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hints and misses

30 Sunday May 2010

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another week of treading water, and nothing much to say. i am finding it hard to be social at the moment, its coming up to a year since i moved here and i am finding myself on a bit of an emotional roller coaster, too many thoughts and feelings about what it all means. i am glad its raining, and i can snuggle up on the lounge with knitting and dvds. there is a storm on its way too, so i have a reason to hide inside today!

yesterday’s catch up for lunch and stitch n bitch with knitabulous and randomknits did help restore some equanimity although i am shocked to admit that i think i am probably a bit low from lack of exercise as well. walking dogs with one arm in a sling can be challenging, and i have not felt like i could go back to the gym until the last couple of days. i am a bit peeved about this, because i was doing pretty well on my weights program, but it will be a long time yet before i can lift anything heavier than my hand bag! but i do feel ready to get back on the treadmill, and i am seeing a pysiotherapist this week to see what we can do about getting some movement and strength back. i always forget how good exercise feels until i start doing it!

so todays post is just really about hints of things to come. i decided on garter stitch for the band and collar of the featherweight, mostly because my arm started aching just thinking about all that back and forth of rib or moss stitch. i went down to 3.5mm needles so that it wouldnt be bulky, and i think its worked well:

i cast off the front band yesterday and have started on the first sleeve. i tried it on and i couldnt be happier, my modifications seem to have worked a treat, but no more on this now until its finished. and i have been hinting for a while about some big plans i have for a major knitting undertaking, yesterday donna lent me a few things to help with the final bits of research:

and i should be ready to blog the full details in a couple of days. i hope it will be worth the wait!

k xx

slow and steady

24 Monday May 2010

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firstly, thanks for all the supportive and understanding comments re The Arm. im pretty well done with that topic now. its enough to know that it will be sore till its healed, and i know its healing, so what else is there to say?! i have been through enough real trauma in my life to know that how i feel, how i act or react, are matters of my own choosing, and that wallowing, when i have so much to be grateful for, is inappropriate and kind of boring.

so i spent the weekend trying to get some things done without overdoing it. the main thing i wanted to do was some cooking, and i did well on that front. its cool enough now to warrant some comfort food, and we picked up a little slow-cooking recipe booklet with a food magazine the other day. i decided to try the ‘daube of beef’ (a fancy way of saying a french beef and red wine casserole). it was pretty easy, although did involve some interesting preparation. first there was the standard browning of the meat:

followed by an interesting few minutes of pouring flour and red wine over the bacon, onion and garlic and whisking until it thickened:

which it did. the recipe also included orange peel and thyme, which looked pretty impressive before it went in the oven for 3 and a half hours:

about 15 minutes before youre ready to serve you just sautee some mushrooms and add them in the pot, still in the oven with the lid off. i served it with boring old mashed potatoes and green beans:

but there was nothing boring about the taste. it was full and rich and slightly orangey. melt in the mouth amazingly delicious. i wanted to make a desert as well, and trent said he wanted sticky date pudding (his favourite) and ive never made it before and thought it would be really hard, but i found a recipe in stephanie alexander’s cooks companion,

and she said it was easy, and apart from the annoyance of having to cream the butter and sugar with one hand, and concerns over ‘this cant possibly work’,

it was easy and it did work:

complete with toffee sauce and ice cream:

yummo. will make this again for sure!

knitting wise, it has been slow going on the body of the featherweight cardigan, but finally, im getting there!

i told myself i would just knit this body as long as i could get it out of one hank, and this is how much i have left:

plus a whole other hank to do the band, collar and sleeves. i need some advice though. the pattern says to do the bottom band and the cuff bands in 1×1 rib. i hate 1×1 rib and would rather gouge my eye out with a spoon, so in my last featherweight, i did 2×2, only slightly more tolerable, but i understand why you do rib. apart from stopping the stocking stitch roll, it lays flat, which is why i am wary of my lazy tendency which is telling me to do a garter stitch band, collar and cuffs. i have seen one of these finished beautifully with moss stitch, and i think my heart wants me to do that, although my head is telling me its as bad as 1×1 rib and i will just be copying anyway.

what do you think? what would you do?

