where do i start?

yes i know its been almost a whole month since my last post , i wont go into all the boring details as to why i haven't been blogging and why i haven't been in quilt chat.
And yes i know i am wayyyyyyyyy behind in the bonnie hunter mystery quilt steps i have only just finished step one I'm using white on black , red, and calico my favorite fabric lol
and yes i know everyone is doing red and black and white but my sister#2 like black and white and i thought it is time she had a quilt.
considering sister#1 finally received her brown turning twenty quilt for her birthday a few days late but she got it lol.
She couldn't be happier with it even tho much to my dismay i didn't like the stitching in the ditch that she wanted.
so here's a picture of step 1 that i have completed.

On the home front, i finally got my surgery date which is 5Th of February 2008 to have my nasty old gallbladder removed.
So I'm gearing up for that the girls in quilt chat tell me no sitting at my machine whilst recovering as it will kill me with the pain and more than likely pull my stitches that will have, i am having key hole surgery they make 5 incisions to get that sucker out and remove it from my belly button. So now i have to find a english paper piecing project i can do whilst i sit infront of the tv for 5 weeks, thinking i mite do something like cathederal windows or grandmothers garden i think thats what they are called.

DH is still limping around on his sore foot that he hurt at work and he got the all clear from the doctors back in august that he was fine after spending 2 weeks in plaster they said it wasn't fractured.
well anyway the health and safety officer at work asked him last week if it was still hurting and he said "yes of course it is you don't think i would be limping if it wasn't hurting and still playing up" so back off to the doctor and they xray'ed it again and still weren't sure if it was fractured so they sent him for a MRI on his foot and found yes it is fractured in the TALUS what ever that is lol. so the poor bugger has been walking around on a fractured foot since august 2007,
so they inform him that he either has to have it back in plaster for 2 months or have surgery on it and then back in plaster for a couple of months either way he is having it in plaster, so once again the maid (ME) will be indisposed for about 2- 3 months waiting hand and foot on him, so in that time my quilting and my chatting will once again suffer as he doesn't think it is valuable use of my time lol. (joking)
no seriously having him at home for 2 months will be like having 2 kids at home.
so if you all don't hear from me for a couple of months you will know why lol.