College page 16 finished!!

I was beginning to have my doubts as to whether or not I would ever finish this page. It felt deceptively close for a few days. Every time I thought I was going to finish, I fell short. But finally, last night, I managed to put in the last few confetti stitches of the page.

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This page took me from November 21 until January 10 to stitch which isn't exactly super fast. But it was faster than I stitched when grad school was still around so I can't complain. 8 pages left to stitch with a goal of November 25th of this year for a finish. Can I do it? I guess we'll see!

I should have my current page of Library Adventures done pretty soon, too, but since College is my focus piece I always stitch my goal for the night on it first and if I can get to my secondary piece I do but if I can't then that's that. Either way, I've crossed off one thing off my goals page (where I've created a complete list of my stitching goals for 2015 by page, percent, section, etc.). I've already glued pages 17 and 18 together and am about to sit down with the new season of Ghost Adventures and grid them before I go out for my run.

Speaking of running I did my longest run on Friday and ended up running 10.57 miles. I know it's silly and I know people run a lot longer but man am I proud of myself. For someone who just a year ago couldn't run a mile without walking to steadily jog over 10 miles is a big deal. I'm pretty well on my way to finishing the half marathon in about 2.5 hours, which isn't too bad I don't think, particularly for a person who isn't really a runner.

Time to go grid pages 17 and 18. Although I can't say I love gridding, I can say that it helps my stitching immensely. Until next time, happy stitching, everyone!