Crazy January Challenge #14

I can't seem to get warm enough. I am so tired of this cold weather. Supposed to be cold and snowy tomorrow. Scott and I needed a new vacuum so I bought a Hoover canister cyclonic bagless. Will try it out tomorrow.
We took Justin out for supper and I had a broiled haddock with shrimp and crab flakes with melted pepper jack cheese, mmmmm. Plus I had a bowl of New England Clam Chowder.
Came home and stitched on Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Moon's Shamrock Paw fob. This is stitched on 28 ct cashel Millenium Blue.

Tomorrow I will be fixing dinner for my inlaws and am going to do pulled pork so getting ready to put that in the crockpot,mmmm.
Dylan came home for the weekend. It is good to see him. Last night Justin told me that he is moving out and getting an apartment with friends. Since he has the bigger bedroom then I am moving my craft room in there. But not for a few months. I want to make sure it works out for him. Our bedroom is bigger than that but his room is bigger then my craft room. I am so proud of my boys :-)
Well off to get my last challenge piece kitted up and ready for tomorrow. See you all tomorrow night.

{{{hugs}}}
Shelleen

pic of finished St Paddy's Kitty Moon

Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon
28 ct Millenium Blue cashel linen
DMC & Kreinik

Friday 4/23 SAT

We were pretty busy at work so I had to stay over.

I borrowed Tinkerbell and Tinkerbell 2, Videos and watched the first one tonight. Then I watched Avatar! So I should have finished this tonight but I watched the movie more than I stitched. Plus I had to leave for an hour. This is how much progress I got done. Should be finished Monday night.

Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon

Thursday progress

Thursday I got home from work, read emails and did a little Facebook. Decided to take a nap. it was 3:45 when I looked at the clock. I heard my cell phone go off for a txt message, thinking it is about 5:00, I read the txt and then look at the clock. it is 7:00. Holy moses, where did the time go? I slept hard! I got up had some dinner and then sat down to the TV and to stitch. I DVRd Bones and watched Vampire Diaries and then Supernatural. Then went to watch the new episode of Private Practice but oh no ABC were complete idiots and moved it to the Grey's Anatomy spot and moved Grey's to the Private Practice spot. Grey's was a repeat, which I already knew. Now I will have to watch Private Practice online.

I stitched on Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon and got a little bit more done it.

Dylan picked up Avatar for me and that is what i plan on watching Friday night during my SAT with Let's Stitch blog and Stitching Sisters Yahoo group.

Valentine Kitty Moon is finished!

Today I read all my blogging friend's blogs and commented on some. I love getting comments on mine and I do try to comment on others.

I worked out with the Wii Fit Plus. Really like it.

Tonight's dinner was from the Taste of Home Cooking School Spring magazine. Crab & Spinach quiche, which was very good.

While it was in the oven I watched General Hopsital 4/16 while winding floss on bobbins

Then after dinner I sat down with my ipod and Valentine Kitty Moon, and it is finished. I really like stitching on these. I listened to a few more discs of Rough Country by John Sandford.

Stitchy Kitty Valentine Kitty Moon
28 ct cashel Millenium Blue
DMC, Kreiniks

Then I stitched some more on Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon. I will stitch on this some more tomorrow night and Friday night and will hopefully finish it.

I am on a finishing kick so after St. Paddy's Kitty Moon I will finish up last month's ornament and then start this month's ornament. Then onto a UFO. Not sure which one. I thought of pulling out my oldest one. That would be Rocky Mountain Christmas by Marty Bell. But Christmas Angel is calling my name and so is I Shall Wear Purple, or maybe even Mirabilia's Winter Queen. Hmmm. Tough decisions lol.

Movie Tuesday

Tuesday again with a movie and a pizza. Tonight's movie was from Netflix and called Murder.com. Dylan slept through most of it, Justin found it boring and I rated it a 3 out of 5 stars. The storyline was good. Was slow paced though and the main character looked anorexic.

I watched a little bit of General Hospital's Friday episode while winding floss on bobbins.

