Weekly Stitching - a bit on the late side

I was on "vacation" last week which, as we all know, means I still had to get up every single day and drag my sorry butt into work and do those lovely little tasks that only I can do as well as handle multiple phone calls and texts throughout the day. Yea me. Despite the put-in hours, I still managed to get horribly behind on my job and have struggled to get caught up, hence the late post. I did get quite a bit of stitching done on the Bride though. I left off here last time:

And finished Sunday night here:

Her face looks a bit freaky right now, but I'm excited to see a little Freddy head appearing! I've decided to go in two week rotations, so I'm continuing with her this week although, at least so far, I haven't been able to touch her because I've been getting home so late.

I finished up Agents of SHIELD, and lets just say, there is a reason why I don't watch active shows anymore...I HATE sucky cliffhangery season finales! At least I don't have to wait the well-over-a-year that every other watcher of the show has had to endure, but still! UGH! I now know why I continue to watch Once Upon A Time over and over again, I always know there is a happy ending at the end, even through a weird season 7, the loyal fans were rewarded with the best ending ever and I can always count on that!

But, even though I went back and finished up my current Once rotation, I managed not to start another round and got distracted with some other shows (at least for now). I watched the Jack Ryan series on Amazon, which typically wouldn't be my thing, but it wasn't half bad. I'm now watching Roswell. I'm trying hard not to dwell too much on the whole Supernatural-ending thing (although Roswell might not have been the best choice since Jensen Ackles was on that show for a while). Granted, it was probably time for Supernatural to end because, let's face it, the past couple of seasons haven't been that great other than an episode or two here and there, but still. I was just commenting to a co-worker on Friday afternoon, after bitching about Agents of SHIELD and that sucky season 5 ending (especially when they didn't know if they were gonna get renewed at the time), that at least I could always count on Supernatural to always be around because it would never get cancelled, not unless the actors pulled the plug and then WHAM! Four hours later, the Tweet went out that the plug had been pulled! So much for stability! And I seriously doubt Supernatural will get a Once Upon A Time-type happy ending. It would defy the very nature of the show. There will be a lot of death and tears I figure. Great...Infinity War all over again without the possibility of a reprieve with Endgame!

Weekly Stitching - finally a finish!

I piddled all week with Rapunzel...I should have had it finished in one night...instead, I spread it out over three days and barely got it finished at all in the week! I left off here last week:

Finished the row on Saturday:

And here it is in all its glory:

I wish I had a dime for everytime I kept knocking my stand over, which in turn would also knock over my cup of iced tea. I would check my fabric to make sure I never got tea on it, but apparently I missed a spot or two because, once I ironed off the grid lines, there were tea spots everywhere. Hopefully, washing it will clean it up. If not, I guess I will have to make sure the framing covers them. You can see them much better without all the grid lines:

And it's also amazing how quickly I finished Rapunzel (151.63 hrs), so maybe my speed is picking up. Oh, and just for the record, here is the size difference between Rapunzel and Snow and Charming, although I figure they will still frame up the same if I don't matt Rapunzel:

I guess it also shows how different cross stitch can be. No two projects could be so different! I do admit, I prefer full coverage with 1x1 and more realistic, but everyone is different.

I knew immediately that I wanted to go back to The Bride Dollmaker from GeckoRouge, so that's where I went back to Saturday night. Here's what she will look like when finished, for those who haven't seen here in a while (or not at all):

I left off at the first row finish back in January of 2018 when I was regular stitching:

And my attention level was pretty short both Saturday night and Sunday, so this is where I made it to (sad, I know):

I still haven't decided if I'm stitching in rotation for two weeks at a time, or a row at a time, but I'm just kind of going with the flow right now.

No spoilers, but I will say that Captain Marvel was good, but I'm still extremely worried about Endgame since it didn't really answer any of those questions. But it did answer a TON of questions for Agents of Shield, so I went back to watching that show again and, at least for now, my Once habit has been under control for a whole week! Let's see how long it lasts.

There is also really exciting news on the new house front. I've been working hard to pay down my debt, and it's going to take a while, I have a two-year plan, but I've got it down to two house plans and I'm pretty happy with either one. My brother-in-law and his partner has bought a chunk of land to start their own subdivision and I get to pick my own plot, so all should be good there too. I get a nice house in a much safer town (even if it's one I spent my entire childhood trying to get out of), built at cost (maybe less), and can finally have what I truly want, an adult house with a place for the Disney stuff that doesn't take over every square inch of space. I'll be able to give the puppies a yard to play in and to have a yard myself for a garden. Granted, I'll have to get up earlier because I will have a bit longer commute, I won't have as fast internet or access to all the amenities living in a bigger town offers, but I'm cool with that. I'll keep you guys updated as this story develops. As of now, it almost feels too good to be true and I don't want to spoil or ruin it.

Weekly stitching and sucky spoilers - update

Well, I didn't finish Rapunzel last week, despite my best efforts. I didn't have any headaches, just work-aches. I left off here last week:

And at least made it this far by last night:

I'm not going to jinx myself and say that I should finish this week, especially after last week, even though I have less than half the third page and the fourth page isn't even a full page and all the outlining is already done. As sure as I say I'll finish it, I'll have another horrible week and I certainly don't want to go through another last week!

I did try, yet again, to break my Once habit. I watched The Order on Netflix and it was OK, but I hope they get a second season because I didn't like the way it ended. I got caught up on all the Disney movies I was behind on (basically, everything out since Moana), so that's done. Other than Ralph Breaks The Internet, the rest weren't that great. Then I just went back to Avengers Infinity War on loop to desensitize myself for Avengers Endgame. It's still not working (I get choked up everytime), but I'm trying. Contracts are up, actors will be leaving, that's not a spoiler. Whether the characters depart alive or dead will be the question.

