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This and that

Posted in Health, Recipe, Stitching on January 26, 2011 | 3 Comments »

It was movie night again last night. We saw The Green Hornet. Neither of us was expecting it to be as funny as it was and we enjoyed it.

I’m continuing to do well on Weight Watchers. It’s so easy right now that it scares me! I’m have a really good time with new recipes and have started following some healthy blogs. Melissa got me interested in Shrinking Jeans and I’ve found myself commenting over there a few times over the past couple of days. I’ve even signed up for their Power of 1 challenge. Yikes!

New recipe to try tonight. Tarragon Chicken and Kalamata Barley. Recipe and review tomorrow.

No stitching this week, but there’s always hope for tonight since I need to do some laundry and that seems to be my favorite stitching time 😉

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The Princess and the Frog, and a new recipe

Posted in Recipe, Stitching on January 17, 2011 | 4 Comments »

I thought I would get Summer Queen finished up (the stitching portion) this weekend but the frog came to visit in a big way. I ended up having to frog almost her whole face. 😦 I was so upset that I couldn’t bring myself to stitch on her anymore once I discovered it (Thursday evening). Friday M and I went out to eat and it was late when we got home, so no stitching then either. I woke up early Saturday morning and spent a whole hour frogging her. Then I hit the shower, packed a bag and my car and took off up north.

I spent Saturday afternoon/night and Sunday morning with Melissa. I had originally intended on staying last weekend but those of you that follow her blog/facebook know she had a 13 hour day at work last Saturday. She had offered to help me with some computer issues (which I’ll talk about later).

I got there around lunch and she made us the best lunch! I re-joined Weight Watchers right before they made their big change and let me tell you I have never been so happy while trying to lose weight! It’s fun! And it’s even more fun when you’re around someone who’s as enthusiastic about it as you are. I think we spent the better part of our time together talking about cooking and Weight Watchers! Dinner was excellent too!

After dinner, and when we were thoroughly stumped by a computer issue, we headed over to Target to pick up a few things. One of the things I wanted was a cookbook she owned that had WW recipes in it. I made one of those recipes (Greek-Style Shrimp Saute) for dinner tonight and it was a success. 5 points per serving. The recipe in the link calls for 1 1/2 oz Feta. The WW book calls for 1/3 cup. I used non-fat instead of reduced fat Feta. Since it was served over orzo in the photo (no mention of that in the recipe) I went ahead and served it that way as well. There are a couple of things I made note of for next time:

Use shrimp that don’t have a tail. Make sure your shrimp is completely thawed (I realized mine wasn’t after I started cooking it and had to drain it). Find something else to serve it over besides orzo.

Using my WW scale I measured out 4 oz of orzo to cook since 2 oz is a serving. After it was cooked, and I weighed my portion, it came to 10 points. Now that wasn’t disasterous for me at this point because I have a lot of points left over today, but in the future that won’t continue to work. I’m going to grab a spaghetti squash tomorrow on the way home from work and try that. I can see you not serving it over anything and just adding some sides. It really tasted good to me.

Now back to those computer issues.

I will be moving my blog in a couple of weeks. I’ve already set it up (well, Melissa has already set it up) after much hair pulling, cussing, and nashing of teeth! 😆 I need to take care of something through my internet provider before I feel comfortable dropping this one.

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Speaking of giveaways

Posted in Giveaway on January 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

Right before the holidays, Kim, at Threadheads Unite!, had a giveaway and I was the lucky winner! The link above is to the post where she showed the wonderful folk art print that has Noah’s Ark on the bowl. I immediately knew that I wanted it for my “bible” wall I have planned. I have several Adam and Eve charts that I’ve been holding on to and they will be great with this picture (which I swiped from Kim’s site since her photo skill far outweigh mine!)

Thank you Kim for a great giveaway. I almost live for Thursdays to see what treasures you share with us.

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Giveaway winner

Posted in Stitching on January 12, 2011 | 2 Comments »

I took the scientific method of declaring the winner by asking M to pick a number “1 through 6.” I didn’t even tell him why. His answer….”6.” So Bine since you commented sixth, you are the winner! Please email me and give me your address. Email address over there >>>>>>>

Thanks for participating ladies. I am going thru my stash and will have more.

