What To Do On A Saturday

This morning, Patrick and I were up earlier than usual. I played while I waited to have breakfast. I have my thyroid medication that I have to wait a half hour before eating anything. Sometimes I wait an hour. Depends on the day. 

Today, I waited, then Patrick left to get some papers shredded. They had a shredding day at the transit site. So, he and I cleaned out the file cabinet yesterday and today he took it all to be shredded. While he did that, I got moving with laundry. 

Then I was trying to decide what I wanted to do. 

 Decided to work on the cross stitching. I'm surprised at how much easier it was to work on it today. I was actually on track and didn't need to take any stitches out. That felt good to know! 

I worked on getting the left side done to the top of the folded pattern. I then started working on the beard. It's coming along great now. I've gotten it so I can follow the directions better than I could yesterday. I even worked on it a few hours. I believe I was able to get about 400 stitches done today. Felt good to do that. 

Then after supper, decided to enjoy my games. They keep my mind off of real life at times. Patrick had an issue come up and now we are waiting to hear from one of his many doctors. I'm hoping it isn't serious, but that way things go, it could be. He's on it, and I'm just going to go for a ride. What happens, happens. 

Cancer isn't something we can "deal" with. It has it's ups and downs. I try to stay even along the way. When the times comes, I will probably break down. Till then, I'm trying to keep on open mind and go with what happens. Patrick is doing better than most. He's positive and he's working hard to enjoy his time. We talk from time to time, but he wants to keep a lot of it bottled. When we have talked for about 20 mins, then he says, "Okay, that enough of that talk, talk about something else." or "Please, let's not talk about it." I do get teary eyed when the "C" word is mentioned. Who can't. I feel for all those children that have it, because they are way to young. Patrick would have handled it better if he was 70 years old. But he's not. So, we move on. 

Think Positive, Live Positive, and hope for the best. We will see - at least I have time to take a deep breath and be Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

Getting Back To Meetings

 This morning, Patrick left for Olympia and I headed to moms for quilting. And yet, I didn't quilt. I arrived early and she needed me to order some clothes for her. She can't remember her sizes, so I ordered the size she thought she needed. Wonder if those will be going back. I did go get gas and drinks for mom and I before I got there.  

There was only 4 of us today. We decided not to do a lunch, but to snack on the stuff that was brought. Mom worked on her quilt, Nancy and Carmen on their quilts. I just played games on my tablet. I needed to be on at 10 am, so just stayed on. They left earlier than we normally do, and I was glad to be able to leave sooner than normal. 

Came home and worked on my cross stitching. But I ended up taking out as much as I put in. 

I was working on the beard up by the red. I ended up taking it out at least 3 times. I kept making the mistake of going too far on the material, giving myself a BIG "x" or a sloppy "x" or even too small. So, I pulled the magnifier and had to work with that. I had a big mess. Then I called it done. I will try again tomorrow. 

Patrick got us some ice cream and Sophie went to her feeding dish. lol 

Lately, she goes to her dishes when we eat. She was giving Patrick that look to feed her. It's so funny!! This isn't the first time. She just started doing this! It's so funny Patrick and I talk about her and she gives us this look. 

The good thing is that I'm still working at being Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

It's 2025 - And I'm Still On Track

 Today I thought it was Friday, so I got up and was ready to go out the door to moms. Patrick looked at me and said, "Where are you going?" I said to moms. Then he said, "Why? It's not Friday." So, I took my coat off and put my keys away. I was so messed up! 

I was asked if I wanted to take over someone else's castle that was at the highest level. I said I did, so I was able to get it transferred to me.  I was surprised at some of the stuff that wasn't done. But that makes it more fun for me. I will be working on upgrading it and then I will get a higher spot with everyone else. I'm still working my lvl 20 castle, but having a lvl 34 is even better. lol 

We went shopping this afternoon. Wanted to get a few things that we needed. It felt good to get out. Picked up a few things for tomorrow as well. 

Came home and decided I needed to get back on my cross stitch and stop playing games. 

I got to work on the left side. I took out some gold because I made a "x" too big. Then I started working on the red area up above. I added some white and found I put the tan and off white stitches in the wrong place. I'm going to leave them and try to get back on track as I go. It's just 1 stitch over, so who is going to know, unless you took the pattern and checked that way. I hate it when I do that. Most of the time I take it out, but this had too much done that I decided it's staying. That's when I called it done for the night. I will try and get it straightened out tomorrow. If I can. 

We are meeting at moms tomorrow for quilting. I really don't know why I go, since I really don't work on much, other than mom's BOM. I should start working on my own BOM but haven't gotten there yet. I also should work on the white on white quilt that needs quilting. BUT I need to finish this first!! I keep telling myself that!

Life is good, this year is good (so far), and I'm ready to keep going day by day. That's why I like being Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

I was woken a couple times with fireworks. lol - We called it a night early. I was listening to an audio book and playing games till about 11 pm. Then called it a night. 

Was sorry to hear there was terror at the big gatherings.  Makes you wonder what life is coming to. 

I went walking 7 laps around the neighborhood. It felt good to get out and walk. Patrick went to meet with his golfing buddies to find out what is going on with the golf course. I guess they are raising prices, stopping yearly passes, and fixing things up. Which means they are going to out price themselves when everyone goes to another golf course. Patrick's group is talking about going up to Tumwater to golf. Plus they said a couple groups that were regulars haven't been showing up. Be interesting to see where that goes with the new owners. 

I decided to work on my cross stitching today. I'm a determined to get this done. I have quilting at moms, so I probably won't be taking it with me to work on. 

I did have to work on my magnifier when working on the white, tan and off white. I get off on my stitches and end up taking it out to fix it. I did that a couple times today. I did work more on the green and then work on the gold. I'm getting there. I found the gold was a little easier to work with. But I did get off on that too, and took some of that out as well. That gold is a staff. I got a lot of the beard done as well. I'm thinking of moving over to the right side and working there, but decided I can work from the left just as easily. 

I am praying this year is better than last year. 2024 wasn't a good year for us. If we can just get through this year without too much bother, it would be wonderful. Patrick's Birthday is the 25th, so let's hope we can get there without too much bother. lol 

After supper I was playing on my tablet. So, I didn't get back to working on this, as much as I wanted to. But that's okay, I was at least Happy Stitching/Happy Quilting!