Laid Low by the Flu

Oh, the Flu. You can run, but you can't hide. The flu is insidious. It sneaks up from behind, smacks you on the head, and you go down like a ton of bricks.

No use claiming how tough you are, that you can handle anything; the flu knows better. It may be small, but it will beat you. The Flu doesn't care that you have obligations, schedules, appointments. The Flu doesn't care who you are or what you need to do. Finally, raise the white flag, "I surrender".

Four days in bed with Flu's heavy boot on your back, your nose full of cotton, throat full of sand and an anvil on your head. Days and nights all the same as you alternate between half-wakeful rousings to blow your nose and feverish dreams of untwisting the same darn puzzle over and over and over. Stumble downstairs once in a while to sit upright in a chair for an hour in front of the TV trying to feel half-human again, only to stagger back upstairs to drop back into bed wracked with coughing.

2 gallons of orange juice, 2 boxes of tissues later. Finally the flu begins to relent, slowwlly to release it's hold, leaving you feeling like you have been run over by a truck, but at least feeling like you might someday be able to function like yourself again.

Yep, the flu stinks. I'm going back to bed.

Long time, no post

Yep, I'm still here. Hubby is visiting from Chicago all week; yes, he really does exist. So with that and the shop open longer hours, I've got plenty to do. Keeps me out of mischief. I keep getting in new yarns, and of course new yarn = new project, so by now I figure I have to live to be 623 years old in order to finish everything up ( assuming I don't start anything new - sure ) I need to start taking better care of myself I guess. Hopefully somebody will discover that knitting prolongs your life and prevents disease.

Thank goodness for friends. I don't think I would be able to do all that I do without all of the support (physical and emotional ) from all of my wonderful shop friends. Any of you who happen to read this - you know who you are - THANK YOU!!

I hoped to figure out how to post pictures from the shop computer, instead of my laptop, but the battery on the camera is too low (boo!) I will try again after I power it up. Back to work!

Day off

The socks are coming along slowly, but surely. In the meantime, I have been getting classes organized, and new shipments priced and out. Class samples have been worked on, and I got distracted by the lovely new 'Poems' sock yarn, which I had to sample. Just so folks won't think that I live at the shop, I had a great visit with the grandkids on Monday. They are (of course) the most beautiful and clever little girls that ever were. Evie, not Anna (banana) seems to love bananas these days, as evidenced by the sticky fingerprints on the TV screen. Back to the shop tomorrow!