Keebles World

I spent the entire weekend finishing our 2010 Disney picture DVD's, but I did manage a tad bit of stitching: That's right! A face is appearing and I'm so excited! I also spent the entire weekend catching up on my behind movie DVD's, and since I haven't done a review in a while, figured I'd share (but they are gonna be brief). First up, the only movie I watched was The Woman In Black I love Daniel Radcliff (yeah, I know, it's shocking I'm a Potter fan, it's SO out of character for me), but I especially love Ciaran Hinds (my first Wentworth and another Potter alum). It was a typical gothic horror in every since of the word...instead of the gore or the in your face horror, it's all about the noise factor, a loud scream or crash at the right moment will cause even the strongest of constitutions to jump, and jump I did, many times. But also with gothic horror, it never ends the way you expect, and this was no exception! It was good, but n...

Small update from yesterday. Bad headache today that I'm just now coming down from, so no stitching (and not very good typing either). But I did get asked for a close up of how small the 28ct is, so I'm including that as well. And now that I can think a bit clearer...guess I should also add that each one of the grids is a 10x10 (or 100 stitches) block, and the dime takes up four, so that's 400 x's in the space of a dime!

Tom from Tom Badguy Strikes Back as asked me to pass this along, and since I'm all in for fundraisers, especially where the arts are concerned, I couldn't not do it! So here's the message: The Mental Cast is having a fundraiser for the Staten Island Academy of Performing Arts Please tune into The Mental Cast at mentalcast.tk on May 22nd, 2012, from 6pm - Midnight EST If you are interested in donating, please send a donation via PayPal to: siapabenefit2012@gmail.com Unfortunately, I will be at work and won't be able to listen, but, if you have the time, please give them as much of yours as you can!

I'm getting more used to the diet, but I'm still pretty low on energy. I have managed some exercise, although not very much. I know I need to get my feet ready for Disney World, but my motivation is lacking a bit. I'll get there in the end, I always do and no matter how much I walk on the treadmill, my feet will never be truly ready for the torture that is Disney World!! Speaking of Disney, things have been quiet. I've been on the Dis Boards, but they annoy the living crap out of me...it's full of hateful, cruel, horrible people who ask the dumbest questions and get pissed when they get called dumb for it. In all the years I've been on them, I've rarely ever posted. I pretty much stick to the threads of photos and really only do that when I can't get my Disney fix from the various news sites. I do read the rumor posts, but most all of them are crap to be taken with a huge grain of salt. On the work front, things have either gotten better, or I...

I thought that my stitching had gotten slower, but actually, it's just the color of the material that is slowing me down because I worked on the 35th Anniversary Friday night and all Saturday and this was as far as I got: But when I started working on my little Highland girl again today, I blew through it! I can't believe I made so much progress in one day! So, overall, it turned out to be a very productive IHSW!!! Hope everybody else got a ton of work done!

It's that time of the month again and luckily for me it comes after a IHSW! There is still very little in my jar, but the green and yellow colors together in my Ort jar reminded me of a very specific creature:

My stitching has been total crap this month, but maybe I just need a kick in the rear from Joyce and the gang, so sign up I did!

It's the absolute smallest update ever, but I did get some stitching done this weekend! I have also made it through the three-day diet (I'm cheating a bit on the LiveStrong.com diet). But, 1000 calories a day for someone of my size has basically reduced me to absolutely no energy and I've barely made it out the chair. At least I did get the minuscule stitching done and I've started building the menus for our 2010 Disney pics DVD (only a year and a half late!). The season finale of Once Upon A Time totally blew me away! I won't spoil it for those that haven't seen it, but I can only say I have NEVER seen anything like it! It was amazing!! I know it's a small update, but it's all I got, and now I'm getting tired.

I don't know if you guys have been watching The Conversation with Amanda de Cadenet, but you should! Amanda (who just happens to be John Taylor from Duran Duran's ex-wife and mother of his oldest daughter, Atlanta) basically just sits in the living rooms of famous women and interviews them. It's very personal and honest and women I never really liked, I have a better understanding of (even if I still don't like them, i.e. Gwyneth Paltrow). But, at the end of the interview, she asks a couple of rapid fire questions (one of which being what is your favorite sexual position...and trust me, some people give away too much information, i.e. Jane Fonda saying that doggie doesn't work for her anymore because of her knee replacement!). The question that always intrigues me most is "what would you tell your 14 year-old self?". I've pondered this question a bit, but not nearly as seriously as I did today when Darren Hayes (one of the loves of my life), pos...

I've added a new page with direct links to all the A to Z Challenge posts so that they are in one location. I've also managed to finally finish going through the lists of blogs!  I guess they have been weeding, because I've actually moved up to the 1400's.

As a final hurrah to the A to Z Challenge, they have asked us to do a reflections post about our experiences during the challenge. So here we go, the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth! I got turned on to the challenge by my friend Katy at The Suddenly Kate Show and jumped in with both feet first! I started off-topic with a dedication to my beloved Zander, who was born on April 1, 1997, "B" through "Y" was all about my chosen topic of Walt Disney World, and "Z" was a dedication to Zachy-pooh, so this challenge was very personal because it combined my two favorite things, my pups (passed and living) and Walt Disney World! I had a very hard time keeping my posts short (obviously!) and I had an even harder time restricting my topics for each letter but, in the end, I decided that it was more important to get my full thoughts completed, length be damned!! I didn't attract a lot more followers, but that's totally fine. For one thi...

First off, since it's spring, it was time to lighten my page, so welcome to the new design! I've looked at design sites, but haven't found a pattern I like and, at least with Blogger, you can change it up to your specifications. There will probably be some tweaking in the next few days until I'm 100% happy with it, but I'll get there! But on to the topic at hand, for those that don't know, I deleted my Facebook account about a year ago now because they tried to take $800 from my credit card for game play that I didn't do. They did give me my money back, but I was already disillusioned with Facebook because it just wasn't for me. Facebook is for social people, of which I'm not, or at least not in the sense that I could care less that someone is brushing their teeth before they go to bed, or the incessant bible verses from people I KNOW are NOT religious. It was extremely hard for my Asper-mouth not to spout off all the time and, in the end, the ...

I got asked a question today that I have been asked before and I'm always reluctant to answer it because people are all different (and boy is that true in my case!)..."we have never been to Disney World, but want to go, can you help?". First off, for the average person, explaining to a complete novice how to do Disney right, would be daunting, but add my Asperger's, OCD, and just general Disney obsessiveness, and it's a monstrous feat! It's incredibly difficult for me to express in layman's terms anyway, but add to that something that I'm incredibly passionate about and it can be (and has been) a recipe for disaster (at least for my practically non-existent social life, I'm isolated enough, no need to scare people off)! But, being the typical sap that I am, of course I offered to help (well, to be honest, it was more of a chance to show off my Disney knowledge and not really caring a rat's ass for helping, but that's the Asper-girl for ...

Not only are the Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween party dates officially out, but I got our tickets today as well! As per usual, they are outrageously priced, and I had to get two sets of two, so don't even ask the cost, but it's worth every single penny (or at least I'll think that when we're there!). We decided to go to the first party the night before we officially arrive, so I went ahead and booked a value resort for one night only...yes, you heard that correctly...I booked a value resort! It will be my first time, and I'm hoping since it's the new Art of Animation resort, it won't be so bad! We're gonna stay in the Little Mermaid section (my second to last choice...Cars being the last), but it's the only one that doesn't have family suites (which we don't need for one night). I just figured if we stayed on property, it will make things a lot easier...we can use the bus transport (and don't make me rant about non-resort gues...