Spring is Coming...

I'm sitting here with my front door open looking out at the woodpecker on the Peanut Feeder my mother made to greater enhance my love of watching the birds. My eyes are tired but I am enjoying the quiet while I have it.
I just added my Shelfari bookshelf to the blog, since I find myself spending a lot of time absorbing books as of late. I just picked up River Marked when I got off work Friday and finished it this afternoon, with 4 more books lined up and waiting for me to pick them up. I am really enjoying all the reading I have been getting in as of late. I completed 100 books last year. My goal this year is to at least break that total. I am well on my way sitting at 27 as of today. I have the 4 paper books waiting for my attention, but yet another 8 waiting in the wings on audio book. Audio book is a pretty nifty little convenience that I didn't think that I would really like and have avoided for quite a long time. I am glad I got over myself! What a wonderful thing to be able to multitask, cross stitching and yet losing myself in the realm of whatever novel is being smoothly read to me. Ahhh, how I remember the days when I would pop in a movie I had seen a bi gillion times just so my mind would be occupied as I worked on my craft, not needing to look at the screen to know exactly what was happening. My Cross Stitch Movies I lovingly named them. Now with the expansion of my acceptance to audio books, I have a fresh and new way to tend to my love of books, yet love of cross stitch, and the ability to multitask them both.
Finals week is over and so the weight of exams has left my shoulders. A very short break will grace me before I start another quarter carrying two classes. I can however look beyond that to the next quarter where I will finally get to take an entire quarter off, which I have to say is well overdue. I have been going 6 quarter straight and am in need of.... a brain break.
Coming soon is the Coding Conference that I will get to enjoy in Long Beach California. It will be my first time to the State but I am ready for the warmth after the Ohio weather we have gotten to enjoy.
I picked up one of my larger cross stitch pieces again. It had been sitting for about a year now since frustration overwhelmed me and I thought it wise to put it out of my sight before I could no longer contain the notion to scrap the whole project. Working on it for the past 3 months now and I have to say, I'm glad I had the forethought to do that. It is turning out to be a pretty nice piece that I will be proud to display. As is the way of many of my larger cross stitch projects. It is of a Tree Peony in the same color scheme as the Rose project posted here on the blog. The water droplets are really starting to pop.
Ok, so I am off to listen to my awaiting audio book and start back on my Peony. Lets see how far I get tonight.

I've been keeping busy...

I have been keeping very busy... I have been concentrating on my Christmas ornament cross stitches. I make ornaments for each of my co-workers. 12 total are needed, I have 4 completed. I found a cute pattern for a bookmark of cariole crayons. I liked it so much I have made more than one. I plan on making some bookmarks for the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital donation... in my spare time ~giggles~


I went to the National AAPC Coding Conference in Jacksonville Florida. I had a great time and enjoyed all the sessions I was able to partake. Although I got a cold, I made it through. We next drove to North Carolina to the Outer banks. Where I of course forgot to put sunscreen on the top of my feet and accomplished obtaining a second degree burn with blisters. When I do it, I do it good! I’m still healing, but I can wear shoes now! Vacation was exhausting...

Classes start back up for Summer Quarter Friday. I’m taking an accounting course, one of those prerequisites to get started in my program of study. After last quarter, I'm happy to report, my GPA hit a 3.56

I love cross stitch QOTD...

Which project are you most proud of?

This would have to be the rose with a butterfly cross stitch I finished. It is the one I'm most proud of for a couple reasons... It frustrated me so many times I had to keep walking away from it, so the fact I finished it was an accomplishment in and of itself. It was also the first project I have done for myself. It was completed in 2000, and for the 10+ years of cross stitching prior to that, I had spent it making items for everyone else. Friends, family, anyone... I saw this pattern book and fell in love with this design. I have since completed 3 of the 4 flower designs in the book. The latest one is posted below... I will have to take a photo of the other one I finished, I see it on my wall, but nothing electronically I can post. Hmmm.

Eragon

Have you read this book?

I watched the movie and fell in love with it. I didn't even know there was a book out. As soon as I found out I was at the library. I just finished it a week ago and I will have to say it was much better than the movie. I dont normally read a book once I have seen the movie, my bad. This book captivated me, the pages couldnt turn fast enough, I cursed my slow reading skills. If you get the chance, take this novel out for a spin and dont let the thickness of the book scare you, its worth it, and it goes quickly.

2009

I finished this one near the end of 2009.

Blogs

Im not sure about this whole blog thing.. But seemed a good way to at least showcase/post my cross stitch projects as I finish them. I havent worked on alot lately, but I plan to get back at it soon. I suppose I will also post pictures of my boxers as they are too cute not to at least show now and then. I have been doing alot of reading, so to mention books I have read would probably be a good thing too. Right now Im in Theatre and Don Juan (general education courses, suppose to add culture to my life and required by my Major) phft. Im not sure I am liking them yet. I dont know much about plays, but I am going to be reading alot of them it seems. But alas this will take me from my entertainment reading material. (Although I am slipping in Eldest by Christopher Paolini). I guess we will see where this new blogging adventure takes me.. Maybe I just delete it after a year and I find no worth in it???