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Hi Folks!

So you haven't heard from us in forever because, well initially it was laziness/busyness/work but most recently (aka the last week) I've been sick. It was no fun. I got a VIRAL kidney infection. How crappy is that?? I can't even take antibiotics to kill it. Of course, they gave me antibiotics initially while they were testing to determine what exactly was making me sick and yeah those made life MUCH worse. I've never reacted that bad to an antibiotic before. Like the whole list of "common side effects" yeah I had them. The only things I didn't have (gratefully) were the ones under "if you have the following side effects please contact your doctor immediately and seek immediate medical attention". 

Either way the last week as been unpleasant. But at least I can sit up now, and think straight, and as long as I don't try anything more impressive than walking to the kitchen and back for more water I don't wanna puke. The upside is that this level of boredom has led me to attempt knitting once again. 

Mind you I've been crocheting since my grandma taught me when I was 12 and I can do that with my eye's closed (literally). But I got VERY BRIEFLY taught how to knit on my mission (in a car ride to a church meeting) and I've only attempted it about a half dozen times and NEVER finished anything. Mostly b/c knitting in a lot of ways is WAYYYYY more time consuming than crochet. I crochet 10 stitches and dang you've got something to show for it. Ten knit stitches? Yeah not NEARLY as impressive. And MUCH MUCH more difficult (at least I think so b/c I have to pay CLOSE attention to my knitting and my crocheting I can do while I read a book/watch tv). 

Well in my illness I was looking at the free craft patterns on Joann's website (the fabric store) and they had a really gorgeous wrap thing that was knit and promised to be a weekend project and use only one skein of yarn. So I'm trying it. So far I've determined that the one skein bit is b/c this is one of the biggest frickin' skeins I've ever seen! And the directions given for free off the website are NOT accurate.... but I did manage to finagle out how to do it. So I managed to get a couple inches, figure out the pattern and have now ripped out the whole thing and am starting over due to a STAGGERING number of mistakes. But I have hope that if I try again I'll get it right this time (or at least not wrong enough it will unravel or anybody will be able to TELL that its screwed up). 

The kittens are doing well. They scared me a bit this week - Tues Indy slept most of the day, didn't beg for my food like he usually does and then puked twice that night. Then Weds Indy was perking up by the afternoon but now Violet slept all day and puked once. Today they're both doing okay and we're just VERY watchful. They have an appointment with the vet to get their next round of shots tomorrow so hopefully that will go well. But I just have no idea what could have made them sick. They don't hardly get any people food (maybe a little tiny bite of tuna or cracker - yes they eat crackers, in fact thus far I haven't found anything they won't try to eat), they're indoor only kitties and I hadn't changed their food or nothing. So I have no clue what they got into or caught that made them sick. 

But anyways I'm rambling. Can you tell I'm bored?