Happy New Year
December 31, 2008 
The boy doesn’t like fireworks. He buried his face into my neck and when one went off, he would shake. When we were finished, we came in and he told me with a mean face ‘I don’t like it’ lol! Abby enjoyed watching, but didn’t like the loud noises they made.
Miserable sinuses
December 26, 2008 
I hate head colds. HATE. The pressure is horrid and only getting worse despite using Sinus Rinse. I’ve rinsed out my sinuses twice already today and will probably do so again after writing this. I’m getting some pain too and starting to wonder if I might have a sinus infection. I can only seem to take Dayquill or I can’t sleep, but I took the Equate version of Psuedafed tonight out of desperation. I’m also almost tempted to go and get some Zicam decongestant spray but I get easily addicted to that and when I try to go off of it the congestion is worse. Add to all that a sore throat and dizziness from some happy pills and it makes for one miserable mama.
Yet, thanks to said happy pills I am indeed, much happier. Calmer, more patient and more loving to the kids. I won’t go into details but things were pretty bad for awhile. I went to a temporary doctor to get a one month supply, and after New Year or even this Monday possibly, I’ll be making a call to the Mental Health Clinic.
I bound off on my Star Struck wristwarmers from the previous post, but I still need to get the thumb done and weave in the tails. However, I made myself a cute little hat and it didn’t match the wristwarmers so I needed to make some matchy matchy, so I started a new pair of wristwarmers. After these are done I will make a hat to match the Star Struck gloves.
Christmas was good, the kids had a blast. Matthew’s Santa gift is a hit, he walked around the corner of the sofa, saw it (it wasn’t wrapped) stopped, stared, pointed and went WOW! So cute. Abby tore through all her presents and was just looking for the next one – while Matthew had to be cajoled into opening more since he was happy playing with what he had. Abby got a nice big dollhouse and she loves it, she wants to play Barbies all the time now. Her other big hit was a Go Fish game and we’ve been playing it at least twice a day.
I recieved a necklace from the kids (who didn’t even know they got me anything lol) that says mom we heart you. Very nice — but the chain is too short for my fat neck so we have to exchange it.
What’s new
December 14, 2008 
In a few words – books: Twilight seris (have not been able to see the movie yet); Eragon (Inheritance Cycle) Seris; spinning; knitting.
Right now I’m spinning angora, like literally, right now. Well right before posting this anyway. I’m not liking 100% pure angora so much – it falls apart way easily. This is raw angora as well as far as I know, not processed, straight from the bunnies at Handspun Harvest after having the fiber carded for me. I love it, it is sooo soft but really a pita to spin. I can not get a good consistency at all. I’ve tried drafting inchworm, from the fold, and my usual worsted. I”m afraid to try long-draw that it will just fall apart! It’s only 2 oz – I think next time I want to buy some I will see if Jenni can blend it with something else for me to make it easier to spin.
The spinning is actually a break from cutting out fabric. I really am not that into sewing and would much rather spin or knit. Cutting out is the worst though. I have 4 skirts to cut (1 down) and 3 shirts. Then I have to get it all sewn before Saturday. Way to go waiting on the last minute, eh? My back kills when I cut out.
Oh yes, one other thing is new, I started seeing a chiropracter. My neck is always bothering me, he says it’s basically bad posture. It has helped so far, but not 100% yet. He wants me to get to 50% better and then wear this strange contraption on my head to correct my posture – the bones in my neck are actually forward and no amount of trying to correct it myself will work, or so he says. All I know is I do feel better so I’m pretty sure I will keep it up. It got so bad, esp when I knit, I thought I was going to have to give it up.
I leave you with my current WIP:
And my most recent FO
