GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

The damn internet won't work. I can only get 1/2 of anything to load. I can't get to my SparkPeople site, I can't get to ANY of my boards. This had better NOT be fucked up all week! It will NOT be pretty here, but then I guess the house would get scrubbed from top to bottom. This just plain SUCKS!

I walked again today! I did 1.47 miles in 33 minutes. I started out at 4PM and the temp must have been still around 95 or more. The first lap was ok but the second lap I had to push. Guess I need to start a bit later. I am still pleased with myself that I get out and walk. Still got a couple looks today but they can kiss my ass if they think it bothers me!

So today I had a rice cake with peanut butter & bananas for breakfast, brown rice that was GOOD! A fava bean salad (fava beans here are called foul -pronounced fool) for lunch and left over spinach & tomato "salad", left over fava bean salad & couscous for dinner & lots of water during the day.

At least the good part is I found my flash drive. I have been looking for the damn thing for 3 days. It's bad enough I lost the cap for it back home but I couldn't find it here and I knew I had taken it out of my purse when I came back. It was back in my purse.
So Now I guess I need to make my list of the new stash and add it to my ever growing database of what I already have.

June 3

I got most of my bags unpacked and put away but there are still a few things to get done yet. I even went though 5 months of mail.
I went through my stash briefly just to check to see wht is there but I want to really fondle it all again and get it entered into my stash database.
I have been diligently stitching on a couple of exchange projects and need to mail them.

I found out the backporch is broke! One of the railings must have broken from the weight of the snow and the gutter over the back porch broke off too. Gotta figure out how to fix that.

Now that I'm home, I can watch the Yankees loose games on MLB TV. They are doing crappy this year.

I can't post any pictures right now because the memory card in my new camera doesn't fit in any of the computer card readers I have. I put it in too far on one of the card readers and had a hard time getting it back out.

An idea for floss

I picked up a couple of these items the other day. They look like they were made from floss or thread, braided then wound around. One is the pretty pastel and the other one is very vibrant, bright primary colors. I think you put them on cell phones or those iPod things. I thought they were neat.

I've been browsing the Online Needlework show and found a few things I like. Some cute new fobs from Sekas & Co, a couple new charts from Sue Hillis, Oh La La & One More stitch, Summer Biscornu from Barbara Ana. Then I was looking at the newsletter from ABC Stitch Therapy (my LNS) and saw a cute pattern but I didn't save the picture to my wish list and spent almost all day Friday looking for it again. Then the Stitches N Things newsletter came out and there it is, Moose by Moonlight from Glendon Place, I LOVE it.

I got my friend Velda a couple new lamps on Thursday but need to go back today to get her favorite one. The lamps I've been buying her are really neat, they will make a GREAT addition to her Middle East inspired living room. I also saw a purse I kind of like so I might buy that too. I HATE purse shopping so this is a miracle for me.

My poor boy kitty Spot got beat up the other day by one of the stray cats. He is fine but his leg got scratched and bit up so he's been under house arrest for a few days and he's not at all happy about that. He keeps whining to go out and we won't let him. He's gotta learn to quit being the street bully.

Thursday night I fixed some Aloo Gobi, an Indian dish that we can't get at our favorite Indian restaurant then DH went to the Indian place and got some Chicken Jalfrezi, Butter chicken, dahl, rice and nan bread to go with it. MMMMMMmmmm the rest of the stuff was good but that aloo gobi didn't turn out right like we remember. So we had leftovers on Friday night.

Too early for this

So it's 11:15 AM, it's 95.5F or 35.3C outside. IT's TOOO EARLY in the year for this. I will have to get up earlier if I want to walk in the morning now.

Didn't do any stitching yesterday, I just didn't feel like it. I didn't get much done at all on the Breast Cancer mandela last week because I started that Hardanger so I don't really have any progress on anything. I want to start so many projects but there are a few that I NEED to get done before May 26!

We had corned beef sandwiches last night and corned beef hash for Easter dinner, LOL. Hopefully this is the end of the corned beef for awhile. I think tonight it will be Burger King because they are giving away "Monster Trucks" in their happy meals and I have 2 boys that I know would like them.

My daughter was back online yesterday! She was only on for a brief minute or so but that was something!

Off to do my cleaning.

ON another note

I got a newsletter from ABC Stitch Therapy today on their Nashville Needlework Market trip. OH MY! SO many cute items on my wish list now! (Sorry for the long links, if anyone reading this can tell me how to shorten them by adding just 1 or two words, please let me know)
GOTTA get this set:
http://www.abcstitch.com/optioncart/image.php?image=http://www.abcstitch.com/images/s10/685852.jpg&id=685852&item=Cupcake - Boxer Kit&price=12.00&itemtype=chart
http://www.abcstitch.com/optioncart/image.php?image=http://www.abcstitch.com/images/s10/685846.jpg&id=685846&item=To

Now this is just a hoot and a gotta have:
http://www.abcstitch.com/optioncart/image.php?image=http://www.abcstitch.com/images/s10/685802.jpg&id=685802&item=Getting
Update-I ordered it
http://www.abcstitch.com/optioncart/image.php?image=http://www.abcstitch.com/images/s10/685786.jpg&id=685786&item=French
I ordered this one too.

I know I saw a few more that went on my wish list.

I stitched a little bit more on my SanMan SAL last night. At least I got 1 letter done so far, LOL.

This past week we've either had left over chili with cheese enchiladas which were SO GOOD or left over chicken and dumplings which were eh, so so. Don't know what is on the menu for tonight.
Ever since my friend Maria gave me a sinus "massage" on Friday, I haven't been stuffed up, sneezing or runny eyes. I don't know what she did, but I need to hire her. Too bad she is applying for immigration status to Australia.

