A Little Yarn On The Side

Yesterday I received an email from my favorite online yarn store saying they were changing their business model and would be selling through Amazon now, and that any outstanding credits not used by November would be lost.  I have had a $50 credit there that I've been watching carefully.  Had I known that I was going to try for 2 years without buying yarn, I would have used it before starting, but I wasn't sure I could make it even a YEAR of stone-cold sheeping.  In all fairness, I could have waited until November 1 and hoped that something I wanted was left, but I didn't want to be buying yarn just to buy yarn (when did THAT happen?), and they are my source for the yarn for chemo caps, and they've been changing their yarn lines and I'm not sure that one will make the cut.  So yesterday morning I used my credit to resupply for chemo caps, and ended my not-buying -yarn streak at: 1 year, 10 months, and 14 days Oddly, I'm not as upset at missing the 2-year...

Which explains why there is no crafting update..............

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...