Feel the burn!
June 29, 2004 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsDH and I have started to lift weights loosely based on the Body for Life program. I would like to do it by the book, but “loosely based” is our compromise. I still need a way to get more cardio into my life, but I can’t figure it out with my busy schedule. So, last night was the upper body workout. I had skipped the last one because I had hurt my shoulder and could barely sleep, so I wasn’t even going to think about lifting! But it is better so I’m back on track. Last night I decided to up the weights I was using for most of the exercises. I had been using my little 5 pound weight and DH was using my adjustable dumbbell set. I used the adjustable set a while back for a couple of weeks and have determined that it is a big pain. So, I’m going the individual dumbbell route. I only had a pair of 5 pounders and then one 10 and one 15 pound. So, when we started last week or the weekend before, I just used the pair of 5 pounders I had lying around. Of course for some of the exercises it did absolutely nothing. So, I went out and got a pair of 10 pounders… and I used them for the first time last night… wow, I can feel it! I actually like the slightly sore feeling. It lets me know that yeah, I’m exercising. On a crafty front… last night I started stitching on an RR and realized that my careful planning wasn’t actually that careful. So, I spent the remainder of the evening using Pattern Maker to graph up the bands I’m going to do. Of the original 4 I had chosen, I think only two make it to the final selection. And for one of them I still have some planning to figure out. But it should look good (I hope). I’ve also decided what I’m going to knit with my first batch of homespun. I’m going to make the Sedona Spiral Vortex Bowl from this summer’s issue of Spin-Off. Now I just have to get spinning. I only have the one tiny skein I made a while back. I think I’m going to card up that little bag of scraps I got at MDS&HF in May to make it more varigated… or I could try more food coloring dyeing with the white stuff… decisions, decisions…
Stitcher’s Five
June 28, 2004 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments1. Do you take something new to stitch when you travel - a special travel stitching project? I don’t purposefully start a new project. But I don’t take my large project with me when I travel. So, if I don’t have a couple of small projects started, I’ll start something new! 2. Do you plan your trips around stitching shops? No. I do check to see if anything is around. But most of the time I’m traveling with family and I don’t want them to be super bored while I’m shopping. 3. Do you believe that if you cross state lines you MUST buy fibers? Err… no. I don’t buy many fiber normally, why would traveling be any different? 4. Where have you stitched? Well, besides my home state of Maryland and my current state of Virginia, I’ve stitched on the plane going to South Carolina, California, Hawaii and Taiwan. I’ve also stitching in Pennsylvania and Delaware. I think I might have stitched on the Metro heading into DC. 5. Do your friends/family bring you stitching related gifts when they travel? Well, my friends and family don’t travel much. I think the last gift I received from something who went on travel was when my mom went out west with my aunt about five years ago. So, no… I don’t get stitching related gifts from friends/family when they travel. Should I be scared? I’ve been asked to play a solo (oboe of course) at my church in August… I just started playing again last March after a… err… many year absence. I’m not sure if I’m ready to play a solo at church. But I figure even if I sound like an out of key dying duck that they will still think I’m great. So, it is a chance to get some experience with playing solos so when I’m ready to take some on with the band, I won’t be as nervous.
Woe is me!
June 24, 2004 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | No CommentsWow, it has a been a sad couple of days… First Sue went on vacation… and left me all alone for three whole weeks! Okay, we will still be in contact after she arrives in Florida. But since it is hard traveling with almost 4 year olds, they are taking two to three days to get there. So, no emails, no posts to our own little forum… for three whole days! I’ve now determined based on this experience and DH’s travel from last week, that it is no fun being the one left behind. And I’ve had to go to yoga by myself for the past two weeks! And next session we are in different yoga classes. I was the first to sign up, she was the second and there was only one opening in that class. And no stitching night tonight! Debbie is taking a summer class so she hasn’t been able to make it for the past month or so, and Cathy is busy tonight. But I think I’ll be going to Cathy’s (instead of Sue’s) the two following Thursdays. Then I got a new book on tape for the car and that is making me depressed (it is about a woman going through a divorce… not sure what happens after that). So, I’m sad and depressed and get home… to find a grumpy DH! I found out this morning that the reason he was grumpy was that just before I got home for yoga, he weighed himself and was not happy with the results. So, something light… The ABC’s of Jenni Act your age? No, I act my DH’s age (3 years younger) Born on what day of the week? Tuesday Chore you hate? You mean there are chores that people like? Dad
Stitcher’s Five and other things…
June 21, 2004 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments1. What was your first finished stitched piece? I did a weekender with a snowman and a bag of bird seeds and birds all over him. 2. What was the first piece you used beads on? I think it was TW’s Celtic Cross. Maybe not, I did a lot of new things my first six months of stitching and I can’t remember which was first. Or it could be TW’s Birth Announcment or the fob I made from the corner of Lady of Shallot. Or that small hardanger ornament I did had some beads… Would this be the first piece I started that had beads in the design, or what project I first stitched beads on? 3. What was the first piece you used blends on? Definitely Storyteller (not that it is finished or anything). 4. What was the first piece you used speciality stitches on? Again, that could be TW’s Birth Announcement or maybe the Celtic Cross… or maybe that hardanger ornament. 5. What was the first piece you stitched on evenweave or linen as opposed to aida? I know that one! It was the Dragon bookmark I made for DH. I wanted to try out over 2 before I started Birth Announcement. So, we had a good weekend. I started to clean up my craft room a bit. I got more storage boxes so everything can go into a box and look nicer. We stopped by Ikea before going to my cousin’s 18th birthday party (yummy Indian food). We picked up a bookshelf to get DH’s DVDs under control. I worked more on Night Flight. I was going to take a picture this morning, but I’m still in Night Flight mode and I’m not ready to put it down yet. I also went on a mad search this morning to find my passport and didn’t have time for pictures. I did find my passport… in the backpack I haven’t used since I went to Taiwan in Jan ‘03! But on Night Flight, I finished up sections 8 and 9 and started section 10… which I’ll have to frog tonight.
Friday Five
June 18, 2004 on 12:00 am | In Uncategorized | No Comments1. What is the creepiest everyday object you know? I can’t really think of anything that is an everyday object in *my* life that is creepy. 2. What’s the most useful everyday item? My car. Where would I be without it? Alone and hungry at home. I’d have to walk 6 miles to get to the grocery store and 25 miles to get to work. 3. What’s the most useless everday item? Well, I tend not to buy useless things, it would probably have to be something someone else bought for me. I don’t usually burn candles but I have a bunch that people have given me. They just sit around and gather dust. 4. If the power was out for 24 hours, what would you do? Well, I did got on a 4 day hike in the woods. So that was more than 24 hours without power, right? We hiked during the day, cooked by propane. Read and play games before going to sleep for the night. If I was at home. I would cook by propane. Read, stitch, or knit. Play some games with DH. And then go to sleep for the night. 5. If you had to have one item you use everyday surgically attached to you, what would it be, and why? My Swiss army knife. I’m lost without it! And since I missed them earlier this week… Stitcher’s Five 1. Is your DH/partner supportive of your stitching? Yes, he oohs and aahs over my stitching and even complains that I give everything away we have nothing on our walls (I solved that and put up Stretch and Above the Clouds). 2. Do you ever stitch in company? Yes, at least once a week at our Thursday get-togethers. 3. Been to a GTG (Get ToGether)? I’ve been to three MD/VA TWBB GTGs. I went to two TWBB dinners at CATS-Hershey. And I met up with TWBBers at a retreat at Myrtle Beach. 4. Does anyone complain about your stitching? Sort of. When I’m working thermal vacuum tests, it can get really boring watching data that is only collected every 2 minutes. So, I stitch. One of my co-workers now thinks I do nothing at work but stitch… and I don’t think he says this in a joking way. 5. Ever had a stranger comment on your stitching? Yes. I don’t tend to stitch in public much. But one semester I was taking two evening classes to finish up my Master’s. And since the school was an hour and a half from work/home, I tended to get there early most times. So, I would sit outside the class room and stitch. I always had people commenting as they walked by.
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