ita !, I'm glad you got pain relief, but I wish it could be more, and permanent.

FWIW, unless CA or L.A. does it differently, when I was a DV court liaison in MO and KS, shelters would help a woman in an abusive situation file a temp restraining order day or night with the on-call judge, and restraining orders once the temp order's time was run out.

ETA: No fee.

Well, Amy's right, the whole middle part isn't really cross-stitch. But I'd still call it that, I think.

That is a crossstitch

Or if you are writing a thank you note you could use embroidery or embroidered. I don't think it is needlepoint

You could just say "needlework." Covers it all!

Yeah, I'd just call it embroidery, Steph. A lovely hybrid, as Amy says.

Sara, bosses quitting is never good, but when it's just you and him...Yeah. Apparently the projects can't disappear, and the business users like me (one was my reference when I moved from contractor to permanent), but that leaves a lot of wiggle room for stress and disaster.

And I am so unwiggly...

And now, upon googling, is there a consensus about whether it's 2 words with a space (cross stitch) or one hyphenated word (cross-stitch)?

I like two words, no hyphen. Hmph. M-W.com likes the hyphen, though.

I'm sorry about the wiggliness, ita. I hope the ER helped, though.

There isn't even consensus on that in my own mind. Sometimes I go with crossstitch because three esses, who can pass that up? Needlework is a reasonable sidestep, for both the hybridness of the work and the potential differences in opinion over spelling.

It's a lovely piece, whatever the exact term for it.

Seriously, your boss quit his job, ita? The boss that just stole you from old job? I thought maybe you meant he quit for the day or quit being mad at you or something. Yowza, like you needed more excitement.

I am getting way more enjoyment than I should from posting old pictures on fb these last few weeks.