Random Hiatus

Hey, so long time no see, right?  Well not much has happened lately except the usual business that comes with celebrating Christmas.  Here's what I've done in the last couple weeks:

1.  I've forced myself to start a routine - I had become extremely lax in my housework and it really dawned on me when my daughter picked something up and was about to put it in her mouth. That something was a crunch berry. I realized how long it had been since I had vacuumed, so I made myself a list of things to do every night and so now it's habit.

2. I've forced myself to go on walks nightly - I am fat. No need for elaboration. I will work out when I'm a little more confident in myself.

3. I've been Christmas shopping.

4. I've been stitching like a mad woman.

Here are the things I've made :)

So, that's it. The first one is a James Sunderland finding the radio a la Legend of Zelda.  He's probably the smallest thing I've ever stitched. Him and the radio combined are about the height of a bobbin.  The other two are Ornaments. I couldn't remember if I'd shared Pluto before, but in case I haven't, here she is!  Sorry, I'm mobile and the app keeps crashing otherwise I'd have checked.

Anyway, I'm off to go deal with my screaming littlest one, so happy stitching, everyone!

Go Ahead. Make My Day.

Someone got a hold of my Best Buy credit information.  This person ordered a laptop. A really, really expensive one, and had it sent to my house.

Here's how it went down, from the beginning.

I am sitting on Facebook talking to a friend and my email pops up saying, "Order Confirmation."  I thought to myself, I haven't ordered anything lately.  So, thinking it was probably a spam email, I clicked my inbox.  It was from Best Buy. So, I opened the email. It looked pretty legitimate, so instead of clicking any of the links in the email, I logged into my Best Buy account from the browser and sure enough, there's an order on my record.  So I looked to see what was ordered, thinking maybe my husband bought a movie or something.

It was a laptop.  A really expensive one.

I went to my husband and showed him the email just to double check that he hadn't ordered it. He said that he hadn't and then asked me if I really thought he would be so stupid as to spend that much money without talking to me first.  Then he also asked me if I thought he would ever own another Mac after the fiasco that was our MacBook (remember the exploding battery?).  So I told him that someone must have my information.

I called Best Buy and they said that indeed someone had ordered a laptop. Then she asked me what my address and contact information was.  When I gave it to her, she said, "It's shipping to your house." So I told my husband what she had said. He had the same reaction I did: Someone's watching our house.

So after a lengthy conversation with the customer service representative, and then the fraud department (may I just say, they were absolutely fantastic and understanding), I hung up the phone and felt violated. I went through all my credit cards, my pay pal account, all my personal email accounts and looked for any suspicious activity. Nope, nothing, just Best Buy.

The only thing I could think of is that maybe I left my email logged in at the library (which is really unlike me).

I wish this thief luck in getting to the package before me. I have the tracking number to the laptop, I have already contacted UPS and they have put a signature requirement on it, and not for nothing, but I'm home all the time. Every day.  They ordered this package so that it would show up during block leave...too bad I'm not leaving.

I think I'm more pissed off than anything else.

It's Bigger On the Inside

I am making a TARDIS sewing kit that I found on YouTube from you tuber Paul Mason.  If you would like to check out the video, it's HERE.  It's a super easy tutorial and the finished product looks great.

That being said, the stitching part is taking forever lol.  Just a random update to say that I'm still alive :)

You know...since no one reads lol

Dead Scream II

Well, I just finished the Sailor Pluto ornament for my sister.  Here she is!

This is the ornament that will be taped to my sister's Christmas gift. I spoiled the surprise and sent her a picture because I couldn't wait lol.  I am working next on a Sailor Saturn for my friend (along with sending her an Ayumi Hamasaki shirt).

Segue!  Segway?  Segue seems right...

Anyway, so more on my computer.  It was the battery, right?  I think I mentioned that in a previous post.  Well, it swelled so much in less than 12 hours that my track pad completely lifted out of the unibody and the whole body of the computer is swollen.  So whenever the battery finally dies, I'm going to take it somewhere to be recycled.  I think I'm just going to take it to the Apple store.  I can't remove the battery myself, so I figured that's the best way to do it.  

My husband has a computer that he got before he went to Korea and it's a little Acer PC, so I think that I'm going to wipe the hard drive and start using that one.  Uh...why wipe the hard drive?  Well, he was a man all by himself in Korea....for a year...I can only imagine the files and viruses on that computer lol.  He was the one who suggested I wipe the hard drive, so chances are, well...you know...

Anyway, I'm off to look through my colors to see if I have the ones needed for Saturn.  Happy stitching, everyone!

It Happened

Dead Mac is dead.  My computer a-splode.

/cry

Random Vent

If it isn't one thing, it's another.  Seriously.  So recently I have been having an issue with my computer (yes, the one I'm currently typing this on).  It was beginning to run really slow, but I just chalked it up to the computer being old.  Then I realized this computer is barely 2 years old.  Ancient by computer standards, but not old enough to be dying like it is.

So like I said, it's been running really slow, then one night I get a "kernel panic" or whatever it's called.  Okay, so I figured that was no good.  I shut the computer down and decided I'd deal with it in the morning.

Morning comes and I start up my computer.  It starts up like nothing is wrong, but then it happens.  The Mac equivalent to the blue screen of death.  NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!  (in my best Darth Vader voice)  So I tinker with it, thinking that it might have just been a fluke, or something.  Because I'm dumb, you know?  So I shut it down, wait the obligatory 15 seconds, and then turn it back on.

Blue screen of death.

NOOOOOOOOOO!!!  Thank God all my stuff is backed up on an external hard drive.  So I disabled my OS, reinstalled it, and POOF!  It works again.  Yay for me!

But then.........

Now my track pad is going.  Well...went.  My track pad decided that the following morning was a perfect time to start sticking, which indicates a battery malfunction.  Giving up on the hardware part (because I only know software), I decided to take it in.  Just for the new track pad, because it was cracked from the battery swelling, is 95 dollars.  Plus labor.  That does NOT include the new battery, the new power button it needs, etc, etc, etc...

I guess I'm buying a USB mouse and then come tax season I'll buy a PC.  I have never owned a Mac before this, and since having it I have had nothing but problems with it constantly crashing, deleting things on its own, and randomly taking pictures and videos while it's not even in use.  I will not be owning a Mac ever again I think.

Dead Scream

*creepy echo*

Lol I'm in a pretty good mood. Watching Nip/Tuck and stitching my sister's gift.

I'm making a Sailor Pluto for her.  I bought her the Gray's Anatomy text book with illustrations and silver on the pages.  It's a hard bound book and it is gorgeous.  It has a silver ribbon bookmark attached to the binding. I'm in love with it and it's not even my thing lol

Anyway, I got off topic there for a second. I'm stitching a Sailor Pluto...ornament? Er...wall hanging? I don't know what it is.  I just didn't realize that it would be so large on 14 count. That's what I get for not measuring first lol. It's definitely too big to be an ornament.  It's looking good so far :)

Kinda creepy right now lol.  Hopefully as it goes on it looks better!  Anyway, I'm off to work on her, happy stitching, everyone!