The other adventure yesterday was trying out a new hair salon. The ladies on my f-list will understand about the pain and trauma this can inspire. Will they do a good job? Am I going to spend weeks growing out a cut I hate? Will the colour turn out well or am I going to look like something from a bad eighties movie until I can get to the drug store ( Read more... )

I was cataloguing books at the weekend in preperation for my move and got to
the Mercedes Lackey shelf. Um, it turns out that I have 40 ML books *is
embrassed*

Anyway, leaving aside my slight obsession, I picked up Magic's
Promise and decided that I was about due for a Vanyel re-read and that ( Read more... )

Today I had another hospital appointment, the follow-up to my fitting for orthotics at the end of April. I took the casts they've made for my feet (very heavy!) and toted them down to the hospital.

( Cut for boring medically stuff )

Last night I ploughed on with the new mittens through Holby City (now a BAFTA award winning continuing drama, dontcha know - sounds much more dignified than "cracktastic soap") and I got the cuff done and part way up the hand. I added an extra repeat of the cable pattern because I know that my hands are very long and so far it looks beautiful ( Read more... )

I received my Ravelry invite last night and couldn't resist staying up an hour later than planned to set things up. I am apparently turning into a knitting geek :-) But I can be found here and I've already joined a scary number of groups and input a couple of the projects that I've worked on. I really need to take some photos of my blankets, though ( Read more... )

Usually I would write a long, in-depth assessment of this week’s rheumatology appointment. The thing is, for the first time I was a good appointment. Dr S. was very pleased that my pain levels are back down to normal, my Arcoxia dose is back to 60mg a day and I’ve even stopped the amitriptyline. All the tests were normal, my blood pressure is back ( Read more... )

I am enjoying the first of two days off work on holiday. The best bit? No bloody hospitals! This is the first real day off that I've had since April that hasn't involved the medical profession poking, prodding and attempting to diagnose me. Yay!

I celebrated by trundling into London and buying books. Yummy. My new friends can be seen on my recent ( Read more... )

I had a day off yesterday, just in case the hospital appointment wiped me out, and it was a good thing that I did. It felt like I was flattened by a wall on the train home on Thursday and I'm only just starting to crawl out from under. I'm thankfully at the tired, listless stage rather than the exhausted dazed confused stage now, because I'm ( Read more... )

( Possible minor spoilers for Deathly Hallows under here. Be prepared for others providing spoilers in comments )

( Big Deathly Hallows spoilers - read at your own risk )