A Little More Progress

Jeff and I hate cleaning. Although we’d much prefer to pay someone else to do it, this is not possible, so we instead have turned to this thing called Chore Wars. This is an online … well, it’s sort of a game, it was modeled after online games, but in this case your “adventures” are your chores and cleaning projects. You gain various types of experience points and gold coins for completing your chores. You have the option to add “demons” to the chores you put in, and also rewards.

So far it’s working pretty well around here, particiularly the possibility of rewards. This below is my character badge recently - I earned a cookie! I was last seen Mucking the Stables (my euphemism for cleaning a cat box).

In other news: I usually divide up my crafting by working on my long-term crochet projects during the week at night, and do other sorts of things on the weekends - sewing, etc. Sometimes, the little-bit-at-a-time crocheting gets frustrating because it feels like I’m not making ANY progress and that it’s going to last FOREVER. It doesn’t help that I seem to like making blankets.

So I made myself a graph, which made me feel much better. See the orange? That’s what I’ve already done, which is most of it. I also already made a black border for each of those 48 squares. The blue is what I have to accomplish still - 3 seams and 2 rows of crochet on the outside - since I’ve decided to add a yellow border inside the black outer one.

And now, the weekend, in which I retreat to my sewing machine, bake a cake & some muffins, paint some stuff and play with Mod Podge.