k xx

a bit like treading water

22 Saturday May 2010

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things have been a bit slow around here, and i dont have anything particularly startling to show or tell. its a bit like the seasons too, an in between time, waiting for something to happen. winter is approaching in a slow creep here on the coast, little snippets here and there. the lawn has stopped growing quite as fast. the winter doona came out last night and it was still a bit warm. the heater is on at night but can still get away with a tshirt by day. just. and the magnolia is in transition as well:

its clinging on to its last remaining leaves while buds are appearing, but it will be a while before the flowers emerge. the knitting is at an in-between stage as well. the polwarth/silk featherweight is moving along:

i nearly have enough body length before i start the rib at the bottom and i am still on the first hank. its so lovely and soft, i am anxious to start wearing this soon so am finding it hard to work on anything else. but i really need to get both of these socks finished:

that is the second of the stripey one and if i just spent a day on it i could probably knock it over and send them off to brisvegas, but im finding with socks, i tend to knit pretty tight and pinching the tiny needles is sending ribbons of pain down my arm, so i have eased off a bit. the brown ones are still only at sock one and its making a lovely soft warm sock for someone who really needs a new pair, but good lord, the pattern is soooo boring! its just a 10 row repeat of alternating purls to make the diamonds but it still needs to be checked each row to make sure im doing the right combination and im bored bored bored. but its crazy to just chuck aside a perfectly good pair of socks because youre bored, isnt it? i should just bite the bullet and get them done. then i would be free to start something from the personal sock club!

the treading water feeling though is singularly connected to The Arm. its three weeks now since the accident, and i grow weary and impatient. i dont like to whinge, and i dont like people who whinge about illness or injury. when i was a kid i wasnt really allowed to be sick or injured, nothing serious ever happened to me anyway, and if it had been serious mum would have made out like it wasnt. so i have not been the best patient. at times the pain was overwhelming and i just cried from the endlessness of it. but mostly its the frustration of lost mobility, of not being able to just reach out and grab something, to have to think about what im doing, compensate for everything. i cant turn a door handle, or open a jar, or really yet do my hair the way i want. i cant lean over to clean the bath, i cant rumble with the dogs. so all of this means asking for help, and i am just not good at it. i want to be helped, i want someone to care for me, and then i get the shits when they do. so it hasnt always been a happy household the last few weeks.

but at the same time, im doing pretty good. firstly, its just an arm. its not that serious, it will get better, and i am lucky thats all it was. i went back to work this week, just a couple of days, and took a pillow to lean on my desk. i had another xray because the wrist was so sore but there is no fracture there, just a lot of bruising and swelling, and that is almost all gone now. the pain has retreated just to around the elbow joint itself, and is a dull ache, reminding me not to stretch or reach or grab. i am still tired, i dont quite understand why an elbow injury is so exhausting, but i am feeling mentally a lot better. i went to visit rosered and connor yesterday, and that helped, and today i am planning some slow cooking in the form of a ‘daube of beef’ in the oven and my first ever sticky date pudding.

and maybe i should be glad for an enforced slow down. treading water is a good way to just stop sometimes, figure out what’s really important, get ready for the next big rush, and take time to smell the magnolias. well, not literally, but you know what i mean!

k xx

guilt free s.e.x.

17 Monday May 2010

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as you may have heard, there were some markets in canberra this weekend just gone, and a whole heap of crazy knitters turned up at the old tin shed to do battle over much fibrey goodness. my co-conspirators, george and bells, and i had a plan: get in early, get only what you need, and get out. so we turned up a little before official opening time, and i’m glad we did. i had been watching on michelle’s blog the genesis of a new project bag, and because i have one of everything of hers, and because i like to have a full set, i was determined to get one. turns out rosered wanted one too, so i managed to snaffle two early in the day:

i think the bikes are for rosered and the city scape (new york) is mine. arent they fab? we swung past the dazzling looking knitabulous/randomknits stall which was totally full everytime we went past, but i didnt buy anything here, because i already have a full complement of donna’s fantastic project bags, and am a *cough* regular customer, of knitabulous already. and in a SPOILER ALERT,  i did pick up my latest installment in the ‘black japan’ themed club, a gorgeous skein of 50/50 in a watermelon-meets-cherry blossom colouryway:

delicious!

