I failed at fire

Hey, remember how I was going to knit (at least) a pair of socks for each element of Project Spectrum? Yeah, well, what you see up there is my whopping progress on my fiery sock. Not even one whole repeat! And it's not that I don't love the yarn or the pattern (they're both great,…

catatonic

Oh my goodness, y'all, when they told me I'd be drowsy and out of it on these meds, they so weren't lying. I got my presentation rescheduled for Tuesday, thank goodness, because all I could manage yesterday was looking at pictures on Flickr in a nearly catatonic state. Same goes for today, really...I've not even…

bad day

Let me tell y'all about my day yesterday. I finally got to see my doctor, and after a series of rather painful tests, got confirmation about what's going on (swollen tissue in my back putting pressure on my sciatic nerve, making me hurt like crazy and also messing up my ability to walk), and two…

I’m done with Winter, but Winter’s not done with me

Remember those treetops? Yeah, that's the same little stretch of sky that was so brilliantly blue just a little over a month ago. But that's what we've got, today. It's wearing on me, a little...I'm just so ready to be done with winter, to be done with being cold (we keep our thermostat set very…

back, and with something to show for it

My travel project of choice these past few trips has been completed: The Chevron Scarf is flying high now that it's off the needles, but I'm not. I'm back from North Carolina now, and feeling much worse for the wear. I've got a low-grade migraine going on at the moment, thanks to the olfactory assault…

taking to the skies

Well, I've had my one day at home between trips now, so I'll be taking off in a few hours to fly down to North Carolina. To be perfectly honest, I'm a bundle of stress at the moment (I've never liked flying, and the new TSA restrictions and such add even more stress to airline…

snowed in

The wedding was absolutely beautiful, but I don't have any pictures to share (well, I do have a couple of pictures of my husband and I all dolled up, but that's it). We'd intended to be on the road today, but, as you might've heard, Ohio got a wee bit slammed by snow. The wedding…

heading to a wedding

We're taking off for Ohio in a little bit, on our way to my brother's wedding. Tomorrow I'll be giving the shawl to my wonderful sister-in-law, and then playing my violin in their ceremony. I will hopefully return with pictures to share. I've been a busy bee getting ready for this trip and the one…

what now?

It is very strange, not having the shawl to knit on anymore. My hands are literally feeling lost and confused without their daily dose of yarnovers and decreases. I have never been so single-mindedly focused on a particular project for that long. The last couple days, I just haven't known what to do with myself...so…