Thinking . . .

Been thinking about a lot of things lately - mostly about how my life is changing because I have a cranky kidney.  I finally connected with Dr. Coe's nurse, and I spent an hour or so yesterday building a timeline so he will have the full picture of this journey.  It's possible he will want another set of back-to-back 24-hour urine collections as well as some blood work done before I even get a chance to see him.  I got all my CT and Ultrasound films from both hospitals, so I'll take those with me to my first appointment.  So this process is in motion and I will know more as I go along.

Hungry today - not sure if it's actual hunger or emotional anxiety (which leads to emotional eating for me), but it could have been worse - tracked and onward.

I finished Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl.  This was a difficult book to read - in subject matter and also in content because the second part of the book is extremely technical in nature with regard to psychiatric terminology and theory.  I felt like I was back in school.  But it's an important book - one of the most important of the 20th century - and I'm glad I finally read it.

Next up for The Book Project is one on my Kindle that I apparently started and left . . . It's called In Farleigh Field.  I'll pick it back up and see if it's worth finishing.  When I get those First Reads emails from Amazon Prime, if one of the books has anything to do with WWII, it's nearly always the book I pick, and this one is something about or shortly after the war.  I will be surprised if it doesn't capture my attention.

Something else I did last weekend was to actually look at all the books on my to-read shelves.  I ended up with about nine books that I either bought on a whim or bought for reasons no longer known, but it was clear to me that I was never going to read them.  They no longer held any interest for me.  And so, I popped them into the book drop to donate them rather than cramming them in The Little Free Library.  It freed up about a foot of shelf space - which I promptly filled with some other to-read books that were resting out on the shelves in the kitchen  ;-D  So it goes.  At least I'm making progress, and I'm happy to be reading more in these past few weeks.

And finally - some knitting content!  Yay!!  :-D

I finished the 2018 Project Peace Cowl from The Healthy Knitter.  It is not yet blocked in this photo.  The yarn is Socks That Rock Mediumweight, in the "It's All About The Bark" colorway - A sock club yarn from the club in 2014.





It seems quite tall for a cowl - I am hoping it will block out a little wider.  The I-Cord edging might preclude that - we'll see.  The triangle sections represent geese - I really like how the grey in the yarn looks like geese flying.  At least to me it does  :-)

In process is The Minimalist Shawl.  I'm using a gradient yarn from River's Edge Fiber Arts that I picked up last year at YarnCon.  It seems small to me . . . I'm hoping it will block larger.  In the meantime, I am anxiously awaiting the first major color change.  It's hard to tell how it's knitting up because it looks sort of knobbly because the gradient must have been a blank that was then un-knitted, so the yarn itself is kinked up.  Crossing my fingers that this will block out.


We had a dump of snow here on Saturday night and now the temps are in the single digits, so today was a jams day.  Caught up on telly and worked on this shawl for most of the day!  Winter might finally be here - we've had it pretty easy so far, but it's cold now for real.

Winter is here and I'm thinking about being warm . . .


Comments

Retired Knitter said…
Hope your kidney issues are improved by seeing this specialist. Keep a positive. And keep busy and it looks like you are. Good thoughts coming your way.
Anonymous said…
Good luck with your upcoming visit about your kidney problem. It's nice to have a healthcare team working with you. You won't feel alone and there is always someone to answer your questions. This time around for me I have a cancer care team and they are absolutely wonderful! It's good to have all that support.
I read "In Farleigh Road" by Rhys Bowen and loved it. I won't give the story away, but it is fast paced and full of surprises. I think you'll enjoy once you get into it.
Your knitting projects are great. I'm surprised at how much you can turn out in a short period of time. I still have a second mitten and an afghan to finish that I started a couple years ago. :)
All the best to you, Annie!
Janice H.
A :-) said…
Thank you Retired Knitter! I will see him in March!

Janice - good to hear from you - I hope you are doing well. So glad to hear that you have a strong cancer care team on your side. I just finished In Farleigh Field and I did enjoy it!

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