Erica’s Blog

We didn’t make it to the meeting tonight.  Thing Two is still hacking up hairballs (kept her home from art class today - bummer!), so I didn’t get a sitter.  Plus, hubby is STILL at work.  This is highly unusual for him, but 1) they have an audit going on, so during normal hours he kept getting interrupted to do stuff for that and couldn’t get any real work done, and 2) he’ll be in an all-day training tomorrow, so he had to get stuff done today.

I can’t wait to hear about how the meeting went.  I hope the rest of the Reunion Rescue contingent went.  There is bound to be a flurry of emails about it tomorrow.

OK, this is the doll I’m going make for my friend’s baby.  Her hubby is a dark-skinned black man, and she’s very white, so I’m going to make the face & hands medium brown.  I’ll use a couple of bright colors for the bunting.  It will all be indestructible acrylic.  [For anyone who's been watching this blog for a few months, this is the same pattern I used for Baby Hannah's doll.]

I still haven’t decided on what blanket to make, though I’m leaning toward that feather-and-fan one.  Something lacy would be pretty for a girl. I would just have to alternate the colors or something b/c I wouldn’t use two strands at once for that.

OK, I’m officially falling apart; I must be getting old or something.  Oh, yeah…I am 40 now.

The whole right side of my body is “all jacked up” as my friend Carmen would say.  It started on Saturday morning with my hip hurting.  Whenever I get up from sitting down, it really hurts, and I hobble around.  Then, somewhere along the way, my right wrist started hurting.  It’s either from too much computer or too much knitting or too much computer AND too much knitting.  I’m cutting back on the computer b/c I certainly can’t cut back on the knitting!  ;->  I am, however, making myself take breaks more often.  Yesterday morning, my right shoulder blade area started hurting.  Then, yesterday, the Things and I were on our way out to drop off some stuff for hubby and have a picnic lunch by the Bay, and stepped wrong and twisted my right ankle.  Yes, THAT ankle.  The one I’ve sprained twice and broken once.  The one attached to the foot I broke.  I am SO lucky that I have really loose ankles or I would have really hurt it badly.  As it is, it was sore for a few hours yesterday, and has been bugging me today.

As I said, I’m falling apart.  After I get the Things into bed, I’m going to bed myself.  I already took a prescription Motrin.  I figured that an anti-inflammatory is exactly what I need right about now.

I am SO looking forward to getting my massage on Saturday.  Wonder if I can manage more than a 30-minute one?  At only $1/minute, the price is right….