50 Days

Yep, I did it! Yesterday was day 50 of no slips and/or cheats on my eating plan. In that 7 weeks, I even managed to drop 11.2 pounds (another 0.6 this week) which averages out to 1.6 pounds per week. I’ll take it! Even though I’ve come to the “official” end of my 50 day challenge, I don’t really feel the need to splurge of go off plan. I’m just going to keep on keepin’ on.

As I’m sure many of you have heard by now, we did indeed have a pretty good shaker here in southern California yesterday. According to the US Geological Service, it registered 5.4 on the Richter Scale. Even though my office was approximately 40 miles from the epicenter, we were still evacuated for safety reasons. They did a quick inspection of all the buildings to ensure they were safe.

When I got home last night, I had to do a bit of quick clean up since my home was only about 15 miles or so from the epicenter. I mostly just had to pick things up from the floor and put them back on shelves, straighten pictures on the wall that were askew, and straighten things on the countertops that had “wiggled” out of place. For the most part, everything was OK with the exception of one of my candles which did not survive the fall.

In stitching news, I did manage to finish another item for my WIP Killer Challenge. This piece is from the 2006 ornament issue of Just Cross Stitch magazine. It’s called Sampler Noel and was designed by Jane Timmers of Fancy Work. It’s stitched on Vintage Light Examplar from Lakeside Linens using Gloriana silk in Rosewood. It’s a combination of over-1 and over-2 stitching, with the alphabet all being over-1.

Well, I guess that’s it for now. Until next time …