Because the internet is a crappy place, a co-worker and I are going to take a long lunch tomorrow and go see Captain Marvel because I literally can't look at ANYTHING on the web without seeing spoilers! I can't look at regular news, entertainment news, science news, tech news, or even Disney news! Seriously? Bloody hell people! Since when did the spoiler-verse get so bad? Remember when they used to at least start the titles of articles with "This article contains spoilers"? Now even the stupid titles have spoilers! I'm at a point now where it's hard for me to physically go anywhere at all except for work and home since I'm not in school anymore (probably worse than before I was in school), so going to the movies is NOT ideal for me right now, even with a friend (who, FYI, has already dropped a spoiler himself, the jerk!).

This couldn't come at a worse time, but I don't have a choice. I can't wait until Captain Marvel comes out on Blu-Ray because it is too close to Endgame for a BR release and, since Cap Marvel sets up Endgame, I'm stuck. How I managed to make it through Infinity War until the Blu-Ray was a bloody miracle, I won't get that lucky with Endgame. Every death will be plastered over every square inch of the web within minutes of opening night...ugh! If I'm going to lose Captain America, I need to see it for myself, not hear it spoiled, or else I'll be sitting there dreading every second instead of watching the movie. I'll deal with it if (or even when) the moment comes, although it might not (I'm still hopeful he'll get to just retire and someone else will die, at this point I don't care who, just not my Cap). No matter what happens in Endgame though, I know my 10 years of the Marvel-verse will be ending, so I'm not sure what that future will hold for me. It's hard enough for me to let things go (obviously), so it's going to be a rough "endgame" no matter how Endgame ends.

Maybe I need to find a good Avengers cross stitch project, something detailed with all the characters (while they are all still there). Hmmm...project! But I'll guess I'll have to wait until the posters come out for Endgame because there is no Hawkeye in Infinity War and I need Hawkeye!

UPDATE...well, that took all of five minutes, but I snuck over to Etsy and picked up a few patterns, Hawkeye or not:

A solo Cap, just coz...

And one I've have favorited for a while because it gave me a discount with the Infinity War one and I really love Vanellope!

My self control is about equal to my patience level...absolute zero!

Weekly Stitching and other things

Thanks guys (especially Linda) for the information about DoNa Stitches. I have all eleven, so I must be good. I probably will never get around to finishing them all anyway, but it's nice to know, even if she never comes back, I do have the complete set so far.

I also have to say R.I.P. to Luke Perry. 90210 wasn't my kind of thing (although I did watch it upon occasion), but I was a huge MOVIE Buffy fan (not the TV show...you guys knew I was weird, so I'm sure you're not shocked), so I've been a fan of his forever and I liked seeing him on Riverdale. I just hate it when the good die young and it makes me mad, especially when there are tons of horrible people running around out there suffering no consequences whatsoever. Fate is a horrible bitch. He shouldn't have been taken from us, but I am sorry for his family. He will be missed.

But anyway, back to our regularly scheduled program, I think I must have jinxed myself last week because, instead of ending up almost finished with Rapunzel like I planned, I instead ended up with a four-day migraine thanks to weather fluctuations from 70 degrees and heavy thunderstorms down to 15 last night and snow and ice on Sunday. Needless to say, I was lucky to get as far as I did, most of which was done Saturday and Sunday. I left off last week here, practically finished with row 2 and a job that should have taken less than a night:

But only finished the row this past Saturday night since I had three days with no stitching, one day with useless stitching, and when I could stitch again, it seemed like I was frogging everything I did stitch:

And here are the two together so far (and, ironically, it doesn't look like it, but this project is bigger than Snow and Charming):

I started row 3 and managed at least the first page and some of the second by Sunday night, but I'm ashamed to say that this is where I ended for the week, no where near finished:

I'd say the odds of me finishing this week are probably not good, but I'm going to give it the old college try (which, considering my college record, isn't setting the bar high). I apparently also was a row short when I gridded, so hopefully my count isn't off, but as of now, I can't really tell. It shouldn't be since I typically stitch from top to bottom, but the way this thing is going, I'm not counting my chickens in any direction!

Last weekend, in yet another effort to break my Once habit, I had an Avengers marathon. Last Sunday night got me through Civil War, but because of my headache, it took me the rest of the week to get through the other films that followed. Once I finished those, I finally decided to break down and watch Deadpool 2 (I've been putting it off), which lead to watching Logan (another put-off, but that ending had been spoiled by so many different sources, it didn't matter anyway) and then I decided to watch the X-Men films in order. Problem is, that series is a bear to find the right order to watch them in! I found website after website that listed numerous different ways to watch those films and none of them made sense, so I just watched them the way I wanted to. They definitely don't flow like the Avengers movies do, that's for sure.

Days of Future Past is still my favorite X-Men film and Wolverine: Origins is still my favorite stand-alone because of Gambit. I don't care what anyone says, Taylor Kitsch will ALWAYS be my Remy, no matter who ends up in a stand-alone Gambit film (if they ever make one...odds aren't looking good anymore). I'm really curious to see how the Fox/Disney merger affects the Avenger/X-Men merger as well and if timelines get straightened out better. Quantum Realms/alternate universes could explain X-Men continuity errors or the lack of mutants in the Avenger films altogether (although the Marvel shows don't seem to be shying away from mutants, even Agents of Shield, so I'm not sure what's going on there, but I'm several seasons behind on that one). Oh well, by Sunday night, I was back on Once anyway, so I guess it didn't matter in the end. Maybe, since Agents of Shield is on Netflix, I should start watching that. We'll see.