Happy New Year!

December is always a crazy month with the holidays and 5 B-days within the month, but this year you add prolonged sickness and a dog recovering from emergency surgery and life just completely goes nuts! Stitching has been very scarce this month, but I have been trying to stitch on my train when I can the last week to finish it by year end, but, alas, it is not going to happen! By the end of January for sure! I've been trying not to get down on myself about it. It was my one big goal of the year, but when you have 2 1/2 weeks of sickness and a major holiday thrown in at the last minute, what do you do? I feel like I am trying to have a relapse on my cold and trying not to stress on things like finances. Needless to say the dog's surgery, especially at the holidays, really has put a major wrinkle in my budget. It will definitely take me a couple of months to recover from that.

Anyhow...enough of the sickness and stresses.

My beautiful son turns 14 today! Hard to believe it has been that many years! He is such a joy in my life and everytime I hear "Beautiful Boy" by John Lennon I cry. Happy Birthday to my Beautiful Boy!


I did a personal Christmas ornament exchange with Hannah earlier in December. I received this beautiful ornament and all these other wonderful goodies from her! The button looking things are magnets that Hannah made. They are so cute! I forgot to take a picture of what I sent her and she hasn't posted it on her blog yet, but hopefully she will before long. She told me she is doing a woodland theme on her tree and I stitched the La-D-Da's Snow Bird from the 2004 Just Cross-Stitch Ornament Issue.



Year End Movie Thoughts:

Here are my top 10 movie choices of 2008 in no particular order:

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Wall-E
Bolt
Iron Man
The Incredible Hulk
The Express
The Other Boleyn Girl
Twilight
Kung Fu Panda
Get Smart!

Other Movies I enjoyed and that are worth noting:

Horton Hears a Who
Mamma Mia!
Journey to the Center of the Earth
Eagle Eye
Cloverfield
Nim's Island
Fireproof
Night's in Rodanthe
Kitt Kittredge
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
The Longshots


Biggest disappointments of the year:

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Speed Racer
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - I enjoyed this one, but was still ultimately disappointed

Absolute Worst Movie of the year!:

Don't Mess With the Zohan!

Special Movie Note:

I don't usually do this, but...I wanted to comment on "The Dark Knight". This was an excellent movie as far as plot, acting, directing, etc. I did not include it on my top 10 or other list due to the fact that the violence, though not gory, disturbed me. Heath Ledger's performance was phenomenal.


Happy New Year to all of you! Hope you have a wonderful year full of good friends, good memories, lots of laughter, tons of love and some stitching, too!