Enemy of Entropy

SBQ, Heat, Cell Phone

4 January 2008, 9:51 pm. 3 Comments. Filed under Home, Needlework.

It’s been a while since I answered one of the Stitch­ing Blog­gers Ques­tions. This week’s is
Are you start­ing some­thing new to cel­e­brate the New Year or par­tic­i­pat­ing in “Guilt Free Jan­u­ary?” If so, what are you plan­ning on starting?

I had to go look up “Guilt Free Jan­u­ary.” Appar­ently, it refers to some prac­tice of declar­ing that no mat­ter how many WIPs1 you have, you can start new projects in Jan­u­ary with­out feel­ing guilty about it. It’s prob­a­bly an RCTN2 ref­er­ence, but it’s been a while since I kept up with the news­group.

cp35c.jpgI just don’t know. I haven’t made much progress at all on my cur­rent WIPs3 in so long that it seems truly ridicu­lous to start any­thing new. On the other hand, there have been times when start­ing some­thing new that I’m excited about has renewed my enthu­si­asm for stitch­ing in gen­eral. I do have sev­eral new pieces, although I’ve been fairly good about not buy­ing too many new pat­terns in the last year or two. Liz Turner Diehl’s Choco­late Wish Sam­pler is ter­ri­bly cute, and it has been sit­ting here look­ing at me for months, just wait­ing for me to break down and buy the fab­ric and fibers to start it.

I really need to get a mag­ni­fier for my Ott Lite before I start any­thing new, though, because oth­er­wise I’ll prob­a­bly just get more frustrated.

And yes, the heat is back on! The main­te­nance guy came in and fixed the fur­nace today, for real. Yay!

Oh — if any­one has tried to call or text mes­sage me lately, I’m not ignor­ing you. My (nearly new!) cell phone fell into my cof­fee mug some­how over the hol­i­day. I’m still not sure how I man­aged that lit­tle act of grace, but the fresh hot mug of Suisse Mocha killed the phone very effi­ciently. Thank heav­ens for cell phone insur­ance! The insurer had a back­o­rder on the only decent model they’re offer­ing at the moment, though, so I’ve been phone-​​less for a bit. I should have the new phone Mon­day or Tuesday.

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2 rec.crafts.textiles.needlework

3 Geez, even my WIP page is way out of date!

3 Comments »

  1. avatar Splodge. 4 January 2008, 10:46 pm

    Guilt free January?

    What a bril­liant idea!

    *runs off to haul things out of boxes and start*

  2. avatar Hope. 5 January 2008, 4:17 pm

    I’m enjoy­ing wrap­ping up some WiPs. I’m plan­ning to reward myself for reach­ing my next weight goal by get­ting the mate­ri­als for this free project Waya showed me — http://​twde​sign​works​.com/​F​r​e​e​/​c​c​r​o​s​s​.​h​tml

  3. avatar cyn. 5 January 2008, 6:23 pm

    You two keep teas­ing me with the TW designs! Naughty, naughty wenches!

    When are you com­ing down for a stitch-​​in, anyway?

 

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