Domestipithecus

Yes, I know. I have neglected this little blog for too long.

Coming soon, pictures of a finished Alphabet Blanket, home made paneer, wedding location update (we FINALLY found a place!) and all sorts of other things.

I promise.

I have hardly been online as I have a deadline of this Saturday to finish the Alphabet Blanket. So. Not. Happening. My sinus/tooth-achy/sore throat thing came back. *sigh*

I did go to the dentist to make sure it wasn’t a toothache. I hate dentists. I love my dentist. He is the only one that actually took the time to figure out ho much Novocaine it REALLY took to numb me. I was always afraid of going because it always hurt. Apparently, I need lots of the numbing stuff for it to kick in.

The good news is, I don’t have any issues with my upper right teeth. The bad news is, one of the old silver fillings on my lower right side needs to go. It’s contracting and it needs to be replaced before decay gets underneath… or something. He said to plan on being there for a hour for my next appointment. An HOUR. *whimper*

Of course, the pain had all cleared up the day I went, and it’s back today. I couldn’t even knit. The pain was too distracting.

So now I have to get a store bought present for the baby shower. peh

The good news is that she’s not due until February. I’ll continue to work on it and not pick up any other knitting until it’s done, but I have a reprieve from marathon knitting sessions and stupid mistakes due to knitting too long and not paying attention as well as I could.

Next week I plan on making some paneer for a yet to be determined dish and some roti to go along with it. Should be fun! Stay tuned!

Monday, as you may have read, was super productive. Though I didn’t get any of the Alphabet Blanket knit, I did get much done in the way of home and hearth. This turned out to be a very good thing.

Tuesday morning I woke up ill. I had been waking a lot in the night and my throat was really rough and hurty. Yes, hurty.

I was out of commission until Thursday. I was up and about, but didn’t get anything done.

Finally, Friday I was able to be together enough to work on the blanket. Still no pictures, but I made it through the first charted letters.

Friday evening was an evening spent with old friends and co-workers at the diviest (divey-est?) bar in the old work neighborhood - “Roger’s Exciting Tattle Tale Room.” We just call it the Tattle Tale. It was pretty much the place to go for those early dot.com days. We were celebrating the company we had all worked for finally going public. Some of us are still working there, some of us left seven years ago. I left this past August.

We had all originally been promised we would be rich in a year (8 years later I’ll be lucky if I can put a down payment on a new car with the proceeds). Aside from us all having waited for soooooooo long, it was a very celebratory mood. I drank a little more than I should have, but CN took good care of me.

I knit some on the blanket today, so that’s progressing. I am going to sign off and make my list for WholeFoods so we can pick up the essentials as well as the Thanksgiving items for baking/cooking. I am going to make my vegan pumpkin cake with vegan cream cheese frosting. I am also going to give a pumpkin wonton recipe I found a try. I’m also going to do a trial run on the parsnip mash I have been dreaming about since I had it in Ireland and if that works out to my liking, offer to bring some of that as well.

Off I go!