Ah! love’s sweet discourse…. um…. texting….

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Mary Beth Frezon

Thanks to the NYTime’ Julia Heffernan for a fabulous look at the not so virtual intersection of relationship and technology:

I’m starting to think that Internet romances, including Mark Sanford’s, are not romances between people at all. They’re affairs with the Internet. Watch people who are newly in love, especially any kind of love that requires that the participants keep stealthy and apart, and they’re all over their iPhones and Palm Pres. It’s P.D.A. with P.D.A.’s. Romance seems to have become an online multiplayer fantasy-adventure game, no less thrilling than World of Warcraft, and open to all ages. Apparently you’re never too old to relish using special screen names to send cryptic messages on secret decoder devices.

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From the Quote Box

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Mary Beth Frezon

Doing is the great thing. For if, resolutely, people do what is right, in time they come to like doing it. — John Ruskin

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The non-quilting and the quilting and how they relate

Posted on July 10, 2009 by Mary Beth Frezon

Yesterday I took three little pieces of gold to a place that buys gold in all its forms.  The nice man looked at them, weighed them and made me an offer.  I had already decided that unless the offer was something truly ridiculous, like $20, I was leaving without the three little pieces of old – a ring and two earrings* – and with a bit of anonymous cash.

And so I did.

I then went to a local quilt shop and plopped down that bit of cash and a bit of my own and went home with a nice pile of fabrics.  My evening was putting them into the washer and dryer and untangling them and roughly folding them.  That whole process is part of the work – not only for the preparation of the fabric but to become acquainted with the color and pattern and texture of it all.

It’s not like I really needed any fabric.  Who does, LOL? Sometimes you need something to seed the mix and make it all new and interesting and something to pull out the old stuff into the new ideas.  That’s what I was doing.

Bye bye three little pieces of metal.  Hello new ideas.

*  a ring and a set of earrings which qualified as the ugliest earrings I ever imagined seeing let alone receiving as a so-called gift.  Even the gold buyer was puzzled by them but…. yeah.  My only regret is that I didn’t photograph them first to show them to you.

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huh?

Posted on July 9, 2009 by Mary Beth Frezon

what is the deal?  Everyone else in the world is on vacation and – no offense Thrall and other hordies – running horde-like and rampant across the non-azerothian world.  What the heck is up with that?  Much huffing and puffing if their perceived needs not met immediately.  See the other folks nearby?  They have needs too.  This morning there was coffee and half-and-half and various sweetners splashed liberally all over the morning coffee stop.  All the workers were just left shaking their heads.  I knew.  I know.  That horde will be stopping in to visit me later.

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What was that flash?

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Mary Beth Frezon
Fionnabhair turns 80!

Fionnabhair turns 80!

No not another thunderstorm. Just the new alter ego hitting 80. I managed to hit 80 while turning in a quest I had really felt great about when Quiltmage figured out how to do it after a few tries. On my new death knight Fionnabhair it was a little sketchy the first time out (woot 1300 health to spare!) but done on the first try so it was all good.

Unlike Quilt who arrived in Northrend with good gear, a lot of experiences, professions and faction reputation, Fionna is sort of winging her way through the new land with a lick and a promise and a lot of support from her big sister Quilt and her little sisters too.

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