The strangest thing going on around here. Entirely bizarre. I wake up in the morning, address my to do list, and then glance out the window and see that the bright burning day star is gone and it is night again and I missed almost everything. Yesterday the trouble was compounded by a raging UTI, (got meds. feeling a little better today) and the fact that Meg is trying to finish all of her university stuff, even though she really, really, really doesn’t want anything to change and would love it if High School went on forever. (I’m with her, actually.)
Then suddenly it’s dinner time and I’ll be darned if that doesn’t just appear on the table without some sort of effort, then there’s homework and more essays and such for all the girls… and then I am overcome with exhaustion, knit three rows on this shawl and collapse into my bed. When I wake up, the bright burning day star is back, and I hit the reset button. I’m not unhappy or overwhelmed, (except maybe with the UTI, which seems totally and completely fair) I’m just super, stupid, crazy busy with being a mum – and that seems fair too.
I am thinking that tomorrow will be much better, and I will write a blog then. What are you doing?
I’m biding my time until we can retire……
Wondering how I got to now in the day with the sun setting and still tons left to do. Somehow I suspect it will be Monday again and I will wonder the same thing.
working (fire dispatcher for 911 center), checking email, taking care of 12yo son, petting visiting kitties and being happy to be one of your first commenters today! and especially hoping you feel much better soon.
clarification: the working thing was from 7 am – 3 pm, the rest has followed.
Crossing my fingers on winning the lottery (in addition to buying tickets)and trying not to acknowledge the fact I have at least 15 WIP on needles (I guess that’s why I can’t find my 9s or 10s)
Mine is an ingrown toenail, which has totally sucked the life from me.
I am home with my sick 5 year old– it has been 8 days, and we finally found out it is “silent strep”-no throat issues. I feel just like you, with the dailyness of life taking up most of my time. Most of the time, it’s OK. Just breathe in and be with the present. I have heard that they don’t stay 5 years old for long and I need to enjoy it….
At least your kids have gone beyond the age where thy screech at each other like howler monkeys over plastic crap all day and you count yourself luck if no-one has committed murder or violence on anyone else. Roll on the civilities of homework.
Meanwhile – drink plenty of fluids and best of all wishes.
Well, personally, I’m being nine months pregnant, unable to walk because of bad nerve pain, and also taking care of my 4.5 and 3 year olds while my husband is out of town…. Is it odd that I’d gladly trade for your UTI? 😀
I know what you mean (not with the kids, but with the stupid busy part). Although, I have gotten an oddly fantastic amount of stuff done today, so I’m going to get ice cream.
UTI is not fun. Life is sucked away. Drink plenty of fluids and rest, if you can. I hope you feel better soon!
I’ve been home from work for 3 hours and I’m still working. Whats up with that?
The time to worry is when your days don’t fly by that way. Check your pulse.
I’m looking after my 2 year old, cooking for my dear husband, preparing for an orchestra concert tonight, and trying to finish a shawl that is half way done and must be finished in a week and a half for my mom’s 60th birthday! (and I’m a slow knitter. And I have had to rip back huge sections multiple times.)
I’m getting ready to teach a new knitting student, which is always exciting and a little scary. I know she’s going to be great, but there’s always that little voice in my head going, “what if you suck as a teacher?” Of course, I think I rock as a teacher, but the voice stays. 😉 Keeps me in reality. 😉
Sending healing vibes your way! I’m dealing with a difficult Time Of The Month and must be feeling sympathy pains for you. *hugs and beer*
I’m at work, reading your blog, wishing I were home doing anything but this, but then feeling guilty, cause I have a job, and I should be really really grateful that I have a job, but dammit I really want to be home doing anything but what I’m doing at work…I’m just too darn old for this sh… stuff.
I am wiggin’ because we just go another 6″ the powdery white stuff that comes from the frozen dandruff queen and we have LIGHT! Lots and lots of light. Light in the morning when the kids go to school and light when they come home. yeah light! (dont get much of it here in Alaska)
being a Mam too- it takes all day doesn’t it?
Hope you are drinking buckets (literally) of water for that UTI. Have had so many I feel like an expert. My sympathies.
being a Mam too- it takes all day doesn’t it?
Mostly blowing my nose (stupid sinus infection,) punctuated with bouts of data entry. My life is a joyride of unending excitement. *yawn*
Hope you’re feeling better soon!
Since you asked, I’m packing to go to Arizona to help my MIL with her mother who is 96. Hospice has just been started so this is not going to have a happy ending. Hoping I can be more help than hinderence. So sorry about the UTI like everyone has said fluids and rest the blog isn’t going anywhere blog when you feel better. Maybe give yourself a long break and start fresh on Monday?
I’m about to head home because I’m sick. My coworker was nice enough to cover for me.
I’m still basking in the light of buying an angora, merino blend yarn at 70% off during the LYS sale today. And the LYS made a mistake when cashing out–they OWE me $23.00 dollars and some odd cents. I’m heading back there tomorrow (if I feel well) for the good stuff.
Recovering from a truly implausible accident (in theory, what happened shouldn’t’ve been physically possible) in which I appear to have been extremely fortunate to sustain no injury more serious than a nasty bruise and some random strained muscles. This involved two days off work and a lot of knitting time, so it’s all for the good.
Also, remembering why I don’t take Daughter grocery shopping anymore.
I’m teaching French and ESL, wondering if my students are actually making any progress at all, feeling like a talking head, knitting a row or two on my sweater before exhaustion claims me, raising a boy singlehandedly, raging at his father who has decided to stop paying child support, petting my dog, being sucked dry by my life, and wishing for spring.
But at least I have my health. If you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything. Right?
I’ve turned over all free time to my freelance database work. I don’t get evenings to hang out, cook, or do much. I did escape to book group last night but that was mostly to preserve sanity. I finish at work, I go home and work.
And my knitting is sadly lacking.
I feel for you! Hope the meds help very much quickly.
It’s ten to six pm. I have my feet up and a cup of tea and reading the Yarn Harlot’s blog. The phone rings and it’s my thirty year old daughter. I don’t know what she wants yet. I hung up to save her phone bill and will call her back….ok, I called. I got two minutes before her doorbell rang…a friend arrived to stuff artichokes and now I have to call back after nine tonight. I’m in suspense.
I’m trying to find a buyer for a rather soiled secondhand teenager.
It turns out you can’t even give them away.
I’m working on a Nancy Bush scarf with nupps (Feb 18, 2009 on my blog) and I’m just to the bit where you pick up the border stitches. In my heart of hearts I feel a cold, stark, raving fear that after I knit all those repeats with nupps, that my border lace won’t match up. I’m just sick over it! Not UTI sick, but sick all the same.
Right now, I’m on “take a deep breath” mode. Maybe if I break the intensity between me and the scarf I’ll get it right by mistake.
Maybe we’ll both feel better in the morning. I hope so.
I thought I only had that problem. I and pushing 69 (faster than anyone wants to know), still working 3 days a week, busy outside the home 3-4 nights a week, just finished with a 6 week round of radiation for breast cancer and can’t figure out why I can’t spin and knit at least 4-6 hours each day plus do the daily house stuff and take care of the hubby and the crazy cat. I’m tired. I’m going to go spin now.
Ouch, UTI. My sincere sympathies!
I’m biding my time until three weeks from now, when I get fired. Sigh…
Also, cowl? *nudge nudge* 😉
I’ve reached that delirious point of the week where I know I have to work, I go to work, and I do said work, but I feel spacy. Someone told me tomorrow’s Friday. Is it true?
Though I appreciate the excitement that comes with the end of the week, when days mesh together like this, it’s a little dizzying. 🙂
Ugh. UTI = no fun at all. We are on Day 8 of the emergency room version of the flu that’s going on. It’s our 10 month old who has it bad. My husband got it, and my mama-strength is, I believe, all that is keeping me from being completely laid out. Baby boy seems to be turning the corner, finally, though the irony is not lost on me that he barfs every stinkin time I give him the anti-vomit meds.
(I’m not giving them to him any more). There are some things you should never find in your child’s armpits. Just sayin.
I’m sitting here thinking of all the great projects I want to cast on in all the great yarn I have but I can’t. You see, I decided that I have so many UFO’s that I cannot cast on anything new for the entire season of Lent. This is harder than last year when I gave up buying any knitting supplies during Lent.
Attending a baby delivery! And knitting while I wait….
Trying to figure out where this feeling of grief that I have is coming from and hoping that it’s cyclical and not permanent.
I have just realized that this job is an Information Technology job and no one told me that.
I am seriously enjoying that day star. It has been really shining around here lately, after a long dark boring winter (I have decided it’s over, altho probably setting myself up for some disappointment there). I hear that Syracuse gets some of the least sunshine in the country so really enjoy it when I see it. Also – taught a knitting class today, I have a new knitter who is picking it up so fast! This is her second lesson, she has nailed knitting and purling, and is doing some ribbing for homework. I’m so proud! Good day. I hope you feel better, and that the sun keeps shining on you!
I’m busy being a daughter – taking care of my 88-year-old mom after she finally came home yesterday after a knee replacement with some annoying but not dangerous complications that extended her stay in the nursing home. So I’m trying to be hard-hearted and make her get up and do things for herself since she really needs to be able to to recover, but nevertheless she’s 88 and it’s really hard to be tough on her. So I’m wimping out and waiting on her a lot when she clearly needs it.
I’m just grateful her mind is still sharp (even if she likes the TV volume set to EAR-SPLITTINGLY BLASTING), but I’m starting to really miss my husband, my dogs, my cat, and my yarn stash, not necessarily in that order! Thank heaven for the half a suitcase of yarn I brought with me, it’s saving my sanity! Even if I find myself reduced to knitting worsted wool socks — they’re warm, they’re comfy, and they’re quick. I don’t have the mental stamina for anything that takes longer than 2 days right now!
I’m trying to figure out if I have enough wool to finish this watchman’s cap (no, of course I can’t get more, I bought the wool years ago), making chicken soup, folding towels, walking the dogs, hoping the weather is correct in saying it is going up to FOURTEEN DEGREES CELSIUS tomorrow, and trying to decide which shawl to cast on. Hope you’re feeling better.
How nice of you to ask the Blog of our activities! I just finished Spacebagging my yarn. Whew, do I have a lot! 2 extra large & 5 large stored nicely in the closet – not in random drawers, under the bed, boxes and baskets. My dh will flip that I cleaned something without him snipping at me to do it. Now my dd & I are taking ds to karate. Hiya!
I am working a job that right now has enough going on to keep two people busy full time (but at least I’m employed!), and I’m trying to complete 9 credit hours of course work so that I can get my master’s degree in May. So my life looks something like this: get up, go to work (knit or read on the train ride in), work until I’m about to keel over (typically this means until about 12 hours after I arrived), go home (knit, read, or maybe sleep on the train ride home), eat, work on school work until it’s painful to keep my eyes open and caffeine is no longer helping, at which point I go to bed and sleep for a woefully short period of time before I get up and do it all over again.
I’m trying to get through the program that i’m in. learning to be a teacher. four days a week in a classroom with a full day of classes, and an evening class besides…
I have to say, i’m greatful that i am not currently a parent (as some in my program are) and am not currently responsible for a young one in addition to everything that im’ doing.
exhausted, overwhelmed, overworked and underconnected with peers is how i’m feeling.
I’m in my dressing gown, bolting down cornflakes so I have time to express milk for my five-week-old before I take her to an appointment. At the same time, I’m reading ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go!’ to my three-year-old and listening out for the oven timer as his third birthday cake is halfway through cooking… it’s a lovely day!
It does seem like that, doesn’t it?
One more day to teh weekend, and I’m going to take tomorrow morning for a run (which I’ve just started doing) before I make some important phone calls and then do a 1/2 day at work.
I can’t wait for the weekend. Doing a half day makes it a little more bearable.
Just frogged a sock (Spring Forward) – trying to add some stitches to the pattern so it will fit me (huge feet!!), but messed up! Will try again tomorrow when light is better. Dark purple yarn not good for my eyes or my family’s safety!! Sending you good wishes for a speedy recovery, and gallons of virtual cranberry juice!
I’m doing the exact same thing as you, minus the UTI (but WITH chronic kidney stones), only my girls are 8 and 6, so there’s a lot of gymnastics and Girl Scouts and swimming lessons and playing with toys that never get put away. I’m also squeezing in time to write a poem a day, send out at least 5 submissions a week, and *think* about revising the novel that my editor is expecting next month. Knitting is relegated to an hour or so in the evening, and during gymnastics classes. My brand-new spinning wheel sits in the corner, waiting for me to use it. Yeah, being a Mom is a 27 hour a day job! Drink lots of cranberry juice and water, and feel better soon!
I always feel like I’m missing things this time of the winter. I’ve seen some buds on the trees, though.
I think your problems may stem more from UTI, though…
Running my sock calculation macro that’s now claiming I need to knit 0.91954022988505746
socks every day between now and June 1st to complete the 52 Pair Plunge this year. Contemplating why rerunning the macro doesn’t seem to help. Wondering what responsibilities I can blow off in order to find more knitting time…
I am getting ready to go to my spinning class at the art museum. You have inspired me to try to make my own yarn and not just buy it. So far so good. Am on class # 6 and over twisting less. At the moment I think it is even more fun than knitting!
