Vacation Pics

In answer to a couple of my recent comments, amazingly, I’m not sick of red yet. One would think I would be by now. Now in another couple of weeks, the story may be different.

I’ve uploaded about 2 dozen or so pics from my vacation. If you’re interested, they can be viewed here:

Mazatlan Vacation Photos

Enjoy!

Happy Stitching!

Quick update

I’m still recovering from vacation, trying to get caught up at work, and getting ready for Thanksgiving tomorrow. I did want to post a quick progress photo of my Celtic Christmas piece. This is after 23 hours of stitching time:

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Happy Stitching and Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow U.S. stitchers!

Thanks!

Thanks for the emails and comments on my previous entry. This person is actually someone employed at the same company where I work. Sadly, this means I can’t get rid of this person out of my life unless one of us quits our job. For now, I’m just doing my best to avoid any contact with them.

I’ve not gotten in much stitching lately, but hope to get in a lot this next week as I’m on vacation. I’ll be basking on the beaches of Mazatlan by day, followed up with stitching and reading at night. I’m going with my friend Tracy, so we should have a great time! We booked this trip back in February, so we’ve been looking forward to it for months! It’s a combination vacation/belated 30th birthday celebration with her. Yes, that would be HER 30th birthday, definitely not mine.

I won’t have another blog update until the week of Thanksgiving. Until then …

Happy Stitching!

Some men are idiots!

Ok, I realize I’ve not posted on my blog in a long time and that this entry is nothing but a bitch session, but I need to vent somewhere.

To a particular man in Los Angeles who shall remain nameless for reasons of privacy (but if you read this, you know who you are):

Yes, I realize that I still have a significant amount of weight to lose, and yes, I also realize that my hair is very thin (for reasons about which you have NO clue, by the way). These 2 things do NOT give you the right to tell me that if it weren’t for my weight and thinning hair that I’d be the perfect woman! Please do not think that just because you prefaced that particular remark with how pretty, intelligent, witty, etc. that I am, that it somehow atones for the comments about my weight & hair. Just who the fuck do you think you are to say this not only to my face, but in front of a group of other people to boot? Does you brain not engage before your mouth opens? Clearly, it does not.

Yes, it would be very easy for me to go into a long diatribe of things that I could point out about you as well, but that’s not the type of person I try to be. I’ve always believed in trying to build up those around me rather than tearing them down with insensitivity and pettiness. Perhaps you might try to remember this philosophy before you open your mouth to someone else and make comments to them like the ones you made to me today.

I don’t care what we said when we were kids about sticks & stones. Words hurt. Words cut.