June 15, 2013

Today seemed to go by pretty fast but I didn't really accomplish much. I ended up going to bed around four o'clock this morning and slept in until 10:30AM or so. Around one o'clock I went over to my grandma's because my dad and uncle were working on replacing her shower. I missed the ripping out of the old shower but I got there just in time to go to the dump with my brother to get rid of it. Then we took a detour on the way back because he wanted to go to GameStop and get Assassin's Creed 3.

By the time we got back my uncle had left to go get lunch and my dad needed to get some stuff from the house so my brother and I ended up going with him to try out Assassin's Creed 3. For a minute I thought maybe I had already played the game because the opening with them walking into a cave reminded me of a previous game. I can't remember which one. Brotherhood maybe. I have several of the game for PC and I need to jump into them at some point. Or any game really. I haven't played video games (not counting on my tablet) in a long time. Mostly because I haven't wanted to but also because my wrist hurts (probably because of all the cross stitching but it is worth it).

After awhile I helped my dad load some wood into his truck and then we headed back over to my grandma's. Just in time to run into my uncle going back to Menard's to get some parts. So my dad and I sat in the living room and talked with my grandma for awhile until I needed to leave for dinner. But right as I was about to leave my uncle texted my dad to see if he could take a couple measurements for him. I helped him with that but as a joke my dad's first text back to my uncle was “They're still the same.” And my uncle texted back “Leaving in the morning, have fun with the shower.” It was pretty funny.

Dinner tonight was finally a pizza night with my mom and sister. Originally we were going to do it last weekend but that ended up not working out. I'll say it was worth the wait though because it was delicious. Artichoke hearts are still my favorite pizza topping.

Tonight I cut out the cross stitch QR code I made for my dad and washed it, after doing a test piece to make sure the colors wouldn't bleed. I'm letting it sit out for awhile and tomorrow I can hopefully frame it without too much difficulty. Just in time for Father's Day.

I spent a significant portion of the rest of my night looking at really really old scans of cross stitch books. My main goal was to find some cool new alphabets, which I did. I have one small book of alphabets but I would like to have a giant one with hundreds of different alphabets. Someday.

Soon I will probably be going to bed. The new shower should be going into tomorrow at my grandma's so fingers crossed I can get over there in time to see that happen. And maybe help out a little.