addict? for sure!

After yesterday’s post things got better – thanks for the great comment, and due to the fact that our noew senseo coffee maker came, the evening was saved. I also contemplated a shopping spree to get over the bad feeling – until I realized that no, I didn’t want new shoes, sweaters, pants – I just want yarn!! Talking of addiction …

What I did was knit on with my SotS – that’s the progress so far after 2 days:

I just joined the two parts, and I think will be done with hint #1 today, provided we find something to watch in the evening. Tuesday = crappy TV day. And due to stupid program changes, we missed recording The Shield on Sunday night. Duh.

Last week I also started knitting up my handspun! The gorgeous Touchstone will become fetchings:

There is NO BUMP in my little finger! Just a freak photography. I will also add another cable repeat on the top, it’s a bit too short, even for my short hands. Apparently I didn’t get gauge (now this is funny as I didn’t even swatch, hehe). Plus, the freak darker green stripe is only evident in the picture, not the real piece. I loove my camera sometimes!

One of these days …

Could someone please give me a bottle of something with high percentage of alcohol? I soo need to get drunk …

Just why do incompetent people always have to tell me that not their incompetence, but my lack of effort brought my thesis up short in regard to results? Let this be said, by Friday I will submit it for the last time, and if that means a worse mark – I don’t care! I never cared to start with! And most important, I don’t wanna see that thing anymore!!

That said, I decided to take up dyeing. As on NOW. Or rather once I get some colour. My boyfriend will bring me the access card to the local METRO (huuuge store for people who own shops, where you get next to everything), and I’m gonna go there this week to get some food colours. Should work fine, I think. I also found some nice resources for undyed yarn, so maybe this time I’ll make it to the dye pods.

The MS3 is done! No pics yet as I still need to get some substitute blocking wires, but should have pics by the end of the week. Cast on for SotS directly thereafter, and hope to make the finished-clue-2-deadline this week. I feel a little stressed there, actually.

At the moment I’m a little crazy. Miss V did a great job picking me up (actually she wrote that email before I complained about life & and the universe, but her response was my salvation. thanks so much!). Now I’m at least confident to be a halfway-good editor person. Although sometimes I miss the days of staff writer existence. So much less to care about! But this has been the one light at the end of the tunnel (no, not hellfire, although that totally cracked me up yesterday!) for me during the last weeks, and I think will be my crutch for the weeks to come.

knitting, again!

World, I’m back.

So, I had my appointment with my doc today. I could have spent the time waiting with something worthwhile, but so I read and chatted with some old friends I met there. Doc looks at the letter I’m handing over, tells me to do exercise, probably go swimming (uhm, we’re talking about moving hands in cold water when hands being tingling, painful, sensationless?), and does the best, sending me over to physical therapy. Called that office, got th earliest appointment, in 2 weeks.

That was about when I sat there for two minutes, fuming, then went online, and searched. And, dhu, I found my condition! Not really carpal tunnel syndrome, although I do have that, too, and am happy about the appointment so I will then get my braces, but it’s the wrong fingers. what I have is the similar thing with the other nerve innervating the hand – and that likely from something in the elbow – either I lay on it, bumped it hard, or I overstrained the whole arm typing and excessive using the computer mouse.

I then called a good friend who is studying to get a physical therapist, who laughed a moment at the doc, then told me to stop acting the fool, do some massaging of the elbow-arm-wrist-hand-fingers, tie a towel loosely at my elbow at night so I keep the arm stretched out which will relief the muscle there – and likely everything till be okay in a few days. Id no, I do already have an appointment! And yes, I should stop gnashing my teeth, and take up the needles as long as the hand feels okay with it.

As that sounded the most helping I heard in days, I followed his suggestions, stretched a bit, rested the arm a bit, knit up the first of a pair of fetchings – and my hand’s feeling the best of all week. I’m now using some leftover yarn cake to support my wrist when using the mouse, and will get a good mouse pad with wrist support next week – but things are really looking up around here. He also promised that even if it didn’t go away until my appointment, I would neither hurt nerves nor muscles, so apart from the bad feeling I would suffer no consequences. Thank you very much! Mostly for the knitting

sigh – sighsighsighsighsighsighsigh

Not knitting – hell! I’m really getting cranky by now, and it is getting worse by the hour. Wanna knit!!