then it was on to look for the only other two stalls i was interested in, glenora and tarndwarncoort. i didnt really intend to buy anything at the latter, although if there were small hanks of the silver polwarth silk i was thinking maybe a little top up might be needed for the featherweight . but i was a bit disappointed here. TtHF wasnt quite so hot this year, not sure why really, maybe the weird headband? and there was very little natural coloured yarn on display. a lot of their hanks had been dyed in fairly ordinary colours, and i think it was a shame. their yarn is so naturally beautiful, maybe they felt compelled to compete with all the colour of the indy dyers, but i think if you have a speciality you should stick to it. im hoping that more of the natural stuff will be available in bendigo, as i ended up buying nothing here.

but what i really wanted, the only thing i really wanted actually, was some stuff that i missed out on last year, which was some fabulous red alpaca silk 2 ply from glenora.

i liked it so much, i bought another one, in a beautiful natural camel colour.

these kinds of yarn make me think very seriously about my shawl knitting. i have been messing around a bit lately with patterns and yarns, and have figured out now what i do and dont like. so this morning, i did a bit of shawl rationalisation and pulled two off the needles that i havent worked on in ages and dont think i will go back to, icarus and the second aestlight:

the aestlight was a mistake. never attempt two of the same shawls back to back, and it was meant to be gift that never got gifted, in a colourway i wouldnt wear. the icarus was just too ambitious. again, a large part of it was stocking stitch, which seemed like a good idea at the time, but now just bores me to tears. and its a nice yarn, in a nice colourway, but i had so much of it it was going to be huge. i may come back to these, but right now they are officially hibernating.

which means that soon, i can start the big shawl project i have been planning, and can do it guilt free. a clue about this project is that im thinking the camel alpaca silk wants to be a shetland tea shawl. but im not doing anything about that right now. its just going to sit, brewing for a bit, while i finish off a few other things.

all in all, this weekend was a completely guilt free Stash Enhancement Exercise (s.e.x.). i had a budget, and i came in $30 under it. i have no buyers remorse, and didnt feel overwhelmed and out of control while in the markets themselves. in fact, we could have left about 10.30, but we lingered in the sun, over coffee and meeting people, before repairing to the shelter of kokoblack and the most amazing iced chocolate in the world. a very successful weekend, signifying Growth As A  Knitter and a shopper!

k xx


FO: Clapotis Number Two

14 Friday May 2010

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it turns out that knitting with a fractured elbow isnt really all that easy. i originally had a vision of two weeks at home yielding a whole polwarth silk featherweight cardigan, however, 4mm needles, 250+ stitches per row and 4 ply yarn require a lot more movement than you’d think. so i quickly switched to the 5.5mm needles and almost worsted weight yarn of the ravelry red clapotis, and managed to finish it on wednesday:

the knitting of it might have been managed ok, but the blocking part was always going to be a little tricky. it looked fine unblocked

but i really did want to flatten it out a bit, so it went for a bath

then a squeeze, and i lay it out on the hallway floor.

i didnt need to pin it that hard because it really responded to the water, but even so i had to get down on the floor and slide along beside it to straighten it. at one point, ricco came inside to see what i was doing and helped by licking my ear. i managed to get myself up off the floor and into town for a lunch date (i caught the bus, how cute) and when i came back it was dry. it is so beautiful.

this is the perfect pattern for this yarn, it needed to be given space to shine, and it really does:

and such a great pattern to knit. this version (my second clappy) is, as you know, on malabrigo silky merino, 5.5mm needles, in ravelry red colourway, a gift from the lovely bells. i did only 3 increase repeats i think because i wanted it to be an actual scarf, and i wasnt sure how long i would get it. i didnt count the straight row repeats, but i stopped when i had about 90g on the body and only 14g left on the ball. i had a moment of panic, but the decreases and finishing row took only 10g, leaving me with 4g left over. it turns out to be the perfect width for a scarf, and is very long too, longer than my meagre 5ft2.

i think its the most beautiful thing ive made so far, and i will be wearing it this weekend at the old bus depot markets in canberra.  i am so excited about this weekend. as bells has already written, some of our friends are having stalls, and i just love these markets. theyve become an annual ritual for me, because we always travel to canberra anyway for the flyball competition at the million paws walk, but the team lets me have a day off to go to the markets and be with my canberra friends who i miss so much. this year of course, i would be no help to anyone, and trent will be running possum. lets hope, unlike me,  he can stay up on his feet!