I am also delirious from the fact that I have vacation in a week and a half and am going to be able to escape the hell that has been northern Indiana this winter. (Although I am sure Toronto is probably worse)
🙂
I just finished my midterm exams!! Yay! And I’m now officially on Spring Break! HURRAY!!! 😀
But I have to work on Spring Break, what gives?
tomorrow, tomorrow, I love ya tomorrow..you’re only a dayy aaa way.. today I’m doing my taxes(yay!)
Trying to convince myself that the Thermis I’m working on will fit me just fine. Maybe swatching isn’t for sissies after all, eh?
I am trying to get everything ready for the new grand-daughter who is set to arrive on Monday morning. I will be the one who takes care of Jo, the older grand-daughter, till Mom comes home. I am also trying to finish up socks that have sat forever in the knitting basket because of baby knitting.
I’m doing the exact same thing, except insert slippers for shawl and Paper Mario 64 for UTI.
And the bright burning daystar is burning longer and longer and it still doesn’t help!
Well, I am trying faith healing on my household appliances etc. (so far in the last three weeks, the dryer has gone out twice, the oven, the furnace (we think the kitten put the pilot light out — seriously), the electronic piano (well, that was the circuit breaker really, for unknown reasons, but it was presented to me by the child who was supposed to be practicing her piano as ‘the piano is broken’), both CD drives on the computer….
I’m waiting for the washer or the dishwasher to go. Or one of the cars; we have two with over 100,000 miles, so it’s a pretty good bet.
Oh, and the kitten just went into heat, earlier than we thought (she was a stray, and she’s tiny; we didn’t know exactly how old she was). So she’s going to get ‘fixed’ too. But I suppose she’s not exactly broken.
When not dealing with the consequences of broken household things (including my daughter’s iPod which I fixed two days ago, drying her tears, but I personally don’t count that as a major appliance, though she would disagree), I work full-time plus to make money to fix said household objects….oh, and do mom-mage things too, of course. And knit to preserve my sanity. That goes without saying.
UTI is the end of everything until it’s gone. Poor you ( poor me too, maybe I’ve been having sympathetic UTI….doesn’t do much positive for a girls moods does it ). Cranberry. Barley water ( home made is best ). Painkillers maybe too, and no boozing. So not fair. And, take it easy.
You poor thing Been down the UTI road way too many times, Drink Lots of fluid,water cranberry juice., Stay away from soda pop,you can get cranberry capsules to take when you travel,It takes alot out of you. Watch out for blood. Take care and take good care of yourself. Have your girls wait on you. so you can rest.
Trying to convince this baby that now is an excellent time to be born.
I’m fond of a wonderful poet-artist, Brian Andreas, who started StoryPeople. Here’s a story that seems to suit your situation.
“Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.”
http://www.storypeople.com/storypeople/Home.do
Med school finals studying. Boards studying. Slipped while negotiating a muddy hill and plastered my backside with red clay. My ‘dashing’ mitts may never be the same…
I am having tea and computer time, after (reeling backward) taking a picture to post on Facebook, buying $77 worth of groceries (dang that coffee is expensive), being the substitute teacher for a class of first graders. The very last thing that happened at school was the clock (plastic wall clock inexplicably balanced on the whiteboard ledge) getting knocked to the ground by a little guy with a bulky backpack. The entire class gasped loudly; he crumpled into tears.
Thanks for asking! Took a day off work and I have been a vegetable all day. Have not left the house. Currently knitting for Malabrigo March and wishing I did not have to go to work tomorrow. My day will be nonstop since I took today off. Drink lots of liquids and rest so you will feel better soon!
Semi-seriously look for work. Plant closed in Nov. ’08, and have been cutting back, paying bills, checking online sources for factory work. Alternating knitting socks, cross stitch, and reading mysteries. Three and a quarter months later boredom and cabin fever are setting in. We are in the last stages of prepping for Stacey’s memorial party. She died Nov. 29, ’08, and did not want a somber farewell, but a joyful, even raucous celebration of her life. Two more weeks and we will get together with her friends and party in her memory. Carol
Spinning 2 pounds of Virginia Tech dyed BFL, knitting yet another Swallowtail and rocking a cat who thinks all of the above are, certainly, not as important as rocking her.
I’m making 300 lbs of potatoes into soup for the Moeller HS Band Antique Show fundraiser. First we bake them, then we peel, then we smush them up and add them to the liquid ingredients, spices and butter. Saturday we add half and half when we heat it to sell.
Feel better. I’m avoiding making dinner. And reading blogs when I ought to be supervising my kids’ kiwi cutting experiment that I can hear, but alas, cannot see.
Overwhelemed with work more than usual. But I stole 10 minutes this afternoon to run to a store and buy a seriously kick-a$$ dress to wear with my newly completed Manon to my aunt’s photography show opening tomorrow night. It’s all good, right?
Yuck! Sorry about the UTI. I’ve only needed meds once (and damn, that was bad) since normally I can kill them myself with sucrose-free cranberry juice.
I’m knitting a wash cloth while I wait to leave to referee some hockey… Hope your UTI clears up soon!
Those definitely aren’t fun… but if you get some cashmere you’ll feel better… 😀
I often look up and say wow, it’s thursday again? The weeks do tend to run together when you are a mom (or “mum”, your way sounds totally better). I have one 17 yr old girl, and we just added another one to the household. Just trying to do my part to put more love and understanding into the universe. What can I say, the kid needed us (daughter’s best friend, wierd home situation, etc., time for someone to provide some stability). Everyone, look around and see if someone near you needs your help, or just maybe a hug and a shoulder. You might find out you’re capable of a lot more than you thought you were. I know I did.
grading the endless stack of papers that must be mating with each other when my back is turned. Trying to stay fresh and open minded but just wanting the grading to be over.
Waiting for a new student teaching assignment since my first assignment was teaching with Hitler. The university thought finding a new placement would be better than me stabbing Hitler in the eye with a knitting needle for being a total racist, sexist, religious hypocrite. I am not having a good week.
I’m trying to be patient while waiting for my nephew to be born. I should be happy he’s giving me more time to finish his blankie. Yet, I don’t like the hurry up and wait business.
I am reading my fave blog when I should be working 🙂
A few minutes ago I was messaging with a work colleague about how the only way to get our coworkers to do wht we want is with marionette strings, and that would likely prohibited as a tripping hazard due to the large volume of strings needed.
In about 85 minutes, I will be walking the dog and then knitting when I should be cleaning the house.
Yet I am now going back to work so I can keep said dog in the kibble, as it were.
I’m trying to remember what it’s like to do a simple errand unencumbered, or even to walk around the house without holding an infant, so that when I pass the chair (or table or counter or…) that’s covered with junk and I think, “I should straighten that,” I actually CAN. Or when I think, Wow, that floor hasn’t been washed in six months, it doesn’t seem physically impossible to actually wash it. What would it be like to actually DYE that yarn with Kool Aid with the older kids, like I told them we would forever ago? Or take the cover off the sewing machine? I have no earthly idea.
So in short, I am reminding myself she won’t be a little marsupial baby forever, and I will miss this stage when it’s gone.
did the funny pointy surprise hat on knitty. half done with a birthday sweater already one year late. gave my sister her queen annes lace which gave her an asthma attack from excitement. i ought to feel a little more guilty about that.
I really hate to say given what you are going through…
I’ve been lazing away in Hawaii the past couple weeks and knitting(socks and mandala shawl) in-between sightseeing and enjoying the sunshine. Believe it or not Hawaii is going through a cold snap and it only gets up to about 76F!
Hope the UTI clears up very soon!!! What a drag.
I’ve also been practicing my lever knitting! It IS feeling more comfortable but still not super speedy.
Me? I’m reading your blog after a long crazy busy day at work.
what am i doing? procrastinating at work by checking your blog over and over hoping that you will post (i must figure out the mythic “blog reader”). and here you are! 🙂 thank you. & take care! drink lots of water & cranberry juice.
I’m waiting to become a mom myself. 39 wks. + 1 day gone and can barely get up the stairs. I think I’ve knit just about every baby thing I can think of.
I understand the wanting HS to last forever. I have a 2 1/2 year old I told wasn’t allowed to get bigger. Crazy Mom stuff, never wanting the kids to go. Bittersweet really. Congrats on the good job raising her though.
Hey there, Mum! I’m now wistful about those days with my boys before they grew up and went their separate ways (one having the good sense to land in Portland just so I can stay with him for the Summit). I’m reading your blog after a really f*&^%$-ing awful day all ’round because I know that it will make me laugh regardless (oWWWWW for the UTI! swift recovery!). Thanks for being my escape. Picking up the wip is next. Ahhh…
I have a rule — never more than three things on the “to do” list for any evening. Given that one of those things is now always “8th Grade Algebra” and one HAS to be “knitting”…well, I have just resigned myself to putting the to do list into slo-o-ow motion until the school year is over.
It’s a good rule!
Sitting on the couch, trying not to cough (2.5 days of bronchitis and still going strong), waiting to hear if my mommma is out of the hospital yet (being a couple thousand of miles away from family is hard), and trying to decide which WIP I am going to play with tonight!
It appears that we are living the same life. Give it back. I had it first….
Actually, I changed my mind. You can keep it. I think I will go on vacation.
Giving thanks that my work is busy, even if I will be working well past midnight tonight. Seventeen of my former co-workers were laid off.
Now I feel really guilty. My work week is done (and has been since 7:00 A.M. YESTERDAY!). The sun came out in Ohio for the first time in…years! I have totally enjoyed the day off watching the carpenter (who is WAY TOO HOT for his own good) tear up my kitchen.
Also fighting a UTI, and the ever so pleasant secondary infection that comes with the antibiotics, while dealing with the sudden onset of allergies caused by prematurely warm weather (I have got SUCH a headache) and wondering if the bedroom is EVER going to finish being painted or if I’m going to spend the next 6 months looking at blue tape and tripping over paint cans in the night. Plus the usual paid work, housework, animal care, etc. Calgon, take me away!
Bless your heart, Steph. UTIs are awful. Hope you bounce back quickly.
I’m working, doing laundry, cooking supper, and trying to get my first lace project (a scarf) off the ground. I’ve cast on the 98 stitches, and the instructions for the first two rows are to slip the first stitch and knit across. I slip the first stitch as directed, knit the second, and the one I slipped dissolves. Is there a trick to doing this? Or should I just knit the whole first row?
i am sitting nice and quiet
as i listen to my bones soften
same life different country! Teenagers/motherhood/household/job/UGH!
Ouch! Hope the UTI is gone soon and you’re feeling back to snuff. A mere three rows of knitting per day is NOT enough to ward off the insanity of motherhood. Cold cereal or scrambled eggs for dinner might free up some more time for fiber play. It’s better for families to eat simple meals so mums don’t have to feast at that crazy banquet. Cheers!
I have a daughter getting her school paperwork together too. The university stuff is in; the housing stuff is what we are working on now. I think that she would also like to stay in the high school mode forever. Some days I am inclined to agree. Other days I am anxiously making sure that all of her paperwork is filled out.
Much like you – dealing w/Mumhood. One 11 yr old in a sling w/a suspected fractured elbow. One 14 yr old w/autism and an infected ingrown toenail. Wondering if tomorrow’s snowstorm will keep us from keeping the 14 yr old’s doctor appointment. I haven’t even gotten three rows done on my shawl today. Lovely handspun BFL – Fiber from Spunky Eclectic. Pattern – Forest Canopy Shawl. First time I knit with my own handspun. Sweet!
Feeling glad I have a place to live and a job. And a stupidly large yarn stash.
What am I doing?? I am enjoying a week in Arizona in the sunshine and warmth with my husband. As spoiled as life can get for me, I miss those days when my kids were in highschool and I was helping them with registering for university etc etc.
I am trying to lace knit a shawl in the latest Interweave Press knitting magazine and as far as I am concerned it is keeping my brain sharp and testing my ability to stick to things in adversity. I have tried 5 times to get the thing going!!!!
I hope you’re feeling better!
I’m panicking a little because I just learned that my professor wants my 40-page research paper two whole weeks earlier than I expected. I could probably get an extension, but I don’t want to disappoint him. But how will I finish knitting my dad’s birthday present while I’m doing all that research?? Some rescheduling is in order.
Lately I’ve been wishing I was back in high school. Then I wouldn’t have to write a 15 page research paper for a class that has been a huge disappointment. And I would have less disposable time to waste.
Good luck to Meg with applications to college!
exchange teen girls for 10 year old boy, and it sounds pretty familiar, right down to the UTI.
Fun.
I am counting my blessings. Suddenly my life seems much easier. Hope you feel better soon!
Trying to figure what to carry out for dinner – again. Kitchen has been completely disassembled due to a water leak from the upstairs. What, it’s NOT normal for water to pour through the lighting? Ceiling painted today, but cannot move tarps as drywall dust from repaired wall could float up and attach itself to semi-dry ceiling. Love Chinese carry-out, but it is getting old! Nursing a bad disc in back and knitting pilates socks.
