Don’t ask. Don’t tell.

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Mary Beth Frezon

Was listening tonight about the freeze on the freeze of don’t ask don’t tell.

OK, I’m only going to say this once. What difference does it make?

Do they actually ask some people – are you hetero? No. There shouldn’t be a question at all. Sexual orientation shouldn’t be a factor in the workplace. I don’t come in and ask about that and wouldn’t think anyone would ask me either. It’s sure not a qualification for most jobs that people want to get paid for. So why does it matter at all.

Careful study? Congressional action? To determine what would be considered sexual discrimination and harassment in every other workplace. Get over it military. Show some backbone the rest of you.

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How how how

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Mary Beth Frezon

Is it possible to have cut 1600 black squares and still wish I had more blacks? Grrrrrrrrrr.

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Tuesday for sure

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Mary Beth Frezon

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Comments here are moderated and filtered. If Akismet doesn’t catch it (and it’s very good at what it does) I have the ability to decline and ban comments. Just saying. Sometimes they make for some amusing reading though. The rest of you can just give up.

Last night I picked up some bubble wrap and “insurance” packing tape at Staples along with a ream of paper. Get home. There are my big new boxes. Get one and go to pick up the bag o’staples. Only the paper… A bit of scrambling and all ensues. Bleah. Go through the paperwork checklist one more time. Ooops no CV! Luckily I still had the one from last time so it was a matter of re-reading and a bit of updating. Phew. At least I had paper to print it out on. And I had acquired some fed ex printable shipping labels! Ah the glamourous quilting life.

This morning it was off to work extra early with a pit stop to get a whole lot of bubble wrap. The boxes may be just a bit too big. I think 6″ would be too small though so whatchagonnado? In any case I spent a delightful few minutes in the parking lot enjoying the morning sun (being watched by a security guard parked at an *ahem* discrete distance away. LOL I wondered if she thought I was packing up a rifle or something!? I could have packed it inside work but hauling it in would have been harder.

So, bye bye quilt! See you soon! One always has the lingering worry – hope they don’t reject it now!

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What does one do…

Posted on October 9, 2010 by Mary Beth Frezon

while still whining a bit about the paperwork and waiting for the boxes to arrive and all?

Why one reads up on what a proper ahrteest would do in this situation:

Keep it (fairly) short.

Write enough so that you can get your ideas across, but keep it to one page or less. Nobody wants to read a multi-paged artist’s statement. That’s what manifestos are for. Conversely, you might think your one-sentence artist’s statement (“I paint landscapes that are pretty”) is funny and ironic, but you might also come across as a gi-normous smart-ass.

Ok that and the mention of the previously-found Crap Generator was worth the rummaging for info about artist’s statements, so I thank Deanna of Texas, blogger of Artist, Emerging.

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Game on

Posted on October 7, 2010 by Mary Beth Frezon

The game plan right now is to have the quilt out the door and en route to Ohio on Monday. After I had started filling out the paperwork last night I realized that they are word docs so I am going to do them on the computer and print and sign as needed. Label printed and about to get attached (this time without the little schmear of something that stuck itself to the back of it), then a final going over and paperwork filling out and it’s good to go.

Still no phone call re sewing machine coming back from service. When I called today to see if they meant thursday like today I was told a) that they couldn’t find it and b) that I should have told them that it was being delivered to a local store, so that’s probably where it is – on a truck for delivery…

OK hon. I could have given you the all important claim check number* from the start but you only asked for my name and what kind of machine. And, I really didn’t need to get chewed out by you after you leaving me on the phone wondering what you’d done with my machine. And, I was told you’d call as soon as it was ready and I still haven’t heard.

There was an extreme amount of really heavily sarcastic stuff coming out of my mouth at the end (it did keep me from saying what I really wanted to). Stuff like: I want to thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to check on that for me. THANK YOU so much for looking into that. Again, I thank you SO MUCH for doing that. I know it was sarcasm that was extremely wasted. But it did keep me just a hair over the civilized language line lol.

* for future reference this is not the number on the actual tag attached to the sewing machine but rather a small number on the **COMPUTER GENERATED SLIP** that they give you. Noted.

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