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So I have been working on some projects the last few weeks, in my free time (ha!  hahahaha!)

a quilt for a certain lovely lady

And finally finishing my diaper bag.  I had almost gotten it done, only to have gotten my head all turned around and accidentally sewed the handle into a Mobius loop.  I got so frustrated, I dumped it in a corner and left it there for months.  I want to start a new bag, though, and needed to get this one done first.  SO here it is!  It’s Amy Butler’s Nappy Bag, and the fabric is a Japanese import.

You know that state of disarray, when you’ve got a ton of things going on but nothing can seem to be finalized?  That last dish doesn’t make it into the dishwasher, the laundry is still in the washer ( a day.  ok, maybe two days, but just that one time), and there have been 2 months without more than a weekend free (glorious, full-of-friends-and-fun months, but still no free weekends, save one).

I love the busy-ness, but by the end of this summer I will be one tired cat.  Speaking of… better check the litter box.

A blog too good to be true:

Cake Wrecks

Jack and I have been traveling for most of the week, so the posting, it was sporadic! We got to see some old friends from the life before we moved, though, and that was great.  It also involved pool and lake time, and some truly beautiful locations and weather, which was also great.  My best friend, K. (hi K.!) is coming up this weekend, and then my best friend from Nashville is coming up a few weeks after that.  Busy summer!

Jack has learned how to say “go” and now point both fingers up to the sky.  I think the rockets as decor in his room are influencing him.

We completely rearranged our house last weekend (and are dealing with the ensuing aftermath of messed up drawers, stuff lying out everywhere, etc., because we weren’t able to finish before the weekend was up), and Ben and I are loving the results.  We can now watch movies in the basement and Jack won’t wake up to hear!!   Yesssssss….

I am still working on Baby E’s quilt.  It’s looking pretty good, and all those little triangles didn’t make me want to stab out my eyeballs as much as I thought they would.

With respect to my earlier post, I would totally choose the Kindle.

I had my first run-in with a Kindle reader from amazon.com yesterday when I was visiting a friend; I loved it.  The screen was gorgeous, the type looked great, and it did a number of things that I liked, such as showing how far along in the book you are, allowing you to “clip” parts of the book that you like, etc.  over 4000 reviews on amazon.com and it still has 4 stars, which doesn’t seem too bad (and then you read some of the one-star reviews).

My question is this: is the kindle better than the Sony E-reader?  This site breaks it down in a point-by-point comparison, but I haven’t gotten my hands on the Sony yet to compare how they actually feel in the hand.  It’s clearly smaller than the Kindle.

And ok, so I have another question: Do I need something like this?  I read a great deal, and have been making alot of trips to the library.  The library is free although it is a drive to get there for us, about 10-15 minutes.  An e-reader is most certainly not free, but neither is it using carbon fuels to supply myr eading material.  On the other hand, the books I read over and over again at night, well, I already own them.  BUT, when I do travel, I miss not having them around and usually find myself gong to great lengths to go to a bookstore to fill in the gaps.  Granted, I don’t travel like I used to, so it’s not as big a deal.  If I did travel like I used to, though, it seems to me that would be the perfect time for  for a kindle given its wireless capacity that works from almost anywhere without a computer intermediary.  The Sony requires a download onto the computer first, then uploading into the device.  Sony has over 160,000 titles, and Amazon offers about half that, including blogs, newspapers, etc., in that number, not just book titles.

(Seriously, as an aside to my reader, Dave: you should look into a kindle if you read alot on trips–worth its weight in gold according to my friend who is a constant business traveller, essentially because it is wireless and doesn’t rely on a computer for downloading new material).

Gentle readers (for I know there are at least three, ha!), please give me any experience you may have with one or the other of these.  Thanks!

All the pieces are cut, and I am in the process of lining up blocks for Baby Ellen’s quilt.  Hurrah!

I am stumped.  Really.  Why anyone thought it was a good idea to make antibiotics for cats in bubblegum flavor is beyond me.  It even says right on the container “for veterinary use only”, so it’s not like this is doing double duty for humans. Seamus is already picky about being touched, and forcing him to ingest pink goop that tastes like something he would never choose in nature is just made that much harder (the vet said to mix it with tuna oil… I can’t even begin to imagine what that tastes like).

Jack, however, sees the pink stuff and starts hooting and making the sign for “eat” since he likes sweet sweet bubble gum.   Fortunately for him, since his pinky nail is infected, he gets it four times a day.  Yesssssssss.