Thanks for asking! I am home with a herniated disk and a 9-year-old with the flu. The 11-year-old came home from school to report that she lost the orthodontic retainer that she has had for 10 days ($199) and she got a D on her math test (because she didn’t study). I was very very good and not only did I not yell but I calmly instituted more math homework and parental oversight with an agreement for no complaints. And I’m knitting the Ribby cardigan and it seems to be going well 🙂
I’m watching my kiddo nap on the couch, exhausted after a busy day. I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop with this weather – how long can 70F days continue in February in Colorado? I’m dreading the start of “Daylight Savings Time” on Sunday – it’s been really nice having the sun come up at 6:30am, and seems unfair that we’ll go back to getting up in the dark. I’m wishing that I somehow had instant ordering and instant delivery of yarn whenever I want, because I want to start on this baby blanket *now*, not on Saturday when I can get to the yarn shop.
I’ve been arguing with a sinus infection that is sucking away my will to live. Somehow the antibiotics don’t seem to be making it go away. Good luck with your UTI. Nasty things, those.
I’m finishing off the Evil Stepmother socks (which I will not be giving to my not-evil stepmother even though her birthday is coming up soonish) and contemplating making a Cowboy Casserole for supper. But I have no wagon wheel pasta to put in it. If I use rotini instead, what does that make it?
I’m wasting time until Yarn & Yak followed by an even longer wait until I get to go see Watchmen. Oh, and I’m waiting for my boyfriend to tell me he’s finally moving in. But I get to see Watchmen, so YAY!
Trying to balance the necessity of having a clean house for weekend guests and the need to get out of the house away from Job, Darling Hubby, and Two nineteen yr. old know it alls (I mean my charming teenage live in nephews) to go to knitting group. I think knitting group wins. Hope my guests are not attacked by rabid dust bunnies/laundry avalanches.
Hello
I’m job hunting. A lawyer without a job, this is not good but I try to stay positive! Otherwise, I knit, do jogging, surfing on internet.
I am …
+ avoiding UTIs at all costs (don’t ask me about the yeast infection two weeks ago. don’t. even. dare.)
+ biding my time until spring break
+ waiting on a new tip for my size 4 harmonies so I can work on my Ishbel (hopefully not frog for a third time!)
+ knitting a noro crack scarf, and a cardigan on threes (GAH! what was I thinking!)
+ oh and cleaning my room? that should probably be occurring right about now.
I’m goofing off, drinking a Tims coffee (no luck rolling up the rim) and reading your blog. I should get back to work.
I’m busy taking care of my 3 month old, and for some reason I just agreed to babysit for my sister-in-law tomorrow. She has 4 children, a 4 year old, a 3 year old, and 2 year old twins. Plus I have to take care of my own child all at the same time. I’m not really sure what I was thinking. I must have had some sort of temporary insanity that made me say yes…that must have been it. My husband will be disappointed when this makes me not want to have any more children for a long time. He is one of 13 children and likes big families. Ha! Wish me luck!!
Sorry about the URI… 😐 feel better soon. I’m getting ready to help my 80-year-old mom prepare for cancer surgery. One blessing of the trip is I get to visit with my two kids, 17 & 20, who have flown the nest and are attending college. It happened way, way, way, way, way too fast! Enjoy the chaos a bit longer….
YES. It’s exactly the same for me – I’ve been saying these exact words (well, minus the UTI). I get to work….6am this morning….and then I have to go home because it’s dark out my window. I work on Madison Ave in NY, in publishing, and I could attribute this weird time warp to a NY thing, but it seems it’s happening everywhere.
I personally want to get in the “time stopped and you can knit all you want” worm hole.
I’m experiencing a similar where the f*ck did the time go sensation as you lately. Crazy busy being a mom is what I’m up to. That and shingles part two. After careful consideration I think I’d rather have the UTI. But not if it comes with three girls instead of my one. Getting through the day, knitting maybe a row or two on the Celtic Knot afghan, hoping for spring. Not much to show for any of it by the end of the day.
Other than knitting, “being mum” has to be the best occupation in the world. Hey – it beats the 9-5 office job any day and that’s exactly what’s keeping me busy. Oh, except it’s more like 8-6!
Feeling much the same. The list might ever get tackled if other things in life didn’t keep getting in the way. There is a bad karma cloud stuck over my house, so the multitude of repair people, phone calls and conversations about malfunctioning household items has overrun everything.
But this too shall pass, and there is always the fire in my fireplace to cheer me up!
Working on a stage production of “Dream Girls” which has a bazillion costumes! ( I do accessories and millinery) and being a Mum,long distance Mum, Wife, cook, etc……
I am coming home from work, planning on finishing my latest fractal work, add a few more rows of a Blue Moon sock, and to jam out to music.
I’m also surfing the net, finishing up on kitchen duties, and reading Knitting Rules.
Did I mention that I’m trying to get the local sheep raisers to harvest wool for spinning?
I am sitting here being thankful my 16 DD is not twins. I am wishing I could get over this feeling of wanting to scream until my ears bleed. Once that passes, I will knit. I am also thankful for grape therapy. Chardonnay.
Worked today at my part-time job at a quilt store. Getting ready to put the fringe on my Lady Eleanor stole. Most enjoyable knit ever! I’m thinking it will go to my daughter-in-law in California. I used Ty-Dy, a cotton yarn, and she (the d-i-l) can’t stand wool. Seems a match made in heaven.
Working my arse off and missing the sun as well. Sneezing. Not knitting.
I’m trying to concentrate enough to keep writing my PhD thesis. But my mind is really at home with my current half-designed, quarter knit project.
Hey. I just read the comments – and now I’m feeling so lucky. I’m not taking chemo for breast cancer. I’m not caring for a dying family member. My very best friend is 40 years old and had a massive stroke two weeks ago, can’t speak and is paralyzed on the right side – and here I sit, complaining about not having time. All you commenters, thanks for the readjustment.
I have two days off from work in a row (in retail that’s rare) and I blew today doing nothing but Facebook and dyeing my hair. Forgetting to take my meds on time, forgetting to eat lunch on time, just now showering – it’s been not very productive. I think I’m going to go downstairs and curl up with my new sock and some Knit & Crochet Today, not the best TV has to offer, but it *is* knitting.
Feel better, dear heart.
Me? Just going crazy trying to win every radio station contest in Boston – they’re all giving away tickets to see U2 in a secret, small venue (TBA)next week. I think I’ve run out of chances – maybe I should just knit Bono something. That might make me feel better.. (or is that stalker-ish…). Hope you feel better soon!
P.S. My only solace is that *perhaps* tomorrow may be better.
another day of looking for work…it’s been 4 months without a paycheck. But thanksful husband has a good job that pays the bills…
I had a shower today. So I had to get out of my P.J’s.
Now….. I have clean P.J’s on. Train full of win over at my house.
Studying for midterms.
Enjoying the family.
knitting on the hypoteneuse stole by knitspot.
Life is good.
Trying to get it all done too and hoping if something gets forgotten or left behind, it in no way, shape or form resembles one of my children.
I’ve had one of those UTI’s. Drink tons of water, and cranberry juice too. What am I doing right now? Oh, it’s so much fun. I’m prepping for a medical test I’m having tomorrow. You know, the one where you have to fast and drink gallons of this gross liquid which, um, empties you very thoroughly so they can, ah, see what they want to see. That is what I am doing. Fun.
I am still struggling with getting used to living alone for the first time in my life . MDH passed away a year ago and it has been change change change ever since. Now I am doing the same thing with my kntting. I can’t seem to stay with the work in progress and keep starting new ones . I don’t even want to count how many UFO’s I have now. Oh well like all things “”This too shall pass”. Better days ahead dear Stephanie, hang tight , take a whole day just for you and rest.
I would never have said this except you asked. I just realized that all my fretting over the past month has been because: 1. I handed homeschooling over to my husband because I have too much gainful work to do to handle both; 2. My children enjoy homeschooling with him more than with me, and probably learn as much, though in a very different way; and 3. I am envious of their incredibly blessed life, or sad at what I did not have. Realizing that enabled me to let it go, so we’re okay there, but let’s face it, they have way more fun, way more privileges, a much more loving father, and way more stuff than I ever dreamed of having as a child. So what have I been up to? trying to work out all the weird psychological stuff that goes along with being a parent, and imagining what life would be like if I were not able to come up with these epiphanies on my own. Sound familiar?
I’m trying to figure out if I can see you in Madison if I’m not part of the Knitter’s Guild. (I can’t afford to join right now. Ack!)
Wow to what Sligo said. Whatever I was going to drum up would have paled in comparison. Hang in there, sister.
I’m in a 10 day waiting period. Our clients have 10 days to either approve the changes or ask for further changes.
So I’m picking up the house, knitting, considering writing another baby sweater pattern with embroidered flowers, and watching my 4yo grandson who is a handfull and a a half. And taking care of a sick 12 nearly 13 year old who has strep.
Yeah, busy. Hope you’re feeling better soon.
Work, grocery shop, make dinner, talk to mother, talk to husband, run daughter’s bath, prepare for another couple hours of homework & such before tucking her into bed, hulu & knit, collapse into bed.
Today daughter asked me which I loved more – her or knitting. I told her not to ask such questions ;~}
Drinking the Scotch Ale my hubby just bottled for his birthday and contemplating the fact that I may be too buzzed to knit, but spinning. Spinning is not out of the question with a beer or two under my belt.
since you asked…
working
trying to determine if my daughter is sick enough to warrant a trip to the doctor
trying to figure out if im sick enough to warrant a day off.
working
sleeping
waking up in the middle of the night because of said daughter waking up because of said cold
sleeping
yelling at the cat
working
*repeat*
Figuring out a way to knit a cocktail dress out of Netflix envelopes. In 5 days.
Working my butt off with new responsiblities at the job (it’s all good though).
What am I doing? What you said, right down to a 17 yr old who would just as soon that High School go on forever!
This week I spun my first bulky yarn since I was a beginner, because I wanted it for a vest pattern. I tried it out in the pattern today and found out it looks terrible. Tore it all out and now have 2 (fortunately only 2) balls of lovely but bulky yarn that I have no idea what to do with. Going to knit something else tomorrow. Hope you feel better soon. Try cranberry juice.
Steph, you took a sick day. That’s okay.
Me, I’m just knitting. And wondering where the grey alpaca I want for my next projet went to. I know the only way to find the missing alpaca is to buy more, but I spent (mumble, mumble) on yarn last month, so I’m trying not to.
Not terribly relevant to your post, but thought you might be amused by this: I was helping my daughter and daughter-in-law mive this past weekend when we were faced by the dilemma of getting a very large picture of which my DIL is inordinately fond safely to the new place. They guys wouldn’t load it on the truck until it was somehow padded. We found an old pseudo braided rug, but were having trouble getting it to stay around the frame. I scooted down to my car and pulled 2 stitch holders from my knitting bag (the Clover ones that open at both ends) and neatly pinned the rug together snugly. It held beautifully and I just retrieved them at the new place. Everyone was impressed by my creative thinking, but I told them any knitter would have thought of it!
I sincerely vote for an international Mum’s Day Off. And very very soon!
I’ll trade you the UTI and college apps for new drainfield and permitting issues with a side of mudding and taping drywall. 😉
Hope the UTI passes fast- I got one days before leaving for Tanzania for two months last summer, which was very bad. On the plus side I had a bottle of percocet to ease the whole “42+ hours of airplanes and airports while ill” thing.
I’m studying for a university exam tomorrow -Microscopic Anatomy. The patterns you see under the miroscope make me want to play with knitting and texture, though, so the studying is not as focused as it should be.
I’m trying to keep it all together this week. Monday night after 10yr old’s b day dinner his sister got her finger smashed in the door. Four hours in the ER with her. Tomorrow the 10yr old has 8 teeth out. I know it could be so much worse, but it is a tough week around here for us. Thanks for the diversion.
working in my office seeing a patient every 15 minutes peeking at yarn website in between and wishing I did not have 6 projects in progress waiting for me. at home and ..if I could just get ONE thing done without casting on for something else…t’would be a victory…plus all those charts to dictate every night prevents progress in major ways…..darn the day job….
I’m getting ready to drop my dad off with his medical missions group so he can go to Guatemala and take care of sick people!
I spent the day home from work with a sick child. Planned to spend one hour working on my bobbin lace, one hour knitting, and one hour tatting. Didn’t get the tatting done and don’t know how two hours of needlework filled 8 hours of the day? I think I was more tired than after spending a whole day at work.
I am sitting here miserably sick, with three miserably sick kids (ages 1,4,6) knitting the odd row here and there on very basic projects.
Errand day (_forgot_ to take knitting for lines!), Bookbinding afternoon, dash home, feed kitties, check e’s, scarf dinner, head on out for Bible study, find sock and KNIT til I drop 🙂
Sorry about the UTI. At least you know you’ll recover. Cranberry juice is very, very good for it. HUGS for the sickie!
From the heel of the Sock-Shaped State, Marjorie
My day evaporated too – spent 2 hours in a dentist’s office watching my son have extremely expensive things done to his teeth. But hey, I got 2 inches of stockinette done – I was wondering how I was going to force myself to do it – only 5 inches to go.
