Same way I ignore most other sports things. I pay token attention to hockey, being geographiclly close to areas of intense rivalry and all. That is about it. Though when everybody was going about wearing "Squish the fish" sweatshirts I had to find out what that was all about. It was to do with a rivalry betwixt the local favorite Bills, and the Dolphins. This rather bewildering answer did not inspire confidence in football fans.
NightMist
First, go to a fab quilt shop 1 hr from home for beads, cool doll patterns and the very cool Shiva Paint Stick DVD because they were having a store wide sale.
Second, go to Williamsburg IA that has a big outlet mall. Go to the Harry and David store to get their wonderful pasta and pasta sauce and a few other assorted cullinary goodies.
Also hit the Coldwater Creek store and found a few $4.99 bargain tops for summer.
We paid dearly for our trip though-while in ColdWater Creek, it started to snow, and it snowed and SNOWED...the drive home was NOT fun!
I went to Kansas City to a couple of quilt shops. $1 fat quarters. I bought a couple... or 25. We hit every kind of weather imaginable. There was a thunderstorm as we were leaving. We got hit with rain, hail, sleet, snow & fog. 32 degrees in KC. Got home (120 miles south) and it was 50 something.
Midwest weather. Gotta love it.
I'm fixing to strangle the weather man. He promised sunshine today.
Cindy
I'm sitting in a quiet house with a puppy in my lap -- DH is watching the game with a friend. I'd be finishing a binding if Bisou weren't in my lap, but how can I complain?
I don't avoid it either. I did get a late start with it today though. Got all psyched up about a new sewing project while I was at my UFO group and just had to get fabrics. Got home and turned it on with about 4 minutes left in the first quarter.
My daddy taught me how to watch football and other sports when I was a wee bitty girl in the 1950's. My mom would be off shopping on Sundays, and my dad would have the games on. He died about 20 years ago, so this is a great way to remember my times with him. He probably should have been a sportscaster or sports writer, but he ended up unloading boxcars for a living.
I also learned to sew to football games. Since my mom was out, the sewing machine was free for me to use. I still sew to football games. The rah-rah in the background keeps me pumped up.
dh and dd are watching the game...i'm sewing blocks with my scrap pile--making
8 1/2 " blocks...all so different. Then will cut what I can into 4" squares for gds so that they can continue to sew them together for a quilt of some design not quite figured out yet. Hope to get this burgeoning pile of scraps down to a fraction of it's size. Mary
OK, this has something to do with that silly pointy end ball ... what day is that?
Val
Didja ever notice the really bad mending job on those things? They all seem to break in the same place, and they all seem to be sewn back together with shoelaces. Why they don't just take the thing home, confess they broke it, and get it sewn up properly is beyond me.
NightMist
Watching movies on the Women's Channel while slicing strips for a Log Cabin Quilt.
Sharon (N.B.)
If you stagger the squares instead of having matching seams at intersections the 4 in. squares would be much easier- assuming your GDS is younger???
Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.
Quilting what else?? Oh yeah, having bunny nose rubbing breaks.
I am mak> What's your favorite way to ignore Super Bowl Sunday? lol
Superbowl?????
It was warm today, in the uper 60's so I decided to cook. Got the grill out for BBQ ribs, baked beans and cole slaw. I was outside enjoying one of the very few days of warm weather here in South Mississippi.
Wanted to play Bingo this afternoon, BUT the hall was closed. Why, well all the Mardi Gras parades. Tourists as thick as fleas. Rush hour traffic for days now. The parades have been going on for almost two weeks.
Didn't even turn on the TV today. So...Superbowl????? ( giggle)
Kate T. South Mississippi
I don't turn on the TV. We're not big TV fans anyway. As soon as it's mentioned on the News we bleep it until something else comes on.
My LQS (which I no longer live anywhere near) used to have SBS sale. Great opportunity to go fabric shopping and then fondle, wash or whatever all evening :-)
Frankly, I just took the chance to have a party with my friends and someone would land the job of spending at least _some_ time trying to explain to me the rules of the game.
Alas, I no longer live in SBS country.
Hanne in London
Move to Europe? Roberta in D, where the Carnival season is mercifully almost over, meaning the end of the evening-long TV shows, every night a carnival party/ cabaret in a different city
"Karen, Queen of Squishies" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:_oopj.14212$yE1.434@attbi_s21...
I wish I'd thought of that before because one gd is 11 and apparently was sewing too fast. Usually I sort of "hover' but didn't this time...and there were a great deal of wonky seams ! Anyway, we have about 48 sqs sewn tog. and it would have been much easier with offset seams. I did undo a bunch and resew for next session !!! LOL I came home the other day and dh was here w/ the four gks.--school had been called off because of impending ice storm.......the two girls were already at my Pfaff and sewing up a storm..one is 11 ..the other 7 ! Thankfully I'd bought a Fons & Porter rotary cutter that retracts after cutting because they were using it !!!! DH hasn't a clue about what those things can do to fingers and not used to 'dangerous' tools at the sewing machine !!! Mary
intersections
What/when is Super Bowl Sunday?
Lizzy, over the pond in England.
DW and I went out for a long meandering walk around town, with a stop at a local non-starbucks coffee shop, and a visit to the book store after. We actually got home before the game, I think, but it didn't matter.
I was glad to read the next day that an underdog team beat a team that had been caught cheating earlier in the season, or so I hear. Good for them!
JA
DD came home yesterday, so we celebrated my HB: Lettuce from our garden Steaks on the Baaaaarbee German Chocolate Cake Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
Ragmop, no fabric. Went to 2 LQS's on Fri (real HB) and came home with 3 mags. (Do ya wanna page of ads?) None had the Tom/Jerry fabric : ( Yes, there IS some cake left so hurry on over before the day's over cause I'm thinking it'll be gone by then.
Butterfly (even had a teeny bit of Ice Cream !!!!!)
Since I love football I watched the whole game! Of course, I would have liked it even better if the Packers would have been playing since two of my favorite Boise State players are now playing for the Packers!
The years that the Super Bowl games were really lopsided, at half time I would quit watching and either quilt or play on the computer, but still have the game on so I could listen!
Donna in (SW) Idaho
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