Getting to know me

So - I've lived here for more than a year now. It's been a year full of new experiences - some good, some bad but all very educational in my lifelong task of getting to know me.

I got a job that turned out to be absolutely s***! I've made so many faux-pas that I can't even be bothered to blush anymore. Asking a guy going into the army if there was to be a lot of "spit and polish" might not be the right thing to ask - even though I was referring to his rather scruffy shoes! All these sexual innuendos is getting to me, not only am I a foreigner - I am a blonde as well!!

Since I'm very poor on the animal front here, which is something I've never experienced before, I've had to come up with different things to keep myself busy. No, not the gym. I know I should have but never sort of had the "time". Erm... Anyway, things to keep myself busy:

yes, I've started to cross-stitch! Those who know me are probably choking on their tongues at this very moment but I don't care! Choke all you like but x-stitching has made me discover that I have patience and am actually able to sit down and count, thread, sew, and put it back neatly after I'm done and without a single foul-mouthed outburst and things have stayed put without being thrown across the room. Not even a little itty bit of stomping has occurred.

Are you not impressed? I sure as hell am!

I'm not very fast and the back of it isn't as neat as it should be but I am sticking to it! I've already finished one and am onto my 2nd one. I'd hoped for it to be finished by x-mas as it's kind of a "Christmassy" motif but never mind - there'll, hopefully, be more Christmases.

I've scanned the picture for you to see what a good girl I am nowadays. I had plans on making the picture so that you'd just get the pattern but the stupid, stupid program didn't do what i wanted it to so I had a strop and almost threw the computer over the balcony rails. So you'll have to make do with what I have.

Hmmm - maybe not so much patience after all...