There is a cat on my lap

...because clearly this is where all of the fun and attention-deserving things are happening!  It's really adorable until he gets tired of being a lap cat and decides to explore the desk, the keyboard, and the mouse.  You try typing with your elbows up in the air trying to keep the cat from climbing onto the desk.  It's super difficult and awkward!

So I'm going to try out Bar Method with Mandy this weekend.  I hear nothing but awesome things about it (and by awesome I mean things like "It's so hard! But so worth it") so I got a free class email offer and we'll see!  I imagine it will kick my ass, a lot, but be totally worth it.

My insurance (and other benefits) from my NEW FULL TIME JOB! have finally kicked in so I went to the doctor yesterday and got a clean bill of health.  Except that I am slightly anemic and at some point will have hypothyroidism.  Thanks Mom.  I'm hoping some iron supplements will fix the tiredness; I sleep between 7.5 and 9 hours a night and I still fell asleep on the bus home the past two days.  Ugh.  We'll see, I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

I've decided to cross stitch some Christmas stockings for JonMarke and I.  I remember that Nana made our family's stockings and they were awesome, so I wanna try to make some for our new little two person family unit.  I got two little kits with designs and they are SUPER complicated!  I knew the pictures looked detailed but when I opened them up I found that the pattern has like five different stitches and varying numbers of strands to use, plus it's on 14 count fabric so it's already fairly detailed.  But I'm having fun just sitting in front of some television and working on it for the past few nights.  The snowman mostly has a head now, but no eyes or nose yet cuz those are different colors.

And it's getting to be time to put up curtains in our apartment to keep out the cold.  Perhaps this weekend.