Just realized I haven’t updated the blog in over a week. I’m getting to the point where I’ll be really glad the Slouchy Cardi is finished, so I’ll have more interesting knitting projects to post about. But in the meantime, I’ve finished the first sleeve, but it’s too small – stupid me for not trusting my instincts and knitting it larger to begin with, but there you go. So I’ll have knit 3 sleeves by the time this is over. Even if I rip back the existing sleeve I think I’ll only be able to salvage about 5 inches, but at least that’s something. I’m starting the second sleeve next before I come back to this one, though.
In the meantime, we spent last Friday night at urgent care and the ER with my mom, who has fallen and broken both of her kneecaps. It bites to watch your parents get old. My sister and I did find humor in the fact that the fire alarms went off at both facilities while we were there, and that we were mildly threatened by Paul Blart, Hospital Security Guard, when we were allegedly blocking a hallway, and that my sister locked her keys in her car, and that the social worker who was supposed to help us set up in home health care looked to be about 12 years old and wasn’t at all helpful.
Then yesterday, I finally went to the dentist after having a toothache only at night for a couple of weeks, and surprise! Let’s have a root canal, plus because that tooth is weak, let’s put a post in it to strengthen it, and oh yeah, it’s under a bridge, and the bridge is cracked and needs to be replaced now.
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Is it any wonder my sweater isn’t finished yet? By the way, someone please comment quickly, because I’m at a total of 666 comments and would like to get past that number! Thanks!
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I thought I’d help you out with your demonic comment number. haha! Dental work is what they do to you in hell- only without the Novocaine. I really can’t name one place, offhand, that I’d rather NOT be than in the dentist’s chair. It doesn’t help that my dentist is the local “Save mother earth, hug a tree, humans are just evil, messy interlopers here on earth so let’s all live on a commune to decrease our carbon footprint” advocate. She’s lucky she’s a great dentist because having to listen to more than about 2 minutes of that is worse than a root canal.
Big Hugs! I know the root canal pain, the the pain of having the temp crown put on which was way worse then the root canal. Going to the dentist seems to be torture to both me and my wallet.