You Are Midnight

You are more than a little eccentric, and you're apt to keep very unusual habits. Whether you're a night owl, living in a commune, or taking a vow of silence - you like to experiment with your lifestyle. Expressing your individuality is important to you, and you often lie awake in bed thinking about the world and your place in it. You enjoy staying home, but that doesn't mean you're a hermit. You also appreciate quality time with family and close friends.

What Time Of Day Are You?

So now you know it :-)

So here is the latest piccie of my Queen! I haven't stitched much lately, I've been too busy rearranging wardrobes in my bedroom and I've also been busy in the kitchen, cooking stuff. It takes so much time I just can't get to stitching anymore. I do hope I can continue one of these days as my second page is almost finished!

I hope you like what you see so far!

TTFN!

Just another silly site asking you to draw a pig to find out about your personality. LOL
http://drawapig.desktopcreatures.com/
Enjoy. I'll be back later with the serious stitchings!

Well yes, finally I'm back again and there's a piccie of my WIP. I'm no quitter :-) I just didn't have the time to get to play with my computer much the last 2 weeks. And what's even worse is I didn't have much time to play with my Night Queen either!!! Yesterday evening I just managed to finish another 800 stitches which I had started with when my first page was finished. Just 800. Yuk, that's NOT much!

I intend to be stitching all this weekend! I just need to go to one shop in town in a wee bit to get me a pair of jeans I bought in the sales last Saturday. They had to shorten it so that's why I have to get back into town to get it.
I haven't stitched a lot due to being too busy buying stuff....lol. I mean, I learned how to cook a little while back, yes, you read it correctly, I just learned to cook and I'm 45 in 2 months....lol.... you gotta start sometimes don't ya...lol
I had so much fun that I did a bit more cooking on my own and bought pots and pans and other kitchenware.
There's also been the New Year reception at work that exhausted me a bit so that was another weekend "gone to the dogs".
When I get home from work during weekdays I have been too tired to stitch, so that's how come my work hasn't become much bigger.
Last Wednesday and Thursday I was home sick. I have a cold and it still isn't over but now I can manage it. When I was home I thought I'd be able to stitch.... yeah right.... I was feeling so awful I slept most of the time and didn't do zilch. I didn't even bother to turn on my computer. I just didn't feel like doing nothing at all!
But now I'm back into business. Going to get dressed, yes I'm still in my PJ's. Going to town to get my jeans and once back it's STITCHING time!!!!!

Raining cats and dogs here at the moment! Speaking of cats.... I'm babysitting my neighbours 2 cats at the moment. Felix and Zoë. Zoë is my Gina's mum. Anyways, I don't know what's happening but at the moment I have to scoop up brown stuff from the floors when I'm there. They have a litter box but don't use it much it seems! I think they are taking revenge as their owners aren't there!!! Getting fed up cleaning their mess though and one of them even peed on the floor too! Really great!!! I had to take a tin of food of my cats along too because there's nothing left for them and the owners are only coming back next Thursdays at the latest! I also empty the mailbox and I can't close the darn thing anymore, now it's going to rain inside the box and it will all be soggy mail they'll have. Think I'm going to put some duck tape across it when I get back later on to clean some more. I have to get back to clean as I hadn't even noticed 1 brown spot and it's sticking to the floor now. So I put some wet towel on it to get it loose. - Hope no one is eating whilst reading this - LOL
Getting back to work tomorrow so I am going to stitch more today! I won't have that much time anymore once I'm at work.... boohoohoo....sniff, sniff, sniiiirfff.... I'm gonna miss my Queen!!!!
Going to fiddle with my computer a bit now, grab something to eat and start stitching in a wee bit!
See you all laterzzz

I did it, I did it, I did it..... I finished the first page!!! The first 5200 stitches are done!!!! Only zillions more to go....lol

Am going to work in blocks of 10 x 10 stitches as of now as Them little non-stitched dots scattered all over the first part made me crazy.

Not much more to tell here. Getting dark outside, it's not too cold but there's a lot of wind and loads of rain at times.

TTFN!

Some silly stuff to play with today :-)
http://www.blogthings.com/
Enjoy :-)

Having a bit of a hangover. Being a civil servant is a hard job at times :-) Yesterday was the last working day of 2006 at the office so around 3PM we started drinking champagne and other stuff. We ended up in a pub and drank some more and now I have a headache! Don't know where I got that from....lol.

But I did manage to stitch more HAED! First page is almost finished. But I'm really struggling with these little dots that are not stitched yet. I have problems figuring out what colour they are on the chart. I think the next page I'm going to stitch 10 x 10 squares to avoid this from happening again!

Ahaaaaa... "My Sharona" - The Knack on my media player! One of my favourite songs for dancing!!!! Great rhythm. But not for tonight! Tonight it will be an early bed night and if there's anything good on TV I'll record in on a video and see it later on!

Bye for now and if I don't come back before next year.... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Well, like I said yesterday, it was back to work today. Not many burials today though. I was at the office and my boss was there too. And guess what.... we were both bored...LOL. We didn't feel like working so we didn't do that much. In the afternoon we sat in the kitchen with the lights out so people outside wouldn't spot us and I took out a bottle of red Porto and drank a glass. He didn't join me and neither did he take a glass of whisky, like he has been doing last week. He almost emptied a whole bottle of Chivas....LOL. No we aren't alcoholics, we are just bored at times :-)

And now I am sitting here and I have a small glass of Bailey's Irish Cream next to me, yum, yum, yum. The Corrs on my media player and everything is just perfect the way it is.

My eyes are itching from the neon lights at the office though and together with my Bailey's I am not going to attempt stitching tonight. Just relaxing and going to bed early.

I do want to phone a girlfriend whom I read the most horrible mail from this morning at the office. She sent it to me last Thursday afternoon but I was on holidays and I can't access my office mailbox from home.

Anyways, what happened was, she had a baby last Nov. 21st. and everything was fine. Now, last Dec. 11th. her boyfriend plainly announced her that he's leaving her for another woman. She's back at her parents place now and I can imagine she's going through hell! I replied to her mail at the office and told her I was going to phone her tonight, but now I've noticed the batteries of my phone are dead :-(

She, Véronique, is also a cross stitch addict who has a web page on the Internet. Some 3 years ago I was browsing and stumbled upon her page. I put a comment on it and since then we became friends.
I stitched this baby bear in a pram for her little baby girl and she likes it a lot. The shiny lace I put around isn't blue but white. It's just the camera flash that caused this colour change.

I just wish I could phone her now but I am going to mail her instead.

This is a scan I just took of my Night Queen. Yes, I know, some of you may think: "Wow, she's a quick stitcher". I can be that when I have my heart set on it, but unfortunately I have to get back to work tomorrow. Holidays are over and done with and waaaaay too short, as usual!

But, come to think of it, it will be weekend again soon and next week I have Monday and Tuesday off too (New Year remember). So my stitching will be a bit less over the next few days but than I'll speed up again, if nothing else needs doing first.

Oh boy, guess what I'm listening to on my Media player.... Eros Ramazotti "Se Bastasse una Bella Canzone. What a blast really... I mean I have a Punk and New Wave past and now this. Maybe it's because, when growing older, you get to appreciate more different stuff? Or maybe it's the first stage of dementia??? Who knows....lol