In a blah mood

Got up and went to work. Had to be the manager today as my manager has a very sick child at home. Everything went ok at work. But something happened while I was trying to do a recheck. Computer issues and having to call our main office in Maryland made me run late. I was supposed to go to my Book Cross get together ( I hate calling them meetings). My car has been acting up and Dylan had class tonight and even though he was willing to swap vehicles with me I told him to never mind. So tomorrow my car goes back into the shop. We think it is the rotor. Like I said Dylan's class is much closer than where I had to go. But it was windy today and our road was getting icy and everyone knows that I HATE driving in snow and especially ice. So there was no way I would drive Dylan's car. I am in a funk because the last 30 minutes of work bummed me out and now no book get together. So I read everyone's blogs and didn't even feel like leaving any comments. What is wrong with me? I love leaving comments. Anyways I guess I have been on here long enough so I should go and stitch for 3 hours. if I feel like it I will post a progress pic.

Treats is done

Halloween Sunday had a late start. I was catching up on laundry and went grocery shopping. Then had to put food together for the Super Bowl, sorry the Colts lost :-(
But I did finish Treats. Next Sunday will be stitching some more of the border.
I did manage to watch 3 episodes of general Hospital, before the Super Bowl came on.

I liked 3 ads during the Super Bowl.
1. Doritos with the boy slapping the man and saying Don't touch my mom and don't touch the doritos.
2. Budweiser with the human bridge
3. Google for Paris

Most of the ads were stupid and I forget what the Ad was for with all the men in underwear for casual Friday. Oh yeah it was for Monster.com I believe. That was just wrong. Then there was another ad for jeans and men were running in their underwear. And they were not skinny , nice looking men, eww.

SK Mermaid of the Deep

Last night was the SAT with Let's Stitch blog and Stitching Sisters Yahoo group. So I stitched on HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. I will also stitch on it all next week.

I ended up watching Ghost Whisperer, which I think is one of my favorite episodes now. Then Medium was on and that was good. I really wanted to stitch for 2 more hours last night but I was falling asleep.

Today I will be stitching on S is for Stitching from a Cross Country Stitching mag.
Our household is also getting our taxes done. Since both boys work we make it a family thing :-)

Say goodbye

To Aurora's Garden , for a while. I started this in April last year and I need a break. It wasn't done for the 2 goals that I set and I don't care but am ready to work on there UFOs and WIPs.
I redid my yearly & February goals as well. That is ok too. Tomorrow I will pull out HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep and can't wait.

Today i also listened to Damage Control by J.A. Jance and I am on the last disc.

Tonight's TV shows were:
Bones
Grey's Anatomy
Private Practice

Wishy Washy Wednesdays

That is the first thing that popped into my head for a title tonight. No stitching last night and tonight I stitched on HAED Aurora's Garden. No, I did not finish it on time. Besides, the girlfriend broke up with DS#2 so I am not in a hurry to get this to her. I am not mad or upset that they broke up and he has met someone else (he hates being alone).
While stitching tonight I also listened to Damage Control by J.A. Jance. I am on disc 7 .

I will post a progress pic tomorrow night since Thursdays are my big TV watching night.

Night all,
Shelleen

January Goal

I think I will still try to post monthly goals:
start HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep - started
finish HAED Aurora's Garden
finish M Designs Shelleen Tree Ornament - finished
finish Nora Corbett's Halloween Fairy - finished
stitch a JCS ornament - finished

Bookmark finish

I finished the bookmark that I stitched up for an exchange. I will ba taking it with me to the bookmeeting next Monday night. It is from some odd bookmark leaflet that i had. it is stitched on an 18 ct aida. I will fringe the edges and back it with felt.
I also stitched a little bit more on HAED Aurora's Garden but I will wait and take a pic later in the week.

While I stitched I watched tonight's episodes of House and 24.

I also listened a little bit to Damage Control by J. A. Jance, while I was at work.

Finished name Tree ornament

I stitched on M Designs name Tree Ornament. I finished it as all I had left was the trunk and then adding the beads. I am not sure if I should frame it or maybe do a pinkeep.

M Designs Shelleen Tree Ornament
28 ct overdyed Crossed Wings fabric

I also stitched on the bookmark , that's for an exchange. I was hoping to finish that this month too but I have about 1/2 an hour left on it. So I will finish it tomorrow.

I watched DVRd shows as well
Bones 1/28
Ghost Whisperer 1/29
Smallville 1/29

Tonight's episodes:
Desperate Housewives
Durham County - season finale

I also listened to about 30 minutes of Damage Control by J.A. Jance.

Name ornament

Yesterday was a SAT with Only One Ewe BB. I picked up Shelleen Tree Ornament and stitched most of it with a couple of naps. I bought a cold medicine Friday and am taking it every 4 hours so starting to feel a little better. it says non drowsy but I still was drowsy. I have a little bit of the stump to finish and then add the beads. So it will be done today. Then I have a bookmark for an exchange to finish up. If I have time I will stitch on LK Boo Flip It.
I had the TV on yesterday and watched:
Medium - 1/15
General Hospital - 1/21, 1/22, 1/25, 1/26, 1/27, 1/28, 1/29 getting really good.

