A Monday post: migraines, broken car parts, and embroidery

Seems odd to be posting on a monday...and so close to my bedtime (up at 3:30 am means I'm usually in bed by 8pm).
But, as I recently received a comment on an embroidery post from Hive account@needleworkmonday I've decided to really get into the habit of working on my skills.

I had a rough day working on the Barracuda Saturday. I was planning on an easy day of tightening the rear end bolts to their specified torque settings, but it proved to be a bit of a pain. It seemed harder than it should've been, then I broke a nut ...and then a bolt head snapped off... so I moved on.
That night, we walked to a local restaurant for ice cream, even though I had a bit of a headache. I went to bed early (with the headache), got up several times (with the headache), but still went to work Sunday (with the headache). It had gotten a little worse, I tried to get through the day, but it turned into a full blown migraine. I hadn't had one in a long time and this was the worse one ever!
I left work at 11 am...slept, got up for water, slept, got up for water...etc...for the rest of the day. By about 6 pm I was finally over the headache, but this morning I still had residual dullness behind my eyes.
I tell you, I was on top of the world today having survived this migraine. That was the worst 28-ish hours of my life!

So...yesterday was a wash, but today I was determined to get some needlework done!

It took me most of the day to get the time, but I pulled out my little kit of stuff and worked on a little something.

I bought this Reader's Digest book so long ago! But I had a plan in my head to just draw a few easy designs on a sampler of sorts and practice all the stitches that caught my eye. I'd like to start on page one and go all the way though, but I also have to be honest with myself, in regards to time.

So I drew out a little acorn, a larger acorn and a couple mushrooms.

I tried a new stitch for the top of the acorn, the coral stitch.
I like knotted and chain stitches the best, I think.

A little bit of satin stitching for the stem, stem stitch for the outline of the bottom half, some back stitching to outline the top and just a couple (I guess what you'd call a darning stitch) to fill in the bottom a little.