It’s taken me a couple of days of thinking about HIMYM (and watching old episodes on netflix) before deciding if I like how the series ended. And I’m still not sure.

Barney – I do love that after years of not really loving anyone, he loved his daughter. Sometimes that’s what it takes right! Kids can change people. But he did love Robin. I’m not sure I’d accept a great three years as a great marriage and have that be that. Especially after we watched them all season work toward getting married. If the series kept going, would they have gotten a divorce? I suppose so since the show ultimately ended a certain way…

Robin – why can’t Barney just stand by her, realizing that her career is awesome, and be supportive! He had to have grown up and not be so selfish, right? I like that she had a great career at least.

Lily – what happened to her painting, or her involvement in art anyway? I don’t think it’s that great that her accomplishment in the end is that she had kids. Is that great, yes, but she is more than a Mom. She and Marshall broke up because of her painting! They moved to Italy for her painting! Did she go back to teaching?

Marshall – Supreme Fudge! Kind of cool. But whatever happened to saving the environment?

Ted – Ted. Ted. Ted! What the heck. He’s stood outside Robin’s place many times, but geez. Did we really watch this show for this long to have him and Robin get together? The idea is telling stories to your kids about … how you met their mother. Not how you met your mother, but really you wanted to hook up with Aunt Robin, even after all those years. Bad form.

The Mother – she seemed like Ted’s perfect person. The bass guitar, the two kids, one boy, one girl (okay no one really gets to pick that). Their story seemed like it was a great one. But her dying – that sucks. That had to happen for Ted and Robin to hook up, the Mother was too built up to have them get a divorce. She was perfect.

If the show ended once they met, it would have been awesome.

I read that the actors playing the kids filmed their scenes years ago, since they would of course grow up as time went on. But why not have them film a bunch of different scenarios!

I think I like this alternate ending a lot.

I need to create every day.

It’s one thing that keeps me sane. With the moving, the packing, the unpacking, the chaos, the changing schools, and the research for the next place we’ll live, the countdown that starts the moment we arrive, I definitely need something. And so, I sew. I have yet to venture into making clothing. I make quilts.

Over the past couple of weeks I haven’t been sewing as often as I want to, as often as I need to. And I realized that not sewing has caused me to sit more often (and I’ve read all about how sitting is bad for a person’s health so I know this isn’t a good thing). Sewing has me moving around a lot more. I suppose going to the park, and the beach, and for a walk of course counts in the grand scheme of things. I mean I’m not sitting all day long. But I have been thinking about how much more active I am when sewing. It doesn’t sound like it would be that way, since you sit at a sewing machine and all.

I often think of my creativity in a long timeline. What I create today is going to build toward this purpose down the road, or it is going to be used in something further down the road. Being creative every day also gets the ideas out of my head. I think getting things out just allows something more to bloom.

The first step to creating every day is to just start doing something. What are you working on today?

We’ve moved. Again. I know, that’s pretty much all I do.

We’ve been in our new house for a week and we have less then ten boxes to unpack. Since we move so often, I can’t stand living amongst boxes so it is just easier to jump in and unpack everything at once. We also had to hang curtains here because the house we rented is older (built in the 50s or 60s) and so it is cold! Sure it is in the 50s and the rest of the country has been in winter wonderland with snow and freezing (and far below freezing!) temps, but the 40s at night has gotten to us. So we unpacked and hung curtains and organized. We still have to organize the kitchen pantries (we have two!) and four boxes of kids toys (that is at least five years worth of toys so I’m sure we have some to give away). We had a lot of boxes in the garage in San Diego that we didn’t unpack, but here we decided to unpack them. I found some things I forgot about! And really, if I did without some stuff for six plus months I can probably do without for good.

I am desperate to sew and I am making it a priority to finish up in our living room/office/sewing desk area so I can take a break and sew.

I realized yesterday that I really like living here. We are about ten minutes from the schools, we live in a nice house with a great yard, the hubs is about fifteen minutes from work, and the entire area in general is just really nice. I look forward to exploring a bit more (I’ve already found a local quilt shop!) and traveling a little. I don’t think I felt that way in San Diego, and I don’t know why.

I figured out how to sew an inside zipper pocket for the purse I am making!

I should have typed that in capital letters – that is how excited I am about this!!!

Last night I cut and ironed interfacing to two pieces of fabric. I was following a tutorial until I realized I was too tired to continue and it would have to wait until today. Today I realized I need to find a better tutorial to just spell it out for me. Jennifer of All Things Belle recommended this zipper tutorial over at the Busy Bean and that just made it so easy.

I cut one piece of fabric instead of two and after a little time, I had a pocket!

Here it is on the inside of the finished purse ~

This is so awesome.

All my new purse needs is the grommets for the handle and the handle. I am debating making a matching handle instead of buying cotton webbing, or I’ll have to go buy cotton webbing. I love this fabric though so maybe that’s what I should just go with.

Welcome 2013!

I figured it is a good time to jump back in and say hi!

We are preparing to move. Again. I know! The place we are in now is the fourth place JW has lived and he isn’t even 3 years old yet. Ah well, such is life in the navy. I have most of the move out set up – moving truck, packers, house cleaner and carpet cleaner, and I’m trying not to worry about finding a place to live. A couple of months ago I could feel the stress and decided to just stop looking. The stress disappeared! Now that it is closer, I am able to look for a house and secure it rather then wishing or hoping it will be available in our time frame.

I’ve been sewing up a storm. And finishing my semester. And thinking of what is to come.

I didn’t unpack everything when we moved into this house. Layout is key when picking where to live! There is little kitchen storage, I converted a coat closet into a pantry, and there just wasn’t a place for everything. The garage has a lot of still packed boxes so maybe that will be a good thing when it comes time to load the moving truck.

I’ve been sewing a lot. I did a couple of swaps – a zipper pouch organized by Heather at The Sewing Loft and participated in the Post Sewing Summit Swap. Sadly, I haven’t received anything in the post sewing summit swap, but I’m not letting that bother me. I made a baby quilt for a friend who is having their first baby, and lap quilt for Chris’ Uncle.

I am a block away from finishing Jeni’s HST block of the month! I actually made two blocks each month, so I have 24. I am going to use all of them in one quilt. I was thinking I would make a king size, but after doing the calculations I would need to add a lot more fabric – either in blocks or in borders. So that one is still being planned out.

I have a lot planned for this year:

~ 52 Lists – as seen in A Quilter’s Table year end review, this is old but I love lists and I think this would be a great thing to do. I haven’t seen that a new project is starting up so my plan is to do a list each weekend.

Dancing Stars Quilt Along – paper pieced quilt along. I feel like I’m jumping right in with this paper pieced thing!

Lucky Stars Block of the Month – a paper pieced block of the month! This looks fun and I am forcing myself to not get started.

If you are on instagram, you may have seen the scrappy trip along that I think was just started a few days ago. I know that a few have already finished the top! That is some fast sewing! I am interested in this but again, I have to move first!

I still want to participate in the WIP Wednesday posts, and recently found the Finish A Long for 2013.

Skill Builder Block of the Month – no harm in learning new things or sharpening your skills.

I am also going to pick a word for my year again. I didn’t do that this year, but a couple of years ago I did and I really like the idea. I’m looking for the word to pick, as I think about everything going in with us moving multiple times and me finishing school.