Hope tomorrow is better!
I am digging out from 2 months of non stop work and ignoring things like my taxes and the cat hair lurking in every corner so I can spend my time inventing a few new crazy knitting projects in spite of the fact that I have too many WIP already.
Knitting the most difficult thing of my 35 + years of knitting! Knit One Below book–the man’s cardigan with the Italian name–L–something!
Whew! Have you tried this technique yet–lovely, but slow…..and you need to pay more attention than you do with lace charts!
Oh..Stephanie…
I once had a raging UTI…the doctor actually told me it was raging! It was compounded by a horrible flu and kept me out of school for a week and half. Now I get UTIs pretty much every six months…
I really hope that doesn’t happen to you!
Good luck with your infection! What they all said–drink lots of cranberry juice–the acidity helps keep the ickies out of important places. Me? About to leave school for the day–almost the end of another quarter, and hoping I get hired for a permanent job this spring–tired of part-time and temporary postions! Got a bunch of papers to grade tonight, but going out for dinner with my folks first–a Thursday night tradition. Kids all raised, and working on a shawl for my new daughter-in-law, who announced this week that she is expecting–I get to be a gramma at last! So will spend the weekend picking out the most frabjous baby patterns ever. Hubby retired, so does most of the cooking, shopping and housework–gives me time to knit a bit, anyway! Fingers crossed–haven’t caught anything this year yet, which is a minor miracle. So right now, life is good! Take care, and thanks for asking.
Dear YH- I just love you! I was gifted with all of your books this past Christmas from my mom-in-law and have been enjoying every word. I am a faithful reader of your blog. I do so hope you get feeling better soon!
i’m working on the libby sweater by leslie over at a-friend-to-knit-with. the pattern just makes me insanely happy right now.
I am listening to an irritable teenager. Argh! It’s like the terrible twos all over again.
I’m right there with ya, Stephanie. At the end of the day I look at “the list” and very important although not vital to survival things like organizing fundraisers and phone calls are still undone and I swear I wasn’t sitting around eating bonbons and surfing the internet all day. And no knitting to speak of either. And my kids are in preschool! Are you telling me it doesn’t get better for 13 years?!?
Nice blog you have!!
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Funny you should mention it. I’m tired and haven’t blogged in forever. Sigh.
Feel better.
Reading Yarn Harlot while getting ready to leave on holidays – Shetland Islands here I come (may accidentally buy wool while I am there)
I’m busy being a mom, too. My daughter is getting four teeth at once so she isn’t sleeping and therefore neither am I. I’m constantly playing Jedi with my Star Wars obssessed son. On top of it all I’m trying to decide if we should homeschool or go with traditional school! ACK!!!
On the up side, I’m expecting a big box of roving to come from my friend…we are hosting a ball making party for the kids!
Today I’m being grateful that my 36 year old fitness trainer son did not have a heart attack as suspected, and worried because he does have myocarditis, and grateful that he’s home from hospital now and I can visit tomorrow with muffins and a big care package for him. Motherhood does not end, nor does the scary stuff that can happen. 🙂 The bonus is that I can also hug my wonderful dil and walk my grandkidlets home from school tomorrow,being silly all the way. 🙂 Motherhood has its happinesses too. 🙂
Well, I have a toddler so today’s major catastrophe involved washing white craft paint off a long haired cat.
Tomorrow? Who knows, but I should (would rather be) knitting.
So sorry about the UTI. Sadly, I can relate–I spent almost two years with what seemed like one endless UTI. I spent an awful lot of time in the washroom with a big jug of water, drinking and crying. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
Let’s see–today, I cleaned the washroom PROPERLY (none of the “lick and a promise” I’ve been making do with), taking care of the 19-year-old DD who has an ear infection/perforated eardrum, ran the 13-year-old DD to the music store to get guitar picks and clarinet reeds (her quotation upon entering Long and McQuade, “So this is what heaven is like!”), making dinner, doing dishes, and the usual boring domestic stuff.
I’m trying to get the house looking like human beings live here before going to work on Saturday. I’ve been off for months. My Dad passed away at the end of September, then my Mom went into hospital and passed away February 6th.
It’s been quite the unpleasant few months. I guess Saturday, life goes back to normal, although I don’t really feel as though anything is normal anymore. I think I have to come up with a new normal.
Gave dog a bath this morning. Took a nap this afternoon. Life is good. Happy knitting 😉
Exhaustion is a funny thing. When it hits, it can be so total. And I find that what makes me exhausted is more my mental state as I do things, rather than just the physical work per se. I teach, and I can’t figure out a way to teach loose and relaxed. So when I have three 90 minute classes back to back, I am like a limp noodle by the end. Students asking a lot of questions at the end of class just wears me out. The only thing that gets me through the evening is a nice hot glass of sake afterwards!
I’m at my new work, making files… And by “making files” I mean geeking out about Watchmen with coworkers. No one bonds faster than geeks. Four days on the job and already drunken Neil Gaiman adoration has commenced.
Poor love!
I’m having my last day of holidays before heading back to work on Monday. I was planning to do a heap of knitting, but so far I’ve spent the entire morning on the computer! Not looking forward to rejoining the rat race next week.
My first (and only, let’s hope) UTI landed me in urgent for 2 hours waiting for a doctor, and it turned out to be the best 2 uninterrupted knitting time I’d had in a long, long while (since I’m a mom, too, and my kids are still little). Except for the fever and constant burning, I was actually a little grateful. Not that I’m saying you should be.
We live up north, too (Madison WI – and I’ll be at that knit-in next Saturday) and today was the first day in a long time we went to the park. It was sloppy and ice-patched, but still, it felt good to be outside without freezing.
Also trying to work up the nerve for a second attempt at the clam stitch on that Millefiori cardi in the latest IK. Anyone else have trouble with that?
You think days go fast, man years have gone by and I think what the h*ll happened?
I opened a yarn shop, earlier than planned, but silly me, I am still working at 2 of the 3 jobs I did BS (before shop) Husband works 12 hour days, son is finished highschool and looking at Universities or work, but wasn’t he just born 3 weeks ago?
Exhaustion just goes with the ‘middle’ years of life. Wouldn’t have it any other way.
Someone reminded me that we ‘lose’ an hour this weekend…we can’t I need that hour! Stupid daylight savings!
I hope the meds kick the UTI; that’s just too much on top of everything else. Today, I: packed lunches, walked the dog, tried desperately to make myself write and/or do research, picked the older kid up early (half day at school for reasons known only to the school board), fed her, got her to practice violin and do homework, got the kids to piano lessons, and am now looking at the pantry for something to eat for dinner (chard, goat cheese and pasta maybe? with peas?). Oh, and trying very hard to make this lace scarf I want to knit work. Maybe tomorrow I’ll actually get something done?
Sounds like you’re stuck in Groundhog Day, the movie.
I planted five rosebushes, cleared out around the lettuce, played with my spindle, tried to ignore the recurring thought that it would be really, really lovely to have a spinning wheel (which I can neither afford nor justify), called the bank to confess that I shredded my new ATM card instead of the expired one (the number 1 reason people call about the ATM, it turns out). Soon I’ll shower, dinner, sit myself down in front of the TV, and knit the same five rows on a baby sweater, rip it out, spin some more with my spindle, wish for a wheel, and go to bed.
It’s my knitting that keeps repeating. The rest varies somewhat.
Oh, and surfed the web for awhile, of course.
Hang in there! I’m pretty much on the kid treadmill myself, but got in a bit of knitting (finishing a leaf and trellis shawl from Victorian Lace Today)and my sanity swim (outside–hey, it is California). Now the kids are at swim practice, so I get to make some beds, make some salad, cook some pasta and reheat the leftovers. Hoping my husband reads aloud to the kids again tonight so I can turn corner number three. After one goes to sleep, it is joint babysitting of algebra homework.
Today I read your blog from 1994 when team Harlot went to the east coast. I haven’t finished reading yet… that’s why I’m here now actually. I wanted to read the rest of the story. Just reading that blog was like a mini vacation in itself 🙂
Ugh. UTIs suck the bag! I hope that clears up quickly and maybe you find a window with some sun in that blink of day.
The exact same thing. Minus the UTI (and the extra kid – does that mean you win?)
I am ordering college graduation invitations for daughter #3, looking at airline tickets to get college daughter #4 home from Miami for her sister’s graduation and texting daughters #1 and 2 to let them know the dates of graduation!
I have been where you are. Enjoy it. They are gone in a flash!!!
Same here, I don’t have kids at home, but the days just get away from me. I can’t believe it is already March!
Tomorrow, Pinky? Same thing we do every night. Try and take over the world.
I know exactly how you feel. Yesterday for me was one of those days. I’m being replaced by someone with absolutely no capability for the work. Yesterday, he managed to mess up our forecasting tool and I told him to start over to which he had a loud ranting and raving hissy fit. Luckily, our boss was right there when it happened and all I said was Doug, I need to talk to you right now. So we met, then another meeting ensued for 2 hours where I was his every step as he attempt the process while explaining it to another of our managers. It was slow going to say the least. It was sort of like this. “I put February’s actuals in February? Yes! Doublechecking I put February’s actuals in? Yes! Okay I just like to double check. Meanwhile my mind is screaming, it’s not rocket surgery! It’s March now what months is now past! After that painful exercise it was grab some lunch before running to the next meeting. And then preparing a spending analysis filled up the last part of my day! At least today was better. No hissy fits but still lots of dumb questions and managed to go to yoga after.
I’m doing the same kind of mom thing that you are, except it involves signing kids up for driver’s ed and the SAT test, running around to soccer practice, etc…my slow cooker has become my best friend for helping me get dinner on the table (loading it up well caffeinated at 9am is great — no more worry about dinner at 5pm)
Carolyn in NC
I’m wondering if celiac disease is what’s been causing all my migraines. I’m going for a blood test on Monday.
UTI’s suck big time. Hope you feel better soon.
Freaking out, because a moth flew out of my stash room this morning!!! OMG, this could be bad!!!
I worked 8 hours in the ER. Mailed a chemo cap to my step-mom who just lost all of her hair. Went to church for a 2 hour meeting. Picked up Chinese for supper. Ate said Chinese. Prayed for all the folks in my life who are ill or in pain. Celebrated the fact that I am neither ill or in pain and that I have a job which I mostly love. Preparing to knit a baby dress for a couple at church out of the Cherry Tree Hill “Impressionist” sock yarn..”the Irises” oh..and help the love of my life with the crossword puzzle. Suggestion to above for name for the “cowboy casserole” made with rotini..”spaghetti western casserole” and really enjoying reading my favorite blog. I hope you feel better soon.
I am waiting for company to arrive for the evening. Just had my teeth bleached this afternoon, so I can’t drink coffee or red wine. Watching the snow fall and the wind blow. Will this winter never end?
Let’s see – finished knitting “Hey Teach” for my daughter-in-law for her graduation from nursing school in May; met with visiting nurse to get looked over after 3rd round (only one more!) of chemo for lung cancer; took dog for play date; cleaned off most of my desk. This is a big day for me these days! But spring is coming to Vermont someday, and I’ll be ready to get strong and busy again in a few weeks.
Hope you feel better soon – the meds should help quickly.
Ah, a medical reason to drink beer. Cranberry juice too – though not as much fun. I deeply envy now the house call. Waiting for hours at a doctor’s with a UTI is not fun. Hard to even concentrate on waiting-room knitting.
Hope you got the ‘orange’ pills to make life more bearable. Rest. Be a mom – a bit of the time. Take care of yourself. The shawl will wait.
Hey, your incipient illness was probably the reason for the crazy-bad knitting day a while ago. Well, at least you could try to claim that….
I am doing the same “reset” button 5-6 days a week until April, though having nothing to do with parenting and having mostly to do with teaching 3 university courses. Then I knit, cling to my sanity in some small way, sleep, and do it again. But I can’t complain too much because I have food and yarn and some form of employment, even if it is temporary.
I am practically living at school. Taking aproximately 20 class-time hours of all upperdivision Biology courses, trying to graduate from undergrad, applying to graduate school, starting research in a lab, studying for another 30-40 hours a week for those classes mentioned earlier, and trying to cope with the effects of prolonged sleep deficiency (getting about 12-13 hours of sleep, total, in the course of 3 days…) and said classes, application processes, work.
I had to quit my 2hr, one night a week, job at my lys. Also had to quit Ravelry for awhile. And had to quit any fun and challenging knitting (tried to quit knitting for awhile and that was disasterous… turns out that knitting not only keeps me sane, it also keeps my arthritis at bay, allowing me to use my hands).
When I find myself the most stressed, I usually do these three things:
1. Pray
2. Take a bath
3. Dream about pulling out all my yarn on the ground and rolling around in it.
(Not necessarily in that order :D).
Sounds so similar to what I am doing… get up, work, sporting event for darling daughter (knit during event), dinner, clean, barely three rows of something and to bed! Goes so darn fast!
