Wednesday, February 19, 2020
Arthritis Pain
I am not the biggest fan of my body right now. I might have over done a little today. But I ask you is that any reason for my body not letting me sleep. I just took more Excedrin and am debating between heat or cold. Cold might be fast to get. I just want to sleep. May even new ribs.
Monday, February 17, 2020
Monday
Not much is getting done., this flare up is still hitting me hard. Today not much got done. I have been exhausted all day.
Saturday, February 15, 2020
My New Math
Today’s math looks like this.
Snap + Crackle + Pop + Exhaustion = Arthritis Flare Up = My Saturday
Don’t you just love new math?
To answer your question, I did spen time resting and detangling my yarn barf from early this week. By the way it is now 4 of 3 a Shawl Study. I am on a roll.
Snap + Crackle + Pop + Exhaustion = Arthritis Flare Up = My Saturday
Don’t you just love new math?
To answer your question, I did spen time resting and detangling my yarn barf from early this week. By the way it is now 4 of 3 a Shawl Study. I am on a roll.
Thursday, February 13, 2020
Project Bags
It is my very humble opinion that project bags need to be washed when the start to look dirty. If you are anything like me, you put your project of the day, notes snacks and a whole lot of other stuff. When I finish a big project I usually empty the bag. Hat bags are emptied when I switch from cotton to wool or wool to cotton. If it looks dirty, I empty out the bag and wash it.
By the way the same should go for grocery bags too. My rule of thumb there is if meat or raw fruits and vegetables are put in the shopping bags it goes in the wash as soon as I get home. I tend to like bags that go into the dryer too. Your grocery clerks will like you for doing this too. Did you know that your bags will last longer if you keep them clean? They will have less germs too.
At least several times a month grocery clerks ask me where I got the shopping bag if they don’t recognize the print.
Most of the time I have to say that I got it so last century when my daughter was a toddler or for a few in the early 1980’s.
The next question is why are they so clean? Don’t you use them?
My answer is that I use them a lot. I just wash them when they have, meat vegetables or look dirty.
So keep America clean. Wash your project and grocery bags when they look dirty. Make everyone happy.
By the way the same should go for grocery bags too. My rule of thumb there is if meat or raw fruits and vegetables are put in the shopping bags it goes in the wash as soon as I get home. I tend to like bags that go into the dryer too. Your grocery clerks will like you for doing this too. Did you know that your bags will last longer if you keep them clean? They will have less germs too.
At least several times a month grocery clerks ask me where I got the shopping bag if they don’t recognize the print.
Most of the time I have to say that I got it so last century when my daughter was a toddler or for a few in the early 1980’s.
The next question is why are they so clean? Don’t you use them?
My answer is that I use them a lot. I just wash them when they have, meat vegetables or look dirty.
So keep America clean. Wash your project and grocery bags when they look dirty. Make everyone happy.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
New Designs and a Contest
The best thing I love about designing new patterns is that I can change the flow of the pattern at the drop of a hat. Well today the hat dropped on the new NH Shawl. I was knitting and did not like my ending. So today at lunch I looked through my design bibles. I found an ending that I like but wanted it less over the top. So I am modifying a ruffled edging. Hey, just because it’s in a stitch bible does not mean I have to use it as written. It is called pattern design for a reason. I should have it done by tomorrow and then start writing the pattern.
Now to the fun part of the new pattern. My second pattern of this year. Will I be able to get it self published by the end of the month, remember it’s a short month. It does not matter if you are right or wrong. Just send in your guess of yes or no with contest written in the subject line to skaro964@gmail.com. The winner will get an assortment of my choosing of my hand spun yarn and some stitch markers plus a copy of my new pattern. I will put all of the names in a bowl and John will pick the winner. By the way John does not know that he volunteered for this job.
Just to let you know that this contest is open to everybody, but those outside of the United States will be asked to share the cost of postage if they win. This will be the difference of the the U.S. postage and the international rate. This contest is not sponsored or endorsed by blogger.com. I am solely responsible for the prizes.
Now to the fun part of the new pattern. My second pattern of this year. Will I be able to get it self published by the end of the month, remember it’s a short month. It does not matter if you are right or wrong. Just send in your guess of yes or no with contest written in the subject line to skaro964@gmail.com. The winner will get an assortment of my choosing of my hand spun yarn and some stitch markers plus a copy of my new pattern. I will put all of the names in a bowl and John will pick the winner. By the way John does not know that he volunteered for this job.
Just to let you know that this contest is open to everybody, but those outside of the United States will be asked to share the cost of postage if they win. This will be the difference of the the U.S. postage and the international rate. This contest is not sponsored or endorsed by blogger.com. I am solely responsible for the prizes.
Monday, February 10, 2020
A Rest Day
Today I woke up feeling yucky. So I made it a rest day. John joined me in the rest day. We binge watched TV watching The Good Fight. This lasted until the CBS all access app crashed. I spent the day binging on yarn. I am on the last section of my new pattern. The reveal will be later this week.
Well I am exhausted and going to call it a very early night.
Well I am exhausted and going to call it a very early night.
Friday, February 7, 2020
A Hard Day
Today was a hard day. It was not hard because I vacuumed half of the house in a round about fashion. Not because I did my chores in 10 minute spurts every hour. It was hard because I was running out of things I can only get at Fry’s supermarket. I had a very hard time walking through the front door.
I have not been to Fry’s since a few days before Eric died. We just don’t seem to go through things as fast anymore. Some things we no longer use at all. Things like Tide, a small bottle lasted a week and a large bottle maybe two and a half weeks at best. I opened a large bottle of Tide in the last week of December and it still has detergent in it. Plus we have at least 2 spare bottles.
It was hard because I had to walk by the Huggies Wipes to get to the toilet paper, paper towels and trash bags. By the way we are using less of these things too. To get my over the counter stuff, I had to walk by the Mucinex liquid , Liquid Tylenol, Head and Shoulders shampoo , and other things Eric used on a regular basis. My hand wanted to automatically put these things in my cart. I had been buying them for so many years. I had to stop myself. Eric does not need these anymore. Not very surprising was that my bill at check out was about 50% less.
I will not change markets because I like my Fry’s. It is just down the street. I know it is one of the smaller ones in town, which means a little less selection. I think it is worth it not to drive 20 or 30 minutes to go shopping. I like the nice family atmosphere too. The employees are great. So maybe next time will not be as hard. I will wait and see.
I have not been to Fry’s since a few days before Eric died. We just don’t seem to go through things as fast anymore. Some things we no longer use at all. Things like Tide, a small bottle lasted a week and a large bottle maybe two and a half weeks at best. I opened a large bottle of Tide in the last week of December and it still has detergent in it. Plus we have at least 2 spare bottles.
It was hard because I had to walk by the Huggies Wipes to get to the toilet paper, paper towels and trash bags. By the way we are using less of these things too. To get my over the counter stuff, I had to walk by the Mucinex liquid , Liquid Tylenol, Head and Shoulders shampoo , and other things Eric used on a regular basis. My hand wanted to automatically put these things in my cart. I had been buying them for so many years. I had to stop myself. Eric does not need these anymore. Not very surprising was that my bill at check out was about 50% less.
I will not change markets because I like my Fry’s. It is just down the street. I know it is one of the smaller ones in town, which means a little less selection. I think it is worth it not to drive 20 or 30 minutes to go shopping. I like the nice family atmosphere too. The employees are great. So maybe next time will not be as hard. I will wait and see.
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