January 16, 2008

Well I've been at this blogging thing for a year now. I don't always keep it updated. I've noticed several visits to my blog but no comments, maybe I should just make this a private place to vent.
It's been 2 months since I quit smoking. A LONG 2 months, seems more like 2 years. I am still taking those Chantax pills when I remember, I don't feel like they do anything for me. I still have strong urges to smoke but I don't. I had a few puffs when I was home in NH but it made me sick to my stomach and gag. Not bad if I do say so, I could have easily gotten in the car and drove to the corner store and bought some but I didn't and I'm damn proud of myself for not doing that! I didn't even mooch one or two from my DS whick I am damn proud of for not doing either! The house smelt better too.

I haven't stitched since early December and then it wasn't much. I have no desire to stitch anymore, none! I have all this stash and don't want to stitch. I have no idea why but it is really depressing. I got most of my new stash put away and realized now that I won't stitch 1/2 of the charts I have so I am going to get rid of them this summer.
I also dug out my wip's and UFO's to try and finish up. I want to get these done before I start a bunch of new stuff.
I did start a San Man Valentine project last night though. Sandy is so generously giving the message board members patterns for a Valentine tree so I will try and keep up.
I'm also going to try to do another SAL from another board, so far it looks like it's going to be a Happy Everything type of project.
I think I am going to quit going to a couple of the boards. One of them takes forever to load, is very slow and sluggish when I try to scroll up and down and the members seem to have a contest to see who can have the largest, flashiest and animated signatures, plus 1/2 the time it never updates the posts. It's always trying to "update" something that they "thing" will make it run better but it stays messed up for days. All those flashy signatures really don't work with my operating system or my computer and 1/2 the time the page doesn't even load.

It's been winter here for a couple days, the temps have been in the mid 60's at night and mid 70's during the day and breezy, very nice for here. Too bad I can't keep the door open during the day but that damn wailing hour just ruins everything and the monster brats that scream and yell outside.

My daughter's birthday is in a few days so I got her a subscription to a couple cross stitch magazines and I'll order her some flowers. It's really hard not being able to talk to her on the internet now but she seems to be doing fine. Her DH got her a "new" car after Christmas! I was very surprised to hear that. It's not new new but it's a 2004 model. She still has her jeep and we told her not to get rid of it but give it to us if they are going to get rid of it since we did buy it for her and pay for it.

Our son's girlfriend just loved the NameFlake that I made for her for Christmas, she just raved about it, which made me very happy. My daughter loved hers too. I am going to make one for the son's girlfriend's mother now.

It's the weekend here, not a damn thing happening either. One of our friends moved to another city for his job while we were away on vacation so it's quiet around here. We are going to miss him too.

I got my hunk of beef sitting in a huge bowl of brine and got the spices put in to make a corned beef for ST. Patrick's day meal. They don't sell corned beef here so we make our own.

That's about all for now. I will have to get the Christmas pictures off the camera stick and post some of them along with more snow pictures.

November 19

WOO HOO! I finished a project! It only took me 2 weeks to stitch a little ornament. This is for an exchange on one of my groups. It's from the 2007 JCS Ornament issue and it's stitched on 32 count Champagne Cocktail opalescent fabric from Enchanted Fabrics.

I've been doing well, only slipped twice so far since Thursday which I think is excellent! I'm taking Chantix http://www.chantix.com/content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp?setShowOn=../content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp&setShowHighlightOn=../content/Chantix_Branded_Homepage.jsp (sorry, don't know how to just make the name the link) to help me quit as well. I don't feel that it does anything what so ever except make me feel nauseous from time to time.

Not much else happening, DH switched ISP's again and this one flat out sucks. Our ISPs here are "pay as you go" type things like your cell phone service. You buy an internet card at the store, it gives you a phone number to dial up on your computer, you type in the scratch off PIN number on the back of the card and you have 30 days of internet service by that provider. This one is almost slower than dial up and we are supposed to have "high speed".

I finally got my new stash sort of put away yesterday, at least I took it out of my suitcase. I either need to find a bigger box for the patterns or I need a new box, they all won't fit. There are SO many patterns I want to stitch but I am just stuck in a stitchy slump. I need to finish another ornament, finish my nieces wedding project that didn't get done in time for her wedding in July, start and finish a project for my son's girlfriend for Christmas. I need to stitch those first before I stitch something for me.

October 22

Here is a picture of the birthday presents my DH got me. I am a coffee addict and I collect coffee mugs.

4 more days at HOME in the US would have been REAL nice!

WOO HOO! I stitched last night! I put in a few stitches on my June blackwork project, it's still no where near done but a few stitches is better than none. I also stitched on a project while sitting waiting for our flight in Paris.
I got all my charts and kits entered into my stash database list so now I need to find someplace to put them. I may not be organized around the house, but I'm just anal about organizing my cross stitch stash.

The tv satellite still isn't working, too many trees have grown up around the house so the signal won't come in. DH put in a call to maintenence to come cut down the trees so we can watch the crappy tv shows. In the mean time we've watched a LOT of DVD's.

Happy Birthday to me

Woo Hoo, I'm 50 today. I don't feel any different. I did join AARP last month, hope I get to use it some.
My DH gave me the cutest coffee cup and "sandwich" tray to go with it and a little biscuit tin and a package with another coffee cup and some Barnies coffee. I could care less if we go out or not, I'm just not happy to be here and the less I go out, the happier I will be.

I got all my new cross stitch charts, floss and fabric all sorted and entered into my computer list, now I just need a whole new room to store it all in.

I've become addicted to some stupid internet games on iWon.com