Holy wow! I’ve been reading your blog fairly regularly for a while now, but I recently decided to go back and read through your archives. A couple of days ago I read the post about the dress you made for Megan when she was 14 (gorgeous, by the way!) and I feel like I’ve fallen through a time warp to read that she’s graduating, lol! I can completely sympathize with you guys, though – I never wanted to leave high school either.
I’m attending my morning classes and then driving home (hopefully) avoiding the early Friday afternoon traffic jams on the highway.
I know, sometimes it seems as if the days drag but the weeks fly by.
Happily, we took our four year old boy and two year old daughter to the dinosaur museum and a good time, immersed in science, was had by all. In spite of the two hours of screaming bloody murder on the way home due to aforementioned two year old who missed here nap.
And to all you chronic UTI suffers – a good way to help prevent them is by making sure you pee soon after sex. Sorry if that is too graphic. It helps…erm….rinse out any trouble making germies which can make their way up our short urethras snip-snap and cause trouble. So. That concludes today’s health and hygeine lesson. Sorry.
In knitting news – first time trying cotton to make a baby blanket for a dear cousin’s hoped for baby. Which brings me to a question: I know that you recommend natural fibers for baby blankets for safety reasons. But what about blands? I don’t love the 100% cotton, and with wool I wonder if the baby could have a sensitivity. Also they live in San Diego, which is warm. Any thoughts?
Seems like we’re all on similar treadmills. My ‘après’ work day is filled with reliving grade 10 Physics. Wasn’t my favourite subject 33 years ago and time has not mellowed me to it 😉
I had one of those blissful mom-with-baby days, spring-like weather in Dallas, my Bronchitis is leaving so I feel like superwoman cleaning finally, happy Kindergarten boys bashing about the house after school, then chats and bikes with neighbor kids after dinner. I wish they were all like this! The only miscalculation was that dark chocolate bar with Hot Chillis in it, at least you can’t scarf it. Now on to some knitting…
What am I doing today? Just came off a 14 hr shift and wishing I was my co-worker. Her husband was one of those who won the Lottery the other day. His/their share is $10 Mil after taxes. Haven’t seen her….. yet! Don’t know if I ever will again. Gee, with $10 Mil, imagine my stash!!!!!
OMG!
too damn tired from work and running around being a mom with an asshole ex to even look at yarn. A sad state of affairs.
Just fed DH leftovers, thankful that he says “yum!” On my way to my last church board meeting of my three year committment. No knitting allowed at meeting! Hey!
Get well soon, Steph. REST! We’ll blog for you.
xoxo
Is anyone still be reading … so far down the long list?
I am:
Icing my foot which is hurting like mad
Dogsitting my friend’s standard poodle- he looks like a Muppet
Trying to figure out if I am going to knit on my Malabrigo cardi or start the Fair Isle Christmas stocking that I am going to teach a class on…or the Baby Ull hat for the shop.
UTI’s hurt bad (and do make you tired) I hope you feel better soon and ditto on all the water drinking advise
1. Knitting
2. Reading knit blogs
3. Waiting patiently on your cowl pattern
4. Watching the snow melt and for any sign of Spring
5. Praying that our economic nightmare will end
6. Making to do lists and procrastinating
7. Knitting some more
Frogging a baby blanket for the third time today…and dealing with a 14 month old who seems to want to stay up to all hours of the night.
“just stupid, super, crazy busy with being a mum” also. To the point that MY mum is asking what’s up. My answer, “Daffodils.” First one bloomed today.
What am I doing? I’m taken aback that you’ve asked, actually. I’m trying to figure out why it is that when you think you’re in the clear as far as everyone in the house might actually be healthy, someone comes down with something. And like you, I wonder how another day has passed without me getting anything accomplished! My sweater is sitting there begging for some attention and my friend’s husband’s beanie is sitting there un-cast on and pathetic. I blame Ravelry and Facebook.
Shopping for a friend, eating popcorn.
What they said: lots of water and cranberry juice.
Also, I hear sour cherries and plain yogurt help
prevent recurrence.
I hear you! I’m packing up the house for a move to Houston, Texas, finishing my degree in photography, and being a weekday single mom to my son as my husband has already moved to Texas. At the moment, knitting three rows a night sounds luxurious. Please, knit some for me!
Making soup that will either turn out awesome or weird, as that seems to be the way of soup for me. I’m hoping for awesome.
Also, the weather here (Boulder,CO) has been in the mid 60’s for a few days and flowers are blooming so I cannot reasonably complain about anything.
Paradisical day – Took children to 3 different schools, Packed baby present for Book Group teacher. Went to two hour book group and discussed literature.
Bought nice tarte fine for lunch and things for next weeks school lunches. Went to post letters (am, medical typist) that doctor promptly returned yesterday (doesn’t often happen), had great long talk with pleasant neighbour. Read your blog, Son texted to say he has been made ‘sound tech’ at school – woot.
Picked up three children from 3 different schools. Dinner is semi-organised, Weather has been horrible so subsequently now washing to do. time to talk to Mr Washie. Children not fighting. Husband continues to play computer games as he has all summer long. Finished ready comments on blog. TGIF, and nothing scheduled. Tendonitis improving – may be able to knit husband’s Christmas (2008) socks.
Another day in paradise.
Nine o’clock in the evening. I just finished school teacher paperwork and am trying to decide if I want to knit a row on my ever growing Pie are Square Shawl a la Zimmerman or take a hot bath. Put your feet up and drink more cranberry juice.
DRINK TIL THE FIRE IS OUT!
I’m in my dressing gown, bolting down cornflakes so I have time to express milk for my five-week-old before I take her to an appointment. At the same time, I’m reading ‘Oh, The Places You’ll Go!’ to my three-year-old and listening out for the oven timer as his third birthday cake is halfway through cooking… it’s a lovely day!
I am working at the reference desk. Just had a wonderful session with a student who genuinely wanted help and who wanted to learn! whoo-hoo! And we had a great time – delving into patents and odd bits that will help him research and write his semester paper. That special moment of connection is why I became a librarian – and that kind of moment doesn’t happen often enough to be taken for granted. I am positively glowing.
I hear there’s freezing rain happening outside – don’t care! I got an email that my 600+mileaway LYS is having a Noro sale — double whoo-hoo! It’s a sign! I think it’s a sign for you, too – please get feel better quickly! (And don’t worry about us. A few days on our own is good for us!)
Right now just got home from work…worked waay too long. However, I checked in at your place to see how that beautiful lace was looking. This will be such a pleasure to watch it grow. Weather has been fabulous…lots of fascinating clouds and wind/rain. Bummer on the UTI…gak…hope you get better very quickly.
Catherine at 7:31 – bulky yarn makes great hats,
especially if you knit them on big needles and
slightly felt them afterwards so they stop the
wind.
hmmm…funny… I’m just crazy stupid busy being a mom too. : ) And a wife. Sick husband at home, part-time job, 4 year old. Yup, busy! It’s taken me 2 years to get to where I am on my current knitting project (for me, I’ve finished lots for others) – a cabled hoodie, but the end is in sight and I’m hoping I’ll have it finished in time for my birthday next month.
I am upisland helping my son who’s had pilonidal surgery..very difficult to watch an adult child in so much pain.
Interestingly his apartment is on McPhee St here in Courtenay!
~rewselene
You’re simply not feeling well and on antibiotics so don’t be so hard on yourself.
I am also working on University stuff, although I just received my offers, so I have choices to make and then courses to check out
I also have 2 children under 7 and a husband with MS to balance, a delayed panic about turning 30 last year and starting school in a few months
good times
Patting myself on the back for finishing a baby sweater for First Grandchild, whom I haven’t even seen yet. His name in utero was Fudgy the Whale, and I stumbled on some whale buttons that called for a black and white sweater — now complete and soaking in the sink.
Counting the minutes until 10:15 a.m. Sunday (when the Sunday School class I teach will be over) and I can leap in the car and head for Grandbaby.
Stephanie, thank-you for putting the question out there to us – it has been awesome reading all of the incredible responses. So many real and wonderful new intimate friends’ responses. I feel honored to be part of this community.
Ah; Cath at 8:59 beat me to the “orange pills” wish for you – from heaven, they are, and I so hope they are still available for you …
[Ocean Spray FINALLY makes available a cranberry juice that is NOT sweetened -and is VERY-VERY-VERY tasty- hopefully it is available where you are.]
Blessings and hugs to you .
Glad also to see “Denny has been unwell” has achieved shower-level-healing status… has it been this horrible 2-wk-flu-that-begins-in-the-throat blight for you, also, Denny???? Blessings and hugs to you, too.
MY answer to your question is this: Today is the first day in nine that I find myself on the other end of the dark tunnel of that flu and finally feeling like I love life again. I was worried. How awesome to see that light at the other end.
Celebration! Which I wish for everyone. That “happy-dance-glad-to-be-alive” feeling is a birthright – even on our darkest days… don’t ever forget that. Everyone; eh?
I am in week 4 of intensively training a puppy who is destined to be a therapy dog. Amazing how easily pleased and amused I am by her every little bit of progress. Work? What work?
I decided at 5:45PM, after 11 consecutive meals at my desk at work, I was going to go home before 9:00PM, eat something at my own kitchen table and see if I still have a husband and 2 teenaged boys.
I don’t have enough brain cells left tonight to cast on the baby afghan I want to start (your shawl start-and-rip-out post from a few days ago is too fresh in my mind), so I’ll read some blogs and the last few days of my Never Not Knitting calendar, look through the KnitPicks catalog and maybe go to bed at a civilized time.
I frequently wonder what happened to the day…or the week. The other day I thought, how is my baby six weeks old? Has that much time really gone by? Seriously? I just blame the sleep deprivation…
Reformatting a hard drive, reinstalling XP Pro, and then loading in heaps of individual programs and their related databases. I haven’t gotten to the documents yet, but yup, it’s really dark night out there already. How’d that happen?
I’m sitting on a cushion of the floor watching Eleventh Hour and handsewing cinquefoils onto a gonfolon. I got my device for the SCA passed about 2 months ago and now is the first chance to put one together.
Handsewing takes the focus away from staring at a laptop all day in my mundane job.
I just started back to work after foot surgery. And yeah, the day is flying by. I took a nap and 3 hours later it was night. But then again, I work a 24 hour on call shift at the hospital so a nap is soooo worth it.
Hmm, I’m struggling to force myself into a schedule to keep my mind off the fact that I can’t job any more. Assigning days to knit, to sew and to clean seems to help fight off the depression at least.
I’m wondering if there is a vat of ale big enough to hold me. I could use a nice dunk in some warm ale.
Goodness, but winter has been hanging on a long time.
Hope you are feeling better soon. I just took my son off to university (college) and am still missing him. It’s like losing a piece of myself but I know he is fine. Having a day off today. Just 16 arrived home with problems of yesterday sorted. Think it might be pizza tonight. Haven’t hung out the washing and now it’s raining. Am bored with this pullover I’m knitting and would really like to try some lace especially with the three lovely skeins which arrived recently. Isn’t family really a necessary part of life and one you wouldn’t be without even though it’s keeping you from your knitting. Love the shawl BTW. cheers
hey! you fell off my RSS feed list and I can’t you back. Is it broken?
Resting my teary-eyes from my ever so slight meltdown last night, not feeling well and needing a break from life in general. Needing lots of “me” knitting time.
Stupid crazy busy chasing kids and trying to reason with a 2 year old (which is, as suspected, futile).
Job hunted yesterday, took a spinning break today because I needed to do something to make me feel better about the having to look for job. Out of work Land Surveyors I can understand, we’ve stopped building things here. The worst part of not having job is not having insurance, the 2nd worst is that I fear it may interfere with my plans to attend Sock Summit.
Oh, and the big orange/brown pill… My daughter must have been on her 3rd or 4th UTI before we discovered that. You want that. You also want showers over baths. I have this strange memory of a post where you only have baths and for some reason that makes me feel like a stalker.
Intended to work from home all day (instead of staring at the laptop in a noisy, interruption-laden office) but started the day with a sink repair, and then lugging wood in for the stove, and finally sat down to work at 11am. Worked until 6, stopped for supper, worked until 10pm.
I think I wish I had kids at home again. They’re grown up and live far away. Having kids at home makes for a very busy life, but it keeps you from feeling like you ought to be doing Work Work All.The.Time.
Now I think I have a free-lance editing job coming down the road, so even though I won’t be doing all Work Work, I’ll be doing Some Kind of Work about 60 hours a week for the next several. Can’t get away from it. When will I ever do the laundry? The cat, though companionable, is no help …
I’m having a quick half-hour break while both bubs are asleep At The Same Time! oh… there she is. Sigh.
So so lucky that babies are so so cute! Ü
Spending two weeks on Anna Maria Island, Florida enjoying the beach but wishing there was a yarn shop that did not take over an hour to get to! I need a 16″ circular #7. 78 degrees today. Cannot complain about that!
Writing final papers, doing data entry in the hope of getting paid, test knitting a sock, and going to see Watchmen tonight. Sleeping is right out of the schedule.
I thought today was Wednesday. I think that sums up things for me!
