More Pokey, More Names

My cats Pokey and Lily often wait for me to sit in the recliner and lean backwards - that way they have a launchpad to the upper shelves of the bookcase.  [On a complete sidenote, Blogger is irritating the heck out of me - I want this underlining to go away!!!]

I wouldn't have thought Pokey would have enough room there to sit on the stack of fabric, but apparently she does. As you can see, my organizational skills are lacking. However, I have got a set of drawers that I'm very carefully putting donated blocks into so that I can keep them straight.

Speaking of which, Brenda sent me a few more orphan blocks. Look at those itty bitty letters; I'm going to have to be careful not to lose those. By the way, Brenda is having solo show of her wordy quilts (woohoo!!!!) and will be holding an open house on 28 March. I just wished I lived a lot closer to Winnipeg so that I could go. If you're able, please go and say hi for me.

Chris B in North Carolina made this wonderful name block for me - feels very beachy. I know Chris is working on a great family quilt using the free-pieced letters. Woohoo.

Nancy made her name for me and she put a lot of thought into the fabrics she chose. It's marvelous. And wheee, some more orphan words. Nancy came up with her own way of making M's - can you see the seam down through the middle?

Sharon found her own way to make an S and an a. I love seeing how ya'all come up with your own fonts. I love the fabrics she chose - very fitting for someone whose blog is titled Indigo Threads. I think most of these letters and definitely the jars are from Sharon's really fun ongoing Witch's Pantry quilt. 

Let's see, how about some other places to go visit. 

Have you seen Lynda's incredibly fun free-pieced dogs? 

How about Bebe's wonderful name/word quilt for her daughter? I'm loving that - check out the March 16th post.

Susan used Guatemalan fabric  in her free-pieced lettered Ohio banner, made for an NQA challenge. Check out her blog MY2K for more Guatemalan fabric and Mayan history. I'd love to see her free-piece some of those Mayan heiroglyphs - that could be a hoot.

I thought I'd provided a link to show you new blogger Quilt Messing Around Valerie's really fun alphabet sampler that she's working on, but couldn't find it in my blog. So better late than never, check out this fun free-pieced sampler in progress.

I have to undergo more testing on my thyroid. Or lack thereof. For those who are newer to my blog, I had my thyroid removed a bit over two years ago and there was a bit of cancer in there. So now the doc has to check and make sure that the thyroid hasn't grown back and that nothing spread way back when. I'm on a low iodine diet and it sucks. I have a list of things I can't eat or drink and that includes dairy. So no milk for tea or cream for coffee. I've been cranky and finally bought loads of Diet Doctor Pepper. I'm trying to limit the amount of artificial sweetener I eat, but forget it - I can't handle all this dietary restriction stuff all at once. 

Okay the rest of the post will be about tv. 

Wow, Dollhouse has really improved. That's the show where "dolls" have their memories blanked out so that they can be overwritten with different, skilled personalities and are then rented out to rich people. Or in the most recent episode, the government. My favorite parts of the episode were the Topher "man reaction" bits. I know lots of people hate that character, but I really enjoy him. Sure he's amoral and kind of a creep, but still entertaining.

Dollhouse took a while to find its rhythm, but now I'm really enjoying it. I wonder how much of that has to do with the network meddling with Joss' show and reworking and rearranging the episodes. I'll blame them. Anyway, I've read rumors that the 6th episode is where it all comes together, that's this friday. So if you haven't already, give the show a try. Catch up on a couple (or all) of the older ones and have fun.

I'm looking forward to Better Off Ted which premiers tonight. To quote ABC, the show is a "satirical office comedy featuring a morally conscious man, Ted, who runs an R&D department at a morally questionable corporation." The executive producer created Andy Richter Controls the Universe - one of my favorite "brilliant but cancelled" shows, thankfully coming out on DVD soon. Anyway, one of my favorite actors from ARCU is in this new one too. And Portia de Rossi (fabulous in Arrested Development)... Just the bits I've seen look fun, so my fingers are crossed for this one.

The second episode of Castle was better than the first. There were  few moments when it really came together (Castle talking about the creepy guy in 8B and interacting with his family), just wish they'd lose the cop he's supposed to be interested in. That's not even remotely working for me.

Meanwhile I'm taking another look at Lost. I'd quit after the first few episodes of season two, but I'm hearing good things about the current season, so decided to jump back in. Just finished season two and while some things do bug me, I'm eager to start the next season. I'm going to be highly irate though if all of this is never explained. And c'mon, what about that huge monster that was out there in the jungle in the first season. What the heck has happened to that? If you know, don't tell me - I'm trying to catch up.

Man, blogger hates me today - why are my letters all grey? It's a mystery....