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Two days behind

Journal

Sunday, March 5, 2017

I’m already two days behind on my quilting schedule. It is a good thing I’ve allowed some catch-up days.

When I finished quilting on Friday I was looking forward to an early finish to Saturday’s schedule and maybe even a start on Sunday’s work. As it turned out the stabilizing took way longer than I allowed for, but I still thought I could make up the time because the stabilizing also took care of the quilting for most of the medallion and all of the borders.

All my planning though didn’t allow for a sick day on Saturday. I was up most of Friday night vomiting and then trying to vomit when there was nothing left. Finally, about four in the morning I took a Gravol and managed to sleep until one in the afternoon. About that time I moved from the bed to the couch where I slept for the rest of the day. I was in bed before eight and slept all the way through to this morning.

Because of all that time spent in bed my back is really aching today. I’ve been doing some quilting but making sure I get up and move around lots. On one of my move-around breaks I walked over to the library to return a book; I never go without my library card and today I picked up two more books from their new fiction shelf. I’m really going to hate it when the library moves.

With what is left of the day I will switch to some cross stitching – different movements and a different chair might be good for my back.

My new SUV

Journal

Friday, March 3, 2017

I picked up my new SUV last night – my Janome SUV that is! It doesn’t do a lot of stitches but apparently it is great for free motion quilting. Purl (my current take-along machine) has a few fancy stitches but no free-motion capabilities. This new machine will allow me to quilt my smaller projects during the bee. It will also mean I can have Ruby set up for quilting a big project and still have a machine to use for something smaller that needs to get done.

And speaking of SUV’s – I wish I had one of the vehicle kind. I went out last night to go to the Guild meeting and my car was completely dead – AGAIN! There is something going on that is drawing down the battery even when it is parked in the driveway. Fortunately, so far, it has always been dead in the driveway but I’m going to buy some jumper cables to keep in the trunk in case it dies further away from home. The mechanic, who is married to the fabric shop owner, picked the car up at noon and will keep it over the weekend and into next week while he tries to sort out the problem. The last time I had the car in the shop I joked with him that I gave more money to his wife than I did to him. The bill I get this time may change that!

 

Lion

Movies

 

This is the movie based on the book A Long Way Home.

For the most part the movies follows the story told in the book. Some of the things that happened to Saroo on the streets of Calcutta are condensed or missing completely. The movie portrayed his adopted brother as a drug addict although that isn’t anywhere in the book; in the book Mantosh has some behavioural issues but seemed to outgrow them by high school. The movie also portrayed Saroo as completely obsessed with his search. Although he admits in the book he was obsessed, he always held down a job and both he and his brother were in business with their father. Another discrepancy was a breakdown by Saroo’s adopted mother. In the book this never happened.

In spite of the differences between the book and the movie, I really enjoyed the film.

 

A Long Way Home

Books

Author: Saroo Brierley

 

I knew the movie based on this book was coming and I was happy that the library had it on their shelves. I finished it the night before we saw the film.

The book is a well-told story of the journey of an Australian man looking to find the family that was “lost” in India. It took 25 years but he finally found the town he lived in and, surprisingly, his mother lived only a short distance away from the original home. She said she never moved in case her son came back.

As a five-year old boy Saroo tagged along with his older brother as he went out in search of work to provide for the family. Saroo falls asleep in an empty train car and wakes up 16,000 miles away in Calcutta. For two months he barely manages to survive on the streets before being taken first to a detention centre, then an orphanage and finally to Australia where he was adopted by loving parent.

 

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