It's a different day and a different time zone - again!!!! And here is why I hate traveling with DH. It's very early in the morning here, and he's asleep, so I'm in the lobby with my portable office. It's not the first time this has happened, and it won't be the last. Renting a condo or a house is an excellent way to get around this, but it wasn't an option for this trip. However, we are staying at a very nice Holiday Inn. Although, weirdly, they do not have a business center, so a sofa in the lobby is my desk!!  I'm OK with that.  OK—about the picture of the pants with the bell bott ..read more

I'm home! It was hilarious because I hadn't even boarded the flight to come home when I was checked in for the flight tomorrow morning. Yes, it's a bit of a crazy scheduling situation at the moment, and while (fingers crossed) it looks good to get away tomorrow, there's no guarantee that I'll get home on Sunday! But I'm a gambler! Plan B or Plan C will be implemented if need be. And what are they? I've no idea yet, but I'll think of something if I need to.  The flight home was pretty uneventful, except if you think the Toronto airport is huge, Denver is HUGE. There is the West Terminal an ..read more

Someone mentioned that my "mini sunflowers" might not be sunflowers. I did take other pictures, which I haven't transferred to my laptop, so I can't post them. Anything is possible, as my thumbs are not green by any means. There isn't even a shade of green in them.  I'll see if I can find out what the flowers are. I mostly took pictures of the blooms, but I have a couple of buds that sure look like sunflowers. However, I most definitely could be wrong. The other flower's name was black-eyed Susan, and I don't think it's that because these were growing on a spindly stock (like a sunflower ..read more

OK—this one was weird in the world of travel days. I was flying United, which I do not usually fly, but they are a Star Alliance Partner with Air Canada, so that's why I was on that flight. We left the house in plenty of time, but about 5 km from the airport, the traffic slowed almost to a standstill. Hmm—this is not good. But we had time—as long as I arrived one hour before my flight to drop my baggage.  It turns out there was an accident, and two lanes of traffic had to zip off almost into the live lane beside us to get past the accident. That delayed us by 20 minutes. DH was driving, a ..read more

Well, it was a long day, and not without a few glitches, which HAD to be solved. But the good news is that everything got done! I even used up all the extra samples I had made the day before. I wasn't sure I would use them, but I did!  Everything for Project Two is tagged, bagged, and labeled. It's all packed and ready to go to the airport early in the morning.  So, my original plan to take a carry-on didn't happen. As I set aside stuff to take, I wondered how many pairs of scissors and other potential "lethal weapons" one could get away with in security. I decided not to risk it and ..read more

And so the marathon starts. Actually, it starts tomorrow, and there won't be much of a break until October 9th. So, yep - one month of total chaos and running around like an idiot! But it's all going to be fun, and there are lots of different things happening, so stay tuned.  As for the trip preparations that need to be done by tomorrow for my 7 AM flight? I made progress - perhaps not as much as I would have liked, but as I was working, I thought that if I finished all the samples I had started the day before, that was overkill. The other decision was how far along to take the step-outs ..read more

You could go down a rabbit hole discussing operating systems. Between iOS, Android, and Windows, I suspect those three cover a considerable part of the market. What is surprising is who owns those companies! It's mind-boggling how large some of these companies are. Did you know that Google owns Android? They bought them in 2005! And they have purchased many other companies as well—we just don't know that because they keep the original name.  Oh, I remember a conversation about who owns Tim Hortons! Check it out—it's a tangled web. They are NOT 100% Canadian-owned and haven't been for ..read more

 About decluttering: Once you get the bug, you will NEVER want to return to your old ways. The surprising thing is that it takes much less time to stay organized than it does to be messy. If everything has a home, it's easy to put stuff away, and there are no decisions to make. You could do it while talking on the phone!  I wanted to add a couple of things that I thought of yesterday.  If you take something out to look at it or work on it, try to finish it (OK—that's hard) and then put it away. Leaving all those things out makes clutter. If you left something out because you n ..read more

OMG, thanks for the info on the fancy cookie store! Yep, you have to be super diligent about the calorie content—just because they show a calorie count doesn't mean it's for the item you think it is. The day stores and restaurants were mandated to list calories - I almost died! Who knew that you could consume your recommended daily calorie count in a cookie and a drink!  It's all about moderation. Fancy cookies are the best, but I rarely eat them! As I said yesterday, I might as well tape the cookie to my hips because that's where the entire thing ends up! At least if I eat it, I can savo ..read more

Oh gosh—I'm a hypocrite!!!! I went to the event and brought something home! No, it was not a brand-new, top-of-the-line sewing and embroidery machine, although it was very tempting. No - it was a charm pack.  A charm pack  I got caught up in the moment! When they went around with a bag of prizes, I reached my hand in, and this is what I got. Wait—I cheated and peeked into the bag to get something I might use rather than some swag that I would not! I can easily sew those squares together and make a child's quilt. , So where did I go, and why would I potentially buy another s ..read more