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The weekend is here!!!

Posted in Life, Stitching, Work on January 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »

My holiday from work ended up lasting another half day. It was very hard for me to go to work but I did. Of course my desk was a disaster when I got there….notes, scattered papers, new discovery requests, a new case file, all the little things that make me crazy because they all need to be done, all take up time I feel I could be doing BIG things, and all create more work in the end once they make themselves back to me. It used to not aggravate me like it does now.

My roof has been repaired. The hole inside has been covered with a lovely clear plastic bag surrounded by metallic silver tape, and the tree in my backyard is now minus a huge limb that used to hang over the back roof. No telling when the hole will be properly repaired. We’re still waiting on a bit of drying out, I think.

We also had the cable people out yesterday afternoon. M was home for that though since I don’t understand that type of stuff. We have a new DVR box, and all of our ‘outlets’ and the ‘home port’ has been upgraded. This is supposed to mean faster internet, among other things. I’ve also been added to the account so hopefully I can get our master email account reset and I can get back into A Needle Pulling Thread so I can suck it into this blog.

Today is the first all day stitchy Saturday at Needlepoints, Ltd. It will be so nice to see the girls. There’s always so much going on there and we usually spend the day laughing most of it away. I am going to be working on my needlepoint all day. Hopefully I’ll be able to add some new stitches that have been drawn out.

I’m also going to be spending the night with Melissa. She has graciously agreed to help me with some computer issues. I’m going to take Summer Queen with me — in case there is stitching tinme — since it will be hard for me to work on the needlepoint piece at her place. I am so close to finishing!

I truly have my stitching mojo back. It’s all I think about. It has been about 2 years, if not more, since I’ve felt that way.

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TUSAL 2011

Posted in TUSAL on January 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »

I have officially joined the 2011 TUSAL. I am #164 on the list. I love that list! I get to meet all kinds of new stitchers just because of a piece or three of snipped string!

I have posted the dates the photos are due in my column to help me remember to post photos. Here’s my very first 2011 TUSAL photo.

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2011 Stitching and a Giveaway

Posted in Challenges, Stitching on January 3, 2011 | 9 Comments »

Happy 2011 to everyone! I cannot believe it’s a new year already. The week between Christmas and the 1st went by way too fast for me. I thoroughly enjoyed my staycation.

I cooked; cleaned; rearranged (can’t find anything in my dressing area right now); filled a 36 gallon trash bag full of clothing from M and I (I have 10 empty hangers!) and tupperware for Goodwill; shampooed M’s office and the living room; got my nails done twice; played with the puppies; watched a whole bunch of football; cleared my DVR; watched a man cut a 18×6″ hole in the ceiling of my kitchen (which now has a beautiful orange “homer” bucket sitting under it); cleaned up THAT mess; and stitched, stitched, stitched.

Notice anything missing? I didn’t pick up my Kindle a single time! Didn’t even think about it and because of that I am thisclose to finishing the stitching portion of Summer Queen.

I finalized my 2011 Challenge list (see the tab up top). It’s a mix of the different challenges that are going on in the blogosphere, i.e. new starts, UFOs, ornaments, etc.

M is reconfiguring the hard drive on my CPU. I cannot wait! I also have a notebook and have used it exclusively while on vacation. He also bought me an external hard drive so I’m working a little at a time moving photos around and trying to get ready to ‘updo’ my webpage.

It’s pouring here again today. We did a bit of driving around over the weekend looking some of the flood damage from the past weeks’ storms. As much debris as we’ve seen one week later we cannot imagine what some of those same places looked like while covered with running water. We are expecting more rain through tomorrow and maybe again on Friday. Nothing can be done about our roof (or the hole in our ceiling) until the rain goes away for an extended period of time and our attic can dry out. Sigh.

Now to the giveaway. Back when Carriage House Samplings announced they were shutting down forever and ever and ever (yeah, right 🙄 ) I went on the search for several patterns. One of the places I ordered from took forever to even acknowledge my order and when they didn’t get back to me after I followed up with an email I placed another order at another online place that immediately shipped to me. Of course the first place mailed out to me almost on the same exact day I placed the second order so now I have two copies of this: