Me, Myself, and I -- Post One Too!

Since Kelly asked so nicely....;)

1. What time did you get up this morning?

12:30 pm

2. Diamonds or pearls?

Diamonds

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?

Mamma Mia

4. What is your favourite TV show?

Good Eats

5. What do you usually have for breakfast?

Chocolate Malt Ovaltine

6. What is your middle name?

Lynn

7. What food do you dislike?

Not big on beef liver

8. What is your favourite CD at moment?

Black Rebel Motorcyle Club (BRMC) - Baby 81

9. What kind of car do you drive?

Honda Civic

10. Favourite sandwich?

Arby's Chicken Salad

11. What characteristic do you despise?

Deception

12. Favourite item of clothing?

A really good bra. :D

13. If you could go anywhere in the world on vacation, where would you go?

Amsterdam or Paris

14. Favourite brand of clothing?

Lane Bryant

15. Where would you retire to?

No clue

16. What was your most recent memorable birthday?

None

17. Favourite sport to watch?

Football!!

18. Furtherest place you are sending this?

No clue

19. Person you expect to send it back first?

Who knows?

20. When is your birthday?

March 9

21. Are you a morning person or a night person?

Night

22. What is your shoe size?

7.5US

23. Pets?

Two dogs and one cat

24. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share with us?

Nope

25. What did you want to be when you were little?

Doctor

26. How are you today?

Still sleepy

27. What is your favourite sweets?

Ice Cream (French Vanilla)

28. What is your favourite flower?

White Roses and Daffodils

29. What is a day on the calendar you are looking forward to?

March 27 (DH's birthday...he hates getting older and I love rubbing it in LOL)

30. What is your full name?

Aleyna Lynn Fair

31. What are you listening to right now?

BRMC - Baby 81

32. What was the last thing you ate?

A Nature Valley Nut Bar

33. Do you wish on stars?

Sometimes

34. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?

Royal Blue

35. How is the weather right now?

I haven't looked outside yet. ;)

36. The first person you spoke to on the phone today?

DH

37. Favourite soft drink?

Pepsi

38. Favourite restaurant?

Melting Pot and every Brazilian steakhouse I've been to.

39. Real hair colour?

Light/medium brown

40. What was your favourite toy as a child?

My Little Ponies

41. Summer or winter?

Fall!

42. Hugs or kisses?

Hugs

43. Chocolate or Vanilla?

Vanilla

44. Coffee or tea?

Tea

45. Do you want your friends to Post you back?

Yep

46. When was the last time you cried?

Day before yesterday

47. What is under your bed?

One of my dogs

48. What did you do last night?

Worked

49. What are you afraid of ?

Loss

50. Salty or sweet?

Salty

51. How many keys on your key ring?

4

52. How many years at your current job?

Two

53. Favourite day of the week?

Monday (Only full day off from work)

54. How many towns have you lived in?

8

55. Do you make friends easily?

I don't think so

56. How many people will you send this to?

Anyone who reads my blog

57. How many will respond?

No clue

To Be or Not To Be?

I'm not sure if I should be proud of this or not?

70% Geek

Created by OnePlusYou - Free Dating

Cat's Out of the Bag

Well, the cat's out of the bag re: Monopoly. I got up this morning when DH did and started stitching when he left. He wasn't supposed to come home!!! But, of course, he did. :( And saw what I was stitching. :(( He was surprised and gratified to see me stitching it. At least now I can add it into my regular rotation for stitching and don't have to try and find time to sneak on it. LOL

I worked on Blue Moon Faery some this weekend. I've gotten about 800 stitches done in it so far. Of course, the picture has turned out blue/green. LOL It is stitched on 28 ct Antique White evenweave.

I really like this one. When it is done it will look like:

Needless to say, I've got quite a bit of stitching left to do. LOL


In non stitchy news, I've been to the doctor. I gave him a list of about 20 problems I've been experiencing.

• Constant Headache. I cannot remember the last time I did NOT have a headache. The strength varies, but they are always there.
• Tightness/Pain in Neck, Shoulders, Back
• Pain in most major joints (shoulders, elbows, knees, hips) and minor as well (fingers/toes)
• Weakness in limbs. Sometimes fine and then comes on suddenly
• Loss of feeling in extremities (both hands and feet)
• Jaw pain from TMJ and grinding teeth
• Inability to gain rest no matter how long I sleep
• Dizziness
• Lightheadedness
• Sudden chest pains. Usually located on the left side of the chest between breast and sternum.
• Stiffness (all day, but especially upon waking)
• Shortness of breath/inability to catch a full breath without pain
• Cold hands/feet
• Sudden dull pain under rib cage on both sides
• Loose stool/diarrhea after many meals. Same occasionally even if having not eaten
• Depression worsening
• Vacillating between no appetite and inability to get full
• Hurts to blink sometimes
• Occasional blurred vision
• Soreness in arms

We decided to change my anti-depressant and work out from there. We switched me from Zoloft (which worked well the first time I took it) to a new one called Pristiq. He told me it was fast acting, but I didn't think he meant I would be able to tell a difference in less than 24 hours! And I have. Things are much much better right now. I am still having some of the symptons listed, but no where near as many. And for that I am very very very glad. :D

I also fell at work on Saturday night. I was walking down the stairs and missed one (I think) and fell down the last 3 or 4 steps. I didn't twist my ankles or hurt anything but my feet. It seems like I bruised my right foot and twisted my left big toe. Both are still quite sore today, but they are better.

Movie Quotes

I stole this from another blog I read. :) Have fun, and good luck!!

1. Pick 15 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions.
5. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.


1. She's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.

2. There's nothing more irresistible to a man than a woman who's in love with him.

3. Don't mess with the bull, young man. You'll get the horns.

4. The video arcade is down the street. Here we just sell small rectangular objects. They're called books. They require a little effort on your part, and make no bee-bee-bee-bee-beeps. On your way please.

5. Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do. -- Kathy in OC -- Princess Bride

6. I want you to round up every vicious criminal and gunslinger in the west. Take this down.
I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists. -- Kathy in OC -- Blazing Saddles

7. The Lord, the Lord Jehovah has given unto you these fifteen...
[drops one of the tablets] Oy! Ten! Ten commandments for all to obey! -- Kathy in OC -- History of the World Part I

8. "No visible tattoos." "No revealing clothing." "We're both screwed. At least you're used to it"

9. An unhappy alternative lies before you. Your mother will never see you again if you do *not* marry Mr Collins, and *I* will never see you again if you *do*.

10. Where are you going? To him? To be a whore to a gutter rat? "I'd rather be his whore than "your wife.

11. Oh, come on, ladies. God wouldn't have given you maracas if He didn't want you to shake 'em. -- Lou -- Dirty Dancing

12. That's a B. It's the first letter of a seven-letter word that means your late father.

13. My sister's the actress, mother. And I'm *not* a cheap stripper. I'm the highest-paid in the business.

14. Teriffic. I'm about to get killed a million miles from nowhere with a gung-ho iguana who tells me to relax.

15. A toll is a toll, and a roll is a roll. And if we don't get no tolls, then we don't eat no rolls. I made that up.

ALQ Update

There hasn't been as much progress on this one (or any of projects) as I wish there had been. I've been taking this one to work to work on. Since I only get 20 min breaks, it is a great piece to work on. I can to all the borders without a pattern because they are all the same.

I've done a little bit of work on my Blue Moon Faery, but even that isn't really enough to take a picture of. BoInk hasn't had any progress made on it, and neither has Monopoly. I think when (if) I ever finish ALQ I'll start taking Monopoly to work. Then I don't have to worry about DH finding it. LOL

Pattern Wishlist

I spent a good portion of the evening tonight looking at patterns and making up a wishlist. I love do that and hate it at the same time. I already have more charts than I know I will ever stitch. In fact, I think I am going to go back through them and weed out some. I can send them off as RAKs to people on a couple of my groups. That way at least someone will hopefully get some enjoyment in them. :)

Anyway....if you want to see what kind of things made it to my wishlist you can see them here.

