Well I spent the majority of this week with a migraine, so not much output. Also going back to work today so oh well, holidays are always fun while they last :)One big personal milestone for me this week was making the final payment and closing the personal loan I have had for nearly 10 years. The loan was first taken out to finance my car, one month before my marriage ended. Not the nest timing in hindsight. It's also been rejigged to cover various house moves, interstate moves, furniture acquisition etc, but now at long last it is gone from my life. Now to pay back the interest-free loans and the credit card. The plan to be debt-free by October is working.
Also I have lost another kilogram (2 pounds) this week. So far, the diet and exercise are working; I'm not following any particular diet, just eating meat, veggies a little fruit, dairy and nuts. I've removed all processed food from my diet and combined with getting on the wii fit each day, this is working to the extent I need it to.
Another milestone was my first finish for the year. The Britty Kitty piece annoyed me so much (Listen to Auntie Mel: NEVER put your pieces away with the mistake still in it, ALWAYS frog out your mistakes!) that I spent far too long in frogging and putting it right as it turned out there were multiple mistakes and in hindsight (glorious hindsight), it would have been easier and faster to have just started the project again! Anyway once it was back in shipshape I decided to devote another day to it, and I finished it off. This project will plague me no longer! The progress album is here and my 2011 Finishes album is here.
THe majority of this week, I was stitching on Rosanne's Round Robin. Code named Big Blue Beast it certainly is big and has gorgeous blue/green floss choices. I'll include a pic when I have more stitched on it.
While at Colours Down Under on Friday an order from a supplier than had been sent sea freight had finally landed. So I bought a couple of charts and kitted them up there and then - so that was my splurge for paying off the loan. No chatelaine's, just a couple of charts I admired from an Online Needlework Show last year,
One of them demanded to be started right away, so it now has a couple of stitches in. I'm currently trying to smother it down the back of the lounge while I'm working to get the Round robin finished and onto the next person, but it's screaming loudly. Anyway the floss toss is here in case anyone would like to guess what it is :)
