Matt and I put together my LEGO car. I like when assembling LEGO things to have two people, one to hand over the needed item and one to place the needed item.
Matt was the hander, I was the placer.
It was pretty cool to see everything come together. And when we were done, we disassembled the car, packaged everything back up, and then I dropped it off in a free box for someone else to enjoy.
Another blackwork embroidery done. Here’s my completed sampler:
And here is where you can buy your own.
Making all those small, short stitches is very calming. I like using the lazy daisy as fancy frame embellishments.
The sampler bonus was this cute bat stuffed animal, which will stay in this format until someone cleans out my estate.
My next project will be something of my own design, and I’m quite excited to start!
I really liked Redbox, and was sad to see it go out of business. Besides keeping people in blockbusters, they often had a good amount of independent films. And the prices were so very low.
Most kiosks have been removed but, for some reason, this one outside the Walgreens near me is still there. It’s been there long enough for some miscreants to see if there are any DVDs remaining.
I’m not sure if there were any left when they opened it up, but it’s interesting to see how many disks a kiosk could hold.
Laurie, Kelly, and I watched the Academy Awards at the Kiggins Theater in Vancouver, and boy, was that the correct choice. There were prizes! Laurie won!
And so did I!
The Kiggins gave everyone a raffle ticket with a nominee on it; if your nominee won, you got a prize. And then, because turnout was a bit light, we got extra tickets.
After each award was given and the broadcast went to commercial, the Kiggins people had the gift certificate donor come up and talk about their Main Street Business, and then hand out the award. It was like we had our own awards ceremony, and we also got to learn a ton about downtown Vancouver businesses.
I won because the person who really won wasn’t there, and I had best sound in a different category, and they gave me the prize, which was to a music store. A woman offered to trade her prize (a comic book store) and I did. So now I have $50 to spend!
Us after the show.
We also played the Happiest Oscar Viewer game. It was the kind of Oscars where I wasn’t overly excited for many categories, so I wasn’t happy very often. But also wasn’t annoyed.
Also, this quote from David Chen was spot on and made me laugh.
