Friends, stitching and movies...what more could you ask for???

I spent another care free day on Tuesday enjoying my day since I had worked the weekend. The county fair was taking entries for judging and so I decided what the heck, I'll take some items down and see what I could do on Monday afternoon. While there, I started up a conversation with a lady and while one thing led to another, the next thing I knew, I was asked if I could help out. After finishing taking entries, I was asked if I would like to be there during the judging which sounded like fun so I decided that my "weekend" would be 2 days afterall. The day was both fun, busy, hot and brutal. I had take entries to judges and watch them pick apart entries that I thought was wonderful, wonder what in the world were they thinking on some and sometimes we agreed. Of course, I couldn't say anything during this time so after the judging was done and I finished the set up of displays, I was ready to just sit down and relax! Of course, I can tell you it was exciting to see my entries with their ribbons at the end of the day. I entered 5 entries and recieved a first, 3 second and 1 third place ribbon! Woo-hoo! Pictures will have to follow later since I didn't take my camera. Yesterday evening, I attended the kid's back to school night and met their teachers. Both seem to be very wonderful instructors and I think the kids will have a very good school year.

After returing to work today, I called Beth H to see how she was doing. She was admitted to the hospital on Monday afternoon for IV antibiotics but I didn't want to post anything about it until I had her permission. She was doing better but had been bummed about missing the stitching group meeting on Tuesday night. Well, my best friend, Kim and I decided to drop down with our stitching goodies and surprise her with a visit for a while after work. The visit ended up lasting over 3 hours and we didn't leave the hospital until after 10:00 at night! Luckily the hosptial has private rooms for all patients, so we were able to enjoy company without disturbing the other patients. We stitched, talked, admired stash, and watched the movie, P.S. I Love You. Beth loves this movie and while I had already seen it (thanks to Beth's recommendation), Kim got to experience it for the first time. I enjoyed seeing it again and watching/listening to Beth say the entire dialogue of the movie (she has it memorized!). Beth kept telling Kim and I all the little facts on each actor/actress we talked about and after I while I teased her about being the "Movie Cyber Stalker" which caused a good laugh and a lot of good natured joking all around. This was a perfect end to a work day that was aggraviating to say the least! Beth and Kim had their camera so we took a picture so everyone could enjoy looking at the 3 crazy stitching ladies after their impromptu stitch-in. Enjoy!