No worries, Cath - I think I am going to do a "crazy-ghan" and use the different sizes and stuff. I'll let ya'll know how it turns out!

Im being a tattle tale. Somebody may want to beat a certain guy over da head with a 2x4, I know for a fact it will help get him moovin. I think its possible that work is kickin his arse really hard, and some encouragment would be a good thing. He means well. Hes just bone tired.

Not mentioning names, of course.

Just well, sayin.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Arwen}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

Welcome home, love!

I am so sorry I am so late!!
 

I hurt my arm a few weeks ago. Seeing another doc on Thurs to see if I tore a bicep muscle. I have been in agony!!!

It is feeling good enough to put the finishing touches on them by this weekend I hope.

I don't blame you if I am barred from any further projects involving arms and yarn!!!

I LOVE the squares I have gotten! Thank you all. :)

Again, I am so sorry. I'll post again when they are in the mail.

fishinabaggie/Liz

Oh Liz my golly I am so sorry about your arm! Tearing muscles is really awful! Please darlin, don't push it on the squares on my account, okay? Get better and be good to yourself.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Liz}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}

Dont feel bad - usually i am the pain in the ass! LOL

I would like to know as well, just so I know if I can just put the ones I have received away for a bit. Jess is on a tidy tear around the house these days!

I crochet too what are you guys crocheting?

YIKES! YES!
I have 4 for you.
Will mail REAL soon (along with the regular one).
I will put a pic in my gallery so you can see what I am sending you, Bit.
Thank you everybody for your patience. My arm is doing much better and I will get to putting the finishing touches on the squares.
:)
Liz/fishinabaggie

SOMEBODY has to be organized, darlin! Thank you for keeping this going; I appreciate what you're doing!

Well, I'm nowhere near as organized as Ami is, but I can tell you that four stamps were more than enough for two squares! :cheesy:

I looked for alternate places for you to try, but I cannot really tell if they're close to you. They're in the same zip code though.

Office Depot is probably your best bet for a place with a scale and regular mail pickup. http://usps.whitepages.com/service/abn/office-depot-2101-s-lamar-blvd-austin-tx-3600g0304

Here is the list. http://usps.whitepages.com/abn/TX/78704 It includes CVS and Walgreens.

{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{Liz}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}}} How cool!! That means, with Arwen's two, we'll have eighteen squares. The raffleghan grows!

I'm so glad your arm is doing better! Hope you get your life back right away; I just hate being sidelined like that!

YAAAAAAAAAAAAY sweetcali!!

Ami, you were right, I should have said seventeen.

Sooooooooooooooooooooo... Liz? Arwen? Gonna mail squares for the raffleghan to me this week? :eyebat:

YAY !!!

I hope it works out all right. ugh

sweetcali

I am so aggravated with the post office right now! The square I'm sending--TRYING to send!--to Sweetcali keeps coming back marked "postage due" with BIG BOLD BLACK lines marked right through the middle of the Forever stamps!! I'm going to have to go to the post office and ask what's going on; it only needs 68 cents postage and right now, it has $1.76 on it, all marked out and unusable!

Please say a prayer that I can avoid swearing at the person behind the counter when I get there tomorrow--it surely won't be their fault--but I am SO FRUSTRATED! Why did I spend the money I did on Forever stamps if they're unusable? How will I pay my bills now?

If this is the kind of postal service the country's coming to, it's no wonder that people are paying their bills by phone and online! Sheesh!

actually it is great!
the color matches one of the colors in the verigated yarn and it is the right size too!

Arwen, Liz!

Tis mid-June now... please mail me the raffleghan squares? Pretty please?

Cali - I received yours and its lovely - thank you so much!

SweetCali, we got yours.

As a reminder to those who still are sending you can send both Kristen's and mine in the same envelope. :)

We have already finished this one, altho Bit might be still able to accept a square for the "raffleghan" - an afghan in the pink/green site colors to be donated to the Reunion raffle.

I would be up for another round if anyone is interested. I am just about finished with my latest project and well, you know what they say about idle hands! :blink:

:hrmph: I do not beat anyone who would LIKE it.

Don't you dare, lol!!!

I think you should get a prize for being the one who kept us all on track, though!

{{{{{{{{{{{Ami}}}}}}}}}} Thanks for remembering to post here--I keep forgetting!!

Yes, darlin, I got the box, thank you very much!

Now, if you will be so kind as to plug your ears??

I have been sitting on my hands in an effort to not post about folks getting down to the wire and hearing nothing as to their progress and time frame of completion.

At the very base level, its simply disrespectful. If you have not finished the squares, why not just say, "Hey - I know this was my grand idea, but I am unable to finish the project." (Yes, Arwen, that is pointed at you because I believe when you take on a leadership role, you have the added responsibility of maintaining communication)

The silence on this thread, while you continue to post daily on others, speaks volumes. Things come up. Life happens. I have the can-see-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel home renovation in progress while I have been battling my own physical health issues and my fulltime run the world job. Cath has not just carpel tunnel and fibro but also had to navigate getting things mailed while depending on public transportation and budgetary issues. Ami, I'm sure, has a very full plate with her life. Linus and K have a full, busy life, and Cali is battling the big C. (If I missed anyone, it was not on purpose, but rather fibro brain fog this morning - I was simply using the things off the top of my head as examples of each of us having 1001 things a minute to do)

I just don't understand how folks can just blow other people off and it is so disappointing and really pisses me off. Communicating with folks is what we do here and to have others hold your feet to the fire for something we all VOLUNTEERED to be a part of, well, it just sucks.

Maybe this is a little harsh, but its not like we had unspoken expectations of one another. We all committed to something and I simply expected folks to live up to it - and if for some reason, couldn't, to have them communicate that they could no longer participate.

It doesn't make you a bad person, but I would rather you just say it ain't happening rather than passive-aggressively say it.

Its not fair to put the rest of us in the position to be the bad guys. Its not fair to Cath who has offered to put together the afghan for the Reunion raffle to be in a holding pattern just waiting to see what/when the remaining squares will arrive.

To that end, I spoke with Cath yesterday via emails and I have completed the two remaining squares she needs to finish the afghan. Since our rinky dink post office is closed until Tuesday because of the holiday, I am shooting to send her 6 additional, but at the very least, she will have the two to finish what we offered up for the raffle. This isn't me tooting my own horn or anything, but rather feeling the need for us to do what we said we would, and taking the initiative to make that happen. I refuse to be one of the "oh, you can't depend on _________ because they don't do what they say they will."

To those of you who sent out your squares, a sincere thank you for sharing part of your energy and self with me. I am honored that you chose to do so and will proudly display our efforts in our home.

Christie