I have 3 sections of bookcases all lined up together, floor to a couple of feet away from the ceiling. I am trying to get the shelves all organized. They look so cluttered. I am trying to turn it into my cross stitch area. 1 of the bookcases is pretty crappy looking so once I am all done it will get thrown out. I then want to either buy a loveseat or a comfortable recliner and have it sit between 2 of the bookcases. I will keep my floss, mags, cross stitch books, beads, kreiniks and fabrics all neat on the shelves. It will probably happen next year. I have been working on one shelf at time and sorting through the books, do I want to read or can I get them on audiobook into my computer.

Tonight I watched Lost, only a few more episodes left of this series. Will be sad to see it go.

So while watching Lost and the movie I stitched some more on Valentine Kitty Moon. I also got in about an hour of the audiobook Rough Country by John Sandford. Anyways Valentine Kitty Moon is moving right along and I am hoping to finish it tomorrow night. Then onto St. Paddy's Kitty Moon.

Valentine Kitty Moon - Monday's progress

Had a productive day today.

Stitching:
Stitchy Kitty Valentine Kitty Moon. Got more of his body stitched up and the white border of the middle heart.

Workout:
lost 2 lbs
Wii for 30 minutes

Cleaned living room

Made a new recipe from the Taste of Home Cooking School Spring mag. Tuna casserole. Very good.

Organization:
wound some more DMC on bobbins

TV:
GH - 4/15
House
24

Reading:
audiobook - Rouch Country - John Sandford. Very good so far.

Good SAT night, a finish and a wip

We weren't busy at work today so I left at noon. The one young woman that has been with us for about 9 months left for a full time job. Her last day was today.

Came home and took a nap for an hour and a half. Fixed another recipe from the taste of Home Cooking School's mag. Was really good.

Then I sat and stitched all night while watching TV.
I watched :
Vampire Diaries
Smallville
movie: P.S. I love You (loved it)

I finished Stitchy Kitty Easter Kitty Moon. It came out really cute. I am thinking I will finish this in a cube like I did the Halloween Kitty Moon. I do want to stitch up the kitty paw fob that is also in this pattern but I dn't have 28 ct jubilee mint green. So I will have to get that for another time.

Stitchy Kitty Easter Kitty Moon
28 ct Cashel Millenium Blue
DMC, Kreinik and buttons

Then I pulled out Stitchy Kitty Valentine Kitty Moon and I put in a few stitches on it. I will stitch on this next week to finish it. Remember this month I set aside for some finishes.

Stitchy Kitty Valentine Kitty Moon
28 ct Cashel Millenium Blue

Easter Kitty Moon progress

I have been making good progress on this, all week.

Yesterday I watched Where The Wild Things Are , from Netflix. let me tell you this is a dark , angry and depressing movie. Nothing like the book. Would scare little kids.

I had today off from work so did a couple of loads of laundry.
I stitched while watching:
Live with regis & Kelly
Rachael Ray
Bones
Supernatural

Today I wound more floss on bobbins and am on the 3300s. I put the 3ooos in the storage box. While doing that I watched:
General Hospital - 4/9, 4/12, 4/13, 4/14

Tomorrow night is a SAT with Stitching Sisters Yahoo group and Let's Stitch Blog. Anyone want to come to my house for a SAT night? I will hopefully finish Easter Kitty Moon and then pull out Valentines Kitty Moon, again.

Easter Kitty Moon

Netflix now has a disc for the Wii so you can waych Netflix through your TV via the Wii. My disc came in today. So I decided to try it. It took 20 minutes to stream a TV show so I could watch it. 5 minutes into the show it stopped to stream again and after 15 minutes and still nothing, I gave up. I will try again another time.

Meanwhile during all of this waiting I started stitching some more on Easter Kitty. Then at 9 Lost came on so I watched that. Only a couple more episodes left and I think this season is better than last.

