The good:

  • I got to the SNB knitting group on Tuesday which made me very happy.
  • Flying Star has a great dish right now called Late Autumn Harvest or something that has grilled risotto cakes with cheese in the center served on top of great vegetables like asparagus, carrots, lovely little fresh mushrooms that have been cooked in a broth. I’ve had it twice now. It. is. yummy.
  • Remember that post I wrote critiquing the Project Runway plus size designs where I had suggestions from different online stores? I got an email from someone who worked for one of the stores and they asked if I would review some of their clothes! So they’re going to be sending me a few pieces and I’ll write about them on my site! They’re going to give me a coupon code to put up here as well! I’m very excited about this. I really like the unique Igigi designs and can’t wait to try them out!
  • I finally get to go to the Saturday Knitters not Quitters group for the first time in months!
  • I also get to have a haircut!

    • The Bad:

  • It’s a little colder but I always like the changing seasons. Now that it’s fall I get to have a fire in the fireplace, sit on the sofa and knit or spin while watching lots of period English dramas. Goodie!
  • Cody’s schedule is changing again for a little while. He’ll be back on that crazy rotating schedule which means I’ll only get to go to Stitch and Bitch every other week. But I also get to go to Knitters not Quitters every other Saturday so it’s not really a bad thing.
  • I’ve been very slack in my saving for the cruise. And I couldn’t resist some sock yarn from Hello Yarn. I haven’t bought stuff from Adrian in like MONTHS. Is that bad?
  • I’ve also been very slack in taking photos and putting things up for sale. Next post: stashbusting. Dammit.
  • Naughty bad enabling shopping people. I won’t name names but you know who you are.

    • The Crackly:

    I’ve had a bad neck/shoulder/back issue for years. Like, now that I’ve been thinking about it, fifteen years. Oops! I had a friend back at Birmingham-Southern that I would pay to massage my back. Then my best friend and roommate in Santa Fe got the honors since she went to a hippie school for a while and knew how to massage really well. She kept saying, “You really need to get an adjustment,” and I had no idea what that meant.

    Cody is not a very good massager because he’s afraid he’ll hurt me. Believe me, it would take A LOT to hurt my neck and shoulders. I am one seriously tough woman in that particular area thanks to softball in my early years and stretches and stuff trying to fix my issues in the more recent ones.

    So for years now I’ve been dealing with pain on the left side of my neck down into my shoulder and to this one weird spot in my shoulder blade. It comes and goes. But for the last year or so it’s gotten increasingly worse. Sitting at the computer for hours then going and sitting on the sofa to knit with really bad posture doesn’t help. And I’m almost positive I sleep “wrong” too although we bought a great bed about a year ago.

    Monday we didn’t get to the fair which was disappointing. But I finally did give it up and go to a chiropractor. I’d just had it with the neck pain. We just went to a local chain that I remembered had a “Walk ins Welcome” sign. I was terrified. All those rumors about people being paralyzed and stuff. And this guy did take my head and crack the living shit out of my neck. Three times. Then did these little electronic stimulator things on my neck and upper back. It was scary but it felt a lot better! Not perfect but better.

    When he asked me if I’d had a car wreck or something fifteen years ago I couldn’t really think of what had happened to cause this neck pain. I usually assumed it was a combination of bad posture and an injury from chiseling stone in sculpture classes. But Monday night I remembered what happened when I was nineteen: I was in the mosh pit at a Vomit Spots concert and someone jumped off the stage directly onto my head. I went straight down. Will was there and he probably even remembers. I got right back up but my neck was so stiff for days afterwards. And so it has been ever since on and off.

    It’s a mosh pit injury! How totally punk rock!

    I went back this morning and it’s a bit better. The chiropractor did the same stuff again and said we’ll be doing the same thing for a month or something then we’ll see how I’m feeling. But I’m not supposed to be sitting at the computer very much with all this going on so I’ll only be checking in every once in a while.

    So that’s it..the good, the bad, and the crackly.