I made alpaca mittens for my friend Drunken Waffle.
3-18-15
We arrived after an 8 hour drive at my grandmother's house. She is preparing to depart from this world. It is sad and surreal and makes me feel deep things.
On the way here I found out I was awarded a grant I had applied for. I was elated!
3-14-15
Fund raiser for the local Habitat chapter. I was surprised at how many people I knew or recognized.
3-6-15
No sleep for many nights. Migraine so bad my student Kat comes over to bring me flowers and bananas and yogurt.
2-28-15
I finished this little outfit today so that my friend, drunken waffle, can use it in a photo shoot she has coming up. I'm looking forward to the time when I can make little things like this for my grandchildren.
Dan came home today. Then my mother came over with a cake that she made during a cooking class she taught. I got to watch all my favorite TV shows again with Dan since he missed them week.
Dan came home today. Then my mother came over with a cake that she made during a cooking class she taught. I got to watch all my favorite TV shows again with Dan since he missed them week.
2-27-15
Drunken Waffle and I went on a road trip to Camp Hill, Alabama where we saw some Tibetan monks making a sand mandala on the floor of an old Unitarian church. We also drove around and looked at decaying small towns.
2-25-15
Tonight a friend of mine from work came over to learn how to knit. She was a very good student, and after three hours I had her doing all the basic stitches. It was really fun to get to know someone new out of the work setting.
2-24-15
I making this hat for my friend to use in a photo shoot, and I tried to figure out how to put pink fluff in the ears. This was not the best way to do it. I taught class tonight, and when I came home and had a terrible headache and really needed my evening dose of medicine. It was difficult to get through the day. I didn't even go into work until it was time to teach, and I couldn't find a place to park because there was a basketball game and a baseball game going on. One of my students had to take my car out of a loading zone and move it for me.
2-22-15
My friend Doug made these for me. He dropped them off today in a box. They are so cute! I would like to have one for every window in the house.
2-20-15
Today is my mother's 81st birthday. She had a party for herself with another friend whose birthday is the same day. The food was really good, the cake was exceptional, and I enjoyed catching up with some of her friends who are now my friends too.
2-19-15
I hosted another knit night tonight, and even lit a fire in the fireplace. This is my friend, drunken waffle, figuring out how to cast on. I taught a student from Saudi Arabia to crochet.
2-12-15
Dan finally got the purchase order from Texas and shipped three pallets of my kits. What an order!
2-7-15
1-31-15
Sock progress.
This is the strangest sock recipe... but it looks pretty good on my ankles.
Today I worked on student lab schedules, graded homework, went shopping, got some more wool roving, talked with Aza, and felt perfectly perfect.
I have no pictures from yesterday, but yesterday I gave a workshop in Montgomery for 42 teachers and it went really really well. I felt great and the teachers all seemed engaged and seemed to learn a lot.
1-28-15
Truth be told, I've had a rough month. I started tapering on January 9th again (off the medication I've been on since 2002 for facial pain) and the taper is very rough on me. It makes me very anxious and brings on migraines and a return of face pain. But, I'm going to get off this medication. I've been tapering since May bit by bit, and this month was particularly hard. I'm very thankful for knitting and spinning though... it's my life saver. It calms me down and keeps my hands occupied when I'm feeling particularly bad, which is frequent.
Today I decided to treat myself and I got a manicure.
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