Start of Spring Semester

I never could understand why they call it Spring Semester seeing as you start in the dead of winter...

Anyway, my spring semester at Manchester Community College has begun. I've been to my math (algebra) class so far. The semester started on a Thursday (why in the middle to end of the week I can't fathom?!?!) and I don't have any classes on Friday so math is the only class I've been to so far. It is going to be an interesting class. The professor has warned us that we will be covering a week's worth of information in each class seeing as it is a combined course of Basic algebra and intermediate algebra in one class (it is also 2 1/2 hours each class! and she let us know we would be in class for the ENTIRE 2 1/2 hours!).

During the winter break I did get some stitching done on my Cirque de Cercles. Actually quite a bit more than I thought I would...

I'm posting three different pictures of what I've been up to...

This first one was taken on 1/11/2010...

This one was taken 1/15/2010...

and this last one was taken on 1/24/2010...this is about 1 1/2 pages complete of the 6 page pattern...


Most of my stitching time now that classes are back in session will be on Monday evenings when I have an hour that I'm sitting at the ice rink while my daughter takes skating lessons. There really isn't a space for me to study there and it is easier to stitch while sitting in the "bleachers" with my headlamp around my neck for light vs trying to juggle books, pads and pencils to do math...

Thanks for looking and I look forward to updating my progress again soon...

Happy New Year!!

Welcome to 2010!! Doesn't seem possible that 2009 is already in the history books.

It was quite a year for my family. Father in law sick with yellow fever (luckily he survived), son transferred schools, daughter moving on to middle school, my decision to go back to school after being out for over 20 years.

Having gone back to school has definitely cut into my blogging time not to mention my stitching time. I have found some time to stitch here and there but it has definitely been a minute here and a second there...

I finished Cirque de Carreaux in early September and started Cirque de Circles. Here is a picture of where I stand on it at the moment.



As I said, not moving as fast as in the past but making some progress.

As far as my classes, I just got my grades for the Fall Semester and I stand at a 3.82 GPA. I got an A- in my Anatomy & Physiology class and an A in my Intro to Computer Software class (how to use Microsoft Office 2007 Products).

My goals for 2010 include taking General Biology, General Chemistry, Math, the second half of Anatomy & Physiology (and doing as well on them as I did this first semester) and applying to the Nursing Program at Capital Community College. My stitching goals include working on projects when they fit into the rest of my life and possibly having one or two finished before the end of the year. I also plan to get the projects from 2009 (Blackstone Fantasy Garden and Cirque de Carreaux) framed (although I may hold off on Carreaux until I have finished Circles and Triangles- which I received as a Christmas gift- so they can all be in the same type of frame seeing as they are all going to be stitched on the same fabric with the same floss)...

Best health and wishes for all for the New Year...