Blech!
Just a note to myself - do not deviate so drastically from your normal dietary intake. Yesterday we ingested two different forms of meat substitute, as well as more than my usual dairy (though non-fat or low fat). I feel disgusting! And, the lingering smell of last night’s dinner is NOT helping.
You can’t transmit stomach bugs over the Internet can you? I’ve read of stomach bugs on a lot of blogs recently, but I know of no one locally who has had one. Really, I don’t think it is a stomach bug. I do think it was yesterday’s drastic dietary deviation. But, I’m wondering how long before I’m back to normal? I’m tired of being cold and feeling icky! I have things to do, like knit and spin!
Speaking of knitting and spinning - have nearly 400 yds of yarn drying on the mantel right now. One skein of which is 325 yds! It’s so thick I have a fan running on it because it just wasn’t making much drying progress. I really need to rig up a bit better drying situation that does not involve the bathroom or the living room mantel. Of course, if we had the pilot light lit the yarn would dry in quick order I’m sure…
I also spent some of DH’s writing time knitting. My body in general is really prone to muscle spasms right now so I can’t do any marathon knitting, but over the weekend I managed to get to the thumb on mitten one! Wheeee! I’m *really* liking the pattern. That said, I really need to figure out the best way to tension the yarn in my left hand. I tried it the same way I tension it in my right and it just doesn’t flow through at all, but a couple of other ways I did it had it too loose. I suppose in time it will come to me. I think I was knitting for 3 months or so before I stopped holding the yarn in my right fist as a way of tensioning. Talk about cramps in the hand!
I think I’ve picked out the intarsia pattern for my grandpa’s hat. I’m “borrowing” part of it from a mitten in Folk Mittens. I figure with the relatively large gauge required of that alpaca that if it looks good on the cuff of a mitten it should look good on a hat. Now, to get mom to do her awesome sleuthing work to find out what size hat grandpa wears. I’m guessing if I can find that out I can look at a few different mail order places to get a good idea of his circumference. I think of him as having a small head, but he’s of strong nordic stock so it could be an optical illusion. On the other hand, he is bald so he has to hair to increase his head circumference either… DH on the other hand, if he were bald, his head circumference would probably go down by 3 inches!
Well, I think I’m going to curl up under a blanket in the basement (away from the smells of last night’s dinner) and watch a movie or two you guys recommended over the wekend, or perhaps some shows I’ve fallen behind on that are sitting on the TiVo awaiting my watching.
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