kxx

you gotta see the bay-bee*

11 Tuesday May 2010

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on saturday night our friend rosered gave birth to connor james. we went up to see them both yesterday, and it was lovely. rosered looked surprisingly well, although a bit uncomfortable,  and i was very glad to see her smiling. dad was looking his usual calm self, and there in the little trolley was connor himself, an absolute dead ringer for his dad! he was smaller than i thought. yes yes hes a newborn, theyre small,  i know that, but he looked big when he was inside and hes pretty heavy, as far as babies go, he just doesnt look it. hes pretty long and has long arms that he was throwing around in his sleep. he slept through most of our visit, even though we talked and laughed as usual, but when he woke up i got to hold him for a bit.

its lovely when your friends have babies. you get to do all the cute and fun stuff, and maybe even babysit, and then as they grow up you dont have to do all the hard stuff, like homework and discipline. it made me a bit sad, to know i would not have one of these of my own, but because he has good sensible parents who arent precious or neurotic, i know i will get to spend plenty of time with this one. and it makes me very grateful for the friends who dont have babies as well, to remember that there are other ways to get through life, other ways to find meaning and purpose, and being a mum is just one of them.

as a knitter, the best thing about friends having babies is getting to make them cute stuff. i dont knit well to deadlines, so this didnt get done in time for the baby shower, but i did get to gift this little vest to connor and mum yesterday.

the pattern is the Oz Vest from Louisa Hardings “Natural Knits for Babies and Mums”, and the yarn is also Louisa Harding, its ‘Grace’ the lovely silk/wool blend. of course i didnt knit a tension square, so i cast on for the 3 month size, but looking at him yesterday it might fit him when hes 6 months. sigh. but i guess a vest is good like that, being tran-seasonal and all. it took almost 2 balls, and was knit on 4mm sticks. its knit in pieces, which is silly really, theres no reason this cant be knit in the round, but i couldnt quite figure out how to adapt it. thats my next big ambition as a knitter, to learn how to convert flat knitting to the round.

speaking of which, well all in one piece anyway, when i finish the TtHF featherweight, my next cardigan project is this one, Summer Solstice. a certain large yarn store in the US was having a sale and rosered, bells and i may have ordered a small (cough) box of stuff. while near roseredville, i picked up the bundle that i ordered to make aforementioned cardigan with:

elsebeth lavold silky wool in ‘vintage denim’. i nearly went for ‘thundercloud’, a much darker charcoal, but i think this mix of grey and blue will be fantastic, im very happy with it.

if only i could actually finish the things i have on the needles first. im still at home with The Arm, but in the interests of healing properly i have really cut back on the knitting. im getting a bit antsy though. the less said on that the better.

kxx

* title courtesy seinfeld writers, various espisodes.

distractions

08 Saturday May 2010

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in case you cant tell from the rash of daily blog posts, i am a little bored. i cant knit as much as i would like, and i Have Been Warned that taking the arm out of the sling may render me only able to crochet in my old (er) age. perish the thought! so i am trying to be good, typing this one handed, and have switched to knitting clapotis in short bursts only, as it has much bigger needles and much shorter rows, and involves less arm movement all around. here is how it is looking

and it feels even better. great choice for this yarn. now that i have finished reading Who magazine (which oddly didnt have any tips on traditional shetland shawl construction), i do have other reading material to be getting on with. today is saturday so there is that wonderful big newspaper to wade through, including mega sudokos to attempt. and there is the light and fluffy reading that i have been doing before bed:

i have read ‘the eyre affair’ and ‘lost in a good book’ and am into ‘the well of lost plots’. rosered introduced me to these, and i really like them. the concept is very cute: literary detective reads her way into famous books and rescues stolen manuscripts, changes the ending of jane eyre to the one we have now etc. the writing is a bit bland at times, but its kind of nice to have literary characters come alive, and i like the idea that books are actually happening, somewhere, that they keep happening even when we’ve closed the cover. i look forward to reading some more mr fforde.

then there is visual entertainment, and i have now finished all of season three of dexter and must wait for season four to be released here. yesterday i stocked up on new releases i hadnt seen, with varying success.

