Friday: no more pills

I'm going off birth control tonight. I'm excited. But it's a weird thing to be excited about since I won't know anything for at least a month and even then it might be a while before I can be really excited. I'm trying to prepare myself for delayed excitement.

Thursday: Wasjig

Last night I finished my first Christmas puzzle, a Wasjig. The box looks like this:

but then the actual puzzle is taken from a different point of view. (In this case, the driver of the cart.)

Here's how it turned out:

For the most part, it was a good puzzle. Enough detail without having too much detail when you didn't know what the actual picture looked like. The biggest thing I was disappointed with is that the point of view seems a lot closer to the front of the car than the cart driver is. I was hoping for more things that you could see in the picture.

Oh, I also decided to do the second choice for quilts below. I like the first quilt pattern better, but I don't think my fabric would do as well with it. Also, I've never done triangles before so this is something new to learn.

Finally, I would like to give a short rant to WoW: why do we still get fish oil and slimy fish scales off level 85 monsters? Everything else that the monsters drop levels with their level so that we aren't getting 10c items. And why does every single monster have to drop these things?? They fill up my inventory without giving me a good return. At this point we should be getting extra-great-superior fish oil and buffed fish scales.

Wednesday: snow

It snowed today. Apparently it was windy too because we had some foot high drifts at the end of the driveway. I think it would be a good idea to put a wind-block fence up so that these drift don't drift onto our driveway. Too bad it would look ugly. Maybe we could just put stakes in the ground and put up middle pieces when it is actually going to snow.

Flurry is snoring in my lap. :)

Tuesday: the way home

It is snowing out! I had to go slowly coming home from Bible Study. If I had been smart I would have taken the highway. Instead I took the back road because it's the way I normally go.

...I only fish-tailed a few times.

Monday: quilt

I finished the top of the baby quilt! I think I like it better in real life...it has a lot of bright colors and in the picture it seems too busy. It's busy in real life too, but not so overwhelmingly so. (Or maybe just enlarging the picture helps. I might have looked at the small version for too long.) I ended up ordering some batting on-line, but it is going to take about a week to get here. :(

In the meantime, I realized that I have enough extra cloth of these colors to make a second baby blanket. Below are the two choices that I've decided on. I looked on the internet and saw a bunch that I liked, but either they required many more colors or were easier than I wanted to do. So please vote for your favorite! And I know it's hard, but try to picture the patterns with the above colors.

Sunday: an odd happening

Today we had a potluck at church. It was delicious; there was lots of good food. Near the end I went into one of the side rooms where all the 4-6 year olds were playing. My goal was to just quickly take a look at something in the room and then leave. I knelt down to the box which was on the bottom shelf of a book case. When I looked up a moment later, four children were standing around me, looking at me.

Amanda: "uh, hi?"

kids stare back

Amanda stares back, wondering what to do next.

Ethan: "Hi! I'm Ethan."

Phew, that broke the ice. I was then told all of their names (which I already knew) and their brother/sister relationships (which I also knew) (the church isn't that big). And know they know my name too.

Saturday: more donuts

I tried the frozen donut batter today and the donuts came out fine! I used too many utensils still, but spoons and forks are a lot easier to clean up than baking supplies.

I also got the kitchen all cleaned today! Normally this isn't a big deal, but I've been trying all week and having only moderate levels of success...the dishwasher was running so I had to stop or I needed to wait for the trash people to come so I needed to stop...good reasons like that. But I finished it today along with several of the other tasks. Not all of them, but it was a good start.