Re-Boot

Nothing like turning on the old PC and getting 2 consecutive dialog boxes warning that it "can't find user profile" and then we'll be logging  you on with a "generic profile".

Don't know what that's about, so I performed computer  magic and re-started and everything seems fine.

Phew!

I brought Garden Grew to S & B tonight and worked about an hour & a half:

I've got one more motif to the far right to reach the right side of the entire chart. YAY! I'm hoping to have some stitching time this weekend- maybe I can get all of page 5 done! Wouldn't that be grand?

Speaking of grand: Kentucky Derby is Saturday- put your best bonnet on and have yourself a julep. Right now, I think I want "I Want Revenge" based on the odds and his jockey has balls as big as coconuts, seeing as he's only 17 years old I think.

"Friesian Fire" is calling to me, too, I don't know why.

I've been super busy  this week. Plus reading. Another trip tomorrow morning to Boston for another load of stuff.

March Stocking #2:

Finished:

40 ct. linen w/suggested threads - WDW I think.

The fabric on the left is what I got to do that star.It's a pale blue, and I had Deb order me some blue Thread Gatherer silk, and I got some multi-hued blue beads as well. Photos another time.

Mr.Lawnmower started on the first pull yesterday, so I took that as a sign that I was destined to mow the lawn.

Intellectual Property- I think not!

Here are some pony photos I stole from Em:

 

I just noticed the flat cowboy in the background! HA HA!

Get with the Program!

Jeesh! I'm turning into the world's worst blogger. And I had all that new traffic from people googling "Sara Boyle" , even though I triple checked that it's "Susan Boyle".

Anyway, without further ado, here is my minute progress on Garden Grew:

It must be waiting for all those April showers to soak in.

Here's what I did last Thursday on the March stocking:

I'm a little bit more along than the mistake one. I just haven't had a stitchy appetite at lunch at work the past 2 weeks.

The dreaded exodus out of Boston is being planned. Her final regular classes are on April 30th. Then another 9 days of study & finals. That's a really short school year for $47000 a year.

Axe felt great tonight. I tried to keep going a bit longer even though my legs were like rubber bands.

LOST recap episode tonight.

TTFN

You know that Susan Boyle, new YouTube sensation?

Well this isn't about her...but rather, the checkout person I had at Walmart this morning. She was young, late teens, mmaaaaybe early 20's. And NO hair eyebrows. She was wearing makeup (foundation, eye shadow, mascara, etc.), nicely done, to a point at which I will soon arrive.

Now I was able to discern this by the few furtive glances I took to affirm what I was looking at. Her foundation was pleasingly matte, her complexion appeared flawless.

She may have even had some tinted lip gloss & blush; it was hard to tear my gaze from her lack of hair-ed eyebrows. Instead, she had drawn two 1/8 thick Snidely Whiplash (I know how old you are if you know who I'm talking about) curved lines, with a slight accentuation over the inner starting point. The lines were symmetrical and uniform, with no deviations or jiggidi-ness. They didn't seem to follow the natural curve of her brow at all, and were almost straight. Each brow, taken off her face, and taken individually, were PERFECT in of themselves.

Ahem....

Which is where we shall arrive at my point.

Not only did the lines not follow her natural brow, were too long for her brow, too skinny for her face, too unnaturally perfectly drawn upon her face....they were also almost touching each other over her nose!!!!! If you're going to the trouble to draw freeking facial hair over your eyes, is it necessary to tell you to NOT draw a uni-brow!!!!

This has been your daily dose of the bizarre.

It's All in the Details....

So I pulled out my second March stocking at work Wednesday, and it suddenly dawned on me that I had teanspoded (OK! I'm leaving that- my fingers were supposed to be typing "transposed" and I was even looking at the keyboard. This is how bad my typing is!!!!)the colors. As Homer says, "DOH!"

So here's my restart:

I was curious why the clovers were a tad dried out looking.....

Can you find the differences between these 2 photos?

       

That's right....not too much.

Jeanne brought in yummy orange bars, or, well, orange cream cheese frosting with some cake underneath to hold it. MMMM-MMmmm-MMMM!  It was difficult restraining myself from flinging my body across the container to barricade them from everyone else.

I wasted LOTS of  work time browsing thru the Online Needlework Show today. I had Deb order me this and this.                                          

Then today I found this, all of these, this could be easily altered to be Axe, this designer, and a few more various designs by various designers. I also found all the answers to the scavenger hunt, because I'm awesome that way.

Tax Day

A friend emailed this to me:

To All:
Today is Tax Day.
Remember to pay your taxes.
The following people are depending on you:
1. Illegal aliens.
2. Unwed mothers
3. Section 8 housing
4. Upside down mortgage holders with 2 SUV's and the 10 rm house.
5. Welfare recipients.
6. Disaster relief around the world.
7. Planned Parenthood
8. Politicians
9. Car Manufacturers
10. Banks
11. Insurance companies
12. Credit card companies
13. Mortgage companies
14. Lawyers
15. Drug dealers

Please feel free to add your own comments

16. Foreign Aid to countries that hate America
17. ACORN
18. Pension plans for Mass. toll takers and politicians

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Sorry to be such a crap-tastic blogger these days; I realized this morning we're half-way thru the month and I've only made 4 postings (not including this one). I've been very chronically challenged these days and I can't really figure out why. I know I'm spending a little more time at the barn (extra daylight & comfortable temperatures?), but not tons of extra time. I don't know what'll happen when I have to start mowing the lawn! Maybe I'll have to wear one of those flashlights on my forehead and mow in the dark.......