Life Challenges

Daily writing prompt
What are your biggest challenges?

My biggest challenge was 18 years ago when my daughter and I left our native country and moved to Poland. The changes touched our cultural background, language, work for me, and a school for my daughter. By the way, we changed a small town into a big city. All these things were terrifying. However, there wasn’t a second I regretted my decision. I am still happy living here, in Warsaw.

This year Christmas decoration

A Christmas Tree

On Stage

Daily writing prompt
Have you ever performed on stage or given a speech?

Well, I wouldn’t say that I enjoy public speaking. However, I participated in performances with my philological faculty’s theatre club in my youth. You might wonder how that was possible. If you don’t have to speak, you can play the piano. Since I was the only one in our group who could play, I was guaranteed a role. Thus, I think I can say that I performed on a stage.

Favourite Physical Activity

What are your favorite physical activities or exercises?

Basketball and all things around it. I was born in Lithuania, basketball is our National sport, so we played basketball everywhere: at kindergarten, school, University, at work, etc. Basketball is more than sport for each Lithuanian, it is our life.

Eating Meat

I do not have a clear answer to this question. Generally, I try not to eat meat, especially since I usually don’t even want to. If I do, I eat white meat, i.e. chicken or turkey. But if I don’t eat red meat for a long time, I get anaemic, and I must admit that one rare steak improves my blood tests. You could say that I feel bad eating meat, but it seems that I have no choice.

Daily writing prompt
What are your feelings about eating meat?

New Pattern

Christmas Ball Ornament in Ukrainian National Flag Colour Counted Cross Stitch Pattern

Chart specs.

  • stitch count – 135 х 103 (30 х 33) stitches
  • finished size – 9.64 x 7.36 inches or 24.49 x 18.69 cm when sewn on 14-count Aida or 28-count Evenweave
  • stitches used – whole cross stitch and back stitch

New Pattern

Our new counted cross stitch pattern – Wolf from Celtic Animal Zodiac for those born October 29 – November 24. Chart specs.

  • stitch count – 128 x 123 stitches
  • finished size 9.14 x 8.79 inches or 23.22 x 22.33 cm when sewn on 14-count Aida or 28-count Evenweave
  • stitches used – whole cross stitch and back stitch

Books

Daily writing prompt
What book are you reading right now?

I am reading Jurga’s Ivanauskaitė’s “Švelnūs tardymai” right now – the book in the Lithuanian language I bought during my visit to Lithuania at the end of October. The book contains twenty interviews with famous Lithuanian artists, philosophers, priests, and others. This is not the one book I’ve read, some weeks ago I started “Butler to the World: How Britain Helps the World’s Worst People Launder Money, Commit Crimes, and Get Away with Anything” by Oliver Bullough in the Polish language, and the title in Polish sounds like “Kamerdyner Swiata: jak Wielka Brytania wstąpiła na służbę u oligarchów, kleptokratów i kombinatorów”.