So much knitting to do, so little time to do it!

Posted on March 11, 2012 by Anna

I have so many knitting projects on the brain right now. What is it about the beginning of Spring that makes me want to start new projects? When I’m talking new projects too it’s not even like it’s just one thing, it’s more like twenty things.

I have sock designs that I’ve thought of that I want to spend time sampling and making sure they work, I have a couple of different sweaters I want to make my daughter before she’s too big and they become a chore, and I can’t stop checking out what the current top twenty patterns are on Ravelry! Sometimes that place is like crack! Crack for knitters that is (if you surfed here because I said crack I’m sorry to disappoint you but uh… maybe you’d benefit from some hobby time, learn to knit!)

I’m trying for a sunny outlook on life right now, we’ll see how long it lasts (currently about two paragraphs lol). My mom is doing well right now relatively speaking, two more chemo treatments to go and then it’s on to radiation. I am so unbelievably proud of her for continuing considering the pain the treatments have caused.

 

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Goodbye 2011 and good bloody Riddance!

Posted on January 6, 2012 by Anna

2011 had a lot going for it for the first half of the year but in the last half it sucked. I’m also going to just say that it decided to leave in an explosion of crappy stuff in it’s wake.

My mom started chemo one week before x-mas so by the 25th she was tired all the time and not feeling terribly good. That was alright though, my family for the first time in a long time showed some togetherness and we had a really lovely family christmas. My hubs cooked the turkey dinner just the way my mom likes it, my brothers both showed up and were actually in good moods. It was the first time in about 10 years that we had a family christmas that went that well.

Enter Boxing Day. Or the day of vomit as I like to call it. Sigh. I’m gonna cut this whiny story short and say picture in your mind: A hotel room, one vomiting husband, one vomiting 3 year old, and one vomiting one year old, the only person who wasn’t sick at the time was me. An experience I will never forget.

So on to the good stuff, 2012 is the year of the dragon and I expect some good things from it. I’ve already managed to finish a knitted project, the first one in half a year (that’s an exaggeration I’m sure). I have plans and ideas for the next one and also a sock pattern I’m finally working on! If all goes well I will have a sock pattern, fingerless mitts, and a cowl out of the same pattern available for download. It’s pretty and it involves beads.

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Like stuffing marshmallows into a buzzsaw

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Anna

My one year old daughter has an ear infection and is currently taking amoxicillin. Since she’s also teething and hates medicine it’s a dangerous undertaking to give her the daily doses. This morning she bit my fingernail so hard as I was putting the medicine in her mouth (holding her basically upside down, shoving an eyedropper into her cheek while simultaneously squeezing the bulb to get some liquid out).. uh forgot my point there. Oh right, she actually bit my fingernail off! Luckily she missed any skin and actual finger but I’m pretty sure if she’d managed to connect where she wanted to it would have hurt.

Last week was my son’s turn with this stupid ear infection. I’m running on caffeine, caffeine, and more caffeine. Whee! Sleep is for the weak!

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Catching up

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Anna

So lots has been going on lately and I just haven’t had time to update here or really I’ve chosen not to. The end of July we moved to our new house so for most of September I’ve been busy trying to get things put away. Then I got a strange thing I’d never heard of called episodic labyrinthitis. I was dizzy all the time. Room spinning, gonna fall on the stairs dizzy. Thankfully it’s passing finally but it’s been a month.

Then on October 19th was the ten year anniversary of my dad passing from cancer. One week before that it was confirmed that my mom has breast cancer. To say I’m having a hard time dealing is probably an understatement. The show must go on though, I have two little ones I can’t spend time thinking about the past or the present, I instead focus on what I’m doing today.

Think I’m going to stop here for now and just sum up my feelings the same way that amalah does: Fuck cancer.

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