A Little Yarn On The Side

Luckily it was while I was busy making lunch, otherwise I might have attacked our mailman.  You have no IDEA how exciting new yarn is after almost two years. The resupply for chemo caps: which it would be nice to not really need, but sadly, the only way to stop from having friends get cancer is to stop having friends.  Next best thing:  Be Prepared! And the "splurge" for me: a linen & cotton blend laceweight.  I was just thinking a white shawl would be very handy to have, so that's what this will be.  I would have cast on for the shawl as soon as the box arrived, but the current lace shawl just has 6 pattern repeats and 20 rows of garter for the border to go, so I am obsessed with it.  A finished knitting project--won't that just be a shock around here? It was a big day for me with the mail.  The next ornament kit arrived,  and these are thankfully a bit different than the bead & sequined ones of the last few shipments....

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.........."