Sewing, Cards, Theatre & Food, Oh My!

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I bought this little sewing machine months ago when it was on sale. It's for sewing on paper, but probably in my case, mostly for making holes through which I can do hand-stitching on paper. It runs on 4 AA batteries.

I used it the other day for the first time. It was fun!

Here are bunch of copper trees I embossed using Rusty Penny embossing powder. These are for Christmas cards - some for an order (hi Stephanie!), the rest for inventory. I've noticed that I've gone from making 10 cards at a time to 20. Except as I counted out the paper for these, I thought, "Aw heck, might as well make 40 cards."

I bought another Tivo on Friday - this one for our family room. We've been waiting for 5 weeks for our Time Warner DVR to arrive, which is 4 weeks longer than they said it would take. Driving to work Friday, it occurred to me to check the Tivo site to see if they offer a discount for multiple units on the same account. Yep, they sure do! So now I'm paying $15/month for 2 units versus the $14/month I was paying for 1 unit! Such a deal. The Tivo has more features than the cable company's DVR, as I understand it. I know I sure love it. Steve was thrilled to be able to set up a wish list for his beloved Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres.

I arrived home from work Friday to find the Time Warner DVR arrived that very day. We'll send it back.

Steve and I had to run a phone line up from the basement to accommodate the new Tivo. Eventually, we'll add both Tivos to our home network so I can send Tivo'd shows from my studio Tivo to the family room Tivo. Sure would have been handy to have that set up when I was home for three weeks with my gall bladder illness and spending lots of time on the couch in there.

I realize Time Warner was doing the best they can in getting these backordered DVRs to their customers because it's in their best interest to do that, so they can start charging for the service.

Blogger? I'm not so sure. Remember when I screwed up my template on Jan 1 and emailed their support people, asking for help? They responded. On January 27. ("I see your blog is okay now, you must have fixed it yourself. Let us know if there's anything we can do for you.") That is totally unacceptable customer service! Thank goodness Ann suggested I pick a new template, which solved my problem. And of course I now keep a backup copy of my template, updating it every time I change something. (I added the list of journals and blogs I read, at the bottom of the sidebar. I've checked and rechecked the links, but let me know if you find something not right. I'll be adding any I've missed.)

I went to Geva Theatre Saturday afternoon to see Vigil with Lynn and Linda. It was good, okay really - until the 2nd act pulled it all together. I even got a little verklempt at the end! So now I'd give it a quite good. After trying numerous restaurants afterwards (around 6:30), we ended up at The Elmwood Inn for dinner. We drove by a few other places, which were all too crowded to be conducive to conversation. Food is food; we wanted to be able to converse with each other.

Lynn and I split a Chicken Bacon Ranch Wrap and Chicken Quesadillas and French Fries. They were loaded with cheese, with which I didn't have a problem. I ate greasy Chinese food for lunch last week, French Bread Pizza for dinner and this morning had a piece of Steve's leftover pizza from yesterday. No problems! I'm still a little scared to try the big kahuna - fried mozzarella sticks. My final check up with my surgeon is a week from Monday, so after that, I think I'll give them a whirl. I'm doing great!