In other news, I was woken up this afternoon (remember I get off work at 10am on Sat and Sun) by the sound of my house falling apart. Not really!! But the thunder was so loud and cracking that I thought the ceiling had fallen in somewhere at first. I laid in bed for a minute before I realized that it was storming very very very badly. Apparently right over my house! LOL! I could hear that one of my dogs was hiding in the bathtub because she couldn't get into the bedroom and under the bed. The poor scared thing! As soon as I opened the bedroom door she scooted for the bed and hid. The other one wouldn't leave my side. Thankfully the storm ended less than an hour later.

Update

Well, I've gotten all my ornament stitched. All I have left to do is make it up into an actual ornament. LOL

I also started on Monopoly. I've gotten most of the GO square done. I don't have a picture of that one. DH came home before I could get a photo of my progress done. I'd take one now, but he's asleep. And knowing my luck he'd wake up as soon as I spread it out. LOL.

I also got a little work done on BoInk and ALQ. Neither of which deserved a photo so I didn't take one. I've been taking ALQ to work to work on it there, but haven't been doing much. The reason is because I'm also taking a book. Books are my kryptonite. That's all there is to it. :(

Christmas Ornament

Well, this weekend I spent all my stitching time working on my ornament for the ILCS Blind Ornament Exchange. Everyone stitches an ornament, we all send them to one of the moderators, and then she sends an ornament to everyone that sent one in. I've gotten all the stitching done except the border (still not sure if I'll do it yet) and the backstitching. The pattern was a freebie offline and didn't have the floss numbers for the backstitching, I'm going to have to make it up as I go along. :( Hopefully it will turn out alright. I am still not sure exactly how I am going to finish it either.

Still using the camera phone. Now you have your choice...green or blue. ;) lol






I haven't begun my Monopoly piece yet. As far as I know, Steve (DH) still doesn't know that I am going to be working on it. I will probably start next weekend if I get the ornament done. I figure I'll work on BoInk and BMF while he's up and then Monopoly Sunday and Monday after he goes to bed.

One More Start

Well, it's not a start yet but it soon will be. I am finally going to start work on Monopoly...just like my DH has been bugging me for years to do. LOL The thing is, I'm going to try and keep it secret from him. Not sure how well that is going to go, but I've got to try. I've signed up for the Monopoly SAL on Yahoo! Groups. I'm hoping that it will motivate me to keep me going. I'm really wanting to get this done for Christmas and if not that at least for DH birthday in March.

I've also started a BAP for myself. I've started Mystic Stitch's Blue Moon Faery I'm not sure how I can NOT do this. It combines several of my favorite things into one beautiful work of art: Blues, Fairies, and Owls. Just about the only thing missing is a book. LOL I don't have any pics of this one. I just hate taking pictures with that phone camera. It makes everything look nasty. I don't have a flatbed scanner or I'd use that.

I've only gotten about 250 stitches or so done on her and all the blues would never show up without a good picture.

One door closes...another one opens. :)

I have decided to give up on the Marquoir. I've tried for several days now to get back into it and I just can't do it. I think the piece is beautiful, but I don't think it is for me.

So...I decided to cut off the bit I had stitched on and immediately start work on a new piece. I've joined Ink Circles Mystery SAL, Book of Ink Circles aka BoInk. I've picked out my colors and started. Once again the picture quality is lousy. Please forgive. :)

Edited to add: The fabric is a 32ct dove grey. The DMC I think I will be using are 820, 413, 797, 550, 3818, 340, 3750, 518. I'm a little concerned about a couple of the colors, so I might still change one or two of the colors that I haven't used yet.

My progress so far (1 day)



A close up of the corner kitty