the time travellers wife justified my decision not to go see it at the movies. it really lacked a lot of the depth, passion and wit of the book, which i thought was very cleverly done. i love eric bana but he wasnt really henry (i dont really know who would be though), but maybe its inevitable that the film would be disappointing to those who loved the book. the lovely bones was a very interesting ride, directed by peter jackson, which was surprising. a great story with an unexpected ending, but too much narration. at film school one of the first things they taught us aspiring script writers was that narration was a lazy device, if you couldnt SHOW it then you shouldnt be writing films. which is part of the problem of adapting a book isnt it, especially when its written in first person. how do you get that personal touch across in a film? (of course, hollywood, you could just leave it as a BOOK!).

i havent watched sherlock holmes yet and have no expectations as to its quality or authenticity. i think it has some nice eye candy and i suspect that will be as good as it gets. after that, i am going to sit with the laptop and catch up on some iviews. i have missed all the new robin hoods, and missed the last episode of doctor who, but i think i am too late for the final epidsodes of whitechapel and place of execution, both of which i missed. bugger.

and today i am a bit sulky because by now i would normally be on the train up to sydney for inner city guild but i dont think i could, or should, manage it. at least its another beautiful sunny autumn day and i can sit outside for a while. after that, recommendations for other dvds (preferably with eye candy!) most welcome!

k xx

the bright side

07 Friday May 2010

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if there is a bright side to being injured and in pain, then i suspect this would be it:

i set up camp here this morning and have just now come in cos the sun got, you know, a little warm.  on the table, if you look closely, you can see some books i am using to do some research for The Next Big Project,

but i need one other secret book to come from overseas before i make a final decision and blog about it properly.

as for the injury itself, there is marked improvement today.  i can just manage a pony tail, if i move very slowly. its easier to get clothes on and off. it doesnt hurt all the way down into my hand. i cant lift anything tho, cant put any weight on it. and really, im not meant to be moving it at all, and i am trying hard to keep the sling on, but it gives me a headache and i hates it.

but im not complaining. i have one more episode of dexter season three to watch, ice cream for lunch, and then maybe back out into the sun for a while.

swap, anyone?!

k xx

why knitters* are the best people

06 Thursday May 2010

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firstly, because they understand priorities. for example, you post on facebook and twitter and here that youve hurt your arm and you get an avalanche of concerned responses hoping that you can still knit. the first thing i thought of once id finished the race straight after the fall was ‘i hope i can still knit’. thankfully i can but its slow going. i am working just on featherweight, because the needles are a bit bigger and easier to handle (sorry nardies the socks are on hold for the moment), and can do a row at time, but need to rest after each row. and i need a pillow under my arm. im surprised by how much i rotate my elbow while knitting. at any rate, its coming along nicely:

secondly, they tell bad jokes. see the comments in yesterdays post. im still giggling about the shitzu.

thirdly, they rally. they offer to help you out with your shopping, to take you out for lunch, to do your hair. they send you gift patterns on ravelry, and they organise deliveries of essential items. this morning, for example, a man from woolies home shop knocked on my door and handed me this:

it came with a little note of well wishes and kisses from fee, matt and kittens. im blown away, such a kind, thoughtful and generous gift, and so incredibly timely because i ate the rest of the chocolate rock yesterday. you are just the best missfee.

im feeling very lucky today, i am being very well looked after at home (right now i am very glad i have a housemate. how do people who live alone and get injured cope?!), people at work have picked up things that needed doing (after i got a phonecall at home on tuesday and went a little postal), i am able to lift my left arm enough to put a clip in my hair, and there’s chocolate in the house!

could be a lot worse.

k xx

*(for the purposes of this post, trent and nardine are hereby designated honorary knitters).

what i wanted to post yesterday

05 Wednesday May 2010

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but couldnt because wordpress was playing silly buggers, is this:

so you know how i had a mission this weekend to finish that pair of flirtini socks for my sister? well i didnt, but it wasnt my fault. it was the dogs fault. firstly, instead of just being the person who puts the balls in the box for the dogs, this weekend i ran a dog myself. usually trent runs possum in flyball, but this weekend he had to judge all day, so i had a go. i loved it! shes such a great little dog, knows exactly what to do and has a great time doing it. i ran 6 races with her without incident, apart from bad early passes on my behalf (ie, i let her go too early and she passed the dog coming back too soon). you do that when youre new to racing and have no idea what youre doing. anyway, we even won some races, and it was a beautiful day down there on burrill lake and we were all having a great time.

