What it Shakes Out to Be

Here are some fun facts about the cross-stitch:

• To date, I've worked on it for 72 Days.

• I put in an average of 4 hours on the cross-stitch per day (even with a day off here and there.)

• That adds up to 288 hours of stitching time, or 12 days of my life.

• Cross-Stitch Lady is paying me $200.00 to complete this project.

• So far, I have earned 69 cents per stitching-hour.

Other fun facts:

• I am not quite halfway finished.

• My optometrist recently diagnosed me with severely dry eyes, most likely due to not blinking enough while stitching.

• The visit to the optometrist cost me $100.00

• Since this dryness problem is most likely caused by the cross-stitch, that reduces my net income to 34.5 cents an hour.

• If I keep at this rate of completion, I will put in almost another 300 hours, so my net income per hour will wind up being around 16 cents an hour.

Tell me, is this worth it??