Alright, so I’ve decided to semi-move my blog to here, I’m going to try to keep the post on both… Buuuut it will be much easier to update it here, since I can do this from my phone or work. I haven’t been very good about keeping it up to date, because I don’t always want to spend the time at night when I’m exhausted to blog, but I can sometimes steal time while in class or sitting at dinner or B&N. 
Happy blogging!
The nausea has really amped the past few days, it doesn’t matter what time of day or what’s going on. I’ve noticed it centers itself around when I eat or how long it’s been since I last ate. It’s getting old really, really quickly. Anyway, more later.
Has it really been 8 months since I last got on here? Oh, how time flies when you’re having fun. Well, I recently found out that I’m pregnant and that has inspired me to get back to it. I plan to post on here as often as possible, including pictures and updates from the doctors.
I had a positive pregnancy test on the 26th of January, per my last menstrual cycle I was 8 weeks along (awesome, right?). We had our first O/B appointment on February 11th and then our first U/S on February 18th. Like I said, we thought we were 8 weeks along, but it turns out we are 6 weeks along! Which means I ovulated pretty late and I was barely preggo when I had the positive test! Of course, that has it’s ups and downs, it means I was off my prescription drugs very early and on a prenatal vitamin, but it also means I’m not so close to being out of the danger zone and into my second trimester.When I went to the first O/B appointment she told us that the risk of miscarriage drops dramatically after you see a heart beat and we did, so that was a huge relief. I hope the next 8-9 months go as smoothly as possible, since Sly and I plan to get married in August, I’ll be huge, but at least we’ll be married before the wee one arrives.
Here’s our first U/S picture.
This pattern was great, it worked up very quick and the pattern was easy to read. I love the basket weave pattern and how cheap it was. I used a little less then two balls of Sugar and Cream yarn so the whole hat cost about $2.50, can’t beat that! Here’s some pictures, but they’re kind of rough. I hadn’t fixed the ends, and they were taken at midnight inside, so I’ll get some better ones soon of it on and in use outside. :p (P.S. please excuse the craft room, it looks like a tornado went through there!)
So, I haven’t gotten much crafty stuff done this weekend. I was extra lazy on Friday (my day off), now I’m working 12 hours a day Sat/Sun, then 8 on Monday, so I don’t think I’ll be getting much done at all. I went and got some awesome books from the Library that I’ll have to tell you about on Tuesday. I’ve also gotten a little bit more done on my embroidery, and I finished The Plains of Passage by Jean Auel (very good). I’ll give more details when I can but for now, I’m going to sleep. G’night, I hope you had a wonderful weekend.
I’ve had a rough day today, I’m having some stomach problems, which has lead to headache/dizziness/blood sugar issues. I’m going to bed now and hopefully I’ll wake up feeling better tomorrow. I did a little embroidery today but not as much as I’d like, the flower petals are kicking my booty - I can’t seem to get them to look how I want but instead of ripping out and redoing (for lack of thread) I’m going to leave it and just chuck it up to a learning experience. I also looked at a lot of stitching sites today, I downloaded many pictures from all these sites. Artecy is the only one that is actually a paid for site, I paid for my membership years ago and I don’t regret it a bit. I wait every couple weeks for her patterns.
I made a bun cover at work tonight but it’s too narrow and long. I have to make it wider at the center and fewer rows. Here’s where I found the pattern and here’s some pics.
My Mom and I went on an adventure today to the local craft shops (all two of them) and I got some goodies! I bought a square crochet hook (size C for me and G for Mom), two booklets and some embroidery thread. Mom bought me a cross stitch booklet Country Winds because they’ll fit great in my kitchen and I bought a crochet sock book because I’ve never crocheted socks and the hook to go with the book. I’m really excited about the crochet hook, I think it’ll be great! 
So, today was my day off, then back to work for two days, then another day off, but Sly’s not off on Friday so we have to get all of our errands done today. We went to Wal-Mart today… twice (forgot rabbit food the first time, went back the second time and they didn’t have it anyway. :|) Did laundry, including washing our bed sheets and bleaching the towels (thrilling, I know). But in other news we looked at some wedding invitation/favor stuff and priced some stuff, I really need to get planning.
I went and bought an embroidery kit from Michael’s, it’s a Learn a Craft kit from Dimensions. It’s pretty cool, but I’m not too good at it. Practice makes perfect, right? It seems like it will be very easy to carry around and work on in Doc’s offices or work (which happens to be a doc’s office…).
I also formatted my computer and reinstalled Windows Vista, I had Windows 7 installed but it’s still a little too buggy for me. It never really crashed but the desktop would load wrong and I’d have to shut it all down and load it back up. It had some other issues, really none of them were major, but all together it was just getting on my nerves too much. I’m sure it will be a great when it’s released but I’m not enthusiastic enough to work through the bugs.
Anyway, it’s about time I went and got the sheets outa the dryer and got to bed.
So, I’m doing my best to not buy any new supplies - but instead using up the yarn I already have. I’m trying to do this for sewing and beading and well, everything else too. I’ve decided that I want to learn to Embroider (obviously) and I’m trying to use supplies I already have but I need to find some material to embroider on so if you have any suggestions, please let me know! I’m also trying to finish up old projects, I’ve been working on the Monks Satchel at work
and my Unicorn cross stitch pattern at home.
I’m thinking about making some of these to carry around my projects - instead of plastic zipper bags. This will be a good stash buster project, I think, since I have a TON of WW yarn and I think I’d line them with some of the cotton material I have. The pattern is from the blog Delicious Stitches and I found it on Craftster.org. Thanks for offering the pattern for free, DS!
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