Got another Christmas present

This is the second book the Best Friend ordered for me for Christmas. It arrived today. Is very pretty.

And more books

The cross stitch book is my Christmas present from the Best Friend. The knitting books I indulged in myself.

I have a pair of socks in the works, but I've only been working on them during my lunch break at work. Right now I'm caught up in re-reading George R. R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books. I've finished the first two and I'm about 100 pages into the third while the fourth waits patiently for me to get to it.

Funny thing about the books, though. I pretty much remembered what happened in the first two books, but I seem to have wiped the memory of the third book from my mind. I really don't remember what happens in the third book. Oh, well.

Splurged again

I got good news on my blood pressure(*) so I splurged a little at Hobby Lobby. I bought two swatches of DMC fabric and a book for stitching greeting cards but that has some lovely Christmas-y things in it I can turn into ornaments. The fabric on the left is called 3033 and the fabric on the right is called ecru.



(*) If you haven't been keeping up with my blood pressure saga on my other blog, it's been on the high side and I couldn't start work until it was back down to normal. It's finally in the normal range so I should be able to start my new job, with any luck, on Monday, but I haven't confirmed that yet with either the industrial clinic or the HR department at the new job. I'm waiting for lunch time to be over before I call.

Updated at 6:39 pm: I've been cleared. I start work at 8 a.m. Monday morning. Woohoo!

A bit of shopping and the guardian cat

Since I worked on the butterfly fairy on Monday and Friday, I took today off to do other things like treat myself to lunch and dig around the local Hobby Lobby for stuff. The stuff I found includes the following items being zealously guarded by my own personal guardian cat:



Not being content to just keep a vary, watchful eye on my recent purchases, Heru decided he needed to guard the items, precious as they are, with his very body.



I don't know what I would do without Heru to make sure my possessions don't get up and walk off while I'm not looking.