Olympics & Stitching Overload Oh My!

Coffee Progress-33 1/3% Finished
Yep, you read the title right. We had a quite laid back sort of weekend where I did minimal household stuff and did tons of stitching and watching Olympic events. My kind of weekend which spilled into yesterday because the kids were off from school.

The progress picture of Coffee is from Saturday afternoon when I finished the third page of the chart. This is a 9 page total chart so I am officially 33 1/3% finished this project. Well that motivated me even more so during women/men curling, ice dancing, ski events, speed skating, etc, I started the next page of the chart. This one is on the right side and is page #6. Well between Sunday and Monday, I am about 1/2 way finished that page. I may just have another mini happy dance before the Olympics is over.

Kudos to all of the athletes at the Olympics. Anneke, I was cheering your countrymen during speed skating. Yes I cheer for my country too, but when I have a friend living in another country I have a tendency to cheer for that country too. :) Yes I did see Shani Davis win the gold. I just don't like all the controversy going on right now between him and Chad Hendrick and Joey Cheeks (gosh, he sounds like he should live in Philly LOL). I feel the Olympics is all about team spirit and love of your country. Not everyone is an Olympian and it is a spot to covet and treasure and do well with. I think Shani should have done the Team Pursuit with the rest of the USA speed skaters. I am sure there would have been another gold for him along with the Americans if he had. He is good at what he does and should be proud but I feel bad for the other speed skaters who could not participate in the Pursuit because he would not do it. To me that is not being a team player. I am anxious to see tonight's speed skating where we have 4 athletes participating.

I am really enjoying Curling even though I have no idea what the heck is going on. LOL By last night, DH and I figured the scoring and whatnot out but it took all weekend and I am looking forward to watching the finals even though the USA women did not place. They did great though!!

I love all the ski related stuff and my jaw was dropping last night at the height of the ski jumpers. I give them lots of credit. I have enough of a hard time walking on solid ground some days. LOL

I have to admit that at the beginning of the Olympics that I was not going to waste my time with Ice Dancing. Yet I love figure skating both men and women and the pairs but Ice Dancing??? Not for me. Well I admit when I am wrong and I was wrong. I have enjoyed the last few days of watching and am so glad that the USA medalled in the event. I really did not think they had a chance. But they did and all their hard work showed. I just feel a little bad for the Italian couple. I sure would not want to be around her when she gets her panties in a twist. LOL

And my final comment for today about the Olympics is this and this is totally tongue in cheek. DH and I were watching the Italians win the cross country ski relay or whatever it is called. I do know the Italians won the gold and there were 4 of them with different colored bibs. We actually turned the t.v. on during that event and after a few minutes, DH asked me what event it was. My reply was "Torture". LOL

So to wrap it all up, I stitched during all of these events. I was a total couch potato on Sunday and my stitching shows it and so does my sanity. I even managed a lot of stitching yesterday and last night. I sure hope this keeps up and I have another picture to show you. I may just have this project finished before too long.

I do have to address one more thing. Lee, your comment really hit a nerve with me. That is exactly how I feel about the remodel of our family room. I am out of sorts. While I am fine and able to function there is just something there that I can't put my finger on and I think it is like my karma is out of whack because of the disaster this room has become. I was about to take photos today but decided to wait a few more days. I just can't stomach it and don't want a picture of what it looks like right at this moment. It needs to be swept or vacuumed or blown up. I don't know what!! But I am a little better than I was but I do feel out of sorts a bit and you explained my feeling to a tee. Thanks for commenting. It made my day.

Actually I love all the comments because I know in the next couple of weeks when I start going insane about this redo, I will be blogging about it to get it off my chest and I am happy to know you are there to support me and even cheer me on when I need it.

Have a great day everyone!!