If it’s Monday, this must be Morroco?
Well, I seem to have lost another several days to sleep. Ugh. Or trying to sleep.
The good news is that I have a follow up appointment with my doctor for this Friday morning, so hopefully, the results of the sleep study will show something definitive. I’m tired of guessing.
Friday afternoon, the office went to our “regular” restaurant to have the surprise baby shower for our co-worker, K. His wife is due at the beginning of July. We told him it was a birthday party for another co-worker, just to get him to the restaurant. It went very well. He is the last in his family to have children, so he has loads of hand-me-down stuff for when the baby is an infant, and had requested stuff for when the baby is older. So, that’s what we aimed for. (I’m still working on that sweater, btw.) He got a ton of diapers, and clothes for later, and we all had a good time. We were gone for nearly three hours. He enjoyed the cake I’d made as well (lemon cake with vanilla glaze); after all, we’d called his aunt for his favorites.
Friday night, I went home and fell asleep by 9:00, and got no knitting done. TOH’s new (old) truck broke down, and he didn’t make it home until nearly 8:30.
On Saturday, I was the decoy for Klumpen while her friends set up our house for her suprise party. We went to the used book store and traded in a pile of her books, and I got two knitting books. I got Little Badger Knitwear and Jo Sharp’s Knitting Bazaar. Not that I needed any more knitting books, but I just can’t resist.
After the bookstore, it was off to the fabric store. Klumpen and K are planning on going to the Renaissance Faire as fairies, and are designing their own costumes. Klumpen wants to use small pieces of leather to make a patchwork dress. We couldn’t find leather at a reasonable price (not to mention how hot it would be), but we did find some microsuede in several shades of brown. So, she’s pretty happy about that.
Then it was time to head home. She was quite surprised and tickled when we got there, and all her friends were waiting for her. I was in charge of keeping TSM out of their hair, but ended up falling asleep in the basement through the majority of the afternoon. How I slept through 11 girls running rampant, I’ll never know. Klumpen’s boyfriend, JM, who was a major planner in the party, was forbidden by his parents to attend. They “didn’t want to force him on us for that amount of time”. Excuse me? We wouldn’t have asked/allowed him if we didn’t want him there. There are obviously more issues there than we know about. Which is too bad, since he seems like a nice enough kid.
Sunday was recovery day. I slept through the better part of it, again. I did manage to knit about 6 rows on the Kilimanjaro Kat Shawl, but kept coming up with an extra stitch in one or another pattern repeat. A definite sign I was too tired to keep knitting for the night.
Sorry for the tiny knitting content, and the full-on life blather.