Yarn Harlot has a much more patient blogger at the helm than I. How anyone could interpret this post as “Anti-American”…
Some people seriously need to get their heads examined. That’s really saying a lot coming from me.
Anywho…
Out of nowhere, I decided to make some slippers for my next Inpatient event at the NIDDK at the NIH. Country Rose and Royalty Blue. Caron and Red Heart. Acrylic, of course. I’m using a slipper pattern that now costs money but, when I first saw it, was going for free and was linked on the Knitting Help site.
…I won’t say it either.
As I said, I’m making it with a combination of the two above named colors and I’m knitting both strands as one. Since it’s copyrighted, I’ll try to show a picture of a sample swatch. You could also just hold two different colored strands of yarn together and knit it yourself probably long before I could ever hear back from anyone. I’ve got one lonely square that I’m soon to cast off and then I’ll switch between (mumbles) the scarf for the paternal parental, the slippers, and learning to crochet.
I got an infection site… *singsong voice*
Ironically, I got jabbed with a pencil length/Yarn needle width lipo needle, walked the length and breadth of a hospital environment wearing only socks (and clothing!), and all that other good stuff. Where do I get the infection? The Microdialysis site. Lower Left Abdomen, Bruise City. Not all the other potential sites that had a much higher probability. The only other problem I’m having is some localized swelling under the puncture site where the catheter was put in my arm. This one is jutting out just below my elbow on the right arm. No limitation in range of motion, redness, or anything. It just hurts when touched.
Me goes to doctor in the morning for Visit of Sickness.
I’m also considering evicting the Tomato plant. It’s getting flowers and I am not hand pollenating it. I don’t have acetone to clean a nail polish brush, nor the fine motor function right now. My little friends outside will just have to do the work. Actually, I may take all of them out.
The window crew currently consist of:
- One Tomato Plant
- One Purple Heart
- One Medjool Date Palm
- One Wax Begonia
The Purple Heart and Wax Begonia are Garden Department Rescues I got last year. Both need bigger pots and more soil.
The ‘Medjool’ Date palm is a donated seed from an exboyfriend. His mother sent him a bunch of food from Morocco and he laughed when he saw me keeping the seeds. That was 2003. My baby is still here and growing as of its planting in 2006. Positive wording: I AM going to have a place to plant it one day. I don’t know the sex yet since its still only a few leaves but I’m looking forward to finding out and really hoping for a girl.
Ok, the preceeding paragraph sounds sooooooo weird. It is kind of ironic, he’s the one I almost went with but, sadly, religion was a big thing. He wanted me to convert and I didn’t want to be a hypocrite. Honesty and Integrity are important to me. I’m not doing a façade conversion for anyone and it wasn’t right of him to even make the suggestion.
