All work and no play

Is leaving me grumpy and easily distracted by the internet. My little breaks from band riders and other work related stuff has led to my surfing knitting blogs, which has led to my wanting to go out and buy yarn.

So you COULD say that work is bad for me. At least that’s what I’m going to say. ;)

Yesterday I found myself at Hill Country Weavers ‘visiting’ the yarn. I went shelve by shelve, bin by bin and touched everything. Mr. Man called to ask when I might be home, work called to annoy me, the daughter called to ask if she and Sweetness could have dinner with us….and all I wanted to do was have a few hours to pet the yarn. That’s not asking too much is it?

I actually got out of there without buying any…but that’s not from my lack of trying. There was just too much to choose from and I couldn’t make up my mind so I decided that I would find a pattern first THEN head back and find the yarn, a vast improvement over my normal way of doing things.

Socks are on the ‘to do’ list because I just bit the bullet and joined a SAM knit along. I can do it….right? I mean how hard is it to do a pair of socks a month? Well for a normal person not so hard….for me….the get one done….look at it….hate it….frog it…queen, it might be a challenge. Light candles….burn incense….pray for me.

BG is surprisingly good. I woke up with a fasting of 86. I never have a fasting 86….of course I haven’t done anything amazing to warrant that good of a number so it’s just the diabetes gremlins giving me a break….for once. I’ve joined Allison and her OC challenge, betting $10 that I could drop a few pounds….of course Paypal has given me nothing but grief….My bank changed its name, was bought out by another bank so Paypay required me to go through this whole song and dance to verify my account again. I think it might be back to normal now….keeping fingers crossed.

Enough rambling….back to work….

OH….and my Mom {{waves and blows kisses::: “hi mom”}} is threatening to buy me a knitting board.

Yes I’m happy dancing at the possibility.

I hate Mondays

Braved the ridicules traffic from my house to the phlebotomist, (although calling her that is giving her much more credit then she deserve). This is the same woman that mangled my arm the last three times I’ve had to have blood drawn….psycho with a needle would be more accurate. Dr. N’s new nurse (gawd I miss Jerry) forgot to order my TSH test….weird since when I called her to schedule the appointments and mentioned that I just wanted to go ahead and get my A1C at the same time, she told me that the only order for labs were for my thyroid levels. I had to get her to talk to Dr. N and add the A1C, so when I got in there this morning and asked psycho needle girl whether the doctor had added the A1C and she told me that was the only test he’d ordered….well I was thrilled to say the least. Good thing they know me very well because all I had to tell needle girl was “draw for the TSH too (which she did)….I’ll deal with the doctor” (which I did). Jerry was so good….and I really though of her as an important part of my diabetes team. I’ll give this new nurse the benefit of the doubt and call it new job screw ups, but I sure hope this isn’t a sign of things to come.

So now I get to wait a week until my appointment to get my results, Jerry use to call me the minute they came in because she didn’t want me to sweat it….I doubt this new nurse will think to do that from me. And I am sweating this A1C. I know when I have tight control and when I’m just ‘faking it’….and I’ve been faking it.

Since I got to work at the ass-crack-of-dawn this morning….the plan is to get the heck out of here by three and head over to Hill Country Weavers to pick up some more sock yarn and another pack of double pointed 3.5’s so I can start my socks at the same time rather then finish the first one and then start on the second. No I’m not just being obsessive about it….I really have a good reason for wanting to knit socks this way. See, I tweak nearly every pattern in some way or another and while I do write down the changes they never look right….it’s always a bit ‘off’. Not so much that anyone can notice other then me….but it drives me nuts. So while I was perusing knitting blogs I ran across someone that had started doing both socks at the same time….she’d tried doing two on a circular but didn’t like it (me either) and this seemed to work well for her.

Boring I know. And I’m posting this on all three of my blogs because….well….I have nothing else to say…that’s all she wrote.

Texas Flood

Well, it's flooding down in Texas, all of the telephone lines are down
Well, it's flooding down in Texas, all of the telephone lines are down
And I've been trying to call my baby, Lord and I can't get a single sound


Well, dark clouds rolling in, man and I'm standing out in the rain
Well, dark clouds rolling in, man and I'm standing out in the rain
Well, flood water keeps rolling, it's about to drive poor me insane


Well, I'm leaving you baby, Lord I'm going back home to stay
Well, I'm leaving you baby, Lord I'm going back home to stay
Well, back home are no floods and tornadoes, baby the sun shines everyday



Then tomorrow it’s all gonna freeze….oh joy.

I called in ‘sick’ yesterday

I wasn’t ‘ill’, just sick of working, so I said the hell with it and called in. I had lofty ideas of all the things I could get done while I wasn’t at work. None of which I actually did.

That’s right, I got nothing productive accomplished. Well except knitting. ;) I got tons of knitting done. Finished the scarf from hell and one sock….of course I did cast on another slipper and a hat. So I’m back to where I started.

I have an appointment with Dr. N next week….Monday to have the blood work done and Friday to get the results. Hopefully my thyroid levels are less funky and we can stop playing around with my dosage. I’m also having my A1c….this is the big one, since my numbers have been creeping up every 3 months like clockwork. Weight is still good but my BG levels have been wonky again (still) and I haven’t make it to the gym in a few days (slacker me) so I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I’m hanging out somewhere around 7 again. I’ve had that steady climb from 5.8 to 6.8 since July even though my weight has dropped.

Sweetness and Light is spending the weekend with us and is at that lovely ‘never-stop-talking- stage. Seriously she talks none stop….even when she’s in her room playing by herself….even when she’s taking a bath….in between spoonfuls of oatmeal.


Give me strength….

Wait? Was that the weekend?

It went by much too fast….no fair….I could use another day or two. I spent Friday night in the hot tub with a glass of wine. Saturday I worked my freelance bookkeeping job and spent the rest of the day knitting (no still nothing for myself ~sigh~) and then Mr. Man and I went to a housewarming party and stayed out way too long and drank way too much. Sunday I got up at the ass-crack of dawn to take the daughter to work, came home and crawled right back to bed, where I stayed for the rest of the day, sleeping, drinking coffee and knitting.

Even after all of that, my ass was still dragging this morning and I played this fun little game with myself where I try to talk myself into not going to work….

I lost….I’m at work.

But I took my knitting with me so I’m really not working.

I really should fire me….I just suck lately.

The plan is to actually make it to the gym after work but I’m not promising anything. BG is ugly right now, but that’s because I’ve been eating like a pig for the last few days. I just been so damn hungry and too damn lazy to actually cook so I’ve been eating crap and my body is protesting. Time to knock it off and get my arse in gear.

A blank page

Oh the intimidation of it all. When I signed up of this here blogger account I really did think I had tons to say. And even though I have another blog where I ramble on endlessly about this annoying chronic illness I have, I thought for sure that a blog devoted to everything knit worthy was a great idea….

I must not be very smart, because in my 46 years I’ve failed to learn that I’m not very motivated and that while I start out with a bang my project sometimes (ok often) end with a fizzle….and I have the unfinished abandoned afghan….sweater….slipper….to prove it.

But here I am….and while I can’t promise that I’ll post anything amazing, I will try to at least post something and hopeful that will include a few pictures of finished projects.