DIFFERENT CHAIR...DIFFERENT VIEW

Methinks I like this one better...Rich making turkey chili for dinner:

And me in a different, happier chair looking a little worse for wear.

SCENES FROM A CHAIR ON A FUTZINGDAY AFTERNOON...

I broke the first machine, so they switched me to a different chair with a better view:

And here's me...trying to look happy and brave before getting hooked up tp the new machine.

(I really need to rethink my hair...the Snooky bangs are getting a little old.)

OK...time to chill.  Here's hoping that your view is swell.  Come tell me all about it!

TWO MORE SECTIONS...

MONDAY MONDAY

Just a little progress, but progress nonetheless.

A LITTLE CAKE...A LITTLE WENDY

I played with my Wendy Moore class piece on Friday and Saturday:

And today I'm going to get back to Red Velvet Cake:

THE ONLY THING PREDICTABLE IS MY UNPREDICTABILITY...

I think the most frustrating part of this whole dialysis thing is the ups and downs of it.  Just when I think I've got it figured out and have a good session...all hell breaks loose and I have two bad sessions in a row.

I also think I am jinxing myself, because I got in the chair yesterday and said "I'm going to run perfectly green all day and just sit here and watch Flosstube and look out the window and not bother anybody and then go home ant eat pizza."

Phooey.

First, I clotted.  Then, my arm started to hurt amd then it hurt really really really bad and they had to pull me off early.  Finally, once I got back to CS2, I was so darn drained I could barely make it to the big girl sleigh bed.

BUT!  Today the sun is shining and I am awake and ready to start playing with my Wendy Moore class piece.  Rich is watching horse racing all day and I am going to put the ear thingies in amd sit in my Happy Chair with Flosstube for company and just go pull thread through canvas and be swell.

Here's hoping that your very own weekend is wonderfully perfect in every way and that you get to do whatever it is you want to do.  

Come tell me all about it!

A LITTLE PRE JIFFY LUBE UPDATE

So today I'm trying something new.  I got up a little earlier, took my scrubby shower, and now I'm in the Happy Chair with my damn good and stitching for an hour or so before heading out.  Hopefully it will result in a more peaceful and less traumatic session.

Progress continues on Prairie Schooler January.  I'm not sure about the two tone house, but I'm going to pretend that the sun is casting a winter shadow

Happy Friday, kids!  Come tel me...blah blah blah.

IN WHICH WE LEARN THAT WE ARE, IN FACT, NOT AT ALL LIKE MISS VONNA, MISS DANIELLE, OR MISSES PRISCILLA AND CHELSEA

Wanna know something?  

I can watch eleventy seven hundred hours of the Flosstubes and write extensive notes on how to finish finish something and I can carefully scour the ads for coupons to the JoAnns and the Michaels and the Hobby Lobbies, and I can drive myself to all of the above and wander through every. single. aisle. looking for things to do a finish finish in the style of Misses (see above) and you know what I end up with?

Holy crap on a cracker.  I am exhausted.  But, I achieved my goal of finish finishing something that I had stitched, so...I'm gonna slap this up on the wall and call it a win.

(But can I just say that it is a REALLY good thing that I do not have the phone numbers of the Dream Team of stitchy finishers above, because as God is my witness I would have called each and every one of them to come get me, slap me silly for thinking I could play Varsity ball with them, and then firmly lead me out of the JoAnns, Michaels, and Hobby Lobbies amd into my car to go home and think about what I've done.)

OK...FINALLY....SOME DETAILS.

Forest Snowfall

Country Cottage Needleworks

32ct natural linen with polka dots

Stitched along with Miss Priscilla and Miss Chelsea...The Real Housewives of Cross Stitch.

Threads used are different than what's charted:

GAST : Dried Thyme, Chamomile, Dark Chocolate

WDW: Blue Jeans

CC: Roasted Chestnut, Peanut Brittle

RG: Sparkle Braid SK06

DMC: white

Buttons: Jessee James scrapbook embellishments from the amazon

(They had loopy things on the back that I had to snip off with my little bead cutters.)

I'm sorry that you cannot see it in my craptastic photo, but the snow sparkles! I highly recommend Rainbow Gallery Sparkle Braid for sparkly snow, but be sure to use Thread Heaven on it to reduce the amount of money you have to put in your swear jar.

I am hoping to finish this using a combination of techniques from Miss Vonna, Miss Danielle, and Miss Priscilla....stay tuned!  It will either be gorgeous or will be headed to the land of Craft Day Gone Awry.

1:00 appointment today and then home to work on the Prairie Schooler January.  My plan is to work on it until the end of the week, play with my Wendy Moore class piece this weekend, and then pick up Red Velvet Cake for February!

Hope you are well.  I am...hungover and still surly today, but keeping my distance from polite society and just letting it pass.  Meds are changing like crazy at dialysis and methinks this has thrown me into another well for a minute. I know they've been giving me a crap tone of Venofer, which is basically iron, so maybe once my stores get boosted I'll start to feel a little better. 

Buzzy and Beepy were fighting because one of my lines completely clotted off, and Midge was just feeling her oats and decided to scratch the living heck out of my good arm.  We gave them all a good talking to on the way out last night, so hopefully they will all be better behaved tomorrow.  I am also going to switch up my playlist to something a little more soothing, and spend more time watching the Flosstubes rather than sit and fret about big hard things.

