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csziggy

(34,189 posts)
1. Hanging out here, doing nothing
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 12:44 AM
Feb 2021

I made major progress on two needlework projects today, so I'm happy. One is from a class I took in 2011 but was never able to concentrate on until now. All that's left to do it to attach about a dozen tiny hand stitched leaves, a bunch of beads for fruit, and the wings on a butterfly and a bird.

I also go a good start on my next project, which I bought about eight years ago. It will be fun and less stressful than the other one - the princess and the pea with ten mattresses!

Needlework is my sen activity and relaxes me, even the pieces with fiddling little bits.

hay rick

(9,456 posts)
4. Some of my favorite shows have kept me awake from beginning to end.
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 12:57 AM
Feb 2021

My wife and I are currently catching up on Desus and Mero. We're up to last year at this time and they are just starting to talk about the pandemic. Still a joke to them, but they are (or were) doing two half-hour shows a week from NY- so you know the hammer is coming down real soon.

fierywoman

(8,539 posts)
6. I've been watching Wim Wenders' Til the End of the World -- free, no ads, on YouTube.
Sun Feb 28, 2021, 02:03 AM
Feb 2021

I've been wanting to re-watch it for about 10 years -- it came out in 1991 and was so prescient about where computers were going... and, in a way, the drug of the computer screen ...

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