I’m not feeling nearly as happy as in that first photo. I guess Chuck was right – the hospital drugs wore off. The best part is being home instead of the hospital – decent food and all the comforts. The worst part is the whomping headaches/nausea I have in the mornings, presumably due to the…

Thank you all for your wonderful good wishes. At this point I can’t e-mail you all from bed, so please accept this blanket thanks for now. Blanket, bed, a drug induced pun! It was a good experience due to the spinal. I got brave and watched the screen for the first hour and a quarter,…

This will be my last post until the middle of next week, hopefully. Knee reconstruction calls. I went for an anaesthesia/cardiology consult today and they will try to get by without a general considering my heart rhythm. It will be a spinal and enough sedative to be between snoring and really enjoying listening to screwdrivers…

Last week, Elina and I went shopping for gloves. I’ve never worn gloves in BC and always seem to misplace my one pair prior to visiting colder climates. I tried on about 30 pairs before we found a display of reasonable priced suede gloves in wonderful colours. I think it was a lavender pair that…

Some days are like this, I know. The 22 yr old is teary after the pressures of being a nurse to a critically ill six pounder, scared to death that she would have to perform CPR on this little guy; the 20 yr old is overwhelmed with the decision to accept an eight month position…

I survived the stink of dead mouse in the wall at home, and the scent of Chompers – Elina’s cat in Edmonton named for Dr. Phil’s cat, to arrive in Ottawa to a hotel suite that smelled like Raid. I made the mistake of complaining and they said they’d send some Febreze up to my…

Ever have one of those moments when, after the fact, you realize your heart is visibly pounding through your Philosopher’s Wool sweater? Using the Philosopher’s Wool sweater was a bit of artistic license, but I wanted to emphasize the fact that it was beating really hard. Here’s the story: I’m at Elina’s apartment in Edmonton,…

UPDATE (August 2006): I am adding this review of the Knit Picks Options set, which I’ve owned and used for the past month: Cables are very thin. Can be a good or bad thing. I’ve had two cable failures, where they pull out of the metal piece that attaches them to the needles. Knit Picks…

First off, thanks to Kimberly for her RAOK card Weds morning. A really cute Motown Thanksgiving turkey singing a version of "I Will Survive." The song was in my head all day. I’m travelling to Ottawa for work over the next week, with a stop in Edmonton to see Elina, and after I return, will…

A few days after his attempt at knitting, Chuck asked me if there was some other yarn he could try. I figured he could handle the Moonlight Mohair and the shaped scarf form Sally Melville’s Knit Stitch book. Here’s how it went: He: Can’t you just get it started for me? I knit the first…