SO Frustrated!

It's been a most vexing 24 hours.  My computer decided to have a major brain fart last night, so I was up late dealing with it and have spent a significant chunk of my day today working on getting it sorted out.  It was one of those deals where I re-booted the computer to complete the installation of a McAfee update but the computer wouldn't restart because a config file was "missing or corrupted."  So I had to re-install Windows, which of course wreaked havoc with everything on the hard drive; I didn't lose anything permanently because the re-install process backed up the files, but I did lose stuff in the sense that now I don't know where the heck it is.  I'm convinced that the McAfee installation caused the problem; I hate McAfee.  I've heard that Macintosh computers don't need anti-virus programs.  Is that the case, does anyone know?

On a happier note, I've been getting in some stitching.  I worked on Little Paradise this afternoon and here's where I am with it:

I didn't finish the date because, while I feel fairly confident that I should be able to finish this thing in this decade, I didn't want to commit myself to getting it finished this year!  The alphabet and the date are Smyrna crosses stitched over 4 threads with 1 strand of silk and I'm totally glad to be done with them except for one more number.

I've also been working on Spring Sampler and finished the top border:

I like this piece a lot.  There's a little verse in the upper portion of the sampler and little critter motifs on the bottom (below the bee hive).  The border's a little tedious with all that dark green but it's not difficult at all.

Wishing everyone a great weekend and happy stitching!