A loooooong time away

So, after my birthday, things went to pot - as things normally do after you hit 35.

Here's the rundown:
- My company is reorganizing for "the good of the company". As I am only a contractor for said company, i can read the writing on the wall - it says " GET OUT, GET OUT NOW!!!!"
- I am still having pains in my back but they are definitely not kidney stones. So now I am really scared.
- Stressed is an understatement.
- Um, I am now 9 months behind on all quilts.
- I did a really stupid thing and volunteered for Baby Bundles with the Guild this year... The first event is the most important in the whole year and I am already afraid of screwing it up!
- Then, it started to pour. A friend wants me to do freelance with her and has more work than she can handle right now as another of our department was spirited away to another department so she was called in to work on a project that this other person would be doing. I am working on a special project for another part of the company and I am not sure it is the big honking special project that they want to pilot.
- In personal news, DH and I finally decided to really start trying to have kids. Am I ready? Not really.
- As a form of therapy I went to the The Quilt Store to pick up a few things and got talking to the owner. I am now updating her website for her for some extra cash.

What the hell is wrong with me? I don't have curtains, a bed or any other comfortable furniture but I get myself roped in to all this stuff. Now I am even thinking of putting off buying a car so I can get a mac to do the freelance stuff. I am insane!!!!

One last little tidbit - a friend had broken her hand just before she was to finish a commissioned quilt. So I offered to help her - after 10+ hours of quilting and putting on the binding strips, I was sooooo glad to hand it off to another person to do the handwork to get the binding tacked down. whew! However, she is paying me for the work. A new Rowenta Professional iron - woohoo! I love it! And, it will make me want to finish some of my quilt projects!

Who knows, I might get those curtains up! :-)