Checking In

Just checking in..haven't posted in a while. We spent Memorial Day at Lake Texoma in the rv with David, Amanda, Savy & Dax. Mel and Bri met us there and stayed in one of the cabins close by. We had a wonderful time and the kids really enjoyed it there! They spent most of the time in the pool. Dax wasn't sure about the pool thing at first but once he got used to it it was hard to get him out of the water! Savy has always been a little water baby and wasn't interested in the other activities going on...she just wanted to swim and swim! It was such fun!

One thing I did before we left was get my head shaved...lol...not really, but I did get it cut....REALLY short! I had it short for several years but never this short! It is taking some getting used to when I walk past a mirror, but as far as maintenance goes....I love it! I don't even have to use a comb or brush, just my fingers! Easy, easy! Will probably keep it this way for a while!

I did finally get going on the knitting again. I was just bored with everything I was doing! Not so much the Lady Eleanor but it is so hot piled up in my lap. Especially since I usually have a minimum of 3 fur kids in my lap too! I'm either going to have to wait until it's cooler or work on it when no fur babies are around!

Anyway, I started three more wip's this past week. I wanted an "idiot knit" project to work on during the drive to Texoma so I cast on the Shoulder Split Sweater from the Vogueknitting site. I'm doing it out of some Rowan Bamboo Tape I had in the stash. I think it will be a great every day summer top.

One other thing I started.....or maybe should say re-started....is the MS 3. That's the one that got the juices flowing again! It's hard for me to put it down even though I have to work on it when there isn't much going on....needless to say I didn't touch it this weekend with all the fun and festivities going on! This time she is being done out of Jagger Spun Zephyr from the stash with gold seed beads.

I also finished...except for felting.....the African Tote kit from Bully Woolies that I picked up at The Gourmet Yarn Co. It was really fun to do and went really fast!

Other than that, not much going on. Praise God, the dizzy spells have gone away!! I haven't had a dizzy spell for 8 days now. I'm canceling the nerve impulse and hearing/imbalance tests they wanted to do. Even with insurance it costs a blooming fortune to have any kind of medical treatment done and I can't see paying for them when the symptoms have gone away.

The next couple of weekends are going to be busy ones around here. I'm going to miss two knitting functions, which I'm not happy about! Next weekend all of DH's kids are coming into town and will be here during The Gourmet Yarn's Knit-In. :-( so I'm going to miss that and I'm going to miss Guild the weekend of the 14th because I'll be attending a wedding in Austin. The only upside is there are 5 yarn stores in Austin..lol! The wedding is for my best friend's son. I'm going for her...she is such a wonderful person, but I can't stand either one of her kids. They have always treated her like crap and I just have not respect for them at all, but I love her dearly so feel I need to go for her.

Stuff

Stuff....just stuff today. I am sort of all over the place mentally and with my knitting lately. Health issues are improving somewhat even though we still aren't sure what is going on yet. Yesterday was the first day in around 3 weeks that I haven't been dizzy. Started the process of elimination a couple of weeks ago with an MRI of my head. Thankfully it was relatively clear so it's a relief to know that nothing really scary is causing the problem.....and they released me to drive again....HUGE relief!! It was such a pain to have to rely on someone else to haul me around...I hated it! Next steps are a nerve impulse test on feet and legs then a hearing/imbalance test. It's sort of looking like it might be an inner ear thing because the neurologist gave me an rx for a really small dosage of Valium saying that it had been discovered that it helps with inner ear stuff....weird....I thought it was just for anxiety, etc....anyway...it helps!!! Half of a .5 ml tab and the dizziness goes away for a little while.

Last weekend we had a wonderful time celebrating Mother's Day!! Kept Savy & Dax Saturday night then spent all day Sunday with them, David and Amanda. It was wonderful. I got phone calls and goodies from all the rest of the family too! It ended up being an "extended" Mother's Day because on Monday Amanda took me out for a whole day. I had such a wonderful time! She treated me to lunch at Nona's Red Door in Bricktown, we went from there to have our fingers and toes done then to New York and Company where she bought me the cutest outfit with shoes and jewelry to match!! DH ordered me the KnitPicks Harmonies!!!! Both the interchangeable circulars and the dpns.....woohooo!!! I had already gotten a Michaels card which I got Soy Wool to do the Lady Eleanor with, then I also raked in a pair of Victoria's Secret pjs, a Chili's gift card and the book Romantic Handknits!! Talk about a "Mother Lode" for Mother's Day!

On the knitting side of things I've been frustrated lately. Nothing is really holding my interest for very long these days. I start something, work on it for a little while then get bored with it, and nothing is really calling out to be started either! Oh, there are things in the que that I want to do, but nothing is jumping out and screaming "do me next, do me next"!!

I have gotten a good bit done on the Lady E out of the Paton's Soy Wool I got for Mother's Day. Savy modeled it for me this morning! I have one more skein to add then do the fringe. It's to the point where it's a pain to work on though because it's hot piled up in my lap!

I've worked a little bit on the Child's French sock from of Knitting Vintage socks out of Cherry Tree Hill Supersock, but it's not really keeping me interested either.
I also have stopped working on the Cable Lace Tee out of the Jeannee. I was enjoying doing it and love working the pattern....... but after finishing the back and holding it up to myself I realized just how short it was going to be and that I would probably never wear it! With the body morphing I have been doing over the last year I much prefer things a little longer that cover up a wee bit more of the mid-section and back-section, if you know what I mean...lol!

I'm sort of thinking I might re-start the MS3 again. I'm still just sick that I ran out of yarn on the first attempt. It was my first big lace project and I was so proud of it. I want to participate in the MS4 when it starts this fall so maybe I should get going on this one again....maybe it will keep me interested and get the knitting juices flowing again!! This time around I think I'm going to use Zepher in a rich brown with gold beads. Will probably wait until my Harmonies come in...hopefully this next week!

Have Guild this afternoon. Today will be a really bitter-sweet meeting for me. I attended and spoke at the memorial service for my dear friend Susan Barrington yesterday. I still can't believe that she is gone. She is the founder of our Guild and I never go to a meeting without thinking of all her hard work in getting it established. Her service was so nice. She was adamant that it be a celebration of life and a going home party for her instead of just a time to be sad. Jim did a beautiful job of fulfilling her wishes. There was a short service then everyone gathered to eat, visit and reminisce. I think she would have loved it. I miss you, Susan.