Under the weather and the weather isn't good

Actually the weather is just fine today - but it IS January in Minnesota - so it's all relative.

I have been feeling poorly for a few days now. Sleep and hot showers seem to be the prescription for relief. I just have one of those awful headaches that kill me. I know I just need to get that sinus pressure to release and all will be well - but waiting for it just stinks. **sigh** Or maybe I just need to get used to my new eyeglass prescription? New eyeglasses don't make your ears squishy though. Maybe both? Argh.

So I have been a slug most of this week. Eating pretty much anything that I happen across and trying to sleep as much as possible. I guess we all need those down times once in awhile. I am grateful I haven't had a bad illness this year. (knock on wood!) I had some pretty bad ick for the last couple of winters, so maybe this year I will escape with just a head cold here and there. I would be happy with that!

So yeah. Not real exciting stuff around here. I watched three episodes of a show on the History Channel yesterday called Modern Marvels. The show is kind of addictive! I watched an episode on Nuts, and episode on Cheese and part of an episode on Food Service for Large Groups. That last one showed how they handle feeding people on a submarine and at a football stadium! Pretty amazing stuff. I love shows like this where you get to learn stuff you never even thought about. Opens your eyes a little bit. And who knows - maybe someday I will win a trivia contest!

Day Off + Eye Dr. = Yarn!

I have been getting a lot of headaches at work lately. FINALLY figured out that it was probably my eyes. So today I took a day off from work and went to the eye Dr. and got my peepers looked at. I am getting new glasses and will order new contacts next week if the new prescription is working. (I am trying out a lower prescription on my contacts - so we will see if this works out.) If the new contacts don't work - We head to bifocals. Uffda.  Honestly I didn't know you could get a bi-focal in contacts. I find that amazing! Apparently they are rather spendy though - so the longer I can put them off the better for my pocket book!

So after my eye Dr. appointment I went next door to the yarn store and had fun blowing money on a few things. I am proud to say that I went in with two projects in mind and got all the supplies I need to make both of them. And I only bought two things that were not on my list.

The first was this Lotion Bar. I have been wanting to try one of these for quite some time and when I saw this on the counter I had to grab it. The company is Milk & Honey and I am loving this product! I already wish I had bought more than one bar.

 My other splurge was this ball of Noro Hitsuji. I went back to it over and over and then I just said "Screw it! YOU are coming home with me!" I really had no choice.

On my list of things to get was the yarn for a vest I found on Ravelry called George Sand. It is a $3.00 pattern and I knew I wanted to make it the minute I saw it. The Cascade 220 will be the main color and then I will work the pattern in the Noro Silk Garden. I ended up going with really bold Noro because I really want the pattern to pop out of the dark grey yarn. It will be my first vest so I am excited and nervous. I have the pattern, needles and yarn - so I just have to ball the yarn and then cast on! WOOT!

And finally I bought the yarn to make a little afghan to replace the one I use in the bedroom. Since I am always frozen I have a couple of blankets I throw on top of me every night in addition to our other blankets. One of them is an afghan that my mom crocheted in acrylic in the early 70's or maybe even the 60's? The colors are Hot pink, neon green, yellow.... it's just LOUD. Add to that it's scratchy as hell. My hubby calls it the Luffa blanket because it's so scratchy it can take the calluses off your feet. (Ouch!) So I decided I should probably knit a replacement.

This past spring I knit a baby blanket for our neighbors I called And the Bee goes Buzzzz and loved it so much I had a hard time giving it away. The pattern was simple and you just hold two strands of worsted together. It goes pretty fast and the yarn I used softened up a lot after a wash and dry. I found some blue and gray yarn (to go with the colors of our bedroom) and will soon be knitting my new blanket. The pattern can be found in a wonderful book called Plymouth Yarn 636, The Encore 8-Hour Baby Blanket...Revisited and although I have only made one blanket from it so far I have to say I see myself keeping this book forever. Perfect go-to for baby blanket gifts.