So that's the plan...just be a patient and a stitcher and nothing else.  

I hope that your corner of the world is less fraught with big hard things and that you are well and safe and warm and comfortable and dry.  Come tell me all about it!

Oh, and P.S.  Thank you, dear Blogger for fixing yourself overnight.  I'm sorry I ever doubted you and for all of the rotten things I thought about you...

TESTING 1-2-3

AHHHHH, PHOOEY ON ALL OF IT.

If you have a moment, please head on over to Miss Em's new blog at: http://www.thesewhappystitcher.blogspot.com and say hello.  She is delightful and has launched today.  WooHoo!

Now on to the phooey:

Still can't post pictures to this here blog.

Blood pressure 190/110 upon arrival in the chair today. Buzzy, Beepy, and Midge (the blood pressure cuff) are not getting along and are making me a bit nuts.

Sad and testy conversations at CS2 and just wanting to "go home"...weepy, sad, angry, hot mess express today.  Better get over it toot sweet, or Betty will rear her ugly head and tell me to quit my bitching.

What can I say?  Every now and then I guess I just need to have a Wednesday.

OK...Adele and I are going to just chill out for a minute here and regroup.  Don't mind me, folks.  All will be well once again, I'm sure.

DAMNIT, GUMBY

I've been trying to upload a blog post all darn day today, but Blogger kerps giving me an error message that says "Error 500".  Anybody out there know what the heck this means?  Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear...please tell me that there's nothing catastrophic going on.

MONDAY CHAIR TIME

Bigger needles running full steam ahead.  It makes for a better cleaning, but is a much harder workout.  I might need a little nap when I get home.

Yesterday was quite possibly the closest I've come to a perfect Sunday in a long time.  Mass in the Basilica, breakfast burritos at home, the Sunday New York Times, a nice long snoozy nap with my face in the sun, chicken fajitas for dinner, and then stitching late into the night while Rich watched his Eagles win and then went to bed happy.  Bliss.

I'm going to settle in and watch some FlossTube now.  I've done my "run through" of email, etc., and now it's time to zone out.

Happy Monday, Dearies!  Hope your weekend was wonderful and that your week is off to a wonderful start! Come tell me all about it!

ALMOST THERE...JUST NEED TO ATTACH THE BUTTONS!

IN WHICH THE BUNNY GETS A TAIL...

DAG NABBIT.

So here I am in the dialysis chair, all ready for my daily visit with you, when I realized that I forgot to take a picture of my stitchy progress last night.

And there was a lot of it!

Forest Snowfall is quickly drawing to a close, and then...brace yourselves...I'm going to fully finish it!  I am determined to not just stitch pieces and then throw them in the big underbed FUPPY box this year, but rather finish-finish as many as I can and then enjoy them.

But...here comes the happy dilemma.

Do I Pricillafly them, Danielleify them, or Vonnafy them!?!?

How darn lucky are we to have these girls in our community with their inspiration and generosity in teaching us how to do stuff?  

Oh, how I love them so...

The sun is shining and the weekend is upon us, Dearies.  Let's all do something fun and come tell each other all about it!

IN WHICH WE BUILD OUR LITTLE HOUSE...

I think I keep calling this piece by the wrong name.  This is FOREST SNOWFALL, not Frosty Forest or whatever else I've been calling it.  This is/was a SAL along with the fabulous Miss Priscilla and Miss Chelsea on the Flosstubes. 

But I think I'm the only person in the group who has not yet completed it.

Today, though, I hope to make some progress while Rich is at the office and I am in the Happy Chair.  Then at about 4:00 or so I'm going to channel my inner Ina and make a lovely dinner for when he comes home.

Such big plans.  I better pace myself.

So that's the report for the day.  The sun is shining and the birds are tweeting sweetly down in Florida or Argentina or wherever it is that the thermometer hasn't given up completely.  Hope your corner of the world is swell and that you're doing something fabulous!  Come tell me all about it!

WHERE'S PATRICK SWAZEE WHEN YOU NEED HIM?

I guess they didn't hear the line as "Nobody puts Spinster in a corner":

They keep changing things up on me, Dearies...my chair time, my techs, my needle size, and now the pod in which I sit.  I used to be on the opposite side of things overlooking the pond.  Now I'm in a far corner overlooking...well...not much.

Hmmmmm.  Wonder if it was something I said?

(I'm sure the crashing and upchucking and infiltrating and whatnot hasn't helped matters any, but Geeze Louise...I'm still new at this and am still learning the proverbial ropes!)

As a matter of fact...I think I've been downright damn delightful!  I don't fidget, I don't do things I'm not supposed to do, and when I come in here after I've lived my life like a marathon running nun on an organic kale farm I'm pleasant, determined, respectful, and compliant.

Oh.

Maybe that's the problem.

To get the concierge level upgrade, you need to be a squeaky wheel and demand all sorts of special attention or something.

Nope.

Not gonna do it.  I am perfectly happy to sit here and behave myself because I have a secret weapon that (to my knowledge) nobody else has.

I watch the Flosstube.  

And I visit your blogs and respond to your emails and, as the kids say, I "manage my brand".

So Baby can go dance her socks off out there in front of God and everybody.  Me and MY peeps will be here in the corner doing our thing.

Ciao for now!