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Friday! Woohoo!

Posted on January 11, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

No meeting with PT last night. Don’t know why I haven’t heard from her either. That seems to be how things are going for me lately. My manicurist, who has been a friend for 5+ years flaked on me too, and even though I’ve called her 4 times, no return call. I try to give people a 2nd chance, but I think this pretty much wraps up that relationship.

I don’t know why I didn’t just go ahead and hit the gym last night. I’m having a heck of a time getting my mojo back. Kahuna will be getting up bright and early to surf tomorrow morning so I’m putting in a ~~drag my lazy azz out of bed~~ wakeup call in with him to go in the morning.

It looks like I’m way ahead of schedule to finish the 4th page of French Alphabet Sampler (probably because I’m being lazy in the fitness department and have spent it stitching instead). In fact, I might even knock it out tonight, depending on what happens when I get home from work, if not definately this weekend. I’ve decided that since I met that stitching goal, I’ll go ahead and start a small something or other for the rest of the month.

I did start pulling DMC for A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion last night. The blues are so vivid! I could not believe how many of the colors I didn’t have though. Looking for them forced me to spend some organizing time in my office as well and I’m half-way through converting my DMC over from plastic shoeboxes to the drawers I put in my stash cabinet. The time consuming part of that is making the little labels for the drawers.

I need to make a trip to Joann’s this weekend anyway since my bulb in my OTT finally burned itself out a couple of days ago. I cannot believe it lasted 5 years. I’m fortunate to have 2 floor lamps so I just switched the bulb out of the other one, but need to get it replaced before I forget. I’ll pick up the other DMC as well.

This week’s SBQ is an easy one for me.

What was your favorite finish of 2007? I only had 1 finish in 2007 and it was almost a 2006 finish. The Token. It’s the #1 item on my to-be-framed list and that will happen this year since I’m entering it in the county fair.

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Stitching Stash

Posted on January 10, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

The stash that I’ve ordered over the past couple of weeks has started trickling in. Over the past couple of days I have received Au Fil de Reves – Chatelaine Promenade a Bagatelle, Moira Blackburn – Friendship Sampler, and Scarlet Letter – A Parrot, A Leopard, A Lion.

While they all 3 are lovely, I sat and drooled over the Scarlet Letter design for an hour last night. The colors are absolutely beautiful and exactly what I want in our new bedroom. It’s stitched over 1 on 35 count, but I’m going to do it over 2 on 40 count. The cream colored background is also completely stitched, but I’m going to use a cream colored distressed linen instead and save myself all that stitching. I want to start it now, but first I need a trip to the string shop to by DMC. Naturally, the SL design also came with an update to their catalog which showed a picture of The Piping Shepherd, which I fell in love with too. He’ll have to wait awhile though.

Kahuna got a new toy last night. A hula girl lamp. I can’t quite decide if I like her or consider her really tacky, but she was assembled and hula-ing away while I was enjoying my pamphlet. I’ll have to snap a photo. He did give me a bit of a hard time about buying stash, saying something about how he thought I wasn’t going to buy anymore, but I just laughed and said that was last year’s resolution. This year’s resolution is to buy everything I missed out on last year! Just kidding…sort of.

I have an appointment tonight with the personal tonight that I’m looking forward to and dreading all at the same time. I also have an appointment with the bike. 🙂

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Is spring in the air?

Posted on January 9, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

Okay, no one circle today in red or anything, but I’m in a cleaning mood. Kahuna asked me last night if there were any plans for this weekend and I almost said that I wanted to clean something. Whew, it was a very close call. I thought that mood was from our impending move. We only need to broom clean the inside of our house but there are a couple of things that I want to do beyond that, just because they’ve needed to be done a long time.

Today, I’m wondering though if there’s a bit of spring-cleaningitis in the air because a couple of the blogs that I normally read are talking about cleaning and organizing.

I went outside to check the temperature and see if there is any new growth in the courtyard outside my office, but nope. My hands and feet are still cold because of the temperatures…so spring is nowhere near.

As to those weekend plans, I really do want to do a little something toward our move out cleaning, and maybe I’ll do that this weekend. We have extremely hard water here and our bathroom fixtures look terrible. I’m thinking a good soak in a bowl of hard-water something or other might be in store for the weekend.

Boss asked me this morning if I wanted the empty copy paper box and I was tempted. They store cross-stitch patterns so nicely! I plan on spending at least 30 minutes in my office this weekend shuffling through papers and shredding old school stuff. I do NOT want to move any of that crap across the room, much less across the county. And then I probably should do something about all that cross-stitch stuff in there.

