the singing was about I saw two birds courting, up in my birch tree. I’d say they were House Finches. The male’s red rump was quite conspicuous as he bobbed and danced and flashed his tail for the female. She sat quietly but watched the dance attentively, turning as he moved from one side of her to the other. Then they flew off, leaving the rest of the birds to keep doing their thing.

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Life per Seneca – From the Quote Box

Posted on May 24, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. — Seneca

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Email – Exploding Kittens Dept.

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

From the Exploding Kittens folks:

Not everyone will get the survey today.

You guys made history by making this BY FAR the most backed Kickstarter campaign of all time. 219,382 is a lot of backers! It’s also a lot of emails. If we send out all of your Backer Survey invites at once, the Email Gods will smite us with the fierceness of their mighty Spam Folder wrath.

As a result, the emails will start going out today and should wrap up in about five days.

If you don’t receive an email by Friday, check your Spam Folder. If you still don’t see the email, then you should email Exploding Kittens Support

If you email us before that time or without first checking your Spam Folder, we will laugh at you, and you will be sad.

affectionately suggesting that a week is nine days,

The Exploding Kittens Team

Love these people.

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Afternoon break from too much fun

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

I have to take a break from the side project for some food. I’m having way too much fun and it’s coming along very well.

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The galloping crud of allergy season

Posted on May 23, 2015 by Mary Beth Frezon

It speaks to the season that when I was interrupted by a terrible sounding cough, mid-conversation with a customer at work yesterday, he brushed off my apology with, “I’ve had that same cough all week.”

So I’m doing all the symptomatic relief thing and the drinking lots of fluids thing and trying to get a whole night sleep thing and just being a slug thing. That’s fine. I don’t feel sick-sick as in having a viral/bacterial round of bronchitis with all the fever and aches and all that those things bring. It’s just a deep attack of the pollen and dust monsters I guess and many have been laid low. One day I allowed as I was using my Lauren Bacall voice, the next day I had no voice at all in between coughing spells and the next day my voice was ok, but ooooh the rattling cough.

Why am I sharing this?

Just to say that late last night, in the throes of being over-tired, restless and medicated to the hilt, an email hit my screen for a big sale and I clicked on it and kept clicking until I clicked on paypal and then I looked at my email again and there were both the confirmation and the paypal receipt and I thought – how interesting, retail therapy works, I can’t keep my eyes open any more.

It was three things – one chunk of interesting fabric (the quilter’s version of ‘ooooh shiny!’), a bolt of kona premium black (I’m out, go figure) and a heap of olfa rotary blades at a decent price (buying them two at a time is for the birds). But hey, free shipping and two of the three are staples!

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