WeekendingDay Twenty-one

What to say today.

• This is an unusual weekend for me.
• Usual: Homebody, maybe heading out for take-out.
• Unusual: Party on Friday and dinner with friends (OUT at a restaurant) on Saturday.
• The food and drink caught up with me.
• Home all day on Sunday.
• Some of you may know that some food sensitivities or allergies have either caught up with me or developed out of nowhere over the last three years or so.
• Stick to the foods that are okay and I feel pretty good.
• Cheating can be okay if I only cheat infrequently.
• I have a problem with that.
• One cheat leads down a road that can last several weeks and leaves me feeling lousy.
• Once I start, though, I cannot seem to stop myself.
• This weekend is the culmination of a binge and it is now time to get my act together.
• Anyway, that subject bores me.
• Other than that, the weekend was so much fun!
• And the food and drink tasted so good.
• The rest of my weekend can be summed up as, well, OBSESSIVE personality disorder.
• Not quite Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, but Obsessive for sure.
• I just diagnosed myself.
• See, I'm about to make a quilt and long story short, wanted a particular fabric that I have 1/2 yard of and need more.
• Five quilt shops: no luck,
• Internet search: no luck,
• Ebay: no.luck.
• The search started on Wednesday, but I had no information, only the description of the fabric.
• YOU do a search for "batik blue green" and see how far you get.
• I would have driven the two hours up to Center Harbor yesterday to take a look there, but....see above: The food and drink caught up with me.
• So I thought I'd go today.
• It's one of those things where you've been told by everybody that you can't get that fabric anymore, but if you don't go look it will always eat at the back of your mind.
• Well, it will eat at mine anyway.
• Plus, if I am told I can't get it, I take that as a challenge, not a hint to make another plan.
• As the morning wore on (and I was knitting and thinking about leaving) I decided to try ebay again.
• Guess what!?
• I found a fat quarter bundle with the fabric in it!
• You know what that means!
• I have a fabric company name!
• I head to their website and by a fluke of link clicking I get a stock number for the exact fabric I'm looking for!
• A quick internet search with the correct information: Hoffman 885 504 Montego gets me all the results I need.
• Phew! You have no idea how focused I was on this one thing for the last five days!
• Or maybe you do.

2011. Forty-two. $3.55. This post would be so much better if it included a photo of the fabrics that are going into my quilt, wouldn't it? You'll have to settle for this:

Comments

[Anna]

Yay!! Great detective work!!
Ha! Food and drink catches up with all of us one way or another :(
You gotta love a girl that doesn't give up!!

[Carole]

It's great that you found the fabric! And I think we're all guilty of making bad choices. I start exercising and then all it takes is missing it ONE day and I'm completely off schedule and wind up giving up. It doesn't matter that I feel better when I exercise, it doesn't matter that I have promised myself to stick with it, I just quit. So yeah, I get it on the food thing.

[margene]

I had no doubt in your ability to hunt done the fabric of your choice. There is no other way this story could end. NO.OTHER.WAY

[britt]

oh man, next time you are looking for batiks let me know, I have no less than $600 worth of batiks sitting in a dresser, with even a generic picture I could probably determine if I have it. (yes it is ridiculous that I have that much fabric and havent' touched my sewing machine in 2 years.

[Vicki]

So you found the fabric available for purchase? Because I actually might have some o' that!! Weird.

[Martha]

That fabric looks so familiar. I wish I'd known, I'd have checked the local stores for you.