Hold onto your hats!!!!

Drum roll please! Finally a picture! I had a little counting problem there at the bottom right hand at the corner of the border, but I am so close to finishing up Page one! This morning I sat for three hours while watching ER and worked on it a bit. I so want to move onto page 2! well, I sorta have, with the border, but I want to work on the middle part. anyway. Thank you all for the support and wanting to check out my progress, sorry to keep you in suspence for so long! Well, I need to get something productive done here so better go!

Keeping busy!

I know , I need to post photos, but our internet has been a bit shotty lately. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. Well, the pats two days, I have gotten lots done...well, sorta. Hobby things, anyway. as i have vowed that I will only watch a few hours of TV a day, I have written letters and read a lot lately. I have also worked on housework a bit as well. it's funny, what with not having the internet up and not watching TV, I thought I would actually get bored but the past few days have passed rather quickly! Today I had to take a nap, as I was having dizzy spells. Hmmm...? Not good, but I ate a good dinner and they went away, so I think it may be the food intake, or lack thereof. I have been trying to cut back, since coming home from California, since I ate so much over the holidays and I think I really "under did it".
Well, this morning, I had pulled my stitching in here to post photos, and I didn't even get through the blogs I normally read before my internet went out, this is just frustrating!
Well, poor hubby has to go back to work tomorrow, and I get to work on cleaning up this house. Once I get it under control then I will feel better about relaxing. Well, I am gonna go read abit more before going to bed. I will try to post photos tomorrow!

A very early morning...

Well, I was awoken this morning by my cute little puppy, (who turned one year old on the 5th of this month, by the way) who is such a smarty pants that she knows in order to wake me up, she has to make noise. so she will creep up really close to me while I'm in bed, and shake her head back and forth viciously to make the tags on her collar jingle, and wake me up. I mean, you'd think she could just cry or whine or bark or something, but no, my dog has to sound like a bell ringing. She's so smart.
Well, yesterday was my first day of the rest of my life. It sounds funny to say it that way, but I am in a new chapter of my life, and it feels like the vacation we just got home from was the void that connects the last chapter (as a Sam's Club employee) and the new chapter:unemployment! I just sat around and watched ALOT (ie: to much!) TV. For Christmas I got three DVD series of my favorite shows, plus one of my favorite movies. So, that is what I did. I sat and wacthed something like 10 episodes of the Cosby Show. And two or three episodes of ER. Did I mention i watched WAY too much TV? I did get some stitching in during that time. since I was too lazy to get unpacked, hence the reason for no progress photos yet, I settled in with what was my enemy before I left: The Abbey. Everything ran smoothly and me and it are once again on friendly terms. Today I am absolutely putting my foot down: no more than 2 hours of TV. I always feel so guilty when I sit and just watch the TV for hours at a time. I need to get active and start exercising. But it is so easy with DVD's to just put them in, and watch! because unlike when you are watching the show on TV, you have the option to find out what is going ot happen int he next episode, so you just can't stop! It's like reading a good book! You just can't put it down! So, I just had to see what happened next, so I just kept watching! But today I really do need to be more productive! But I know I will watch some TV, as that is my stitching time! So, anyway. I am gonna get going, I have things to do, and maybe later today I will post photos. Keep your fingers crossed! Thanks to cindy, Mary Ann, and Faith Ann for the comments! They are VERY muchly appreciated! Also to Carla and Jenn who posted notes to me the post before last. I love getting comments!

I'm home!

Well, we made it! What a LONG ride it was! I was so happy to get back. we showed up this morning around 5 in the morning, and got to the house about 6. I took a nice warm bubbl ebath, ate some oatmeal and went right to bed. my hubby joined me a good 5 hours later, but he woke me up when he climbed in bed, and then I was ready to get up. So, I got up and called my parents to let them know that I was home OK. Then I called the puppy sitter to see when she could bring my baby home to me. (I would go get her but The car is not working, hence the bus ride. we'd planned on driving all along.) so, hopefully my little brat should be home soon.
Freedom is the smallest shyest dog, it's hilarious, and yet, the morning after getting to California I get a call from my dog sitter telling me that she beat up her pit bull! I had to laugh, because I can't see my dog doing this, but...whatever. She does have some monstrous teeth and VERY strong jaws, so I don't doubt that given a chance and reason she could do some serious damage, but still? A pit bull? She won't even go near my hubby since he returned from Iraq without me near. ::shaking head in amazement::
anyway. i need to post photos, I know, I know. but I have not finished unloading all my stuff yet. One good thing about staying with my parents, was we could use their washer and dryer and have the laundry done up before leaving, so now I just have a suitcase full of clean clothes that just need to be put away, I don't have to worry about a mountain of laundry that needs doing. ::Sigh:: So, as soon as my puppy gets home, and I get things unpacked and stuff, I will be posting photos of my progress over my vacation.

