Back blogging!

I took a little unexpected break from blogging these last two weeks! We've been very busy with some happy happenings and late nights up watching Lost :)! Hmmm... I'm trying to remember exactly what I've been busy with, taking care of Bennett has been very time consuming, he's just so much fun to play with and gives me very sad looks when I hang out and spin with him (we're working right now on solving that sad look problem... I think it will be it's own post though!). I've been spinning for a shawl recently, with a group of people at our lys on Wednesday nights. We spin for 4 weeks and we knit for 4 weeks. I'm the only one working with a spindle, so I'm expecting to be spinning while others are knitting. I love the fiber I got (I'm still working on getting pics, sigh, that was one of the things I was waiting on posting for...) and I'm slowly getting this long draw on the suspended spindle thing down. I'm aiming for 3 ply, lace weight yarn, keeping my fingers crossed! I've been taking the bus down to the yarn store and Laurie has been picking me up there after she's finished at work. It's been fun!

Laurie's job is going really well, and it looks like she may be staying on at the Jewish high school for next year, too. I've been to the JCC, the school is located in the building, and have really enjoyed meeting her coworkers and watching basketball games. Everyone is really sweet and nice, it's kind of funny because the kids hang out at the community center, so there are students around pretty much all the time, even on weekends and such, which is a big change from St. Paul's.

My health stuff is still up in the air. We've been to see general surgery about the lumps that I've been getting, and we're still not sure what's up. I'm having an ultrasound of the one on my back this week, so we'll see if that turns up everything. The appt with general surgery was kind of funny, it took over 3 hours because we saw each level of medical personnel. First, we had the long, full medical history with the med students, then a look over by a resident, and then, just for good measure, the chief resident, too. Lots of fun. We'll see what happens. My PCP was wondering if it might be my muscle tissue separating and fluid getting in between, which could happen with the Elhers-Danlos stuff, but that's just a guess at this point. It will be interesting to see what the ultrasound picks up.

We had a fun outing today, with some of our friends from church, we went to the renaissance festival. It was a long day, and I was pretty tired from the rest of this weekend (to be mentioned in said other post!), but I managed to put in almost a full day there. We used my scooter, which worked really well, even though it makes me pretty tired to manage all the crowds, and it was a coupon day, so there were a lot of people there. I only hit one kid, and it was his fault :)! Although, I really can't stand the people who stop in the middle of the street in front of you, without any warning. I almost hit a couple people that way. It was a beautiful day weather-wise and we had a lot of fun. I learned a really funny song, that Laurie apparently has been holding out on me about constipated men of the bible. As usual, I got my hair braided. We used the same people who did it last year, it turned out really beautifully.

I think that covers most of what's been going on (minus of course, what I'm going to say in the next post, which might happen tomorrow because it's getting late and I'm exhausted... so I'm going to keep you in suspense a little longer!). We've been watching a lot of Lost lately, our watching is going to be coming to a bit of a close because Laurie's sick of nothing happening on the show. We have kind of been staying up late to watch episodes, so now I'm going to watch them in the day time, while spinning. While I'm on the topic of sleeping, I think now would be a good time to go do it.