Stitching away...

Well I've made a good bit of progress on my 'family rules' cross-stitch piece, despite being busy with cleaning.

You can tell I've had good audio books to listen to, that's why it's progressed so much! I finished On Gold Mountain by Lisa See, which is the story of her Chinese-American family, starting around the turn of the century. It was a really amazing.

I also received my 'early reviewer' audiobook copy of One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road, which was wonderful. The reader, Vanessa Hart, did an amazing job, and I wish she was the reader for more books that appeal to me. Mostly she seems to read mass-appeal romance/sci-fi/fantasy things.

I know I'm not even halfway finished with the 'family rules' piece but I'm already trying to plan what to stitch next. I'd like to do something funny but I'm tempted to start on my Understood Betsy book cover. Oh well, we'll see when the time comes.

happy thoughts

Here's the first bit of progress on the family rules pattern. Doing that "BE" was incredibly tedious. 

I probably won't get much more work done on it for a few days. Too much cleaning to do. Sometimes you're just too tired to squint at a pattern on the computer and count stitches over and over. 

You know how you can be tired enough to fall asleep while reading or stitching but not fall asleep when lying in bed or watching TV? That was once the bane of my existence. My solution is to watch something in another language. It's much easier to drop off when it's just noise. That's a bona fide (do we write that as one word in US English? My browser is stuck on British spellings which sometimes confuses things) tip from a chronic insomniac, one who doesn't even WANT to sleep but recognizes she must.