My first post

I am not a blogger. It's not so much that I have nothing to say, but I keep forgetting to sit down and say it. I also keep forgetting the url for my blog so it's possible that I have several blogs out there on the web with just one entry in them. This time I hope to be a little more organized. I've already written down my url, id and password in "a safe place". Hopefully, the next time I need to go to that "safe place" I will also discover the combination for my old gym lock.

I am Diane. I am many things to many people: a wife to John, mother to Deborah, daughter to Sondra, sister to James, employee to Barbara, friend to many. I have always loved to make things with my hands. I knit, I sew, I embroider, I quilt, I scrapbook, I make cards. I leave behind me all the bits and pieces that these tasks create and that leads to the Chaos that surrounds me. If you ask my mother she will probably tell you that this is my fatal flaw and I have had it all my life. Give me a horizontal surface and 10 minutes and I can create a pile. I have wonderful intentions of taking care of the pile before it becomes a mountain that requires a backhoe to excavate, but unfortunately I usually get sidetracked with another project and that just leads to another pile.

I love "things". I love yarn and paper and thread and fabric and TOOLS. Can't have enough tools. Today was the first time I went into Jo-Ann's with coupons in my hand and came out empty handed! I think I already have everything they have. I still had to look, because I had a coupon for 10% off my entire purchase.

A bad thing happened to me today. I was at a party and I had to move my car to let another guest leave and, in backing up I sort of squashed another person's car. It's the first time I have ever damaged another vehicle in 40 years of driving. And, to make matters worse, the car I squashed belonged to a kid who had already had one car totaled on him and was rear-ended in another accident. Needless to say, he was not a happy camper and I feel terrible. The damage is not major by any means but will require a little body work. I was only going about 2 miles an hour and backed into his left front fender. There's no damage to my car. I exchanged insurance information with him but because of the holiday there's no one answering at the insurance company.

What am I working on right now? I am knitting the 2nd sock of a pair (for me) out of a varigated stretchy cotton yarn. I started the pattern on the sock today and discovered that I'd been reading the directions for the wrong sock so the ribbing at the top of this sock is going to be 2 rows longer than its mate. I can live with that. Yesterday I made a graduation card for my great-nephew's high school graduation and spent a pleasant afternoon reading a romance novel.

I just pre-ordered the latest books by Dan Brown and Diana Gabaldon from Amazon. By the time they arrive I will most likely have forgotten that I already ordered them. I don't think Diana's book will be released until late September. I can't wait to see what will happen to Claire and Jamie in this installment.