Nothing else going on here. I do have to do a few loads of laundry though and someone needs to get groceries.

January Ornament finished

I started this Monday night and stitched a little bit every night. I finished it last night as a SAT with Let's Stitch blog and Stitching Sisters Yahoo group. I watched the series finale of Dollhouse which was very confusing. Also watched Medium and then some of the movie Twilight.

Little House Needleworks Home For the Holidays
JCS 2005 issue
28 ct Lambswool, DMC

I have a head cold so I bought medicine for that and a box of kleenex. Plan on stitching all day curled up on the couch.

ornament progress

Woke up this morning and couldn't see the neighbor's house as it was snowing so hard. We gad a couple of inches of snow and had an advisory for all day and tonight. Hubby showed up and I said "are you my knight in shining armor" and he laughed and said I guess so. he took me into work. He picked me back up after work. So I read BBs, had dinner and then time to sit down and stitch.

Little House Needleworks Home For The Holidays
JCS 2005 ornament issue
28 ct lambswool, DMC

I am getting quite a bit further on this. I watched The Vampire Diaries and Supernatural. I hope to finish this tomorrow night.

Damage Control

Did that get your attention? The title is the audiobook that I am listening to by J.A.Jance. I had that playing while stitching on the ornament tonight. I managed to finish the house. I am hoping to finish this tomorrow.

Little House Needleworks
Home For the Holidays
2005 JCS ornament issue
28 ct lambswool, DMC

I didn't do much today. We didn't have much work today so I left at noon. Caught up on blog reading. Did some laundry.
I had a rotation planned and goals. But for some reason I have UFOs that are calling me and I REALLY want to finish them. So is it to late to change my goals that are listed for the year? I would love to finish I Shall Wear Purple by Sue Hillis, Mirabilia's Winter Queen and TCS Christmas Angel. I can't remember how much I have started on Ice Angel either. Hmmm I am in a quandry on what to do. I really want to finish my HAEDs as well. I know I will be stitching on a HAED on the first Friday to the 2nd Friday of the month. That still leaves the week of the 25th to stitch an ornament. So do I pull out one UFO in February and stitch on it the other weeks. Then in March pick another of the UFOs and maybe they will all be done this year? Each month could be a different UFO. Plus still leave my weekends as planned. Fridays are smalls, Saturday magazines or incentive piece with OOE, Sundays are Halloween. I love my weekend schedules.

progress and giveaway winner

We had some crappy weather this morning with snow and wind. A woman lost her house to a fire this morning. Paper said she and her husband bought the house 3 years ago and then he was diagnosed with cancer and died. Today the house was destroyed, while she was at work and she lost her 2 cats and dog. So sad and don't know why that bothered me today. She is 58. A student at an area school hung herself this morning. Ok today was a morbid day i guess. Sorry.
Anyways thank you to all who were concerned about me driving my car. Hubby took me to work this morning and my car went to the shop. My front brake pads were gone. geesh no wonder it worked funny yesterday. I appreciate all of your concerns for my well being.
Today was movie night with the boys. Dylan went to town and brought home G-Force. Cute cartoonish with Guinea Pigs. We enjoyed it.
While watching that I worked on the JCS ornament.
I got all the brown in the border done. Hoping to stitch and get most of it done tomorrow night.

Ok now onto the winner. I had a lot of comments and Justin drew the name. And this is funny since what she had posted as a comment. Winner is....... Julie M . send me an e mail with your addy so i can send the magazine out to you. Congrats on the win.

nighty night,
Shelleen

Christmas in January

Got ready for work this morning and backed out of my driveway and no brakes. My pedal went to the floor . I then put it into drive and went forwards a few feet and touched the brake and again the same thing. So back into reverse I went so i could pull back into the driveway. I asked Dylan for his keys and drove his car to work. After school Dylan took my car out and everything is fine. Stupid car.

I am all caught up with reading blogs. I left comments on quite a few of them

In honor of Christmas, since it is the 25th, I started a JCS ornament and watched 2 Christmas shows. How The Grinch Stole Christmas and then Shrek The Halls. Justin thought I was losing it. So this is what I started.

JCS 2005 Little House Needleworks
Home For the Holidays
28 ct Tumbleweed, DMC

I also watched House and 24. Both good shows.
So who else did Christmas with me? You all chickened out didn't you? Next month is Christmas music :-)

Been busy

I have had a pretty busy few days.
Thursday:
I got home and a check Justin was waiting for came in. So I borrowed money to buy myself a new laptop. It is an Asus and has windows7, which I am still learning how to use.


Friday:
I told hubby that I wanted to stitch all night and watch my TV shows but that didn't happen as none of the shows were on due to the telethon for Haiti. So I finished listening to Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance while stitching on HAED Aurora's Garden. This is her so far.

