September 27, 2013

I got to sleep in this morning and then eventually went to Walgreen's with my mom to get a flu shot. Last year was the first year I had one in I don't know how long. I rarely get sick enough to go to the doctor but starting a job at an elementary school, surrounded by a bunch of kids who cough and sneeze on everything, made a flu shot seem like a good idea. So I got one last year and managed to escape the flu. Fingers crossed I have the same fate this year.

When I got home I had lunch and then started on the mounting project for my sister's cross stitch. That is a process. I started with measuring out and cutting the foam board to the size I wanted, based on the measurements I had taken of my cross stitch. That was actually the easiest part of the process but I had a little scare in the middle when my sister stopped by to drop off one of her dogs. I was cutting the foam board on the kitchen counter when she walked in and I was very grateful that I didn't have the cross stitch laying out. Then I cut out a couple pieces of batting and pinned those to the foam board. And finally I pinned the cross stitch to the foam board. It actually all sounds really easy when I write it out like that but it all took at least a few hours, maybe more. The hardest part was trying to center the cross stitch on the foam board and I got pretty close but it is still off. And the space on the sides is bigger than the space on the top and bottom which is annoying because I thought I measured it out so that it would be the same all the way around. Oh well. My main concern in the centering thing and I am going to see if they can make the frame a little big and offset the cross stitch enough so that it looks centered with the mat and the frame. That's my plan anyway. I'm going to take it to the frame shop tomorrow morning and hope that works out because I am kind of over Hobby Lobby, at least when it comes to mats, and I would eventually like to have my other cross stitch stuff framed. Because they will have to custom make the frame it will probably take them awhile, which means it won't be ready by the end of the day, so it will become a belated birthday present, but it will be a badass belated birthday present. And to hold her over I got her a really strange birthday card with colorful alien-looking things on it and it comes with stickers. She likes stickers.

And that was pretty much my day off from school. It was actually fairly productive.

For lunch I had the usual thing but I also steamed broccoli and sugar snap peas. And did the same for dinner to accompany the second half of my Chipotle burrito. I can see the steamed vegetable thing getting old but for the moment I am enjoying it. I also want to try Brussels sprouts again. Maybe when I make it through the broccoli. We're doing something for dinner tomorrow night for my sister's birthday but on Sunday maybe I want to try making fried rice. I bought the rice, sliced carrots, and peas the other day and need to check that I have all the other stuff. I am most excited about the eggs. The scrambled egg is my favorite part of fried rice. Although if we end up ordering Chinese food or going to a Chinese buffet for dinner, I will probably hold off on making fried rice.

Next week is a good week for video games. On Tuesday a giant update is coming out for Terraria. For a long time the game was kind of seen as dead-in-the-water because I guess the studio that developed it broke apart or moved onto other things. But then at least some of them got back together and now a big update it coming out that has hundreds of new items and features added to the game. It will be like a whole new game. Or a significantly updated version of the original game. You pick. But I'm looking forward to it.

Also on Tuesday, the Battlefield 4 beta for Premium members. At least I think so. At the very least the open beta starts next Friday. So I think I will be able to play it on Xbox on Tuesday and then hopefully get to try it out on PC on Friday. My wrists and forearms are probably going to hate me but I am looking forward to jumping in and hopefully finding the same level of fun I experienced with Battlefield 3. Especially in the first hundred hours I put into it.

Tonight at work I spent the vast majority of my time reading. I also spent a little bit of time writing in Morse Code and with my left hand. At different times. It wasn't a very exciting night. As my nights at the theater tend to be. Or tend to not be? Prisoners once again starts at 10:40PM this week which means for the last hour of work all I am doing is waiting for that movie to drop. That is way more annoying that waiting on multiple movies. The only positive is that people actually went to it so I wasn't stuck their waiting on one or two people.