Having a pretty bad day emotion wise, I know it's really my own fault. The kids are being their normal loud selfs but it's really driving me up the wall today, I'm so happy bedtime is fast approaching. It's not only the kids, I'm also thinking about something that kept me up a few weeks ago. Every so often it just pops into my head and I can stop crying or thinking about any of it. All it is, is crappy "friend" issues I've had all my life. I really don't know why these things happen, I always seem to lose whatever friends I make eventually, it's really depressing. I've never known the reason, I keep trying to think of why or what it is that I'm doing to make people stop wanting to be around me. I don't know. I should probably just try to keep that all in the past, it hurts to think about it too much. I guess I'm just not meant to have any long term friendships, I just need to realize that and get on with life, stop trying to make friends.
Other than the emotional wreck stuff today, I had to see the specialist that my doctor referred me to last year again to get the results of the blood tests she ordered. I've been having really severe joint pain, which is why I was referred to her. I had a blood test checking for rheumatoid arthritis but those results came back negative and all my x-rays looked good, so she wanted to check for some kind of vitamin deficiency or possibly anemia. I knew it wouldn't be anemia, I've been tested for that one numerous times, I'm extremely pale so it's always the first thing a doctor asks me. Turns out I have a vitamin D deficiency, normal levels are around an 80 but my levels are lower than 30. Obviously not good. So, now I get to take 5 pills a day to hopefully bring my levels up closer to a normal level. I wonder why a doctor never thought to check for that one before? It may be the reason for all the pains I've had, so hopefully upping my levels will finally relieve me of the pain once and for all.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
WIP's around here
I just got home from my nephew's first birthday supper, I love the little guy so much! Out of 13 nephews and nieces, I think he's pretty much the only one who truly likes me, he's always got the biggest smile for me. Now, the kids are down for the night, not sleeping yet but also not bothering me, so I don't care. I thought I'd share a couple of the WIP's I have laying around the place right now.
I've got this new baby blanket on the go. I was going to be making it for my cousin's new baby boy who was born earlier this month but I've decided against it. I've decided that the blankets I crochet that I put a lot of time into making, I'm only going to be gifting to people I care about. Not that I don't care about my cousin, it's just I haven't spoken to her since Christmas of 2008, so she's not someone I'm very close to. I plan on making her one but it's just going to be one that's quicker and easier to make. Anyway, this blanket is going to be for Zach. He needs a blanket for his bed, the blanket he has isn't very big at all, luckily the boy hardly ever stays covered up anyway.
3845, 3846, 828
The other project I've got going is this really great stitch along I found over at Sylvia's. I changed the colors that she suggested using for the border (the DMC colors are listed under the photo up there). Each month there's a new design to stitch up, I'm loving it so far and it's going to help me build up an embroidery floss stash finally!
I love January's design, so cute! I'm still working on February's, so I'll post a picture of that one soon I hope.
I've got this new baby blanket on the go. I was going to be making it for my cousin's new baby boy who was born earlier this month but I've decided against it. I've decided that the blankets I crochet that I put a lot of time into making, I'm only going to be gifting to people I care about. Not that I don't care about my cousin, it's just I haven't spoken to her since Christmas of 2008, so she's not someone I'm very close to. I plan on making her one but it's just going to be one that's quicker and easier to make. Anyway, this blanket is going to be for Zach. He needs a blanket for his bed, the blanket he has isn't very big at all, luckily the boy hardly ever stays covered up anyway.
3845, 3846, 828
The other project I've got going is this really great stitch along I found over at Sylvia's. I changed the colors that she suggested using for the border (the DMC colors are listed under the photo up there). Each month there's a new design to stitch up, I'm loving it so far and it's going to help me build up an embroidery floss stash finally!
I love January's design, so cute! I'm still working on February's, so I'll post a picture of that one soon I hope.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
my grandma's doily
I was digging through an old chest at my mom's quite some time ago and I managed to snag myself a doily that my grandma had made long ago. It's been living on a side table for some time now, I pick it up off the floor every single day thanks to my kids (mostly Zach), they love to make a nice mess.
It's so pretty and I love it so much! The fact that my grandma made it is too awesome! I really wish she were around so she could help me learn to make doilies. Thread crochet seems far too difficult for me, it will be awhile before I attempt it.
Anyway, I got sick of picking it up off the floor, so I got the idea to make it into a bowl. I've seen doily bowls all over the place and I love the look of them. I didn't use starch to do it because I didn't have any. Instead I heated up 2 cups of sugar and a cup of water until the sugar dissolved, then I submersed the doily and left it to dry over night on a bowl. The results made me so giddy! I adore how it looks, I think I love it even more now than I did before.
It now is living above my couch. I'm going to my parents again tomorrow, so I'm going to do some more digging around and hopefully find some more doilies. I think it would be nice to have more up there.
It's so pretty and I love it so much! The fact that my grandma made it is too awesome! I really wish she were around so she could help me learn to make doilies. Thread crochet seems far too difficult for me, it will be awhile before I attempt it.
Anyway, I got sick of picking it up off the floor, so I got the idea to make it into a bowl. I've seen doily bowls all over the place and I love the look of them. I didn't use starch to do it because I didn't have any. Instead I heated up 2 cups of sugar and a cup of water until the sugar dissolved, then I submersed the doily and left it to dry over night on a bowl. The results made me so giddy! I adore how it looks, I think I love it even more now than I did before.
It now is living above my couch. I'm going to my parents again tomorrow, so I'm going to do some more digging around and hopefully find some more doilies. I think it would be nice to have more up there.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
still around
I haven't forgotten about this blog, I swear I haven't. I didn't expect this break to be going on as long as it has but it's been nice to not think about needing to get something up all the time. I'm finally trying to get my bearings here again though, I just updated the "reading" section to the right and I put some links of where you can find me when I'm not posting over to the left. I hope I can get more changes happening around here soon too, I'll keep you updated on how I'm getting on with it.
As I mentioned in my last post, I had a sick baby to tend to. He got over it for about a week, then Sami ended up getting sick, it really knocked the energy out of her. She's never been sick like that before, she usually can go on normally but this time all she could do was sleep until it was over. Then Zach ended up sick again, worse than before, he was wheezing for days, it was horrible. I even took him to the hospital because it worried me so much, but he quit the wheezing as soon as we got there. I need to keep an eye on that wheezing though, I want to make sure that it wasn't any asthma trying to rear it's ugly head. I don't want my baby to have to live with that, I saw my brother in the hospital too many times because of it. Anyway, he's much healthier now. Lizzy got it a couple days ago, she got a really bad fever from it, she rambled off a lot of crazy talk while she was sick. Luckily, I managed to get rid of the fever myself, so no hospital visits. Now everyone seems healthy for the time being, knock on wood.
As I mentioned in my last post, I had a sick baby to tend to. He got over it for about a week, then Sami ended up getting sick, it really knocked the energy out of her. She's never been sick like that before, she usually can go on normally but this time all she could do was sleep until it was over. Then Zach ended up sick again, worse than before, he was wheezing for days, it was horrible. I even took him to the hospital because it worried me so much, but he quit the wheezing as soon as we got there. I need to keep an eye on that wheezing though, I want to make sure that it wasn't any asthma trying to rear it's ugly head. I don't want my baby to have to live with that, I saw my brother in the hospital too many times because of it. Anyway, he's much healthier now. Lizzy got it a couple days ago, she got a really bad fever from it, she rambled off a lot of crazy talk while she was sick. Luckily, I managed to get rid of the fever myself, so no hospital visits. Now everyone seems healthy for the time being, knock on wood.
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