Bye bye California.

Well, i can hardley believe my vacation is coming to an end. =( We leave tonight around 11 and will return home in about 35 hours. I hate taking the bus, I wish we had the money to take a plane. I'm all about just getting there. For some reason the trip home is almost a full 6 hours longer than the trip coming this way. Weird. But whatever. Still plugging away at Dare to Dream. I found a mistake this morning and spent a good amount of time frogging it out. YUCK!
I am sad to be leaving my parents, but excited to be getting home, to start this new chapter in my life. I was a working girl when I left, and when I return home, there will be no job to go to. I go back and forth on my thoughts about that. I am excited and nervous at the same time about that. We will just have to see how it goes. I am going to use the extra time for x-stitching, excerising, and getting some things done around the house. When I get bored I will start looking for a job. I don't know how I can get bored, but I might. I have enough hobbies to keep me hopping for quite awhile. i guess I will just say that when the anxiety over not having extra money sets in, I will get a job. Well, I am gonna get going. I want to spend some time with my mom before we leave tonight. Her and I already had a good cry fest this morning. We are, and have been for as long as I could remember, best friends. So, when we have to leave each other it is usually really hard. But! my brother got my mom and I web cams for Christmas. So we can talk to each other on there. =) Well, guess I will get going. I will not be posting for a few days as I will be stuck on a Greyhound bus for the next few days, but as soon as I can, I will be back here, and posting some progress photos.

Stitching the days away!

Well! Yesterday I spent most of the day working on Dae to Dream, and I must admit, I will be ready to go onto the next page here pretty soon! Today i pulled out "Patchwork Bears". When I packed to come ont he trip I wanted to bring a few easy small things (ornies) and I also packed 2 large projects: Dare to Dream and Patchwork Bears. I hadn't worked on PWB in quite awhile, I had grown bored of it, but my enthusiasm was rejuvinated for it this morning, as I sat and worked on it a good two hours today. I am really enjoying it. I wonder why it is that we get bored of working a project, even though we have had the chart for a long time and really want to do it, but then when you are working on it all of a sudden you think you will go bonkers if you have to look at the thing ever again. I was getting that way with that project, and now that I set it aside for a good few months, I am back at it, and enjoying it tremendously! I have my list ready to go for 2007, and it is quite long, and since I really enjoy working on BAP's, I will probably not get them all finished, however, I do have some finishing goals, as well as some starting goals. But we shall see. I enjoy planning and feeling organized when it comes to my stitching, I find it inspiring! Well, thank you Cindy anf Mary Anne for the comments! I hop eyou all had a wonderful New Years! And i will see you at Blogger soon!
ps, oh Cindy, when I get home I promise I will show progress pics of my work here, but I have no way to post any photos here, as my parents don't have the software on their computer-Sorry!

Happy New Year!

Well, last night was a sorta late one, I survived it by stitching. Yup, I put about a good hour into Dare to Dream last night, and again this morning. I was looking at my blog this morning, and I scrolled down to the last progress photo of that project, and I have done quite a bit since that last photo. I have that first page almost completely finished! I have one ear of the wolf ont hat page to do, and a bi tof fill in, and then it is onto the next page. I was thinking that I would work one page at a time, and then move on, but I am working the border all the way across the bottom. So the second page has already been started really. I am enjoying the border as it is easy and not alot of hard counting at all, it is repitious stitching, the same pattern over and over, so I can easily sit and stitch without having to refer to the pattern often. I will soon be ontot he second page though. Maybe I will get to it before I leave here...who knows? Well, I am off to do some cooking, and maybe some more stitching!