Since the archives are down at Friday Five (and WG…

Since the archives are down at Friday Five (and WG used the one I used last week so I can’t copy hers ) I’ll do the stitchers five for the week!

1. Which do you prefer, Kits or Charts?

Charts!

2. Why?

I hate, hate, hate sorting the thread. It is almost never in any dicernable order. I would much rather get to stitching than try and figure out the difference between forty different types of blue.

3. How do you organise your materials before you stitch

Not very well I have the floss boxes and bobbined floss, but I’m trying to get into the DMC stitchbow system, with one project at a time kitted up and stitching it.

4. Do you do anything to the sides of your fabric before starting?

I don’t do anything, my LNS serges the edges for me, and I’ve fallen in love with Silkweaver (got my first piece this week!!!)

5. What do you do with the leftovers when your done?

put in back in my ever growing pile of stash (bad TWBB enablers, Bad!!!!!)

Well in an effort to get away from the constantly …

Well in an effort to get away from the constantly baby oriented blog, I have decided to look up something interesting I have seen on other blogs: The Friday Five….As there isn’t a new one posted, I will start with an archive from April 12, 2002…
1. What is your favorite restaurant and why?

Leona’s (a Chicago based pseudo Italian restaurant) They have the best triple cheese garlic bread, and a wicked garlic chicken. If you love garlic, and don’t mind the ability to kill vampires by simply breathing on them, I highly recommend it!
2. What fast food restaurant are you partial to?

Arby’s, it’s not your typical rubberized burger. That and I’m a sucker for curly fries.
3. What are your standards and rules for tipping?

I usually start at $2, even for crappy service. I will go upwards of 20% or higher for good service. As a former waitress, I have a guilt complex for not leaving anything, even if service is horrible. I also had a waitress chase after me demanding why I didn’t leave a tip (the one time the service sucked so bad I couldn’t see tipping at all) and the confrontationally challenged person that I am is terrified of that happening again.
4. Do you usually order an appetizer and/or dessert?

appetizer – yes, dessert – very rarely
5. What do you usually order to drink at a restaurant?

soda (coke if they have it…)

Yay!!! I got a lot of financial aid money for the…

Yay!!! I got a lot of financial aid money for the summer. That combined with the fact that I had to drop 2 of my 3 classes (daycare fell through) means we can get everything that I wanted for the baby!! We didn’t need a whole lot because I hoarded everything from DS. We do need some big ticket items though, mainly the crib. DS shook his until it fell apart, hence him being in a toddler bed at 18 months. This also means if it’s a girl, I can get all the little frilly pink clothes my heart desires. I’m thrilled! In other news, I’m dumping my Dr. The last appointment was both disappointing and frightening. First off, they were totally not supportive of my choice of a VBAC. Now I’m all for having a c-section if it is *medically* necessary. If it will save my baby I will do it in a heartbeat. I will not have major surgery (and don’t kid yourself, that is exactly what it is.) for the sake of convenience, be it mine or the Dr.s. I have no delusions about a vaginal birth being painless, but I’ve been through a c-section and the recovery blows. Now that I have a two year old to care for, and that DH is a contractor (meaning no paid leave when baby arrives) I have no clue how I would swing watching a newborn and a toddler. The second thing was that the nurse tried to find the heartbeat, gave up after about ten seconds and was looking way too low. They found DS’s HB much higher, at the same time. It’s scary not to hear it, and to know I won’t have another chance for a month all because the nurse was either too rushed or too incompetent to do it correctly. The final straw, and the one that frightened me the most, was that they gave me a hepatitis B vaccination, telling me it was perfectly safe. #1, I don’t have hepatitis b, I was tested and it was negative. #2, I don’t have *any* of the risk factors for getting it, and finally I did the research when I got home, and while there is no evidence yet that it is harmful to the fetus it is still in the testing stages!! How dare you tell me something is perfectly safe, when in fact it is in the middle of the testing stages and for all I know my kid could pop out with 3 arms and a mouth on it’s rear!!! Granted some of this (maybe most) is pregnancy induced hysteria. Yet under the best of conditions I don’t appreciate being lied to or patronized. So I’ve made an appointment with another group and am hoping they are both more supportive of my choices, and more interactive with their patients. It looks promising so far, they have the only nice medical receptionist I have ever met.

I’m sorry to anyone that still reads this, first t…

I’m sorry to anyone that still reads this, first trimester exhaustion has hit me full force. I hate this feeling of total lethargy. Ugh. Well I had my first pregnancy related emergency room visit. The baby is fine, I’m just paranoid. I had a ‘threatened miscarriage’ with my son last pregnancy (which basically meant I was bleeding and they couldn’t figure out why) so if I think anything is wrong I go get seen. My Dr. was closed, so I went to the ER. Good news is we got another US, and it looks like a baby now! This pregnancy seems to be taking so much longer than DS’s. Oh well. I’m back on a stitching kick. My (step)dad asked me to stitch a tribute to Jaime (see below) I am so honored. I ordered my first piece of hand dyed fabric for it, and while waiting for supplies I restarted TW’s Fantasy Sampler (for the third time!!) The first time I had the fabric turned the wrong way, and didn’t figure it out till I had a good chunk done, so in lieu of frogging I started again. The second time my lovely 2 year old grabbed it with spegetti hands. You can never get spegetti stains out. I told DH if something happens to this one, I’ll take it as a sign from God that it wasn’t meant to be Bad school news, I have completely lost my drive in school, good news I only have about 5 weeks left. I just want to nest and prepare for baby, not write silly papers that won’t matter in the grand scheme of things beyond school. I have 1 summer class (was going to do three) I think with a break from this semester, I can handle one class. It’s beginning spanish, and I took that in high school, so hopefully it will come back to me once I’m doing it every day. I have to take something rediculous like 12-14 hours of a foriegn language, so I figured I might as well take one I’m semi familiar with. Well I think that’s all for now.