I had to be up at 5:00 AM this morning to escort my Dad into Boston for some tests on his stomach. No one seems to feel there’s anything seriously wrong, but he has a constant problem with acid reflux that, so far, has been unresponsive to medication. His doctor wanted to do an endoscopy which meant sedation which meant they didn’t want him driving when the procedure was over.
So I was elected.
No biggie. I’m happy to do anything I can for him - he permits precious little. For a man about a month away from his 81st birthday, he’s in astonishingly good shape. But he’s ferociously independent and stubborn as a neutronium-skulled mule. He is also inclined to buck any advise that might suggest he isn’t always in full control :) So, while he’ll bring me along to avoid spending the night at the hospital, actually getting him to give me his car keys is a whole other fight.
I do admire his feistiness. I just wish a bit more reasonablness went along with it.
I brought the Primavera shawl along to work on while I was waiting and got through several repeats. I hadn’t picked this up in a week (after a massive and repeated frogging session) and the week’s respite seemed to do me some good. I didn’t manage to foul anything up this morning - didn’t forget a single yarn over (my usual mistake)!
Of course, as soon as I set the alarm last night, I was afflicted with bright-eyed-and-bushy-taileditis. The last time I noticed the clock the time was approaching 2:00 AM. Between the three hours sleep and the protracted, if quiet, struggle to get him to let me drive home - well, I’m tired :)
And I’m going to take a nap.
Hope all your weekends are pleasant and as productive as you want them to be!
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I love the term “bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed-itis.” All of the humans in my house are more or less afflicted with this condition late at night :)
Can I borrow some of your BEABTI please? I could use it this weekend. Congratulations on your knitting marathon - time for an update piccy methinks :)
Ann - I remember it being a chronic condition when I was in college, but not so much lately. Almost always, however, when I have to be up early for something :)
Pam - I’ll e-mail you a bunch! LOL! I hope to have some pictures for Monday :)
Eh - same thing happens to me every time I have something out of the ordinary to do the next day. I hate that sandy-joints feeling when I don’t get enough sleep! (It happens all too often)
By the way - I made “Bella” last year - out of Red Heart too! Only my colors were burgundy with black trim. I called it my “Bordello” sweater ‘cause it looked like something an 1890’s streetwalker would wear. hehehehe
Bron - I’ve seen that sweater on your blog - I thought it was gorgeous! Didn’t recognize it as Bella - did you tweak the pattern some?
Hi again :) - Eh - you got me - I tweaked the edging - crochet chain loops instead of the knitted ruffle. I was impatient to wear it & couldn’t face all that knitting on the edging. Oh - and I used 3 buttons instead of one. :)
But that’s all - honest! ;)
Hi Robbyn,
Interesting to hear that going down a needle size kept your seed stitch border from flipping up. The seed stitch border on my mother’s vest flips up. I haven’t tried blocking it flat yet, and—stubbornly and stupidly—I just kept knitting. I may have to be brave, snip a thread, and undo the border. Nothing like a knitting project to push me into learning something new .
Hey, I just checked my blog, and I DID use a smaller needle for the seed stitch border. Still flips up. Rats.
ACK! Sorry to hear that Rob! Actually, I did the border on a size 6 circular and went to a size 8 for the body. I know it works on the front pieces, but I don’t know how it will work on the back - where you’ve got a lot more width. I guess I’ll find out :)
