Slow it goes

I have been dedicated to braille and finishing up gifts for the holidays. I am on lesson 16 now and am awaiting approval on the text I will transcribe for my final lesson.
Phoebe has been helping me with amigurumi. She picks the critter and I crochet it. Since she saw the word "crochet" she keeps saying "croquet." I giggle every time.
Renée turned 1 year on Thanksgiving day. We had a lot of fun dragging the activities throughout the day. Here we are opening her new drum. Since Phoebe is doing drums at school, we thought it appropriate for the sisters to bang it out together.

Braille work-1/2 way through!

I have been taking the literary braille transcription course for certification. It is very interesting and combines so much of what I enjoy. Braille is somewhat like a puzzle, cryptogram, and logic problem. Texts that need graphics are what caught my eye initially as I can see a future working with tactile graphics and simplifying my process.
The course is 20 lessons with the 20th lesson actually being a 35-page manuscript that can have no more than 5 errors. It has to be perfect. I am more than half-way through the course and am beginning to think about what I am going to transcribe. Other transcribers have recommended I do something I would want to read over and over and over. So, I am torn. Do I do something that I love that I might hate when it is done, or do I do something mundane so I don't hate something I love?
I love Dune. Could I finally be cured of my Dune fascination?
Cayce in Pattern Recognition is fantastic. I don't want to relegate her to overkill.
Hitchhikers Guide-any one of them might make me loopy with all the dry humor.
Possibilities exist in Breaking Dawn, but that Jacob Black is annoying! Maybe the part when she crumbles granite.
Suggestions? Comments? Help & Assistance?

Getting things done-NOT

I am not getting much done, but my sister sure is.
How on earth would I have made it two weeks without her. I have been so afraid that Phoebe would feel left out with her baby sister's arrival. Not so with Auntie Sarwah in the mix! It is official, Phoebe's favorite toy is her aunt.
The fabric store saw too much of me during my pregnancy while I worked on finishing projects. Now, they haven't seen me in weeks!
My work toward earning my literary braille certification has taken a hiatus for about 4 weeks. I have been doing awesome on it, but my last assignment threw me a curve. Figuring I had it all sorted out, I turned it in. I brailled it twice, did a file comparison, and transcribed it. Three times over and I totally messed it up! Apparently, one aspect of the style rule just flummoxed me and I lost a ton of points. Go figure. I am sure I skimmed over it thinking I got it. Obviously, no. No, I didn't.
I am looking forward to getting my hands back into my projects.