Updating . . .

I do a lot of thinking while laying in bed in that drowsy, warm state between 'Do I really want to get up for a pee' & 'Dammit, I have to get up for a pee'. I think about laundry & how good sheets used to smell after blowing in the wind all afternoon. And I think about where Stevo put my camera when he tore my office apart to redesign my computer system. Last night or should I say this morning, I was wide awake at 3:28 wondering if I should get up & go for breakfast somewhere or just suck it up & try for another couple of hours. I really didn't want to get out of my warm nest but my stomach was complaining about going to bed without dinner again. It's been complaining a lot lately because I've been feeding it another strain of antibiotic that it doesn't like. I suspect I could force down one more cycle of the stuff before my gut really kicked the crap out of me but the last 10 days weren't easy. For me, the only way to deal with the side effects is to stop eating. And don't get all out of shape, you can swallow a huge amount of calories through a straw! I did drink a lot of milky tea, a couple of mochas, miso soup, oatmeal & noodles in chicken broth. Just nothing bulky. The pills are all gone - you'd think the stomach would shut up but it still complains.

Until I find my camera, there won't be any pictures of anything even though I'm happily knitting my way through a Purple Scrappy sock. Well, purple & pinks. I bought some Neon sock yarn from Knit Picks & thought it would be great to brighten up some of the antique OPAL I found in the stash. Looks like something out of the 60s, the kind where the pattern moves when you stare at it too long. But it's dark so I thought a little neon pink would do the trick .  .  .  .
The Big Triangle blanket is just about finished. I think there's a couple of balls of something or other left in the bag & several balls of the dark brown eyelash yarn - don't know if I'll use the eyelash on an edge although the stuff feels really good elsewhere in the triangle but it's a bit thin. Not sure what I'll do around the outside to finish it off yet although I left a loop at the beginning of each row, just in case. I was thinking about fringe at the time.
Sorted through all the sweater starts for Moi & have decided to finish the one that's closest to being finished - in the end, they're all the same - top down, raglan sleeves, V-neck, I'm so dull!! well, except for the colors, that is. And in the end, I just want a simple, warm, woolly garment to throw on to run  limp to & from the car.

And that's about it. I guess I'm wide awake now so I might as well work on the first chapter of my new University of Alberta Paleontology course - Ancient Marine Reptiles. This is another in the series presented through Coursera & follows Dino 101, Paleotology:Theropod Dinosaurs & the Origin of Birds & Paleontology: Early Vertebrate Evolution. Gotta keep the 'Little Grey Cells' working!

This One's for You, Lynne

 Last night the Wednesday Nite Nitting gals met in a new spot once again in the Clayton(188 & Fraser Hwy)Tim Hortons. We should be known as the Traveling Knitters since we move every once in a while when things get too crowded, hours of operation change or owners change - I think we've moved 7 times in the last 20 years!! And every once in a while, we get old members or out-of-towners dropping by to knit & chat. Sometimes, we get REAL Oldies like Lynne, from the back of beyond, who we normally see only at fibery events!! First thing she says is - "update your damn blog!" Yessim, I can do that. So here's yer damn update, Lynn.

I know, I know. I haven't said anything since August!! Well, dammit, I was suffering from FLC & had nothing to say. And what's FLC, you ask??? Feeling Like Crap. Everything aches, you're stiff & sore, brain is fuzzy, the old gut rumbles & talks back, can't read, can't knit, can't spin, don't want to talk to anyone so you go back to bed instead. Not sure what it is or where it came from but some guy on Public TV claims he has the diet to cure it in 21 days!! Yeah. Sure. Time to get over it!!!

So what did I do on MY Summer Holidays???

Why, nothing, dammit. Nada. I'm so bloody dull!! Can we count the times I ran the Ex to the eye specialists??? How 'bout Little Ron's trip to the ER??? Didn't even drive to Hope & dip my gold pan in the river this year. And I doubt I've been more than 30 miles away from home either.

I had so many plans for Retirement. I was going to sleep in, stay up late, drink more wine, take classes & spend more time sitting on the patio spinning. And what have I done??  I took on three new bookkeeping customers & worked all summer. That's what.

Oh, I did knit a bit - finished three more pairs of socks, just about ready to do the toe decreases on another pair & put another few inches on the blanket/shawl I've been working on for my niece. I also dug out the 5, yes FIVE, sweaters I have started for myself & contemplated finishing ONE for this winter ASAP. I'll post pictures when the sky clears & you can actually SEE the colors.

Then I blew up my computer & got a new one built while we cleaned out a whole lot of garbage from my office. I think I had 5 boxes of extra electronic parts & two old computers in there as well as two boxes of records from a client who died 10 years ago. My new computer has a solid state main drive - NO MOVING PARTS!! It's so quiet I have to check to see if it's still ON. I have 4 TERRABYTES of storage space for new Audio Books! I figure if I'm gonna keep on working in my office I might as well have good tools.