i fought the cold and the cold won

I've been fighting a cold for months. Seems like every other week I'd wake up with a tickle and pound Emergen-C, Airborne, Yin Chao, Echinacea Supreme and whatever else I had on my lazy susan o' pills and Make It Go Away. And it was working! I think I successfully fought off 4 colds so far this season before this one got me. Dang!

But I've been got. Knock wood it ain't so bad, but it's December and not the time of year you want to be down for the count. I've got a lot of work to do, people, as well as some shopping trips. Because I know I need to stay INSIDE and REST, all I can think about is things to do OUTSIDE, errands I need to run, all the work I have to do, etc. So right now I'm going to turn my little head around and try to focus on things I can do inside my home, preferably while lying down under a blanket. Okay: finish Toots' stocking (thank you so much, Knitsonya. Record breaking finishing time on this project. Full story to come when it's finito - which Will Be Today.), knit presents for J-La's bro and his girlfriend, and - here's a tricky one - I have some more gift making to do, but it's food related and I'm thinking since I'm sick it's not that good of an idea to get my germiness all over everything. So maybe I'll keep that on my list, but at the bottom. Oh! I need to make one of those ribbon-to-hang-your-xmas-cards-on thingies. It's a new tradition (starting now!) for us to hang our cards instead of having them cover every flat surface in our living room. All I need is to look up how it's done. I know, not like it's hard, I just want to skip the figuring-out part and go straight to the doing part. [okay, i just tried to look up instructions on what I want to do so I could put a link in here but No Luck! Ideas and links are welcome for display ideas for our lovely cards, if you've got any.... It doesn't even have to be that Hang Em On A Ribbon idea, it can be anything.]

Okay, I'm about to dust off another box of Kleenex. One box left, wish me luck making it last!

I have been hunkering down and making nice meals for myself (okay, and J-La), which I think has been helping. What day is today, Thursday? Tuesday night made Porcini-Wild Rice soup and cornbread from Veganomicon, last night made a loose loose version of Autumn Root Salad from the same book. I'm not vegan but heck if that book doesn't totally rock. I blew many-a-people's plans by getting it for myself before xmas, and thank goodness I did, I love it. I wonder what I'll make today? I'm feeling lentil-y... and kind of barley-y.

Before I go (on my last tissue, better plan ahead) I leave you with a FO:

Eden Neckwarmer
yarn: The Fibre Comany Eden (sadly discontinued. so sad indeed.)
needles: US10.5 or 11, I can't remember
horn button (Rowan)

I still need to shorten the button loop, it's too loosey goosey and the whole thing gets droopy. I don't know if my neck is skinnier than Kim's (doubt it, I don't think I have a particularly narrow neck or anything) but the measurements on the pattern did not fit me at all. I need to tweak it a lot and, naturally, can't be bothered. Put that on my list for today, for sure.

Comments

[Carrie K]

That neckwarmer looks positively delish.

Yeah, I wouldn't bake for others right now either. The card thing sounds cute but not only are you trying to skip the learning curve, you're trying to skip the instructions! lol. I would so do that.

[Meg]

How did you like the soup? Did you do the chervil?

[Kristine Brooks]

for the xmas card thingie, I would just get two strands of nice ribbon and string them together. tie the ends together (and maybe a knot every once in a while depending on the length needed for stability) and hang along that lovely stair well you have and put the back part of the card through the ribbons and viola!

Hope you are feeling better so you can start that Mysterious Night project! Evil, I know.

[Sonya]

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