machines and computers...and Friday, 13th

So today I wanted to work on the embroidery machine. There are some designs that I have been wanting to try. Now all of my designs are saved on the computer downstairs in a nice little file so I can copy them onto the USB stick and then go to the machine and sew. Sounds simple right? Not if the computer is having a brain fart! It must have taken me the better part of an hour to get the stupid computer to recognize the USB stick and then to get it to copy TWO designs onto the stick! I have done this many times and have never had this much trouble.

I should have seen this as an omen and stopped right there but NOOOOO, I have to continue. So I sit down to the machine , load my design, and put in the t-shirt on which the design will go, thread the machine and...yeah...shoulda just stopped when I had the chance. I had put the t-shirt in the hoop the wrong way! So now I have to buy another shirt. So I go to the next shirt. As I go to take the hoop off of the machine so that I can trim the applique fabric, I hit the screen and move the arm. I try to move it back. No such luck. It was off by 1/8th of an inch. Now I have to buy shirt number two. You would think I would stop there but NOOOOOO, I am nothing if not stubborn. In goes shirt number three, and yeah, for some reason the last stitches in the design are not lining up in the satin stitch! Shirt number three in the shopping cart! By this time I have a major headache and as I go into the kitchen to get some Advil, I look at the calendar and realize that today is Friday, 13th.

Now, I am not normally a supersttious person, but ever since I can remember this is the way things have worked---Usually, the 13th would mean a good day for me. I can't remember the last time I had a "bad" day on the 13th. I usually suffer on the 14th, go figure. Must be some crazy Irish gene that gets things mixed up, who knows? But not today. Today, nothing went right. Today was not the day for machines and computers. I guess some people might say it was all due to operator error ---but the really smart people who know me will just agree that today was the curse of Friday 13th.

That's my story and I am sticking to it!!!! Now I just need to honor my Irish heritage and go get a real drink!!!! :)