Looking forward to the weekend
I'm a bit silly-punchy right now due to being on the reception desk all day, so if I really go off on a strange tangent or don't sound quite sane (for me - be nice), that's why.
It's odd to know that there's a raging snowstorm coming up the East Coast that's going to absolutely bury some places in 20-30 inches of snow, yet in Rhode Island there isn't even a flake in the forecast. Amazing how these systems work. I'm so used to hearing the Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington, DC announcement on Amtrak as if the megalopolis is this continual, reasonably small area of land that sometimes it's easy to forget that no, it really isn't.
In any case, my mom will be in this storm, though not in the worst of it. I'll give her a call at some point to check in tomorrow.
My weekend should be fairly tame - I'm going to stitch all day tomorrow. Literally. Erich and Matt are off to play Dungeons & Dragons (well... a Star Wars campaign actually, but it's tabletop roleplaying...) all day. They'll probably leave sometime around 10 a.m., and I expect them home pretty late (10 or 11 p.m.). I'll have the house to myself.
So stitching's the plan - and lots of it. I'm going to be working on my Stitching Olympics rotation for The Wagon tomorrow. Unsure how many projects I'll actually stitch. The official turnaround is at 2 hours. I am going to stick to that as best I can, but I do tend to be a slow stitcher. 2 hours may not give me a lot of progress. Still, it will be good to put stitches in a bunch of things. I have UFOs that literally have not been touched since before my wedding. I'm using the Olympic challenges to form my rotations for the rest of the year, too. I want to figure out which projects are strongly appealing right now and which projects I have a reasonable chance at finishing at some point this year. As far as I'm concerned, the more I can clean off my list, the more new projects I can start. :) But now I have a healthy group of projects to choose from, so no more from me until a couple others are completed, I think.
I also became the moderator for the new 2010 UFO Round Robin over on The Worldwide Round Robins board today. Susan's a bit busy with work and other projects, and I was happy to jump in with the experience I have from years past in non-stitching exchanges. The RR's scheduled to have its first mailing on March 15th, so if anyone's interested in participating, pop over there, look for the 2010 UFO RR board (bottom of the page, currently) and drop me the info required. The more the merrier!
Time to go home soon, so I'm going to start tidying up around here before heading to the boat. (I drove to Hingham and took the ferry today)
Happy Friday!
It's odd to know that there's a raging snowstorm coming up the East Coast that's going to absolutely bury some places in 20-30 inches of snow, yet in Rhode Island there isn't even a flake in the forecast. Amazing how these systems work. I'm so used to hearing the Boston-New York-Philadelphia-Baltimore-Washington, DC announcement on Amtrak as if the megalopolis is this continual, reasonably small area of land that sometimes it's easy to forget that no, it really isn't.
In any case, my mom will be in this storm, though not in the worst of it. I'll give her a call at some point to check in tomorrow.
My weekend should be fairly tame - I'm going to stitch all day tomorrow. Literally. Erich and Matt are off to play Dungeons & Dragons (well... a Star Wars campaign actually, but it's tabletop roleplaying...) all day. They'll probably leave sometime around 10 a.m., and I expect them home pretty late (10 or 11 p.m.). I'll have the house to myself.
So stitching's the plan - and lots of it. I'm going to be working on my Stitching Olympics rotation for The Wagon tomorrow. Unsure how many projects I'll actually stitch. The official turnaround is at 2 hours. I am going to stick to that as best I can, but I do tend to be a slow stitcher. 2 hours may not give me a lot of progress. Still, it will be good to put stitches in a bunch of things. I have UFOs that literally have not been touched since before my wedding. I'm using the Olympic challenges to form my rotations for the rest of the year, too. I want to figure out which projects are strongly appealing right now and which projects I have a reasonable chance at finishing at some point this year. As far as I'm concerned, the more I can clean off my list, the more new projects I can start. :) But now I have a healthy group of projects to choose from, so no more from me until a couple others are completed, I think.
I also became the moderator for the new 2010 UFO Round Robin over on The Worldwide Round Robins board today. Susan's a bit busy with work and other projects, and I was happy to jump in with the experience I have from years past in non-stitching exchanges. The RR's scheduled to have its first mailing on March 15th, so if anyone's interested in participating, pop over there, look for the 2010 UFO RR board (bottom of the page, currently) and drop me the info required. The more the merrier!
Time to go home soon, so I'm going to start tidying up around here before heading to the boat. (I drove to Hingham and took the ferry today)
Happy Friday!