Journal: Ok, so I mis-titled this posting. I am "supposed" to be working on Girl On a Swing, but, honestly, if I have to put one more stitch into that thing this week, I may burn it. I am just not made to work on 1 project at a time. I think this fact goes all the way down to my DNA level. Gene Mustnotworkononethingatatime2093457236096. Look it up! It's real!!
So, I am sitting in my favorite stitching place in Berkeley, thinking about Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. Wondering why Life is such a drag sometimes and blissfully perfect others. Why Liberty is always being attacked and wondering why she picked that nasty old rag she wears. (werent the French known for their fashion back then??) And why Happiness is so damned fast on her feet that it makes her hard to catch...although I guess it does say to "pursue" happiness. No guarantees on catching her!! Those founding fathers were really quick on their feet and VERY smart. *nods earnestly* All the while listening to my "life is fucked" playlist on my iPod. ( I know the playlist name doesnt sound very happy, but it's a list of all the music I have that makes me feel good. LOL It's my sick sense of humor coming out that no one was supposed to see but me, yet I posted the name anyway. LOL)
It's a beautiful day. Warm, but not too hot. Clear skies. Lots of birds chirping and happy people walking by laughing and chatting. By the way, these pictures are taking out of my sun roof. I didnt even have to leave my car!! Here's the Gothic building I get to look at. It's a school of religion of some kind and has religeous symbols all around the building under the windows. I want to look them up because some of them I have no idea about.

Here's the giant redwoods right next to the car. You can see one of them in the earlier picture, but this is looking straight up them from the driver's seat.

I am not sure what kind of tree this one is...some pine or cypress or something? It's pretty cool though. It's all tangled and gnarly. The college kids love to sit in it as do the squirrels and the birds.

This is the building on the other side of the street. It looks like a castle, but it's really a brick church. We dont have many brick buildings in CA, they tend to crumble in earthquakes, so it's always amazing to actually see one. Berkeley really needs to get on the underground wiring bandwagon! They have so much pretty scenery and architecture, it's a shame that there are wires everywhere.

This one wasnt taken out of the sunroof. It is actually about a mile up the road from where I park. Top left is SF. Middle top is the Golden Gate. Top right is Marin or some other fancypants city that costs way too much to even visit. The bridge on the lower left is the Bay Bridge. Bottom middle is UC Berkeley with Berkeley stretched out before it. The bottom half of the photo that is a rooftop is some top secret Berkeley National Labs building. I'd tell you what it is, but then I'd have to kill you. I just tossed this picture in because it was taken on the same day. :)

Everything is perfect! I have put away Girl on a Swing, and have been digging through my bag to see what I want to work on. Papillion mystery? No, too many specialty stitches I have to concentrate on. BFG? No, I have a bit of frogging to do. Just about 5 minutes worth, but I dont want to ruin the perfect day with frogging. Celtic Banner? No, too long and cumbersome to stitch in the car. Ah....my Love Quilt square! I need to finish this anyway.
So, I am decided how to game up my stitching time. Do I pick a section to finish and finish that section? Do I stitch with 1 color of thread and finish off all I can with that color? Do I rotate colors after every thread? Do I do the outlining and no filling in? Do I fill in and not do any outlining?? I decide I may have ADD. Why do I need to "game up" my stitching all the time?? Cant I just stitch?? Does anyone else find a game in their stitching?? THEN I decide to do the rotating color game. One thread of each color in the design (thank goodnesss their are only 6 and one of the colors is already used up!!) game.
So, I pull out the grey and start stitching. I get about halfway through the thread and I hear a helicopter overhead. Must be one of the news copters flying over to get to an accident or something....cept now I am hearing 2 copters. One of the copters starts a circular pattern overhead. Hmmm...must be a police copter. It is dark blue. They must be looking for someone....always comforting when they do this right overhead!! LOL Wait....what's that noise? 3 copters? Wow! This must be something big! I start to wonder if I should roll up the windows and lock the doors. Forget that!! I'll roast up like a pork rib roast if I do that!....mmmmmm, ribs.....
Now the copters are hovering about 3 blocks in front of me. Low and behold, number 4 comes flying in. He gets into a hovering position almost immediately. He must be a much better copter driver. All the others flew around looking for a spot and this guy just plopped right in and found a spot in seconds!! Now there are other copters flying in and out of my eyesight. Just 1 or 2 at a time, coming and going. Next comes a small plane...probably some TV station that is too cheap to buy a copter...flies by a couple of times circling around. HAHA! That sucker cant hover!! I got 5 copters in this picture!! FIVE! Number 3 was just passing through the hoverers. I circled them because they are hard to see without blowing up the magnification.

Now it dawns on me, today was the day that they court was going to rule on the Berkeley Tree Sitters. I am all for saving the oaks, but does it really need every helicopter in the area to cover it?? It is the commuting hour!! What about all the accidents on the roads? Who's covering those?? What will the public do if they dont get to see every fender bender on the news tonight?? And for God's sake, do the copters have to be so loud?? I feel like my ears have little drummer boys in them...."pa rum pum pum pum, rum pum pum pum". There will, obviously, be no quiet stitching for me this week. I still got quite a bit done. I did some more outlining done of the muzzle and whiskers. I finished filing in the muzzle and the grey around the whiskers on the left. It was a lot of fun not having any confetti or fractal stitches. Maybe I'll do more today.
On a side note....another video of me bitching about noise! YAY!! I am thinking of renaming my blog to "Chronicles of a Bitchy Stitcher" or maybe "The Bitchery Stitchery" What do you think?? And I am serious about this! LOL








