Monday: 10,000

Today I made it to 10,000 steps. This is the first time that I've made it while wearing my pedometer. The main reason is because I chose to do the ellipical tonight so that my pedometer would actually catch the steps that I was taking. (Versus biking, where it wouldn't see the spins I was spinning.)

And while the pedometer does make me a lot more aware of how much I'm walking (or not walking as the case may be on some days) there is an extra incentive to wear it because it can add a little bit more money to my health care account. I need to get 6000 health miles (HM). If you walk under 7000 steps, you get 20 HM. When I checked in today at almost 9000 steps, I got 80 HM. I didn't realize the incentive to hit the target number of steps was so large. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about HMs being a unit of measurement. Are there any units of measurement that scale in such a weird way? I think they should really be called Health Points, in which case I wouldn't have a problem with it. And I could pretend I'm in a video game.

Sunday: moneychangers

Today's Sunday School lesson was about respecting God. (Specifically from when Jesus goes into the temple courts to basically find a market there and whips everyone out and turns over the money changers' tables.)

So the activity of the day was to play a game on a table. We played Bible Trivia. It was rather hard. There are a lot of details in the Bible, especially the old testament, and then it can be hard to remember names even if you remember the story. But I digress. We were supposed to be loud while playing. That didn't really work. Then someone came in and flipped the table over. (That was the real point of the activity). I had put a whole bunch of game pieces on the table and the noise makers that I was hoping they would use were still on the table, so it all went flying.

I think everyone was surprised at how effective turning over a table can be at stopping the activity, even the people that were expecting it.

Saturday: quilting

I started quilting the quilt today! The batting is a little "sticky", which has been great because the cloth doesn't move too much.

I know that it doesn't look perfect, but I kind of like the look actually.

Friday: hurray, it's Friday!

Today was puzzle night. I decided to change it up a little bit and invite a ton of people and then choose the puzzle(s) based on how many people were coming. It worked incredibly well! Dinner was delicious and the company was great...there was a lot of laughter.

Here's the set up: although I had kind of been hoping people would table hop, we pretty much stuck with the puzzle we started with. But there was plenty of talk between the tables, so it still worked well.

Our puzzle finished well before the other puzzle. (It was also a lot easier.) We started helping the second puzzle after that. I don't have a picture of it complete, but we finished it around 11:30pm...perfect timing for puzzle night!

Oh, and my quilt batting came yesterday, so I might get started on that today!

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. :)