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August 30, 2007
Typhoid Mary
So in the last 24 hours I've had a chest x-ray, a stress echocardiagram, and a CT scan. The latter was ordered because the first showed I had "what looks like fluids" in my lungs, which "might be an infection, but probably not pneumonia because you don't have a fever". The stress test was, well, stressful. YOU try jogging on a treadmill with an IV in your arm and eight bazillion wires attached to you and NO BRA. It was not sexy. As bad as that was, the CT scan was worse because the receptionist had been told that I'd been ordered to wear a hospital mask in the waiting room and during the test (also a bra-free zone). I felt like a fucking leper, and of course nobody would tell me WHY I was wearing a mask. Maybe it has to do with my constant wheezing and coughing since the stress test.
Anyway, I seriously need a cocktail and/or a chocolate milkshake and/or some fucking ANSWERS.
Posted by Kate at 6:10 PM | Comments (5)August 29, 2007
do over
Could someone please loan me a time machine? I had a great weekend, then just as I was going to bed on Sunday night everything started sucking.
I picked up my water glass from the coffee table on my way to bed, and managed to smack it right into one of the two beautiful, hand-blown etched glass tumblers we'd gotten as a wedding present. The tumbler broke right in half. I can't tell you how sick I feel about this.
The next morning I got up and started reading my e-mail on the nice shiny new laptop. I reached out with my right hand for the same water glass, and spilled an ENTIRE glass of water right into the keyboard. I could see the screen fizzing and sputtering as I frantically turned the power off. Needless to say, it's totally destroyed and Acts of Stupidity aren't covered under the warranty or our renter's insurance.
Plus, I feel like crap. Can't I please just start again from Sunday?
Posted by Kate at 12:43 PM | Comments (6)August 21, 2007
back in the saddle
Look, see? I am knitting.
This is going to be a great shawl. It's going slowly, though. The large paisleys on the end (in the picture) were fun, but the middle bit is a bit tedious. If I could memorize it, I think it might go faster. It's just complicated enough, though, that I have to keep myself glued to the pattern. Boy, I'm glad they replaced the page for me.
I'm going to give myself a break and work on some really boring toe-up socks for my faire costume. Mmm, stockinette knee socks. In gray. Perhaps I'll have some wine (as Grace suggested) to perk myself up.
Posted by Kate at 2:16 PM | Comments (4)August 20, 2007
insert interesting blog post here
So I went to the doctor's today. Among my many complaints are that I'm having these icky chest pains. The nice new doctor had the nice EKG lady come in, and I got a nice shiny new abnormal EKG. Now I have to go in next week and get one of those stupid stress echocardiagrams. Don't they understand that I don't LIKE being on a treadmill? If I don't have a heart attack from sheer annoyance, they will be very lucky indeed.
This was all so interesting to my doctor that we didn't even talk about my aching knees or any of the other various complaints that I have.
Also, I haven't been knitting much because I lost the first page of charts of my paisley shawl and I was really mad about it. The nice people at Fiddlesticks sent me a replacement page today, which was awfully nice, but I'm sort of freaked out by this bad heart business.
Posted by Kate at 7:15 PM | Comments (6)August 11, 2007
i laughed, i cried, they kissed $600 goodbye
So we were waiting for Avenue Q to start this evening (she said, casually), and this party of four came in and sat down near us just before the lights went down. They were two crabby-looking Asian women accompanied by an incredibly surly boy in his early teens and a little girl about eight. They left at intermission. Um, duh? Who spends $150 per butt (unless they winked and got a better price than we did for our third row (aisle) orchestra seats) to take two CHILDREN to Avenue Q? How do you NOT know that there's live nude puppet sex in it?
Anyway, it was one of the best plays I've ever seen. We will be eating Top Ramen for a month to make up the hole in the budget this caused, but it will be SO worth it. I wonder if totally kick-ass homemade jam from Margaret would taste good on Top Ramen.
Posted by Kate at 11:39 PM | Comments (2)August 5, 2007
show us your aprons!
I totally made another apron. Pat Sloan inspired me. This one is about a million times better and took me much less time to make. I didn't put any rick-rack on it. Nathan didn't think the rick-rack would be very manly. I tried to get him to put some pants on for this picture, but he refused, it being Sunday, aka "No Pants Day".
Isn't the fabric *fabulous*? Nathan picked it out.
August 4, 2007
hot tomatoes!
I just made another round of those tomato drinkies.
Boy, they're good. I'm posting the recipe, even though it's not mine.
Muddle up in a glass - 3 or 4 Sweet 100 cherry tomatoes, 10 or so cilantro leaves and a sprinkle of kosher salt. Then add ice and a slice of habanero chile (don't muddle it unless you want it screamingly hot!), an ounce and a half of silver tequila, 1/4 ounce orange liqueur (the recipe calls for Cointreau, I used Patronge because that was all I had), and 1/4 ounce fresh lime juice. Shake until cold. Strain into a salt-rimmed cocktail glass. I also garnished with a couple of the tomatoes on a cocktail pick.
Thanks, Absinthe guys! You rock!
August 2, 2007
Why I did not knit today, reason eight million and two
I was SEWING. No, really. I totally sewed this cute little apern all by myself.
It's a Decades of Style pattern, and I got the super cute fabric at Stone Mountain. It took me a couple of hours to make, including the not-inconsiderable time I spent applying and re-applying straighter the blankety-blank 1/4 inch bias tape. There's also a pocket that needs to be sewed on. I'll do that tomorrow.
Not bad, considering it's the first thing I've ever made with no help at all. Yay, me!
Posted by Kate at 7:29 PM | Comments (3)