More GPS Using

First, I want to tell you how much I appreciate being told I am not boring! You people are the best!

I put the address of the craft shop in the GPS {which hasn’t got a name as yet} and trundled off there yesterday following exactly what the GPS told me to do. It was really easy. I went to the craft store with the intention of buying a small book on basic embroidery. That was the only thing I didn’t buy; but only because they didn’t have one!   There were lots of books on cross stitching bit I didn’t want to do that, although I have done it in the past. I bought some more floss and a small pair of scissors and a small and a medium embroidery ring, but the main and most expensive thing I got was a fantastic book I have been looking at on Amazon.

It is called Drawn to Stitch: Line Drawing and Mark Making in Textile Art  by Gwen Hedley. I can’t remember if it was one of the "Look Inside This Book"  at Amazon, {no, it isn’t–I just looked} but let me tell you that as helpful as that is, it is NOTHING like being able to open the book and look at it as much as I wanted. It is an amazing book, and, of course, I bought it! I really should have waited and bought it on line because it was a couple of dollars cheaper there, but the minute it was in my hands, there was instant love and I wanted to take it home with me. I have been reading it on and off most of today. I haven’t tried any of the exercises since I am going to K.’s tomorrow and will continue with the art I started there, but on Friday, I am starting this new stuff. Talking about going to K.’s tomorrow, I was thinking that I and the GPS might take ourselves to Kinko’s after I leave K.’s and take a book or two for them to tear apart and make them so they will lie flat. I am not going to take the Hedley book because they might hold it over the weekend and I am looking forward to trying some of her ideas!

I am still thrilled about using the GPS and the more I use it, the more I like it. Oh, I know I had something else I wanted to put in here. On the way back from the craft store, I came up to a road the name of which I recognized. It was the way I went to the bone doctor but it was not on the route I had used to get to the craft store. On an impulse I turned down it since I know it brought me out pretty close to home. There was a short silence from the GPS and then it said, "Recalculating" and directed me home the new way. I know this is all old-hat to those who have been using a GPS forever but I am still amused by it…

"We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers – but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change." — Katherine Hepburn

"Anything you’re good at contributes to happiness."

— Bertrand Russell