Life's a Stitch

It was a nice relaxing weekend until Saturday night at 11:30. The evening was exceptional, Bryant home from his summer camp job for 24 hours. Since C was away, we shared a "Mumsy-Bry Night" (as he called it) starting with what is described as a genuine New York pizza from a new place in town. Now I’m a New Yorker from way back and I know pizza. Believe me, the taste buds never forget. I give this one a 95%, the sauce lacking in garlic and oregano. I’ve only had one or two NY pizzas, outside of NY, that were semi-decent.

We followed the meal with a video – Pirates of the Caribbean. My boy is pirate par excellence. Too bad you can’t make a living imitating pirates unless you’re Johnny Depp or Orlando Bloom. Here he is cooperatively modelling a WIP, which matches his hair. "Excuse the bedhead," says he.

11:30p.m. – it hit. There’s nothing like waking up to the pain of a cluster headache. I thought I had conquered them preventively with new meds and a daily dose of feverfew, but they’re ba-a-ack. Good thing I still had some ice packs in the freezer and pain killers left over from my knee surgery. Every time I have a bout I swear it’s the worst headache of my life. The ones earlier this week were nothing compared to this and I’m pretty pain tolerant.

So today I’m laying low, a combination of pain meds and headache hangover. In need of comfort I indulged:

Comfort food = Nectarine crisp, a very simple recipe, topped with low fat whipped topping:

Comfort knitting = Touch Me. Pure indulgence, I’ve begun the Vintage Velvet Scarf from Scarf Style. It calls for five skeins of this mortgage-the-house yarn. I’ve settled for four, three were in my stash from a previous sale. I’ve omitted the first and last stitch from each row, which will add an additional row after every 16th, so the length will be acceptable. It’s an interesting combination of a reversible cable done in a 1×1 rib stitch and mistaken rib on the sides. I’m having a better experience with Touch Me, having been given bad advice last time about needle size, from a sales clerk who based her guidance on her unique knitting habits.