Dylan and I got online for Fafsa so he can get financial aid and then we have to go on and sign up for grants and scholarships. I tried to get him to do this much earlier in his senior year but he kept putting it off.

It was very dead at work today. It was my managers day off and with only 7 samples for the day then the 3rd person didn't need to come in either. It was a very long day as I was done before noon and that was taking off numbers off of 15 trays of vials and there is 72 vials per tray. So then I moved onto putting our labels on ziplock bags for the clients. I ended up doing a couple of hundred of those. I thought I could listen to my audiobook while doing this but nooo, started listening and the batteries died. They are charged now lol.

A little housework tomorrow and laundry and hopefully more stitching on Easter Kitty. I would like to finish it this week.

UTI school and Easter Kitty

The recruit for the UTI school in Exton, PA was here this evening. Dylan signed up and we have about 2 weeks to find out if he was accepted. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers that this works out for him. He is taking the Auot/Diesel/Ford program which is a 17 month program.He would get 2 days off for Thanksgiving and a week off for a winter break at Christmas. No spring or summer breaks. This will be a good thing for him. I will miss him as he will be 6 hours away and he has to have a part time job as that is their requirement. Besides being one of ours.

So after he left I fixed dinner and then sat and stitched for 2 hours. I watched House and 24. This is my progress so far.

Easter kitty

We weren't busy at work today. Had a little problem with online service going down but it wasn't down for long. 40 degrees cooler today than yesterday and so my sinuses are kicking in again.
Scott had to work tonight, Justin had to babysit and Dylan was at his girlfriend's house. So since tonight was, a StitchaThon with Stitching Sisters Yahoo group and Let's Stitch blog, I sat and stitched all evening. I started this new piece.

Stitchy Kitty Easter Kitty Moon
28 ct Millenium Blue Cashel Linen

while watching:
Bones
Ghost Whisperer
Medium
Smallville

I don't know if I will get much stitching time in tomorrow. I have plans with my mom. For my birthday she bought us tickets for Taste of Home Cooking at my kid's school. They have it all over at different schools every year. We tried to go last year and we sent in our money but it was already booked. So my mom sent away for the tickets early and is my birthday gift from my parents. Looks like it will be a lot of fun.

This week's ramblings

My week was ok.
TUESDAY:
Movie night with my boys. We had pizza and watched 2012. I enjoyed the movie and couldn't stitch much as it kept you on the edge of the seat and you had to read a little bit when there were conversations in other languages. But there wasn't much of that.

WEDNESDAY:
I stitched on HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep. I also watched Lost and The Forgotten, that I had DVRd from Tuesday. Also listened to some of Heat Lightning by John Sandford.

THURSDAY:
was my day off from work. Did some laundry, went shopping with Justin. He wanted to get a new TV for his room. Watched 3 episodes of General Hospital while organizing my specialty threads. All the Weeks Dye Works and Gentle Arts Sampler Threads are done. I have to buy another photo box with indexed labels so i can do a Misc specialty thread box. Now back to the DMCs. I have more bobbins and had to buy another Jammer box. I watched Grey's Anatomy and Private Practice. Pic below of my week's progress on HAED SK Mermaid of the Deep.
Tonight I will be stitching on Stitchy Kitty St. Paddy's Kitty Moon.
I am coming down with sinus problems so feel tired and I hope I don't fall asleep while stitching.
Tomorrow I have a bookcross meeting and am looking forwards to that.

Valentine Kitty

Work was busier than it had been all week. Got home and got things together to stitch for tonight's SAT. Decided on Stitchy Kitty Valentine Kitty Moon. At first I wasn't sure if it would happen. For some reason the power went out at 4:10 but it finally came back on at 5:05. At 6:00 I started it.

I think I got quite a bit done.

I watched 2 TV shows:
General Hospital - kind of getting sick of all the story lines
Smallville

I watched 2 movies:
Kung Fu Panda - cute
The Bucket List - really good

Tomorrow's SAT will be S is for Stitcher. I do need to clean in the morning though. The house is a mess.