I already got the letter from the neurologist, but would you think I understand a line of what the diagnostic findings state? Noooo! I just understand how neural signal transduction works, but getting some figures and stuff written on the paper – nigh. So in one hour my doctor opens his office, and I’ll be first in line. or whatever, but I’ll be ready and armed with that leaflet so he gotta translate this to me. and get me something for my stupid pinkie of doom, because I neeeed to knit!!

okay, dramatics aside, I’m happy that things are progressing this fast, and hope that I can get the braces ordered to day (at leas I think I’ll get them, and molded to my hands, too), so I’ll have them by next week. because even typing is awful, grabbing the mouse is eek (well, where do you think I got this stuff in the first place, huh?), and I purleease want the feeling on my hands back, and all this stuff done for until it gets bad enough to warrant surgery. because honestly? This sucks!

Thanks for bearing with me. Gotta go spin some, to calm down, and let the hour go past.

Speaking of enabling

Squee! See what I literally ran into today, when I was off to my neurologist appointment!

Of course I couldn’t open it then, but it helps to have the cosy feeling of new roving waiting for you when someone sends painful jets of current through your arm. And when you cramp up from the pain they tell you to let loose. Oh my. Some people are just strange. Or sadistic bitches! But apart form her irony in that the woman there was really nice, and for once just for the sake of looking into medical background and possible other reasons for neurological problems asked my weight, and if I were diabetic. She also asked, in more detail, about neck injuries, and family background in neurological problems. Nice to see that they do a checkup and are not just condescending. Had enough of that this year.

But back at home, i could finally rip the package open – to find this:

Just what you need after getting electroshocked :p
7 most beautiful tops, 6 of them merino, 1 optim, plus some goodies because Mandie rocks, and apparently felt sorry for me being too dumb to stay in the lower postage region Thank you so much, again!

So, I’m still left with my finger being a pain, literally, without knitting. Just spinning, sleeping, being ill (yet, my bf started yesterday, I followed today), and reading. I’ll call this as the start of the weekend, because I’m a bit sorry for myself at the moment, and just want to hole up and wish for my dumb finger to stop being stupid. I felt the current very well, thank you, now stop being lame. Literally!

I’m just happy that I can do the chum stuff from here, at home, and we are holed up good for the weekend. Lots of vitamin C stuff, and smoothies!! I even read in the newspaper that now the Innocent smoothies will conquer Austria, too, which makes me all fuzzy and think back to last year in London when I went mad because of them. But I keep saying to myself that they at least are more healthy than a can of coke.

And because I also have white cat, and she wasn’t in here for some time, this was taken yesterday evening, when the cat was watching Heros.

enabler, me!

This is an official statement – herein I declare that I have been called “enabler” twice already during the last week, and I’m proud of it!!

So, let me resume in this – I just finished the Darnley roving, this is how my bobbin looks now:

Being a busybody today, I started spinning a new roving again instantly, this one Optim from Mandie, in the Wildflower colourway:

The colour started with a little green and lots of white and orange, and I looove the yarn that comes out of this most silky stuff I’ve ever held in my hands. And is probably strong enough to be knit as singles for something lace. Or plied for DK. It is a bit harder to spin than merino, but is so worth it – I’m just happy that more of that is on the way to me already.

Also, we’re in full autumn now here – and the black cat is still not photographable. So I’ll leave you with this fall impression.

Squeeeaving!

I’m gonna take a weaving course, and that next week on Friday!! Now I’m super excited, and cannot wait to pass the time until then. The woman holding the course is so friendly – and she’s holding my 3 extra bobbins hostage now, the Lazy Kate will be reserved for me once it’s here again in November. Squee some more!

I also got 9 cakes of roving form her when I got my Joy back then – they were Merino, and not the softest, so I destined them for felting – but maybe they re good for weaving? Plus, the course room has a full wall stocked with dyed roving, I fear for me budget then. (oh, my don’t talk about budget., I just took a look at my credit card account, and having the bf get some stuff from amazon hurt! No, not the hundreds of rovings, yarn, and accessories, just the bf stuff! ). Sqeee!