Hope the UTI clears up nicely – my SiL landed in hospital with one three weeks ago 🙁
Studying for a completely terrifying mid-term exam in Religious Ethics tomorrow. Concentrating by knitting on a sock (noro silk garden sock color 211 – plain sock pattern toe up w/ heel flap). Yawning (it’s late and I should consider sleeping soon). Stressing about the crazy day I have tomorrow.
i’m stash diving for the appropriate yarn to make a pair of mosey on kitty, spring 08.
I used to get a lot of UTI’s but not recently. I’d gladly trade what ails me now for one of those. I’m going blind and that sure is cutting into my knitting. Feel better soon…ciao
I miss those days when I could just be a Mom. Now the kids are grown and gone, my retirement account is disappearing and I am working two jobs, making half what I used to make. I am taking a class for one of those jobs which is giving me a major headache, since I have been out of college for 35 years and my mind has turned to cottage cheese. THAT us what I am doing.
I am trying not to panic about how fast children grow after checking out some friends’ old pictures on facebook… Little sisters that were 8 the last time I saw them are 18! She seemed so tiny then! My daughter is already 7 and she seems big! Egads.
I am starting to wonder if my dinningroom is every going to really be done and how much more money is going to be spent simply to paint and replace the carpet with tile. I am also wondering if my kids will ever all be well and illness free again and if the will stop sharing it with me.
Stephanie, it’s the infection.
Just take your antibiotics, and you’ll be OK soon.
In the meantime, don’t stress over your blog.
I’m thanking the gods high and low that 2 out of 3 of my children are in bed. And I’m defending my plan to bring my baby to the Summit on Ravelry 😉
Meg, university is a thousand times better than high school. For the first time you will truly know how exciting the world is and you will truly know freedom (and not the kind your Mom is afraid you to know but the kind of freedom that comes from the power of knowledge and potential).
You will meet some of the most interesting and challenging people you will ever cross paths with and you will make friends that will be there with you for the rest of your life.
You are about to embark on the best and smartest and most life-changing time of your life!
Work hard and take advantage of EVERYTHING!
Hmmm… studying for my midterm in 2nd-year midwifery, wish me luck! Doing a clinical placement near your favorite LYS… I know you know all about the crazy hours. And whoever said there was time for knitting in this line of work?!? I sometimes secretly imagine I will just bump into you on College St. and, well, talk to you as if I were someone you knew. Ha. I have to stay out of the LYS though, it just doesn’t agree with the student budget, and I can’t seem to remember that once I set foot in the place.
Oh yeah, and parenting my 5-year-old who has an answer for EVERYTHING.
What I really wanted to share is my trick for staving off the dreaded UTI: tossing a few (ok, 8 or 10-ish) whole, frozen cranberries into my morning smoothie, every day. Yes they have been kicking around since Christmas, so what? 😉 Works like a charm so far, and cheaper than the potent-yet-undrinkable Real Cranberry Juice Without Kilos Of Sweetener.
Hoping wellness finds your house soon!
Taking up too much of your time if you’re reading this. But more seriously: feel well soon! (Does eating neufchatel cheese with cranberries in it count for cranberry juice in such a situation?)
Drinkin’ a 9% beer and reading the Harlot on my Friday night (Thursday in the real world). Thank Gawd you have that shawl moving along, reading the beginning of it had me throwing my lace weight yarn against the wall again. Oh yeah, I did that years ago and never went back, I admire you for struggling on.
A fairy godmother (actually, two different godfathers) cleared my driveway of the large amount of non-Fairbanks-like snow that has fallen in the last 24 hours, so I’ve been busy cleaning poop from four walls of the sky kennel my young dog spends the day in… I’m grateful I don’t have to do both tasks after a day’s work…
I am working on the Gumdrop socks and dealing with two small boys – a 6 yr old and a 3 yr old. Much fun to be had.
I am tossing and turning in bed because in a scant 10.5 hours I am closing on my very first home and I am faaaaar, faaaaaaaaaar, faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar too nervous to sleep. I can’t even knit, I’m such a mess.
Oh my god! I’m going to be a homeowner!
I work in a pharmacy, and pretty much everyone in Oregon has a UTI this week. No idea why. Did they have an International Visit The Doctor For Your UTI day and I missed it?
I had the ‘day off’ from my paying job, and busted butt around home with the Mom job. I’m on antibiotics as well for bronchitis, and after having 3 babies naturally, a good hard cough empties my bladder faster than a rabbit. I’d blast a UTI right out the old urethra! LoL. I finished my mom’s birthday socks 3 weeks late, but they’re done. I decided I don’t like soywool. it splits too easily. I rode my horse tonight, and now I’m checking email and your blog.
Hope you get better, my momma always said Cranberry juice helps. Vodka and cranberry juice is called a “kidney cleaner”, that might help better! hee hee.
Me, I’m photographing yarn and test knitting a sock to see how a new yarn knits up. Seriously, there’s a boatload of stitches in each stinking sock. Especially when it’s all plain stockinette. I don’t know how you do it Stephanie!
Doin’ Mom stuff. You know – all that stuff that makes me feel relly alive and relevant. Truly. I’m not being sarcastic here.
I personally am wondering when my house fairy is going to clean up this crap on my table. Hasn’t happened yet.
Trying to figure out how to connect with my 11 yr old son who seems to go from sweet to snotty in the time it takes for me to say that it’s time to put away the ipod, and hating that the thing he seems to enjoy more than anything (the ipod) is the thing I have to threaten to take away in order to get homework done, chores done etc.
My day started at 3 am with a 16 year old with an ear infection. After doing my best to make him comfortable, I tried to get more sleep…no joy.
Took said 16 year old to his pediatrician. Somehow the years slipped by or maybe it was the sleep deprivation….but, it did not occur to me (I swear, never, not once did it occur to me) that my baby, “my sweet baboo” would so horribly out of place. How did he get to be 6’4″ and 240 lbs.??????
Yes, I did get lectured all the way home, and I have sworn to start taking him to my GP.
Ohh! UTI’s are no fun! Cranberry juice is the cure (in addition to meds of course) but make sure it is the pure sour-as-all-get-out kind with no sugar. I usually mix it 1:4 with water and drink some all day. You can also drink apple cider vinegar, or take a bath with 1/4c of it the water. Good luck!
If anyone ever wanted a picture of what it is to be a mother . . . just read all of the comments above. There is so much pain, so much joy, so much sorrow, so much strength, . . . so much reality.
Ugh. I hate UTIs. Sympathies!
What am I doing? Right this minute, I’m posting the weekly update to the WeaveZine site. (Or I guess, more technically, slacking off in the middle of post the update to check blogs…)
Earlier today I had an adventure in the barn: http://www.weavezine.com/content/what-ewell-be-wearing-spring
to Teri at 10:58
There is no reasoning with a Two. The key is Creative Distraction.
Happy thoughts!
I’ve been waiting on my husband who slipped on the ice and screwed up his knee. He can barely walk and is currently on crutches/cane so I’m the one whose responsible for the household. My son is also in a play and has had nightly rehearsals 18 miles away. Since he doesn’t have his own car and I need mine (or the weather sucks and I don’t want him driving up the mountain to our house. Rural living means no mass transportation.) I have to go and fetch him. Fortunately, the play will all be over soon because I am seriously freakin tired! We’re still waiting to hear if my DH needs surgery on his knee. Boy, do I know what you mean about being ridiculously busy. I’m so sorry to hear about your UTI! That sucks. Feel better soon!
well my to-do list lately has been pretty much the same as yours(I am organising a three-day international event, sadly, not about socks), but today I am off to spend a long weekend in London (UK). Can’t wait!
All your work is so gonna be worth it.
My to do list has me up at strange hours avoiding the street, because it is cold out and I will get it tomorrow morning instead. Nothing as insane as yours, I’m sure. I should be knitting given how early I’m awake (as in since 2:30 a.m.).
I’m trying to recover from the week from hell – everyone on holiday, servers exploding, databases disappearing, people complaining, endless phone calls and only a very distant hope of new employment on the horizon. At least I have employment. Trying to knit a Noro raglan, an afghan, swatch for the FLS, clean my house and make sure I have food and coal…oh and it snowed. As I have put in extra hours this week I think I will knock off at 12 and go do some chores, and then maybe have a nap as I was awake at 2.30am drinking tea and knitting.
I’m flying to Ft. Lauderdale for Spring Break! which sounds amazing except I was just in Tallahassee, Florida for a conference- which I drove to from Philadelphia and got stuck in the Northeastern snowstorm on the way home. So I’ve been here four days and I’m flying back. I’ll be sleeping on the plane.
Or knitting- If I could just finish these Francie socks, I will be a happy woman.
Report Card Hell over here… no time to parent, I hope he’s getting fed and cleaned… The good news is that they are due today, so soon it will be all over (till early June that is).
I’m sitting here waiting for the family to wake for the day and admiring this week’s progress on the Estonian Garden Scarf. It is finally what it wants to be! Silly me, I bougt the suggested yarn, knowing full well I don’t like to knit lace weight yarn, but somehow convinced myself that this time would be different, after all, that’s the yarn the pattern is written for, right? This past weekend the RIGHT yarn spoke to me at NETA’s Spa in Freeport and NOW we’re making progress! DK weight mohair, silk and merino. Perfect!
I’m ripping my FLS down to the arm holes. Let me ask you: Do stitches disappear somewhat like the mate of a pair of socks after they are thrown in the wash? Where do you suppose those stitches go? Hope you feel better!
Well, tonight I’m going to bed and hoping the burning day star isn’t too bright for my sleeping (I work nights). And tomorrow, blocking a new lace shawl! Oh, and enjoying it being the weekend!
Yeah, it’s pretty much the same around here, except for the UTI (although my 3 y/o has a nasty chest cold). Also, my kids are younger, so there’s not much talk of University. Or High School for that matter. I did finish my first Baby Surprise Jacket, so that was kind of cool.
I hope your UTI is better soon. Those things are a pain in the arse. 😉
Knitting swatches of Berroco’s Seduce so that I can determine which size needles will produce the right guage for the Flow top. Your blog posts inspired me to knit Flow, but this yarn is going to take some getting used to.
Hope you feel better soon.
My day is bizarre-upside down. I work 11pm to 6am. I then come home and rune 3 of my 4 boys to their various schools, come home, sleep for 5 hours, go pick boys up. Homework, dinner, laundry,baths, back to work at 11. I feel alternately like a machine/ mule.
Trying to finish knitting a sock which doesn’t want to be finished.
Hope you feel better soon.
I am up at 6:00, and then hitting the snooze until 6:30, because I just can’t drag myself out of the bed. I used to get up at 4:30 but then it got to be too cold, but that excuse is rapidly disintegrating, so I will be up at 4:30 and at the gym next week (I will, I tell you, I will!). Prepare lunches for the day and get the rest of the family moving. Steal 15 mins. for a shower and then get dressed and run out the door. Off to work where it is home show week, and the stress is nearly unbearable. So much yelling, so much discord, such a strain on my psyche. Back home after 9 hours, throw together something for dinner. Eat, clean up, toss kids into the shower and then into bed, and then fall exhausted into bed myself. I have missed the last 3 Fridays of Battlestar Galactica and have to watch it later, thanks to Video On Demand from our cable company. Spares me the commercials but then I never get to see previews of the next episode. And how could the Chief not see what Boomer was up to? Very bad!
(Oh, I do sneak a row or two of knitting in there. Right now I’m seaming up a Hey, Teach sweater, and I need to get some buttons for that.)
That’s what I’m doing. Thanks for asking – and listening!
eerrr….I try not to grumble, too. For this will pass too soon, and then we will have all the time in the world to ourselves (until they graduate from University…did they tell you about that in the how-tos of raising kids???).
I’m knitting (if I’m not passing out from being tired), and doing financial stuff for those in University, and taxes (notice I’m writing and not working on that) and obsessing about procrastinating, and watching the laundry pile fall over cuz it’s so full and avoiding cooking dinner cuz I’m procrastinating about doing the taxes……should I stop the list?
eat, sleep, nurse, change poopy diaper. Repeat around the clock until bleary eyed, then once more for good measure.
Yes, time does seem to move more quickly these days. I remember as a kid, time seemed to move so slowly.
I am currently trying to do some honest to goodness spring cleaning in preparation for refinancing my home. The appraiser has assured me that he is just looking at the structure but I am sure that if my house is neat and tidy, it will add value. I’m trying to take advantage of lower interest rates but a good cleaning that includes sorting out clutter and scrubbing things done in addition to one’s full time job takes a long time.
I hope you get well soon! UTIs are a bummer.
Laura
I’m at work and thinking about when I’m going to have another opportunity to knit — is it incredible that you can write about being so busy and ALMOST 300 PEOPLE RESPOND! It’s because no matter what, you’re amazing, and we love you to death and we’re sure your kids do too!
I hate, hate, hate UTI´s from the bottom of my heart. Aaargh.Get well soon! (lots, lots, lots of water)
I´m drawing and counting the days left until my right eye undergoes laser surgery too. I´m not wearing glasses anymore (left eye corrected, right eye to be corrected) and my world is a messy, blurred cloud – on the right side – and very sharp on the left side. Not fun!
ergh on the UTI! I’ve been fighting a cold for about a month, and even with professional intervention, it’s still hanging on. It’s in the sore throat and slight laryngitis stage now (bad news since I’m a ninth grade English teacher!).
