When I haven't been working or reorganizing my craft room (a.k.a. The Repository For All Homeless, "What-Are-You", and "Someday-I'm-Sure-You'll-be-Useful" Objects), I've been working on this 3"x3" cross stitch. It will become a card for my cousin/godson who is graduating in about a week. I will be flying back to see him and, in the process, run into half my old teachers and some classmates since he's graduating from my old stomping grounds (and, actually, the same high school both his mother and my mother graduated from).
The pattern is from Cross Stitch Card Collection: 101 Original Designs by Claire Compton and the original version is actually shown on the cover. However, I changed it to the school colors. Ahhh, the perks of handmade!
Now for the truly random part of this post: I am bothered by the newest Danactive commercial (I would post a youtube link, but oddly it's one of the few things ever televised that hasn't made its way to youtube yet). So Jamie Lee Curtis is in a grocery store passing out yogurt samples because honestly, what's left after fighting off Mike Myers (the villain from Halloween, not the comedien, although she may have fought him off, too. Who knows? Anyway....) and some woman walks up and call her the Danactive lady. Jamie looks a little sad as she looks to the camera and says, "That's my new name." Then there's some patter about how supercoolawesome Danactive is and, aside from that moment of wistfulness, it seems like a normal commercial until the end when a random woman stops by the free sample table to announce that she's been using it and now she's "loving life." I can do a pretty decent job of suspending disbelief (that's how I can love opera), but not when someone announces that she is "loving life" because she's started eating a yogurt that makes her regular. Beyond the fact that strangers don't normally announce that sort of thing to each other (at least not around here; please let me know if this is normal grocery store conversation in your neck of the woods), I have trouble believing eating yogurt would be the thing that turned her life around. Either she was so blocked up that that was truly the biggest problem in her life (lucky her) or this is some miracle yogurt. Maybe there's more to the commercial that got edited out. "Danactive paid off my student loan, my car, my house, resolved my broken relationship with my sister, offered free marriage counseling to my friends, makes my bed, and unblocks more than my creativity! Now I'm loving life!"
Yeah, that must be it.


