This past couple of weeks has really rushed by quite fast! I had a long weekend at the start of November as it was Melbourne Cup public holiday on the 4th Nov, so I took the Monday off as well. 4th was also my birthday so I was determined to have a lovely long birthday weekend. I didn't end up doing much HAED despite all that free time and I've really slacked off these past couple weeks. I think I've barely hit a 20 stitch daily average and I still haven't finished that damn page! Both of them!

I did however start on a new page because I was sick of single stitches, so its nice to swap from big clumps to single stitches. I'm going to attempt to fully finish off sections of the new page, instead of only focusing on all the big clumps.

Here's my progress pics:
Check out all the single stitches that I still have for 2 pages. Grrr....I guess mainly its sort of hard to focus on single stitches when I'm trying to watch TV at the same time. Seems to require way more concentration.

One series that I've been keeping up with while HAED-ing is Dirty Sexy Money:



When I first heard about this show and watched the ads for it, I wasn't interested at all. It sounded too soapy for me. My interest only came from reading some fashion mag (can't remember which one) where they quoted this series as something with lots of current trends and fashion labels. So I decided to check it out if only for the clothes. I was pleasantly surprised by it and now its one of my favourite series.

The main character is Nick George, who starts out as the good-guy lawyer, into charities and all that. His whole life, he's had to deal with growing up with the super rich Darling family, whom his dad worked for as their family lawyer. At the start of the series, his dad has just died in a suspicious plane crash and the Darlings offer Nick a position as their family lawyer in exchange for enough money to support the charities that he's passionate about. And so begins his slavery to the family, where as family lawyer, he seems to have to deal with all kinds of stupid little chores. At times it seems that he's being so easily manipulated by the family, other times you can tell he's got something up his sleeve.

The way this series is written is pretty good, most of the times its pretty funny and all other times, it makes you go "Ooooh, so that's what he was planning all along!" All the characters are very likeable. Even the rich spoilt brat kids, who in the ads I saw just seemed to be portrayed as your typical annoying rich brats. But they are actually very good characters, all of them seem to have a good side as well as an evil side. And its always a guess as to who is manipulating who.

My favourite character is Brian Darling, who is the illegitimate child of Letitia Darling and Nick's dad. He starts off the series as a minister at a church but he's the most rude, corrupted and bad tempered minister ever. He has an affair and gets a child and then to get custody of the child, he tries to bribe the jury!

Dirty Sexy Money is in its second season now. If you like Desperate Housewives, I think you'd love this. I used to like Desperate Housewives but I think this is better.