Life sometimes presents me with the strangest coincidences. Some big, others small. I had a smallish one this afternoon. I called a local quilt shop looking for a particular fabric (much safer than wandering in and just looking for it) and their hold music was Over The Rainbow. That's the Hawaiian one with the ukulele. Do you ever get a song stuck in your head? I do. And today that was the song stuck in my head. Before I called them. It was stuck there because I have been trying to get through the latest round of 'things that must be done before I leave on this cruise'. BTW, taking a vacation can be a lot of work. Next time, I think I will just get on a plane and sit on a beach. Anyway, yesterday I was looking up departure details to see if I could go on a work trip right before the cruise and I wanted to make sure I had plenty of buffer in case I get stuck in a village because of bad weather. I went down the rabbit hole farther than needed, looking at potential shore excursions, etc and had to look up more details, like which island / day do I have that Hawaiian quilting class on and when are the blocks for the block exchange due, etc. This led to an obsession which hasn't relented yet. Now all I can think about is the cruise. So today I decided to tackle getting the fabric for the block exchange. Which meant searching my email again for all things related to the cruise. And finding an email with a link to a webpage a fellow quilter has set up for all things related to the cruise. And I followed the link and then another link and then watched a youtube of IZ playing the song. And then I called the quilt shop. Which, BTW, does not have the fabric. Also, the photo is not Hawaii, it's Alaska. Can't wait to be boating at sunset again.
(photo credit JB)
