Keebles World

I almost feel like a broken record saying this every single week, but this one was pretty rough. Between dealing with a headache on Monday, trying to control a dementia-riddled Grandmother on Tuesday, yet another work road trip on Wednesday, and staying late the rest of the week to make up for spending half a day with my Grandmother, my stitching really suffered. I tried to work on Tartan B while with my Grandmother, but I didn't get very far before I thought I had gotten off line, so I had to put it aside. I left it off here last year: Once I got it home for the night, I gridded the fabric and discovered I wasn't off after all, but I didn't pick it up again, so I left off here: That's one of the side effects of buying home-made patterns, they don't design them as you would, with clear gridlines and row repeats from page to page. It's a good thing it's a small pattern! In between dealing with the crap of the week, the thread I ordered for the wordi...

Challenge Homepage Bad me! This week has been CRA-ZY and I almost forgot to sign up for this year's challenge! Luckily, I remembered this afternoon, so at least I got on the list. I'm still tossing around different ideas, and I'm not exactly sure which direction I'm going to be going in...there may be stitching, there may be Disney, and there may even be both. Right now, I'm just not sure, but if you haven't signed up yet, head on over to the signup sheet and give it a go! For those unaware of what the challenge is, you pick a topic/subject, and every day in April (excluding Sundays) you post, in alphabetical order, your topic. For example, April 1st is "A", the 2nd is "B", etc. I've seen everything from poetry and short stories, photography, crafts, animals (including the one year there was 10 bloggers AtoZ'ing hamsters!), movies, TV shows, etc, etc. You name it, somebody is probably blogging about it! Granted, very few ...

As always, go over to Kate's and Tiff's blogs to see their Top 10's for the week and if you want to join in, just let Kate know! This week's topic is a very subjective one for me and tends to flip and flop with my moods (which are as ever-changing as the weather), so I'm just going to go for the careers I'd love/hate right now. Ironic that this topic should come on the heels of my 20th anniversary at my current job...huh, wonder if someone is trying to tell me something? Anyhoo, I think I'm also going to split this one up and do five I'd love and five I'd hate, so first up: LOVES LOVES #1: ASTRONOMER Bet you thought the first one would be Disney related, right? I'll get to that in a moment. I could subdivide this one up into planetary science including geology and biology, but I'm just going to leave it in the general Astronomy field for now. My interests do lie pretty much in the planets (and their moons), ours and those of ...

I know I just posted my weekly progress report, but this morning I decided to join up with Measi's WIPocalypse for the year. I've never really done anything like this before so hopefully I won't screw it up! This month's question is: "Introduce yourself, your projects, and any goals you have for the year" Most of you guys know me, but for those that don't, I'm a mid-forties Asper who also happens to be a Disney freak with just a mild obsession with stitching ('cough cough). I get a lot of stitching help from my pup (not really, he just likes to snuggle while I'm trying to stitch) and other than work, I don't really do anything else. I'm also not known for my brevity, so I'll apologize now for the length that this post will invariably become. Right now, I have several WIPs in progress, which is new to me...I've only ever stitched one project a time up until a couple of years ago and this is my first year with so many, ...

Another horrible work week gone by and yet another so-so stitching week (I still contend that the two are related). This week I worked on Alice and the Bouguereau Princesses for the first time since November. Back then, I left off a few stitches past the second row finish: And this week I only managed to get to here: I've been bummed that I haven't had a page finish during the week and there was a time when that was an easy feat. I just thought maybe I'd lost my mojo, but when I switched to Suteki on Saturday, it kind of dawned on me...I stitch more on the weekend than the entire week put together (since I have no life), and the amount of time during the week plus the weekend time would be well enough to finish a page, but since I'm switching projects for the weekend, I lose that extra edge. I feel a lot better about my progress now considering. Did you happen to notice my new needle minder? I am absolutely in love with it!! Again, I can't show my pro...