I’m stuck at school most of the time the bright shiny object is in the sky. (In renovating our school a few years ago, we got more energy efficient windows = smaller, less sunlight getting into the room). Add to that the fact that I’m the yearbook adviser and trying to set up an online French II course… I need more than twenty-four hours in the day, please.
It was so bad yesterday that I went home without going to the grocery store first, then remembered that the cat food dish was empty. I had given the “kids” canned food Wednesday, but I didn’t want to do that twice in a row. Luckily, there WERE about three cups of dry food left in the bag after all, so I was able to feed the kitties last night.
MUST REMEMBER TO GO TO THE STORE TODAY AFTER SCHOOL!
I’m just happy it’s Friday and looking forward to keep destashing/sorting my yarn so I can claim my bedroom floor back. :o)
Get well soon! I never had a UTI. Sounds awful.
Remembering every day that I am lucky to have recently landed my dream job (and crossing my fingers that an already-extended contract will yet again extend itself into a permanent position). Editing totally ROCKS!!
Being mindful of how living in a peace-oriented, loving home makes me feel, act, and react.
Closing in on finishing a pair of quilts for twins who had the absolute NERVE to be born 6 weeks early. They’re staying at the “spa” for a while tho, til they chub it up a bit, so the quilts will be ready in time to welcome them home.
Walking the line between supporting my daughter emotionally (and carb- & wine-wise!) as she finishes the last term before being granted her degree, and giving her the time & space she needs to complete a massive amount of writing.
Being thankful for living in a country where I have the freedoms I do, and for the women & men I am lucky enuf to call family, friends, & colleagues.
Working at a university. Listening to people working very hard to get a whole bunch of offers out the door by 1pm today. Speaking of university stuff.
Ow–I used to get those pre-kids. Do they still give the bladder anesthetic pills that make you pee fluorescent orange? That was pretty cool…
Working–thankful that I have a job in this economy and that I don’t hate it, knitting, mom to two teens, enjoying my grandson (10 months old today!), knitting away on at least 3 projects. Speaking of, I knew that chuckling over your nightmare shawl start the other day would send the knitting gods after me. I had to cast on SIX times for a vest front before it was right. Fortunately it was only over 72 stitches!
Because filling your mailbox with email will make you so much more productive?
I’ve just finished planning my emergency backup yarn. Because one pair of socks is totally not enough for a five-hour flight. I might be stranded in an airport with no yarn. That would be terrible.
It’s the end of week 1 out of my final two weeks before I go to start a new job. While I’m struggling to finish what I said I could do in my overachiever state of mind, I am buying a condo and waiting to sign the paperwork today. I’m really wishing I had asked to take a week off before starting new job. Need to start organizing and packing to move and preparing new place for major paint job and new carpet.
Hope you feel better soon – those UTI’s are miserable.
Ouch! Hope that UTI clears up quickly!!
I’m at work. I sometimes think it’s a soul-sucking, boring job and daydream about having a different job or owning my own business so I can work my hours when I want to. I hop over here to read your blog as a means of escape and seeking humor, then pop over to Ravelry for inspiration, and then to seek new info on Sock Summit from Tina’s blog … anything to keep me going to get through my work day.
Making Cassoulet, homemade French Bread, Arugula Salad w/Mangos & Toasted Pecans for 20 people. It’s a friend’s 50th birthday party and we’re also having Caviar and sour cream on potato rounds, Carmelized Onions, Walnuts and Mushrooms on Endive and Roasted Beets on toasted french bread.
Chocolate cake for dessert.
It’s fun, but I’m trying to find some time to go to yoga and knit amidst all this…much better than an UTI though. Feel better.
At the point when I read this yesterday, it had finally defrosted here in western NY state, it is warm (compared to the last 3 months) and all the neighborhood kids (including mine) have their scooters out and are running amok on the sidewalks. It’s so nice to see everyone outside.
Time does fly. Right now I’m trying to figure out what project to take with me to my dh’s cardiologist appointment (if this were a regular thing, i’d have it all planned. He had a “silent heart attack” this past week less than 36 hours after my birthday) and use my knitting to keep me semi-sane.
Try drinking cranberry juice for the UTI, it works, but for some reason ONLY for females 🙂
This mom stuff is certainly time consuming! It makes the days go by fast — too fast. (This was typed with one hand; i’m nursing a babe with the other and wondering why my three year old is so quiet. better go find out.) hope you’re feeling better!
Sorry to hear about the UTI. I’ve never had one *knock on wood.*
DH is in his 3rd or 4th month (it’s hard to keep track) of “part-time employment” (his mandatory unpaid vacation) and still, unemployment is no help ($16 for half a week of missed hours?!). But, it gives him more time to work on the house, and that’s a good thing.
After an expensive Feb (washer died) I have some money and can’t wait to buy groceries! Going with Mum tomorrow to stock up. After completing chemo a couple short weeks ago, she’s already feeling better and I’m am so happy!
I’m working — trying to be useful and important so I don’t get any mandatory unpaid vacation. (I say this as I’m posting on a blog!) And working on two pairs of socks.
I have 3 horses to “babysit” this weekend so that’ll keep me busy. But it’s supposed to be warm!
So, I’ve got some good and bad. Hope you feel better soon!
Thursday nights I am in an evening oil painting class. Next week is the last one. I’m so glad. I AM enjoying the time to paint, but after working all day I really enjoy my evenings at home with my husband and my lab, Ajax. Going to have to work on a painting area at home, I guess, and set aside TIME just for painting.
I cannot *believe* that no one before me has posted this simple preventative measure for repeated UTIs.
I got it from the (female) nurse who was standing around listening while the (male) doctor, on my second go-round within a few weeks, told me to take antibiotics to get rid of it but didn’t say a word about avoiding it in the future. The reason you get them is that rectal bacteria are turning up in the wrong place, so the secret is this: every time you go to the bathroom, wipe yourself from the *front* to the *back* rather than vice versa. I had been wiping back-to-front my whole life, and it was really awkward switching at first, but it was *totally* worth the trouble! I have never had another UTI after those first two, and that was around 20 years ago.
Feel free to pass this tip along to any other ladies who may be having the same problem.
What I’m doing is agreeing with you. Although we are doing almost completely different things, I am feeling the same feelings.
The Mom job never ends I currently have an over-flowing nest rather than an empty one that I was expecting. After 3 years 21 yearold son is staying with us until he earns enough money to rejoin wife in Brazil. 14 year old daughter is having “difficulty” with the fact that he assumes that tormenting her is in the older brother job discription. I work 5am m-f Three noghts in a row I have been woken up because “David is being mean” in the dead of night. When is the age that I can boot them all out and make more room for yarn?
I’m poking at my thesis, anticipating actual warm weather, and thinking about the link you had yesterday on Twitter about the oil crash coming. Is it wrong to be kind of excited about the idea because it means I would have a good excuse to quit being a lab rat and go be like Tasha Tudor? Heck, spinners and gardeners would rule the world!
Sorry to hear about the UTI,it is very painful.
I work at a University. I think it is great that your going to Muenster.
Don’t get me started on UTIs. We have a long and sordid relationship, and I even stock up on the pain relief meds when I’m in the states as it’s sold over the counter there, but only on prescription here. Imagine! No no. Don’t get me started…
I hope you feel better soon!
I am celebrating the publishing of an article:)
And crying happy tears..maybe I’ll actually be a real writer someday!
So sorry about the UTI – that’s serious pain and suffering. Fortunately the medication works fast.
Not to add to the pain, but on Sunday we will lose one more hour (assuming Canada does the daylight savings time thing). So the day star will be up later in the morning but shine for longer in the evening, leaving more knitting time at the end of the day (theoretically).
I’m being 9 months pregnant….being told that knitting is ‘not a good idea’ by my 2year old girlie, having niggly irregular contractions that are getting on my nerves and waiting for my sister to come round to collect my Mum’s house key…
getting my third child ready to apply to college – hoping the first two will graduate soon (lol) and praying the fourth will slow down and NEVER go to college! I miss them all when they are gone and am exhausted when they are all home! I sit down to knit at night and fall asleep in the chair (pretty damn sad!)
UTI’s are ABSOLUTELY THE WORST! I hope you are feeling better soon!
I’m feeling the same way this week! I’m going to eat some fried clams in the hopes that if I’m heavier it will slow down the days…
I’m being tickled pink! I found out yesterday that my first grandchild is a granddaughter! I casted on the softest pale pink yarn for the fussiest, most feminine matenee jacket last night. Let the fun begin!
I’m knitting a sweater in between bouts of holding a toddler who has a very rotten cold. He’s a little clingy and a little dramatically sad about everything right now, poor love.
Happens to me every day (minus the UTI, thank God).
Feel better soon!
I’m sitting at my computer in Amsterdam(!) doing another travel-nanny stint, having just returned from doing several loads of laundry, which seems to pile up if you are trying to toilet-train a kid on the road – accidents do happen, and today’s took out all the bed linens.
The toddler is taking a wee rest, and I’ve finished the sleeves for my Tilted Duster (but that was the first thing I did, so it’s not like the sweater is anywhere near finished.) Also on the needles are three repeats of the chart for the Sculptured Lace Scarf from IK latest issue. When the toddler is up, it’s the Duster; when the toddler is down, or with mum, and I can concentrate, it’s the scarf. It’s my first attempt a working from a chart, and it only took 5 times of frogging before I got the hang of it.
Monday we fly to Florence – but the airline does NOT permit knitting needles. I think a 2-year old will manage to keep me from being bored on the flight, no?
Grocery shopping, cleaning, preparing meals, helping kids with homework, and indulging in watching “Cranford” which I absolutely loved!
I am currently making the second sock of my very first pair ever, swatching for my second pair(different yarn, I get nothing resembling gauge, going up a pattern size to compensate for the 16st/10cm 5.0mm needles worsted weight yarn instructions because I get a nice tidy 20st/10cm~sorry complaining)In other knitting news I’m teaching my boyfriend’s sister and her daughter to knit, but I am sucking at it because I’m a righty who knits English style, and they are both lefties. In non-knitting news, I’m maintaining straight A’s in college, and preparing for the Medical College Admissions Test and jumping through hoops. D@#^ physics!
Uber busy with the Mom thing too. Going to take a break to knit a few rows whilst they’re off at school.
UTI’s suck big time! Are you drinking cranberry juice &/or lots of fluids?! That’ll help things along, honest. Prayers out the antibios work quickly!
I’m at work right now as a Legal Assistant with enough “job security” for at least 2 people not to mention being mom to 7 and 4 year old boys and all that entails. Feel better Yarn Harlot – lots of liquids!!
Up first this morning, sent youngest Darling Stepson to the shop for the bread Darling Husband said he’d get last evening but didn’t, put meat, veggies, wine etc in the slow cooker for tea tonight, got breakfast for everyone else, then for self, ate breakfast, dressed, de-iced the car, fed the birds, sorted stuff for eldest stepson for school, got to work (in a library), did the shelfchecks, dealt with our lovely customers all morning, read “The Iron Woman” to a classfull of 11-year-olds this afternoon, also taught them the “Little Green Frog” song which we normally sing with the pre-schoolers but which they enjoyed very much (!!), currently waiting for it to be five o’clock, will go and get both stepsons from my mother’s house (she’s met them from school as hubby and I are working), will get them home, sorted for bed, eat my dinner (mum will have fed the boys already at her house) then my dad is bringing my mum and my niece to my house, he’s babysitting the boys, and the three of us are going to knitting club, then it’ll be home, make sure the boys are in bed (they’ll get round my dad somehow, I know they will!), put the washing on (school uniforms and work stuff), put it on the airers to dry (grotty weather here at the moment), then get my pjs on and wait for hubby to come home after he’s finished at 11pm. Somewhere in amongst there (probably at knitting club) I’ll finish the baby mitts I’m doing for the expected baby of friends in Scotland…………..!!
Just up here on the West Coast and the day ahead of me offers:
– type up and post final wedding celebration dinner details to friends and attending family for our meal on the 14th March
– a stack of sponsorship and residency application paperwork which is proving a real headache to complete (understatement) due to level of detail that is needed, the fact that the majority of supporting evidence that I have is in storage in the UK and the fact we did some house reno in Canada last autumn and lots of paperwork got chucked out, or is now jammed randomly into boxes somewhere in a basement that (to me) resembles a set that from some kind of police-chase-serial-criminal film set.
I see sunshine outside – I feel like a teenager trapped indoors with a pile of exam revision to do – so it’s time to turn the radio up loud and get on with it all, I guess!
I am working to write a pitch and log line to take to my first writing conference where I have an appointment with an agent to pitch my first novel while trying sit up straight and keep my shoulders in place to ease the unrelenting pain in my neck and shoulders. Monday’s chiro appt. can’t come too soon. In between I’m knitting a worsted sock (on the foot–woohoo!) and a warm woolen shawl. I hate to tell you, Harlot, but life doesn’t really slow down when the kids leave. You fill it up with your own deadlines, etc. It’s lovely. Oh, the sun just came out and the ice floe at the base of the driveway is starting to melt. Ahh.
praying to the benevolent forces of nature that teaching assistant-ship comes through, because the fellowship didn’t. and worrying about how i’ll manage to eat and pay rent and look for a job and graduate after years of hard work if it doesn’t.
feel better.
praying to the benevolent forces of nature that teaching assistant-ship comes through, because the fellowship didn’t. and worrying about how i’ll manage to eat and pay rent and look for a job and graduate after years of hard work if it doesn’t.
oh yeah, and spending money i don’t want to on antibiotics because i’m coughing so much i cant sleep and my head aches.
feel better.
