Was feeling brain-fried from lack of sleep the last two days, mostly due to the warmer weather we're enjoying right now (it's 79F/26C outside as I write this), and wanting to do something relatively mindless I picked up one of my long-delayed cross stitch projects, this one a copy of the seal for my graduate school. I think I might have started this either in or shortly after grad school, back in the late 90s. It's almost complete, but there's a lot of mindless fill-in of a circle, around some text and within two stitched boundaries (shield in the middle is done, circle with the name of the school is done but for filling in the space around the lettering for the school name). Many reasons why I stopped, with "oh my gawd why do kits cut the damned thread so fucking short" being the top of the list, but I'm determined to finish it up. The fill-in was less and a quarter done when I picked it back up yesterday and I think it's over a third now.

Related, we have a half-bath on the first floor and I've talked the husband into letting me decorate the as-yet untouched dark eggplant colored walls with the various cross stitch patterns I've completed over the years. He did request (at least) a single silly bathroom related one to be added to the collection, so I think I'm going to do a variation on one I saw that looks like an online review, with 4-1/2 stars on top and "Would poop here again." below. He approved, now I just need to see if I have any fabric lying around or if I need to pick some up. Oh, and then get all these projects ironed and framed.

The two big excitements of the day were getting some more furniture delivered (a sleeper couch for the husband's top floor space, and a reading chair for the downstairs room), and figuring out how to turn the alarm system's fucking door chime off (the one that beeps every time an outside door opens). Both things tend to send the cats under the bed, but with the alarm now off, hopefully Benjamin won't go into full on under-the-bed panic every time we need to take recycling to the bins in the garage.

Past that, I remembered we still have two clamp lights that have Hue bulbs that we hadn't put up, so I attached one to some shelving in the slightly-rearranged office. Still need storage for there, and a real office chair, but frankly it made more sense to prioritize the husband's spaces first. And we did try to get some shelving at Ikea yesterday, but they didn't have the one we wanted.

So after hanging the light I spent a good chunk of the evening watching movies on my Kindle fire (clamped to a side table with this handy little stand) and finished a big chunk of a cross-stitch I'm working on for the rest of my nuclear family now that they've all moved to Texas (a "home sweet home" design over an outline of the state). Not as vigorous as knitting, but it was what I needed for the day. Oh, and I unpacked the last box for the bedroom and rearranged some drawers in a better way (waiting for furniture to show up is deadly boring and I needed something to do).

Tomorrow's plan is to try cooking a pork tenderloin and see if the husband will eat it. And figure out something to do with the green beans and the broccoli in the fridge.