Author: Annie

…I have to do, too! This is something that Beth (Lorna’s Laces) got from Jennie (Jennie The Potter), who got it from Dawn, and so on and so on and so on. Now that we have that straight, if all goes well every human in cyberdom will be making 5 things for unknown folks and…

It’s official, I do NOT have Swine Flu. The test was negative, and after 2 days off Hannah is back at school today. However, my breathing is very bad. Whatever I have has settled into my lungs, I’m having those 3 am waking-with-no-breath episodes that were so charming back in winter 2005, and I’m back…

“If you free your psychic energy by loving the job, that’s everything.” – Doris Kearns Goodwin

It’s a rainy, overcast, thundering Sunday morning here in St. Paul, and the weather matches my mood. I’m sick of feeling sick. I’ve been nursing this darned long-lasting crud since mid-cruise, and at this point my breathing is about as bad as it was way back in Winter 2005 when I was diagnosed (correctly? incorrectly?)…

Hey Folks, Whatever this crud was that I picked up on the cruise ship (at this point I’ve heard of 4 folks on that cruise who have it, too – one before they met me, the rest I probably contaminated…) it is NOT going away. I know I sound like I’m falling apart – I’m…

I’m taking a break from writing patterns, knitting on my back and writhing in agony to play a little Facebook Scrabble, and what does my rack spell? YOU ARE B. Nice. It’s a pinched nerve in my lower back on the right side, which is why I’m leaning so strongly to the left. THANK YOU,…

Today I see if I can knit flat on my back. Hell, if Michaelangelo could paint a ceiling like this, then I can knit a darned cardigan, right? I’d made tentative plans to get together with some of my teaching/designer friends who are in town for the Yarn Over, but now that will not happen,…

I’m in pain, baby, and it’s not the fun kind. All last week I was achey, it was the flu/bronchitis coming up. Now Big B is settled firmly into my chest (this baby is NOT going away) and it’s brought super-duper joint aches with it. Last ache to emerge? Lower back. It was just mildly…

I have neglected something SO important that I hang my head in shame… Right before I left for the cruise my friend Tracy from Tilli Tomas wrote to ask if my students would like some yarn. Wait, let me check — YES! So she fed-ex’ed some yarn right over to me, and I was blown…