Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms of the world!!!

I hope every mother feels blessed and cherished today and every day!

Slowly catching up with technology...

This is my first post from Blogaway, an app on my Droid.

This is significant because not  very long ago, i couldn't even tell you what an app is, and i could barely make adequate use of my smartphone.

Now i have a Droid, am downloading apps, and starting to understand how hooked one can get having so much technology at your fingertips, at any moment of the day.

:)         so cool.........

Well, I am officialy done with exams. I took my last final exam for my bachelor's on wednesday, April 28th, and found out I got 100%.

YAY!

Nothing like going out with a bang! Official gpa: 3.83

I'm happy with it.

Took my last Machine Design exam before the final. Senior-itis has definitely set in. I'm finiding it more and more difficult to stay enthusiastic. I just can't wait to be done!

Final in 3 weeks.

# 75: Quilt progress is about 40% for the top stitching. Since I'm feeling pretty under the weather, and have the next 3 days off, I'll probably spend a bit of time on the couch, working on the quilt. Not much energy to do anything else...might as well be productive with the low-energy stuff. Maybe I'll get a little movie watching it too!

Still working on the quilt below....progress! I'm on a roll now, and am committed to finishing it within the next week or so!

Also plugging along on the AFI film list. I watched All About Eve over the weekend. I guess you could call it the stalker movie of the 50's. I enjoyed it to a degree. Hubby said the dialogue was more fit for a book than a movie. I tend to agree. He said "people just don't talk like that". Too funny....

On a completely different note, I was astounded at how much Anne Baxter (as Eve) sounded like Eleanor Parker (Baroness Schraedor) from The Sound of Music. Their voices were so much alike, I was convinced they were the same person. But, alas, they are not.

Marilynn was also in the film, in a small supporting role. I barely recognized her, without a "bigger" hair style. And she didn't sport the "throaty" voice either.

One voice I did recognize was that of Geoge Sanders, who plays Addison DeWitt in the film. His is the voice of Shere Khan in Disney's The Jungle Book. Very cool voice!!

I think that brings me to 40/100 films. I'm getting there, and having fun getting to know some of the actors and actresses that my folks used to talk about. One thing I like about many of the older films is how elegant everyone was. Men wore hats, women wore pearls, and they're every move was deliberate and expressive.

Lots of fun!

# 75: Finish T's quilt. I started this quilt for my son, well..... a couple years ago. Actually, more like 3 years. And this quilt is, unfortunately, quite representative of my tendency to procrastinate. It is very close to completion, and has been for a very long time. The only thing left for me to do is the top-stitching. By hand.

My son was taking Taekwon-do at the time, so I designed this quilt to coincide with that. The characters are the tenets of Taekwon-do, written in Korean. The design in the upper left is the symbol of his instructor's Grand Master, B.C. Yu.

I had actually intended to take the quilt to someone who has a special machine for doing the top-stitching, but this being nearly my first quilt, and the very first that I wanted to top-stitch in a more "authentic" manner, I was unaware of the fact that the layers must be separate in order to "load" it onto the rollers.

Well, that means it'll have to be top-stitched by hand, because I've already assembled the layers, basted them together, and finished the edges. Seriously putting the cart before the horse.

Well, I've definitely learned some lessons on this one.

Meanwhile, the quilt has remained 3/4 complete for at least a year.

That is why I put it on the LIST. So for about the last month, I've been pulling it out 3 or 4 nights a week, spending an hour or two doing the top-stitching. I've got about 20-25% it complete so far.

Just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming....