What I did today

 I kept busy going from one thing to another.  I worked on genealogy a bit and posted on my mule blog, which is what I'm calling it for short.  Discussed my grandpa's oldest sister and tomorrow I'll write about her kids. I enjoyed learning about that family the most of all the siblings Grandpa had, athough his brother, John, was interesting too.

Anyhow, I am trying to get back on track and not eat like a horse.  I was doing real good there for a while 'cause I just wasn't hungry but then I got on a sweets kick and it was off and running.  I gained 4 or 5 pounds but that happens every time I let that sweet tooth have free rein.  I did okay today but my neighbor down the hall who loves to cook brought me a wonderful piece of carrot cake and I wasn't about to say no. I'll save it for after dinner.

When I got weary of genealogy I headed to the sewing machine to work on piecing some scrap material pieces together. Only spent 15 minutes on that as it gets tedious quick but I need to do it every day to get the bin empty.  I also put a zigzag stich around this piece of cross stitch material. I decided my plan to do this super fancy intricate complicated large cross stitch design was probably not going to happen. Once I looked at all the various parts of it, I realized it would take me a year and I'm not in the mood. I do want to cross stitch, though, so I took pictures of what I wanted to try, downloaded them to my computer, and then printed the designs out.  I needed to zigzag the edges so they wouldn't ravel quite as much. These are the ones I'm going to work on.

I may try to find some beat up old frames at Goodwill and see if I can get them framed. I'm not real good at framing but if I take my time, I might be able to turn out something halfway decent.

I also sat down to work on the jigsaw puzzle.  I was getting very discouraged because finding even one piece would take me forever. Then I decided I needed to try a different approach and I moved pieces with lettering together to work on them and then try to find a place for them on the puzzle.

I watched Coda on Apple TV last night and this morning I see it got a lot of awards. I'll have to look over the winners list and see what else is out there that I might want to look at.

I've got Life Below Zero on right now. I can't stand Andy and his girl friend. Her laugh makes me want to puke.  Yeah, I'm a nasty person sometimes.  Guess I'll head to the freezer now and see what I can grab in a free frozen dinner. It's always a surprise as I don't pick and choose; I just grab and let myself be surprised.

Here's a cartoon I saw on FB last week. Maybe I already posted it, I can't remember.  It's so me.