then, in the second last race of the day something happened. possum was running as the third dog, which means sophie runs first and then gets out of the way, wizz runs second and is supposed to get out of the way, and possum runs third, with pac bringing up the rear. for some reason, in this one particular race, as i let possum go from 45 feet behind the start gates (so that she would cross with wizz right on the start line), wizz decided she needed to cross in front of me, rather than stay on my left hand side and find her handler, rosie,  that way. i saw her coming at me and knew what was going to happen. she was so focussed on looking for rosie she had no idea i was there. if i kept running i would run right into her and hurt her. but she was moving fast and i couldnt stop or sidestep in time. there was nowhere to go but over. it happened in slow motion then, and i had that moment of thinking this is going to hurt as my arms went out to break the fall. i landed flat on my face. this is my drawing of what happened:

the judge (trent) blew the whistle and racing stopped as everyone ran to see if i was ok. i just lay there for a minute thinking about whether i was ok, or whether if i just lay there the earth would open up and swallow me. i think i thought ‘damn you trent for making me run your dog, even tho shes really my dog’ and then i thought ‘my first time racing a dog and this is what happens’ and then i thought ‘right, get up now’. i tried to get up but wobbled a bit, i tried to put my weight on my left hand but it collapsed under me, so people helped me, we checked for scratches, no blood, im ok, we can keep running. i shook my hand out a bit and realised i would need to move the tug rope to my right hand for possum to grab on the way back (not the ideal racing technique) but we managed ok for a couple more races.  when we finished racing though, i knew something wasnt right. i was shivering, like i was cold, but wasnt cold. people handed me ice packs and made me sit down.  i felt all buzzy and like i was talking too much, too fast. a member of the local dog club was a paramedic and she checked for major breaks, found nothing, put me in a sling, which felt better. we packed up and drove home, i couldnt really move it but we were pretty sure it was just bruised. it was a big fall and im not a little thing, so youd expect it to hurt. i wasnt going to do anything else about it, until monday morning and thinking about showering, i tried to put my hair up and nearly passed out. it was that kind of pain that just rips through you, no apologies, taking all your breath away, and all you can do is say oh.

so i drove myself (interesting experience with one hand) to the dr who didnt like the look of it and ordered xrays (thankfully just across the road) and the lovely radiographer took a couple of pictures and then went ‘uh oh’ and i said that doesnt sound good and she said well im not a dr im just the radiographer but yeah its fractured. so back to the dr i go, and yes it is fractured, right here, see:

no, you cant see it, and neither can i really, but its there. i got off pretty lucky really, i have a ‘vertical relatively undisplaced fracture in the centre of the radial head with prominent joint effusion’. a crack and fluid. a very common injury when people fall with arm outstretched apparently. also, apparently, extremely painful, as you may have noticed from yesterdays rant. but theres nothing they can do except try and keep it still for 2 weeks and put it in a sling to try and facilitate  immobilisation. i have to have another xray in two weeks to make sure its healing, then i can move it a bit, until it is all healed up in about 6 weeks. apparently i will know its healed when its stopped hurting. awesome.

i can still knit, see:

but its a bit awkward and hurts a bit. i can only do a few rows at a time then need to stop for a while. overall though, i am feeling much better today. i took some nurofen plus before bed and slept better. my sister called me when she realised i wasnt happy and i cried on the phone and that helped a lot. sometimes you just need a good cry and then the pity party’s over. i watched 3 episodes of dexter and ate only an inch or two of the homer hudson chocolate rock, which means theres more of that to do today. and its a gorgeous grey cold windy and wet day today, finally, so i am perfectly justified in sliding into trackies, throwing a blankie over my knees, and repairing to the couch.

thanks for the kind comments and suggestions yesterday. they helped a lot. no need to repeat them, tho i might send a little treat to the person who can make me laugh the most with a silly joke. good jokes would be acceptable too!

k xx

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