A Childhood Ambition Realized!

When I was little, I always thought it would be cool to have pneumonia. It just sounded so romantic for some reason.

Well, it's not so romantic. (Heh. Just ask Mr. Pointy Sticks, who I think is about ready to smother me with a pillow.)

Yup. I went to the doctor this evening. I said, "I sort of think I'm wasting your time, it's just that I've had this cough for 2 weeks now." And she said, "Oh, you're not wasting my time. According to the x-rays, there's something going on in your lungs and I think we'll call it pneumonia."

So I have antibiotics and cough syrup with codeine for the night and some little cough pills for the day. Whoo-hoo!

And I think I might just give myself a day off tomorrow. I mean, pneumonia? I think that deserves a day off.

If this is the walking pneumonia, do you suppose the boogie woogie blues will be showing up later?

Still With The Coughing!

I suppose that if this doesn't clear up soonish I should actually consult with a physician of some sort. At least I don't sound like an elephant seal anymore. Now it's more like one of those yappy terriers.

Lovely books in the mail today. People of the Book from a friend in California along with a wonderful tea towel with a picture of cheese and "Life is a camembert, old chum" on it. Thanks, Kat!

And an Amazon box with the last of the Martin series...at least, the last so far. I hear tell he's working on a fifth volume. And a disc of Sarah Chang playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons. (We've heard Winter several times on the morning drive to work and I really like her rendition.) And the second Barbara Walker Treasury. Which is making me very itchy to make more scarves. There are some gorgeous stitches there.

Off to exercise the terrier some more. My ribs hurt.

Serpentina / Malabrigo Information

Just FYI:

One 218 yard skein of Malabrigo has given me 10 squares of Serpentina plus the little stockinette panel after the tenth square and I have about 4 yards of yarn from that first skein still to finish up. The unblocked length is about 3 feet, 5 inches.

I can't wait to have this finished. I want to wear it.

25 Years and Counting...

Yup. Mr. Pointy Sticks and I hit the twenty-five year mark today. Rachel called me this morning and wished me a happy anniversary and asked if her dad had gotten me something nice. Had to tell her no, but that I hadn't gotten him anything nice either.

We are thinking about something like a Bose for the living-room. And we've joked about getting a new car...in silver. We're just not the world's most romantic people.

Serpentina is coming along nicely and my newly naked neck (got a very short haircut on Saturday) is wishing it were finished. Not that I don't have other scarves, lord knows. But my neck craves Malabrigo.

Happy Birthday, Rachel!

If I knew how to use the stupid scanner, I'd scan in a baby picture...but I don't so I can't and besides, she'd hate it.

But my baby turns 20 today. And it's her first birthday away from home. Sniff.

Happy birthday, toots!