As always, go over to Kate's and Tiff's blogs to see their Top 10's for the week and if you want to join in, just let Kate know! I'm a big user of expressions, most of which aren't fit for family entertainment, so I actually had to think a bit on this one to keep it relatively clean. I'm bad at word dyslexia, so a lot of the time what I mean to say and what actually comes out of my mouth are two separate things (and have led to some extremely embarrassing situations). I'm also horrible at using movie quotes which no one ever gets, so it just sounds like I'm speaking utter twaddle. Despite my inherent Southerness, I'm not prone to the typical Southern quotations and I tend to get annoyed when people start spouting them at me, especially when it comes to the whole "honey", "sweetie", "darlin", "sugarpie" crap. #1: BLOODY HELL There is probably no phrase that comes out of my mouth more than this one. ...

This week's rotation brought around the first full week of Night Wish...I say full week, but more like a sporadic attempt at stitching thanks to work. I left off here: And I tried so hard to finish the first page, but I didn't come close. As per usual, I spent the weekend working on Suteki and it's moving (slowly). I'm hoping that by the end of the month when I post it on the A New Stitchy Start Blog , I'll be close to finishing the first row. I managed to finish the first page and I'm about halfway into the second, but that's not really saying much...it's a regular-sized pattern so there are way too many symbols on each page. Not only is it difficult to read because the symbols are so small, but it takes way longer to get through each page. It will be nice to get back to my usual large-sized pattern. I will admit though, not posting my progress on it has been a bit difficult, but it might be what's driving me...the jury is still out on tha...

I'm not having much luck with Top 10 topics lately, but I'm hanging in there! Make sure to check out Kate's and Tiff's blogs to see their Top 10's for the week. One of the first things I have always done when I bought an album/cassette/CD is open the jacket and read the lyrics. With the digital age and downloadable songs, I just go to one of the myriad of online lyric sites and do the same. It's just part of my process. If the album was important enough for me to buy, then I make it a point to make sure I know the lyrics beforehand. The bands I prefer are all pretty good at enunciating, so I'm not bad about understand lyrics, but rather misinterpreting them. Most of the music I prefer is pretty cryptic in the first place, so lyrical meaning is open to interpretation and, if the artist isn't clear on what they meant (and most of them can't pinpoint specifics anyway), then the song is open to personal interpretation, or thus is my opinion....

I almost forgot to post my ORT jar pic, so this will be a short post: I just ordered a new Captain America needle minder and Cap has been on my mind lately, so I thought this would be a good background for this month's TUSAL post. Not a lot of ORTs yet, but it's still early!

It's that time again, but this sure was a short week considering it was the first full work one in three. Any hopes of a better time at work in the new year have already been dashed and, if anything, things have gotten worse. Oh well, c'est la vie. I don't have any marketable skills and I need a roof over my head and food on the table (and a Disney trip at least once a year), so I'm stuck. Thanks again for everyone's kind comments over my Disneyland pictures! Sorry I dumped so much personal crap into the mix, but it's part of the story, so it had to be told. And, like everything else that happens, it's made me a stronger person (or more closed off, depending on your point of view and the jury is still out on the subject). The pictures remind me of the good stuff, the actual Disney stuff, so I think it's a win-win situation. But on the home front, I spent the week working on Snow White and the weekend on Suteki. I left off Snow after the first ...

Well, despite the previous night's "fun", I still woke with a positive attitude because I was going to see my baby puppy before the end of the night! I walked around the hotel for a bit in the morning, taking pictures: Our room: The Disney "art" in the hallways: And the lobby: Although the car service wasn't set to get us for a few hours yet, I decided to go ahead and head downstairs, wandering around a bit more, getting breakfast in the gift shop, etc. After a while I got bored and texted the car company to see if they could pick us up a bit early. Not only could they, but they preferred it, and even though we would be getting to LAX 5 hours early, I wasn't too miffed. The only conversation we were having at that point was bile-laced and useless. In my mind though, I was still trying to figure out what I had done to incur such wrath, but I figured I must have done something because we Aspers tend to be mean without realizing it. I barely...