Kahuna has a half-marathon coming up in a week. His first race of the season 🙂

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Posted on January 7, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

WooHoo!

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An unscheduled day off

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

I went out to my car this morning and found it flooded inside 🙁

I put a towel in the seat on Sunday when I went to my WW meeting because I noticed the seal over the window had been dripping a bit. The towel is dripping this morning, and when I tried to dry off the seat water just kept creeping to the top. This distresses me on several levels. My seats are leather and heated and I’m worried the water may ruin them; I cannot drive it in this condition (there’s also water leaked into the trunk on the same side, plus my floorboards are also wet). We had horrendous winds off and on this weekend and I know it’s pushed the rain into my car. This is one of the downsides to having a convertible. Plus it rarely rains here so I’m sure the seals between the top and the window dry out somewhat which causes it to drip when it does rain heavily. I’m just glad the top itself doesn’t leak.

Kahuna started his new commute this morning at 6, so I’m stranded at the house unless I want to drive my flooded car, or take his Harley, which would muss up my hair 😉

The downer is I cannot drive it to the gym either so that means instead of going early before the major crowds of people who get off at 5 are there, I’ll be going with Kahuna tonight after we eat….it’ll take some arm twisting though since the college superbowl is tonight! Geaux Tigers!

Guess what I’m going to do today with all this unexpected free time….stitch! and watch my West Wing DVD from Netflix, right after I finish the end of Pride and Prejudice. I managed to get and 1/3 of the 4th page stitched yesterday 🙂

Happy Monday.

P.S. Before I forget…I’m changing my email address. We will be moving shortly and I want to make sure I get it all switched over. So when you get a response to your comments to me, it’ll be from my new address.

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Getting gazelle

Posted on January 6, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

Somehow or other over the past 3 weeks I have lost my fitness focus. I know it’s a combination of things but it’s aggravating me all the same. I took this morning to figure out what has been going on and to decide what to do about it.

I have not been consistently journaling my food. I am always conscious of what I’m eating, but I will focus more on quantity.

My heel is still giving me grief. I am going to pass on running the 5k on Feb 3, but I will focus on other cardio exercises that will allow my heel to heal, and allow my body to continue becoming healthy.

I was very good about my weekly meal planning, etc., but somehow got off track. I will have my grocery list ready on Saturday night and go to the store immediately after my WW meeting on Sunday morning.

I will be more consistent in tracking my stats to see where I am during the journey and not be surprised at the end of the journey.

I will review every week.

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French Alphabet Sampler

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

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FAS Update

Posted on January 5, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

My plans for this morning took a bit of a change so I managed to get to the grocery store today instead of waiting until tomorrow. I have a wonderful crockpot of chili scenting my house and I’m enjoying Persuasian while working on French Alphabet Sampler. I promised an updated photo after I finished my 3d page, so here it is. I’m back up to the top to work on the 4th page and am still enjoying every stitch of it.

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Regaining old habits

Posted on January 4, 2008 by Terri | Comments Off

It has not taken me very long to get back into some of my old stitching habits…you know, stash acquisition! I’m currently waiting on the following:

Au Fil de Reves – Chatelaine Promenade a Bagatelle
Moira Blackburn – Friendship Sampler
Good Huswife’s book of OOP charts (release during Feb’s market)
about 15 skeins of NPI for my HRH designs
several Prairier Schooler santa charts
and a couple of other charts that are on a list on my desk at home.

I also need to renew my subscription toSampler and Antique Needlework Quarterly, which I sadly let lapse during my absence.

I am almost finished with the 3d page of FAS. I probably could have finished it last night, but we were watching Sky Captain, World of Tomorrow, and I kept having to frog.

I’m so happy it’s Friday. Not only is it payday, but we’re expecting rain this weekend, which means hybernation. Lots of DVD watching, a crockpot of something, nuggling with puppies, and stitching! Wow it feels so good to have that feeling again. I do have a nail appt. first thing Saturday morning, plus my WW mtg and the commissary first thing Sunday morning, but I plan on spending the rest of both of those days putting around the house and accomplishing the above.

This week’s SBQ is: Are you starting something new to celebrate the New Year or participating in “Guilt Free January?” If so, what are you planning on starting?

I really thought about starting something new just because it was January, but decided against it. If you look at that tab at the top that says 2008 goals you’ll easily find my other GFJ starts, which are still loved, but languishing in my WIP bin. I am planning on starting something small this month, but only because I want a smallish design, not because it’s January.

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