I think that course will be fun. And I’ll take a look at the knitter’s loom, too. We’ll be working on the Ashford rigid heddle loom, but I cannot put that up in my living room – too large by far! We’ll see how I’m gonna do, but as I have a gift for handcrafted stuff, and learned to weave in school (I even have a small loom, but that one? not gonna go near my precious handspun!!), plus it’s done in small groups of 2-4 people – that will so rock! Maybe I’ll do a needle-felting course later in the year, too!

So much for my excitement! Donna do some more spinning now!

yes, I shouldn’t be at home right now …

But with my lame finger I didn’t feel like attending a SnB like group for the first time. But I’ll join the fun next week, when I can hopefully do stuff more elaborate than spinning. But at least it’s getting better – this morning I woke up with a very uncomfortable tingling sensation in my pinkie, definitely an improvement over the reduced feeling sensation yesterday evening. Plus now I’m pain free again, and dreading the day to progress when things get awful again. But I didn’t knit yesterday, quite a feat for me – see, I’m always working the “can’t have, want do” side.

I think I will take up weaving soon. At leats attaned a course, maybe get away with a Lazy Kate and some bobbins, and probably the Ashford Knitter’s loom. Knitting my handspun is still out of the way (although now that I cannot knit I want to – and that Touchstone merino from last week will so become fetching gloves!). There’s a course in 1.5 weeks, maybe I’ll attend. Saturday morning means I have to get inside the car at 8 a.m. (not necessary get up before 7:45 if I skip breakfast), but this really sounds fun, and I know the woman holding the course – she got me my Joy, and I got along with her great. So maybe in 2 weeks the first steps in a new addiction. i honestly have to say, I have a motive there, because if I really get the braces for my wrists, I intend to wear them as often as possible until my condition is back to non-existent again, and I think weaving will go great as I can move my fingers freely, I just can’t hold knitting needles.

So, that’s the plan. And I really want to weave a tartan scarf in variegated merino. I know, I’m a dork! :p

I’, nearly done with the dudleyspinner roving, and my bf brought home 3 DVDs with him yesterday – gotta finish it with L.A. Confidential, I guess. Great movie for great yarn-to-be. And hopefully jump the mailman so he finally gives me my new roving! Jump in a wholly non-harassment type of way!

as the day brightens …

I totally forgot, my Anastasia socks are for vote in the yarnahoy contest – so get over there, look at all the contestants, and then vote for the best! Doesn’t have to be mine, but it would of course cheer me to not end to get some free yarn

That said, the mailman is mad at me, and keep my egmtk roving from me!! But instead, he brought the package from twisted today – and oh, I’m in love!

See, between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eillistraee is sooo sweet – was even modeling the yarn for me. The three larger skeins are Angst cw in Ariel (the blue one), Firefly in Shiny (the yellow), and Exile cw in Kabam (pink). Which translates into merino – tencel – bamboo yarn. Loove the way she both names her colourways and the base yarns. Plus, I got any extra skein (that is way more dark than on the pic, with less violet/pink, but looking great!), and a small mini sample one, too – I guess one was for the benefit of featuring her ion the chum, the other to show off the rest of her stuff – and I’m such a sucker for things like this! So twisted shop – I will come again! Must have octarine, filanon, netherfields, talon, secret, patricio, rodney and circle for sure! And maybe even the ravelry-colourway she does. But for now, I gotta knit those three, so I know which base yarn to use, hehe.

stupid, me.

Of course I was stupid enough to start on the tutorial yesterday – 10 rows ribbing, 10 further down from the cuff – then pain in my hand for the rest of the day!! Also, the cold air in the computer / work room is bad, too. Sooo – no knitting until Thursday, or until I get this fixed. Stupid!!

This also means that the cats will get to see me all day, I will read some stuff, probably spin a lot, and try to decide if I should take a needle felting or weaving course with the shop where I got my wheel from. both would interest me, and they are not terribly expensive, and I could get me a Lazy Kate plus some spare bobbins for my Joy then, too. Not that I actually need some – but then I could keep plying away from me longer. No sure if this is a good idea, but still …

Yeah, well, my Wheel is calling to me. Gotta do something before my craftiness is all but gone.