Debate Cookies and Other Good Day Stuff

I am in a way better mood.  I left my house and did stuff today, stuff being a movie with my sister, lunch out, a major haircut, and now I’m cooking.   I just realized that I don’t truly know what day of the week it is.  All day I have been functioning as though it [...]

Karabella Breeze Lace Scarf

Oops.  Two days ago when I began writing about the chocolate silk/cashmere scarf, I mistakenly called the yarn Cashsilk.  Cashsilk is a lovely, soft cashmere and silk blend from Laines Du Nord, but it is not the yarn I was using.  I ordered a few balls of Karabella Breeze from Flying Fingers more than a [...]

Prayer v. Knitting

Sunday morning.  I am talking with God today.  The conversation doesn’t have anything to do with the day of the week.  I talk to God every day.  My discussion today is about the anguish of having three days with no sacroiliac pain, and then the recurrence of it today.  Why three good days?  Why let [...]

Karabella Breeze Lace Scarf

Yesterday I didn’t mention my most exciting knitting project.  I opened the balls of Karabella Breeze that I had ordered more than a month ago.  Sometimes I delay opening packages until I no longer remember what they contain.  It makes for a pleasant surprise.  The Breeze has that lovely dry smoothness of silk and immediately I wanted to [...]

Thinking and Speaking and Economitis

Have I really not blogged in a week?  What was I thinking?! 
That’s an easy question.  I was thinking about my back.  It has hurt so bad and so persistently that for several days I gave up on walking further than 10 yards or standing longer than a few minutes.  It hurt so bad that I [...]

Things I Do in the Fall

I just realized that I might have my first non-flaring fall in many years.  I’ve speculated that the increased light exposure from summer (even though I try and avoid it) eventually causes a flare that manifests itself in the fall.  I began to notice this because I was never healthy for football season, and missed [...]

The Stuff of Happiness

I wake up in the morning, get out of the bed and walk to the bathroom.  No pains, no stiffness, nothing calling to me.  I walk a little slowly, still conserving energy, but it isn’t from discomfort.  I forget my morning medicines and don’t recognize it for hours.  I take on physically demanding tasks, sitting on [...]

I Knit Better Than I Cook

I’m getting somewhere.  Three new items posted in my store:  llama mitts, the purple rug, and the green baby blanket.  My goal is to complete and post two more items this week.  I’ve also finished the red bathmat for my daughter’s roommate.  It is having its first wash as we speak. 
 
Here’s the baby blanket:  You [...]

Bamboo and Cables

I am listening to Senator Obama discuss serving your country, and the need to provide a greater range of service opportunities for our young people.  He notes that military opportunities are offered inconsistently, with more of the population of small towns making up our troops.  His suggestions of inviting ROTC back onto campuses that have [...]

A Little Blog in the Morning

Yeah, I’m feeling good.  For the past week I’ve been getting on my bike for 5 minutes at a time.  I’m sore and crippled afterward, but it’s such an improvement in activity.  I’ve been more housebound the past six months than ever in the course of this disease.  Now that this flare is 95% over, [...]