This is finish #4 for 2026. 272 Words - Primrose Needleworks. 28 count Lambwool Jobelan, one over one, using the suggested fancy floss, except the green, used dmc since the store was out of the fancy floss version. This photo is not great, but it does show the floss colors accurately. And yeah, they are kinda weird. But it was my choice for the 250 year - celebrate the 4th of July - choice.
This was finish #5 for 2026. Primitive Needle - Follow Me. Used 28 count Dove Grey jobelan, one over one, dmc 3799. Started it this year, set it to the side to do 272 Words. I only had that bottom line weird thing, so a photo would have looked like nothing. Picked it back up after 272 words, and added the rest over a few days. It was fun, and a lovely stitch.
Picked back up Lizzie Kate - ABCs of Parenting. I have grabbed the wrong green, stitched, then unstitched. Then re-stitch with the correct green. This is the second time I have stitched this - but this time it is a different fabric. But it's fine. There were many things I did between then and now.
I did manage to print out the pattern I had ordered. I DID indeed run out of ink halfway through printing it. I try to keep the next cartridge in the house - so it was not a huge deal, but it ran out of both the black, and the color - so about $50 in new ink cartridges.
Oh, there were other weird things. I had glass measuring cups stacked in the cupboard. A four cup, then a two cup inside that, then a one cup inside that. I had not used them for months. But the middle two cup SHATTERED. Sending glass everywhere inside the cupboard. I did not hear it. And actually, most of it stayed in the larger four cup - and the smaller cup held it in the larger 4 cup, But it still blew the glass everywhere, into other dishes. So I need to take EVERYTHING out, wash and clean EVERYTHING. But it was on the middle shelf. Which I can reach, but can't see without standing on something. And there is not surface that is cleared, my food shelves were full, so the extra is on the counter - cereal, canned things, so I have a folding table - that I can put things on - but that is a project - not just a - oh, wipe it down - and you are done.
Then my main tv decided to have a row of pixels go bad. I had wished for a bigger tv - not a huge tv - then the row of pixels goes bad. So that was a put it in the car, and go to the dump/recycling place. Then shop for a new tv. It was an adventure.
Things were just not really going my way. Nothing awful. My friend had a bowel problem, and got a ostomy bag - so compared to that.... and a week or two before that - he had his prostate surgery for the second time - he did that two years ago too.... So prostate surgery he expected - to poop bag he didn't expect, all in a month.....yeah, I am not complaining about a tv or the fact it's gonna take me a weird long time to clean up glass in a cupboard.
But I did get a new tv - again, it was an adventure. I had moved the bedroom tv to living room, and was screwed trying to sleep without a tv. I slept with the computer and youtube on day two.... Now it appears the computer is going to need a new battery power thing.... it's the - just try to fix one thing, and watch as something else breaks. I had the antenna cable fall behind the dresser while putting the tv back today. The dresser is full. I have one of those old people grab it things - a stick with a pincher at the end.... took me hours - and at some point - the pinchers have suction cups on the ends that pinch. One of the suction cups came off, and it was then behind there too....
See, nothing horrible - but a test of my stamina. I did put packing tape all over the end with the sticky side out - and again - it took a crazy number of tries - I got back to suction cup, and was able to fix the tool. I can laugh about it - cause, it could be worse.
Just to show how silly. I had two cds due at the bank. The dump to recycle the tv had me right next to that bank. So I stopped. I even explained - shattered measuring cup - bad tv.... so don't screw this up. When I went to file the paperwork - I had two renewals for one, and none for the other. That took the Saturday morning, and a trip to two more backs to fix that. What she had done - was to change and update ONE cd - THREE TIMES - and the other cd - not at all. But she clearly understood there were two cds.
I could not make that happen if I tried. But the second girl told me that all of the customer help people had only been there three to six months - so they were all new... So I just brace for the next thing. And maybe you can understand why standing in a chair to clean up shattered glass just sounds like a bad idea. I'm just not prepared for what might go slightly sideways when I try to do that. It maybe won't be awful - maybe I drop and break something else. I just am not ready to find out yet. But it could be worse things. So I am not whining or complaining. I am smiling and trying to just consider it as silly.
