I've finally moved on to the next page, so you'll be seeing less and less of my fairy's face as I move across the row. Odds are, it'll still take a long time until her face is completely gone, as I do two pages vertically before moving on. Right now, I'm mostly working on the background at the top, interspersed with some of the single stitches at the wing section, so I won't feel completely overwhelmed later on.

One of the things that is spurring me onwards is the fact that our progress chart on the right sidebar has finally been updated! And guess who is in the lead now? :D By quite a healthy margin too, I might add. I still need to do a lot more before I "get even", as my pattern is quite a bit bigger, but a lead is better than nothing. It seems like Eel hasn't been doing too much lately, so it's giving me an even bigger lead. Go, me!!

I've been feeling extremely poor in the last couple of weeks, my credit card bill is HUGE and my bank balance is tiny. If only it was the other way round...Well, part of that is due to the fact that I've purchased airline tickets to Melbourne for Eel's wedding in August, and Mr. T is yet to pay me back for his. And since we'll be there anyway, we might as well take a side trip to New Zealand, I've already been to most of Australia. So, there goes more money. And what do I do? I go out and buy more stuff, most specifically, this:

A 24" Dell monitor! *sigh* Yes, I should be saving money, but it was just too tempting an offer to pass up. The price just dropped recently by RM300, and I was offered a subsidy of RM400, so I only ended up paying RM299 for it. Isn't that a great bargain?

Anyway, from now on, I must save if I want to do lots of activities in New Zealand. I've been Googling activities to do there, and glacier trekking looks extremely awesome, and is definitely top of my list at the moment! Mental note: Save, save, save...