Hi Stephanie.
Not all UTIs were made equal. Sometimes they just put you right in bed. My docs now tell me (since I’ve been having them for 40 years or so) to just pop an antibiotic if I even THINK I’m going to get sick. It works for me. (I know the risks of building resistance to the antibiotics, but I’m past caring.)
Meanwhile, I am working on a fairisle sweater for myself this time, using autumn shades of Mixed Breed single ply yarn, hand-dyed from natural dyes that come from the plants grown at the property of this business, Freshisle Fibers on Manitoulin Island. It is going to be amazing. To see an example of what you can do with this yarn (and any old fairisle graph), go to http://www.freshislefibers.com. That vest on the website under “Customers” is my gift to a brother-in-law.
Get well soon.
Paula
– Trying to figure out how our non-profit can be a just employer in these hard economic times. – Holding my breath with my daughter as she waits to hear from graduate programs. – Envying my dog as he makes a comfy nest on the couch in his favorite afghan. – Praying for more rain.
Hope you feel better soon. I’m planning a wedding in 4 months (should elope,but it would break my mother’s heart), knitting some alpaca socks for my fiancee, working the 9-5, helping fix my mother’s kitchen ceiling, and trying to get over a cold.
We’re reeling from an unexpected family death in the UK, 3 weeks of the flu, teen with girlfriend trouble and therefore grades trouble, loss of my part time job. I suspect it is the lack of sunshine for all humanity and maybe if I washed my windows, I could see some if it does appear soon. Spring has never forgotten to come so hold strong or book a flight south.
Cleaning up after our darling 12-year old incontinent corgi who has DM and is on the slippery slope across the rainbow bridge.
Trying to shake off a fever and a migraine, while keeping up with work commitments.
Wanting to be outside gardening here in Portland, OR.
Hope the UTI is waning…
I’m at work, surfing the weeb while I turn pages for archive.org . I’m counting down to quitting time so I can go out in this beautiful weather, take the subway home while reading (I’m about 3/4 the way through your “Casts Off” book… not fond of the intermittent green pages, but I’ll live ^_-), and do some serious crafting!
Hooray for the weekend!
What am I doing? I don’t even know, but the day has passed already, it’s the afternoon, and I’m still looking at my to-do list.
At this very moment, I am contemplating how to avoid making lesson plans for my art classes because it’s Friday and I can always do them on Sunday night right before the week starts. I am staring at my sock bag willing it towards me so I can knit a couple of rows without anyone noticing I am still not doing the aforementioned lesson plans.
At least it’s Friday
eating a scone after an unsuccessful weight watcher weigh-in
I am trying really hard to stay awake at work. I even downed a can of soda in an attempt to perk back up, only to realize it’s caffeine-free and I am too full for another can. 🙁 is it 5pm yet?
Also doing the mom stuff (two teenage girls here – one in college, one in high school – yikes!!) and looking forward to the weekend!
UTI???
I’m about to go to a meeting with a group of administrators, faculty and students. We are developing a plan to have our university become carbon neutral asap or at least by 2020. It’s harder than one might think. The first 50% or so of CO2 reductions might not be so hard, but the rest…argh !
Then I’m going home to KNIT yippee!
I’m playing catch up beacuse my kids had Monday off and a delay on Tuesday because of snow (umm spring? we’re over *here*.) So in my head it’s only Wednesday which hasn’t been working out so well for me so far. I can’t wait for the daylight savings time to change this weekend so I can be an extra hour wrong on top of that. Hope you’re feeling better!
Well, while you were missing the day star, I was following it westward by aeoplane. I’ve traveled to the sunny, (but still cool!) state of California to celebrate the my granddaugher’s first birthday! that comes on the 10th. Which by wonderful coincidnece is MY birthday too!!
Same. Deciding whether the little one needs another year of kindergarten even though he’s first grade age technically (but not really emotionally socially or academically). Worrying about that. Holding the baby. Begging them to eat. Making eldest do his homework. Making them all knitted goods including a hideous but ingenious “lucha libre” ski mask thing. Trying to finish a dissertation. Trying to avoid cooking. Doing more laundry than I can believe (3 kids, spring mud, cloth diapers).
My life feels exactly the same lately. Lather, rinse, repeat. Get up to cries of “Mommy!”, do the lunatic routine of parenting a toddler, go to work, come home to asylum again, achieve toddler bedtime at 8:30, tidy up, knit a couple rows, and collapse into bed. The house is cluttered and dusty, the meals are boring and marginally nutritious, the relationship with spouse is on auto-pilot. Slowly realizing the parenting is never going to get “easy.” Still amazed at super-human efforts required to be a halfway decent parent.
It’s so much fun to read everyone’s comments! It’s like a “day in the life of knitters”.
I am also in “reset” mode, teaching three college courses, grading, applying for jobs, returning emails, feeling guilty about not getting to the gym, drinking coffee (pretending to myself that 1/2 decaf is just as good – am pregnant so trying to cut back.) However, this afternoon at 4:00 I have my big 20 week ultrasound and get to see little weasel and maybe know if it’s a boy or girl! Should be a nice start of the weekend! Ooo, and I started a lace scarf for a friend last night. (Tiger Eyes Scarf)
Getting ready for vacation next week!! Then…. I may have a blog as well! 🙂
Let’s see, yesterday I worked all day, job hunted at night, and somewhere in there explained the mysteries of the long tail cast on by phone to a nine-year-old while desperately trying to figure out where the overdue book was so I could return it to the library. (In case you’re interested, it was in the kitchen cabinet. Next to the cookbooks. Which makes sense, since it was a cookbook.)
I’m commenting. But today, a situation I’ve spent all week clenched for has not materialised. So at the moment I am relaxed. This is a very strange situation for me … I hope to transfer some of this, somehow…
Wow, that just described my day perfectly. Well, except substitute University essays with changing diapers…
Lamenting my new sir washie and madam dryer are still not in my residence. Of course, I’m still not in my residence … alas. UTIs suck.
Finally finished my shift, looking at blog-land, supposed to be (using the company computer to) creating documents of family stories, compiling them into a “keepsake” for all the kids and grands, yeah, well, sometime … Hope the weekend is good for you – I saw the forecast last night – Toronto and Alberta – you guys with rain, freezing rain, and then snow; us with somebody pushing the “reset” button on Winter – enough, already!!!
I just finished blogging about how utterly depressing it was when I could not knit for over ten years due to carpel tunnel-like, repetitive strain-like, old age and bad genes-like pains so bad that I had to quit knitting.
I’m back to knitting now after being away from it for years – I’m so grateful to be back but I live a life of a knitting diet. I have to do small projects, work mostly in Europen style knitting with the left hand, and rest a lot.
I’m grateful for this blog where I can connect with knitters who know full well how horrible it would be to not be able to knit.
The lament of the modern mother – too much to do in too few hours. Maybe that’s why the time seems to go so fast…Oh no! Here come the showtunes!
Smelling the hammantaschen that my 22 year old daughter came over and made me. Listening to her twin on the phone, tickled over a Purim party that she got invited to at college. Wondering how in the world I got over that horrible, horrible, horrible 5 years up to now where my house smells like a holiday is coming and I didn’t do anything to make it smell that way! Oh, and the Philadelphia flower show made my day this morning.
I have two words for the UTI – cranberry juice. Lots of it. And water. Drown those bugs!
At least I finished the baby sweater (for a shop sample; my baby is 9 years old!), wove in all the freakin’ ends, and have to block the heck out of its tiny stockinette pieces so I can sew them together. Sometime this weekend I’ll do that … and bake hamantaschen … and spend some time outdoors … and hopefully nothing will break and my knee will feel better.
I am holding my first spinning like a baby, occasionally marveling over this or that bit of it.
Well…this week I made a striped watch cap for local HS play, “Suessical the Musical.” Started it Monday and finshed it Tuesday evening. I have one leg in a brace, the other leg is about to go into a brace too. Alot of complications of lifelong, Type-1 diabetes. Surgery in future not an option.
Went to a teahouse with my knit group, swapped patterns. yarns, stories, and drank tea. (Could have used a little bourbon, but not that kind of knit group!)
I perform in an classical music group…had to make the 2 hour round trip plus the 2 hour rehearsal, post snow storm. Spring—Come ON!!!
A few weeks ago, I blogged about being ‘broken.’
Still broken, and blessed to be able to talk to you, and be able to knit… alot.
But to misquote an old Scots prayer…”We have yarn, and we can knit…and say the Lord be-thank-it.”
Get Better Stephanie…real soon. You’re keeping some of us out here, sane.
Well…this week I made a striped watch cap for local HS play, “Suessical the Musical.” Started it Monday and finshed it Tuesday evening. I have one leg in a brace, the other leg is about to go into a brace too. Alot of complications of lifelong, Type-1 diabetes. Surgery in future not an option.
Went to a teahouse with my knit group, swapped patterns. yarns, stories, and drank tea. (Could have used a little bourbon, but not that kind of knit group!)
I perform in an classical music group…had to make the 2 hour round trip plus the 2 hour rehearsal, post snow storm. Spring—Come ON!!!
A few weeks ago, I blogged about being ‘broken.’
Still broken, and blessed to be able to talk to you, and be able to knit… alot.
But to misquote an old Scots prayer…”We have yarn, and we can knit…and say the Lord be-thank-it.”
Get Better Stephanie…real soon. You’re keeping some of us out here, sane.
…I have a head-ache and I don’t know what an UTI is so on top of my head-ache I feel stupid since everyone else knows or is pretending to but I’m just to tired. I had the worst flu in the world last week – I swear my eyelashes hurt. I have a son turning 39 on Monday, a grandson turning 9 and seven years ago I hooked up with a wondorous guy who had a seven y.o. girl and a nine y.o. boy. Guess what? They turned into friggin’ teenagers and I must have forgotten those years with my own two (39 &37 men) because here I am again and the 15 yr.old hid his report card for the last three weeks! His mom found it today. What the blasted hell was he thinking? Oh yah, he wasn’t. And the step-dot has turned from lovely to mean little thingy – I think they are both redeemable but my lovely guy is heart-broken right now. Bad marks no big deal – lying big deal. So how am I dealing with this, the worst iciest winter ever, no money and so on…I’ve knit about 18 hats since New Years. ha ha. And I’ve got my dear chickens – four hens and a rooster who give both my guy and I hours of entertainment.
It is sunny today and the kids won’t be horrible teeanagers forever – they’ll become something else which will be their choice. I think they’ll choose well finally – they’ve got three great parents.
later dude….
I’ve been trying to simplify my schedule for next year so we can drop everything and go to China when we get our adoption referral. I signed up for way too many “volunteer opportunities” this year and it is hard to say no to those who have asked whether I plan to keep doing the same thing in September, but it’s getting easier…
Sorry about the UTI – those suck. I used to get them a lot and have learned a few ways to avoid them – email me if you’d like to know. (Not exactly something everyone would want to read, so I’ll spare it here.) I’m glad you went and got meds – it’s not good to mess around with a UTI. I learned this the hard way, trying all sorts of natural cures and ending up almost getting admitted to hospital. Hopefully you should be feeling better by now! 🙂
We made our LAST HOUSE PAYMENT!!! Oh my gosh that is so wonderful. I just looked around today and pointed to everything and said, “You’re paid for!”
UTI is total misery!!!! Get some cranberry juice then mix it like this.
2 oz cranberry juice
2 oz Vodka
1 oz Triple Sec
2 tsp lime juice
Pour it all into a cocktail shaker with ice, shake and drink. The cranberry juice is wonderful for cleaning up the bladder. The Vodka and Triple Sec keep you from giving a dead rats ass if it works or not!
Hey Steph, just got 4 of your books-LOVE them & can’t wait to get to the next one-now on “Things I learned…”;also started”Knitting Rules” at the same time-I can do it being the mom of twins and a2 1/2 yr old 41 yrs ago. You write like you are describing my knitting life!! Am so happy to find your web site and books-what a shot of sunshine! Keep it up & I will be checking your blog regularly.
No bright day star here (upstate ny) so I am catching up on paperwork and wondering if I should take a lunch and knit a few 2×2 seed stitch rows on my beautiful teal and green Plymouth Boku. Very uplifting stuff.
Well, the day you wrote this I placed my favorite grandmother into a home. My mom is in Florida until Wednesday and I am the eldest granddaughter, so it fell on me since she fell in the bathroom. 🙁
You know, if your malfunctioning dishwasher is full of lots of water with lots of disgusting stuff, you may have a sewer problem. When my dishwasher quits, it has only a few inches of dirty water with veggie bits. Have you considered calling a plumber?
that was so suckish