Posts from — March 2007

It may be time to stop blogging when you begin to have dreams of fellow bloggers.  I’m thinking this could mean way to much time spent thinking about, writing in an reading knit blogs.  Or it could just be the narcotic pain meds.  At any rate, I had a dream about two of my fellow bloggers.  I think they’re particularly fresh in my mind since I have been WAY behind (more like not reading at all) on blog reading until this recent forced bed rest.  Oh and just in case you were wondering, Lazy UPSman did show up and I have the PC complete with Vista.  I am so allowed…I NEED it for business. :flower:

So I come up to Laurie’s front door in small town, CA, where I notice the next door neighbor sitting on the front porch with her bird.  Strange, I didn’t think Korean ladies usually had red hair but apparently Percocet begs to differ.  Also, the percocet forgot the non-death fruit.  I ring the front doorbell and Laurie greets me in the most gracious southern manner.  We walk in the front door and the Percocet is also aware of her recent uncluttering of the house.  It’s not really cluttered but lots of yarn everywhere.  I say something about wine and Laurie says “oh, I’m not doing that anymore”.  WTF???  Then we talk about getting something to eat…no in and out burgers but instead hanging out on her cute little back patio, sans wine and cooking in.  I go to look in the fridge so I can help and all that is there is broccoli.  Mounds of broccoli (um, I like broccoli, but not as a continuous diet).  Then she shows me to her guest room upstairs (I’m not even sure she has an upstairs) and explains how it’s much cooler now that the A/C is fixed.  Some how there is no sleep or eating and I am suddenly in the back of a pickup truck talking to Laurie and her boyfriend through the little back window.  Then we stop in a park where I step into “quick mud” (like quicksand except it’s mud) and all I could think was to quickly hand Laurie my new digital camera so we could get some pics of me drowning in the quickmud for the blog.  Boyfriend and a horse (where did that come from) pull me out.  Then La comes running into the picture and says, “you were supposed to visit me first!”  And somehow, La was actually Jen and La all fused together into one person…as I spoke to her I had the sense that they were both there.  She whisked me off in her car before I could get my camera back (I was really worried about having something to put on the blog when I got home since I ALWAYS forget to take pictures) and said something like don’t worry, we’ll knit a new one??? And as we were in route to the nearest yarn store I woke up.   

Seriously, y’all.  I think I need help!

I sure do.  If it weren’t for the fact that I have literally nothing better to do than lie in bed, I’d probably be crazy by now.  The waiting started Monday when I found out that the Dell computer I ordered had been shipped.  Not just shipped, but shipped about two weeks early.  Really, that kind of thing just doesn’t happen except for when one has had surgery and can’t lift anything heavier than maybe a CD…much less a few boxes of eletronic equimpment.  So packages due yesterday and me laying around in bed all day with two very scary and loud watchdogs not a chance of missing the UPS guy right?  Wrong.  Lazy UPS guy apparetnly didn’t feel like hauling the new Dell up the steps yesterday.  Even though he already had to lug up a box from proflowers.com.  He just snuck up, left the flowers, left a note saying he “tried” to deliver the computer and tiptoed away (I forgive the dogs this time…they were in their little kennels so mommy could rest and thus blissfully relieved from their typical watch dog duties).  So busted Mr. UPS UltraLazy…I WAS HERE!  Now today…I left a note taped to the door…”I AM here, knock loudly”.  As if any knock at all would slip past my watch dogs who are most definitly NOT in their kennels today.  I would have to take the whole bottle of pain meds to sleep through the commotion the dogs make when someone does so much as step foot in the yard so I’m certain the computer WILL be delivered today.  However, just to ensure my slow route to crazyville the UPS guy is waiting until at least a couple of hours past the time he “tried” to deliver yesterday.  Still.  Waiting.  Hate.  It.  Want. To. Sleep. But. Just. Can’t. Risk. It.  Not entirely sure why I care at this point though since I won’t be able to use it immediately anyway.  Thanks goodness for laptops, y’all.  I’ve been able to entertain myself by catching up on knit blogs, looking for patterns and the like.

So yeah, still on pain meds as if you couldn’t tell.  Thanks so much for all the kind thoughts you’ve been sending my way.  I really appreciate it.  Surgery still sucks no matter how “minimally invasive” but still thank goodness for that robot.  I’m really not sure how the ladies wihth 6-12 inch incisions do it!  I guess you just cope with what you have to.

I did a little knitting last night.  I began another Fabulous Lace Inset Cardigan a couple of weeks ago and really should try to get it finished before it’s too warm to wear it.  For some reason though, I’m really hankering to start a shawl or some such lace project.  After searching most of the morning I’m still no closer to deciding what that project should be despite the great inspiration from a new book, Victorian Lace Today.  I bought the book after reading a review on a knit blog (I can’t remember who now) and although I like it I can’t say there is a project in there I’m just dying to knit.  There is also the issue of lace weight yarn.  I have a yarn store for gosh sakes wouldn’t you think I have some good lace yarn???  Not so much.  Something to address once I’m a little further along in my recovery.  I may use Kona fingering and then dye it afterward?  Or if I can ever figure out the “perfect” project I’ll use my qiviut.  Or, I was thinking of using some Opal.  Wouldn’t that be interesting?  It would need to be the right kind of pattern though with all the color changes.  Thoughts?  Suggestions?  Liked it better when the Diva blog was silent???