A Little Yarn On The Side

So the new allergy drugs make me sleepy.  I feel like Alice in Wonderland with the cake and mushrooms and whatever else she took to make her grow and shrink.  Mercifully, none of them have made me grow as I really don't need that.  But today I am trying the scary-hyper drugs during the day and the sleepy steroid nose spray at night.  It will reduce the effectiveness of the steroid, but it also took the steroid a while to make me sleepy, so I'm hoping to get a break from that as well. Crafting goes a bit slower when one is sleepy, but there are a couple new lace ornaments,  the kimono shawl is now more than half way done, YAY!  The icky yarn has been delivered to our local branch library, I have cut out fabric strips for new kimono ornaments, tried to do some laundry,   and decided to try out the fabric garland pattern.  I swear that the fact that it sounded like a quick project that would add 4 yards to my tally had nothing to do w...

(tonight, via text messaging) Andy:   Greg said Frank is in town, and will bring him along to your body party, if you would like. Toni:   I didn't know it was a body party.  Toning or burying? Andy:   Which goes best with pizza? Toni:  Probably burying, since I think pizza is Sicilian...............

Seriously, has anyone ever taken 12-hour Sudafed without knowing that it was a stimulant?  It's one of the drugs you have to buy from the pharmacist because people use it to make meth--which is surprising as the last thing I would have thought anyone would want to do was to INTENSIFY the feeling of just plain old Sudafed.  So, being a foolish person who tends to believe that over the counter drugs are relatively harmless, I took Sudafed for 48-hours before I finally went to the doctor for something less scary for allergies.  It's not quite as silly as it sounds--the first night I couldn't sleep, I assumed it was just because I had taken Nyquil for 3 nights in a row before that, and that usually would make it hard for me to sleep the next night.  But the following night when I was exhausted but ready to repaint the bedroom at 3:00 AM, I did figure things out, and have stashed away the rest of the scary Sudafed until maybe a future Christmas where I am stupid enough...

So it turns out that when a medication says "non-drowsy formula," it can mean either that the normal version makes one sleepy and this one doesn't, or it can mean "we're-not-allowed-to-call-it- a-stimulant-but-you're-not-goi ng-to-sleep-for-the-next-two-d ays.........."

So I didn't quite end August on target for 100 projects in a year, but I finished this pillow   last night, so I'm close.  I can still make it.  I'm not as sure about the 100 yards of fabric from the stash, however, since I haven't even reached 35 yards yet, but there are some sewing WIPs laying around......... The pillow is a birthday gift for our friend who plays the ukulele--or one of our friends who plays the ukulele, as they're quite the popular little instrument lately.  The fabric is one of the very oldest in my stash--I can't remember for the life of me what I bought it for originally, but it makes a great pillow.  Project number 66 DONE! And, I have made one gift for "Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye" for the fall stashdash.  As you might have noticed, I posted an edited fall challenge based on the one I led last year on Ravelry.  It's not on Ravelry this year, but I really enjoyed it last year and thought my WIPs could use a lit...

From September 1 until November 30, it’s time to fall back in love with the things you already have. New yarn cannot compete with a long-term love. Complete as many of the following as you choose. As always, please feel free to involve other hobbies or crafts as well: Love at First Sight - pick a yarn in your stash that was truly an impulse buy--a yarn you just fell in love with. Find a pattern that will do it justice. Soul Mates - make a pair of socks, slippers, booties, or stockings from stash yarn--the deeper the better Glass Slipper - Match a pattern you already have with a yarn you already have and put them into a project bag to surprise yourself with in 2015 ‘Til Death Us Do Part - complete FIFTEEN rows on a WIP that is at least one year old, or your oldest if they’re all more recent “Are You Lonesome Tonight? - Complete TWENTY-FIVE rows on a second WIP “You’ve Lost that Lovin’ Feeling” - Complete SEVENTEEN rows on a third WIP “Killing Me Softly” - ...

 And I might even be slightly forgiven.  Not last night, of course.  That was the last dose and after that, Theo hid under the forsythia bush and had nothing to do with me the rest of the night.  But today I've been out picking cucumbers in the garden, which is ALWAYS really interesting in Kittyland, and when I moved into the sewing room, he first hung out right outside the door, then hopped up on the window, then:  which is, of course, right on top of the table runner I had just prepped for binding.  Oh well.  If you had been having to torture a cat twice a day, could you make this sweet little face move?  Or at least not until after I've made pickles, at any rate..................