Just wanted to let you guys know that I am making a ton of progress on this piece, and have taken a few pictures of it's progress but my laptop died so I have no way of sharing the pictures with you right now.

My dad said he was saving up to get me a new computer earlier this week, but it may still be awhile since he just had to pay for new brakes for my moms car. I think I'm getting a lot more stitching done because of a lack of computer (no internet distractions) which is great for something like this where I have a deadline, but I miss having a computer all the same!
@Offe: I get plenty confused myself! It's never enough to make me change the method I use for stitching though, and I'm not stitching my eagle in blocks, that one I'm doing grid by grid and I'm actually finding that to be more confusing than stitching color block by color block! I kept messing up way too much when I tried stitching the eagle by color blocks though, so he's getting stitched grid by grid.