Saturday:
I took hubby to the movies as I really wanted to see Avatar 3D. The Imax is sold out til who knows when but the Regal had the 3D. I have never seen a 3D movie before and it was awesome! I loved the movie and afterwards hubby informed me that he didn't really want to go but was really glad that he did as he enjoyed the movie as well. Then we went to Five Guys for a burger and fries. I had been to the one by Myrtle Beach and just found out that one was here. Love their cajun fries. Came home and played on my computer. No stitching for the day.

Today:
went and got some groceries. Then stitched on LK Boo Flip Its. I also watched The Final Destination, Vampire Diaries, and Supernatural. Then I started Damage Control by J.A. Jance. As you can see I did pretty well on progress of the LK Boo.
Tomorrow is JCS ornament day and in honor of Christmas I will either play a little Christmas music or watch a Christmas special on DVD. Anyone want to join me?

not feeling to well

I left for work this morning and got halfway there when I started feeling ill. I called into work and turned around. I am starting to feel a little better tonight but I am really tired now.

This is my progress on Aurora's Garden. I stitched quite a bit today. I watched Sunday and Mondays episodes of 24, they were great.
Then General Hospital came on so I wound more floss on bobbins. I am getting there :-)
Back to stitching and this time listened to Dead Wrong by J.A. Jance. I am on CD7 out of 9. I am hoping to listen to more of this tomorrow but Thursday nights are my busiest with TV shows.

Good night,
Shelleen

First finish of 2010 and a giveaway

Got to work and there wasn't anything to do. Left at noon. As I was driving through town I noticed hubby's truck in front of the coffee shop so I called him and asked what he was doing. He said having lunch at Java's. I told him I saw his truck as I passed. So he told me to turn around and have lunch with him. That was very sweet of him. Had a toasted ham and cheese sandwich with a cup of chili.

When I got home I got caught up on blogs and emails. Played a little Facebook. Then I was a good girl again and worked out with the Wii for 30 minutes.

Sat down and watched General Hospital while winding more floss on bobbins.

Tonight was movie night with the boys. I had a Netflix movie sitting here so we watched Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Justin and Dylan had both seen it a few times before but love the movie. Then guess what happened as soon as the movie ended? I put on the last bead to Halloween Fairy, woohoo!!!!

Nora Corbett Halloween Fairy
Cross - Stitch & Needlework Sept. 2008
32 ct Tumbleweed linen , DMC, Kreiniks, Mill Hill Beads
5/7/09 - 1/19/10

Now I have a giveaway, and no it is not the Halloween Fairy but nice try lol. It is the magazine that has the chart in it. if you would like the magazine then please post a comment here until Friday January 22. I will draw the name this weekend.

a good day

My day started out with putting ingredients into the crockpot to make sausage gumbo.
Got to work and hardly anything to do so I got to leave at 1:30. I ended up doing some laundry and cleaning the living room. Then I worked out for 35 minutes with Wii Fit. That felt so good. We had problems with the remotes and I haven't touched it sine before my surgery, in June. I only gained 1.5 lbs since my surgery but I would like to know why then, are my jeans tight? It felt good to get back into a cleaning and work out schedule again. After reading emails and BBs, and of course playing on Fairyland :-), I then pulled out floss. That is right I still have bags to put onto bobbins. last year I was on a roll doing this and then stopped. Well I have made it my vow to do this again every day while watching General Hospital.

After I ate the yummy supper, I pulled out Aurora's Garden and listened to Dead Wrong by J. A. Jance. I got a few more squares done on it. I just don't think I will meet the deadline of the 27th. I am trying my best though.

So I am hoping to keep up with my daily routines tomorrow. Tomorrow's room to clean is.. the kitchen. Clean out the fridge and one cupboard.

See you then.

A new start

I got caught up reading everyones blogs and I commented on a few. Then went grocery shopping. Came home and started a new piece.

Sunday's are Halloween days and the beads did not come in yet, to finish Halloween Fairy so I started LK Boo Flip Its. This is what I got done so far. This one is Spooky. I am doing them all on one piece of fabric. 32 count dirty linen, using WDW and GAST. Can't wait to pick this one up next Sunday.
While stitching I watched:
General Hospital 1/14, 1/15
Desperate Housewives
Durham County

Plus I started listening to Dead Wrong by J. A. Jance. I am on disc 3 of 9 and so far it is good.

I am mad

I looked forwards all week to see Avatar 3D in the Imax Theater. So hubby and I get there and it is sold out for the weekend. I have never been to an Imax theater and I really did not want to see Avatar in the regular theater. I am so disappointed :-) So we ended up going to Longhorn Steakhouse. They just built it here. I had been to one in Myrtle Beach but hubby hadn't been to one. He ordered a steak medium rare and it came out well done. He wouldn't send it back but said it had a great favor. Came home and stitched some more on M Designs Shelleen tree Ornament. I had stitched on some earlier in the day as well.
So while stitching I watched:
The Forgotten 1/5/10 , 1/12/10
General Hospital 1/12 , 1/13
Race To Witch Mountain (2009)

The beads didn't come in the mail so I can't finish Halloween Fairy tomorrow. I will be starting LK Boo Double Flip Its.