Diet

I got the results of my blood work last week and the doctor suggested I go on a 1200 calorie a day diet. My blood glucose level is high. I have been doing it for a couple of days but today was the 1st day I honestly counted the calories. I ate 1177 calories today and I am hungry. I may have to eat a couple of carrots later tonight. I wonder how long I can sustain this. One good thing if I can stick to it I should lose some weight. I have to get blood work done again in 2 months. What a lousy time to have to do this with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up. Oh well once I get use to it I should do OK.

Hitichin A Ride by Waxing Moon

Hot off the needle. I just finished this. I think it is adorable, if I must say so myself.

Now on to the next project.

Good Night

Hitchin A Ride Progress

Here is my progress as of last night on Hitchin A Ride. I have about 8 more snow flakes some back stitching, beads and light buttons and it will be finished. I changed the color on the reindeer, I just didn't like the color called for in the chart. It was the same color as Santa's bag in the sleigh. I think the color I used is much better.

Sue left for home this morning after I left for work. She called me about 4:00 to tell me she was almost home but was stuck in traffic.

On my way to work this morning I had a little accident. I hit a trash can and broke the mirror on the passenger side of the car. I was trying to avoid a truck and hit a trash can and somehow a handle to a broom or garden tool swung around and broke the mirror. I thought it was just the glass in the mirror but it was the entire mirror. Took it for an estimate after work today and it will cost about $140.00 to get fixed. If he gets the part in by Saturday he will replace the mirror on Saturday for me.

Dentist

I went to the dentist yesterday to have a crown replaced. Once the dentist removed the old crown and started cleaning the tooth out he found it was a lot worse than he expected. I have to either have a root canal and part of my gum removed or I have to have the tooth extracted. Last night I was leaning towards the root canal. Today I am leaning towards the extraction. He said there was no guarantee that if I had the root canal and the gum surgery that the tooth wouldn't further decay and I would have to have it removed. My insurance won't cover the root canal and gum removal and it will be very expensive. I don't want to spend all that money just to have the tooth extracted in the future. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

The Phillies beat the Rockies yesterday. Go Phillies. Now they play the Dogers starting on Thursday.

I have been stitching every night on Hitchin A Ride. Last night I finished the 1st reindeer. I changed the floss color of the reindeer as I didn't like the floss the chart called for. It was a gray/green. Not the color I picture reindeer as being.

Well back to work.

Have a wonderful day and May God Bless

Progress on Hitchin A Ride

Here is an up-to-date picture of Hitchin A Ride. I am very happy with my progress. Tonight I will start one of the reindeer. This is going to look so cute when it is finished.

Today B and I went to Best Buy and ordered a 50" plasma flat screen TV. It will be delivered on October 24th. I can't wait to watch a football game in high def. We just have to find a stand to put it on.

We bought some mums and pumpkins to decorate the outside of the garage. They look pretty sitting there on either side of the door. I will try to take some pictures tomorrow.

Sue is coming up from Virginia on Thursday. On Saturday Barb, Shirley, Sue and I are going to Lancaster for our annual Christmas shopping trip. I don't think we really do much Christmas shopping anymore. I am hoping to get something for Barbara as I have no ideas for her at all. We are going to the Dutch Apple Theater for dinner and a show. We went there several years ago and really enjoyed it. The show we are seeing is "Smoke on the Mountain". Hope it is good.

Can you believe the Phillie's playoff game tonight, which is in Colorado, has been postponed due to snow. Yes Denver is having snow tonight. Doesn't make sense to me, the 2 games in Philadelphia on Wednesday and Thursday were in the afternoon and it was beautiful here and the weather at night would have been good for baseball. They go to Colorado and schedule 2 night games when it is only common sense to think the weather could be bad at this time of year. The forecast for the beginning of the game had been 29 degrees and snow showers. I saw earlier they are now expecting a lot more than snow showers. Oh well they didn't ask me. lol

Penn State won handily today over East Illinois. Go Penn State.

I finished reading "Digital Fortress" by Dan Brown this afternoon. It was really good.

I finished 2 no sew cubes

This one is a San Man Originals that was one of the Twelve Days of Christmas a few years ago. I have had the stitching done for a long time and didn't know how I wanted to finish it.

And of course this one is Halloween by Lizzie Kate. I stitched this one using GAST overdyed floss. I think I like the DMC floss better for this one.

I promise I am done for today. No more pictures.

Hitching A Ride by Waxing Moon

This WIP is Hitchin A Ride by Waxing Moon. I love, love, love it. I am stitching it on Dyeing4U 14 Count Aida Winter Blues Opalescent. You can't really see the sparkle in this picture but it sure looks good in person. I so wish I had gotten other fabric from them before they went out of business. I really like stitching on this fabric and it is so heavy. It is great.

I was hoping to have a couple of no sew cubes finished to post but I haven't finished them yet. I did start putting the finishing touches on some Christmas ornaments yesterday but they aren't ready to be posted yet either. I just can't seem to completely finish anything this weekend.

Reading and things

I am currently reading Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. It isn't as good as The Divinci Code or Angels & Demons but it is sure suspenseful. I really only read at lunch time here at work so it takes me a long time to read a book. Reading is one of the things I hope to do a lot more of when I retire.

I had my annual physical this morning and my doctor is going to enter me in the Penn Relay's 100 yard dash in the year 2047. I will be 100 years old and he expects me to live that long. He wishes all his patients were as healthy as I am. I asked about a flu shot but they don't have much serum yet. I will call the middle to late next week and see if they have gotten more. He also highly suggested I get a Swine Flu shot at the same time. I now have to go for blood work and a mammogram. I should call and schedule the mammo but I have time since I can't get one until the middle of November.

Bob's meeting with his supervisor was a bust yesterday. She really doesn't know if the other NH supervisor is really leaving. She overheard something and is reading tea leaves. Bob said she was kind of surprised that he would be interested. She said if the other sup does retire it probably won't be until the end of this year or spring of 2010. I hope she does retire because I would like Bob to get this promotion for the last 4+ years he has until he retires. It would really help the amount of both his pension and SS checks.

I finished the sleigh and the blanket or lining of the sleigh on Hitchin A Ride last night. I think it is going to be so cute. I have so many other things to stitch I wish I could figure out why I picked this up at this time. Oh well it was calling to me. I actually have a sweatshirt I would like to be stitching. Maybe after I get Hitching A Ride finished. The sweatshirt is a Christmas design that says HO HO HO. I started that several years ago and but it aside. It is also calling to me. Maybe these two are calling me because it is getting closer and closer to Christmas.

I am rambling again. I read on a cross stitch board the other day that blogs are boring. Who whats to read about other peoples mundane life. I don't write this blog for other people, I write it for me and if other people are interested in my mundane life that is just wondeerful.