Archive for December, 2007
women’s work
Crap. I’m up into the heel flap on the sock for Rudder and just realized the foot is too short for him. On the plus side, it looks good; the changes I made to the Diamond Waffle heel to account for my heavier weight yarn are working out OK. I guess the ting to do [...]
randomness
Frrst, in case you missed the previous post, thankso those commented in my uncle’s blog or who otherwise sent good thoughts and wishes. Weird little health issues: I realized this morning that somewhere in the last day or two my vertigo has gone away. I don’t know if it left by itself or I finally [...]
a thank you
To those who wrote comments in my uncle’s blog and to those who are keeping him in their good wishes. When I spoke to him last night, he was doing well, beginning to sit up and looking ahead to starting the chemo study. His main doctor said it wasn’t that there was a huge amount [...]
not good news
I really haven’t written much about my uncle here, I don’t think (kept that for friends-only posts on LJ) but since he’s discussed his case in a blog I guess I can too. I did mention that he visited us in the Netherlands last April; I doubt I mentioned at the time that they’d found [...]
A few pictures
A Tree Grows in Taipei: (or doesn’t, since it’s a fake one, But the spirit is there. Some Christmassy earrings I made somewhere during getting the spare room / craft room set up:
hacking
I am getting really, really sick of this cough. It started out as a quiet little dry thing back several days before we left the Netherlands (so nearly two weeks ago now), but it’s still going, now louder and with exciting added phlegm. It’s mostly not horrible in the day time (though today it has [...]
more socks
On the left are the pair I finished for Rudder a while bck – by the time I was done I was so fed up with the yarn that I never wove in the ends until a couple days ago. On the right are the Sherbet socks I’ve just finished. There’s just a hair too [...]
oh my ears and whiskers, I’m nearly late
I am in trouble. Today’s shopping was not successful, which means that I either don’t have a gift for Rudder’s birthday (tomorrow) or don’t have one for him for Christmas. I was *planning* to buy a portable DVD player that he could tae on airplanes, and so we went to what’s supposed to be a [...]
a blessing on your head, mazel tov, mazel tov
Some things are more difficult to write when you know your famliy will be reading. Over on the travel blog, I just wrote that at our apartment, “things are generally not in the state where you’d be comfortable having your grandmother visit. (Actually, given that my grandmother’s been gone a decade now, if she wants [...]
awake and annoyed
We are back. The flight home was unexpectedly painless as we both slept 5-6 hours of the 10-hour leg from Amsterdam to Bangkok. And now it’s 2AM and I’m awake, though it’s less about jetlag and more about not being able to stop coughing. I don’t seem to be sick or anything, I’ve just had [...]