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[kismet09]

Just when I thought I was better, the nights of bad sleep without Tim caught up with me, and I woke up yesterday with a raging sinus headache, general achiness, coughing, and everything else that I had just kicked. Grr. I think it was a combination of bad sleep and changing weather, but it knocked me down pretty hard. For better or worse, Nadine was coming over for a knitting lesson and an afternoon of shopping, so I drugged up and hoped for the best.

The lesson went well - she's a really fast learner, and it was much smoother since I'd just given an introductory lesson to someone else on Thursday. She can now cast on, knit and purl, although I don't think she quite gets the idea of doing both in one row yet - didn't want to overwhelm her too much in one sitting. We then went to a yarn store in Laurel (not very good, really - more catered to machine knitting, very little pure wool, and the person working didn' t even say hello), did some Vickie's shopping in Bowie, and took a trip to Barnes and Noble, where I found Pynchon's _Mason & Dixon_ for $1.50 (!!), the Sunnydale High yearbook (also on sale), and the 10th anniversary edition of Best American Erotica. A book for him, a book for me, and a book to share. Plus some nice low-cut cotton undies. Seemed fair enough. Final stop before the airport was at Starbucks, where more caffeine helped my head clear enough so that I didn't have to lie on the floor whimpering.

Got Tim, went to chinese food (on chinese new year - how festive of us), came home, slept and slept and slept... so I'm feeling a little better today. I convinced Tim to take me to another yarn store today (out in Rockville, worlds better than the Laurel one - they fed us tea and warm chocolate chip cookies, and had Lamb's Pride and other good stuff). I bought enough yarn to make Becca's baby afghan, and a couple skeins to give as gifts to my new pupils, and a skein of blue worsted to start Tim's stocking cap, done from the pattern on about.com. And now I suppose I should start thinking about dinner -- all we have in the fridge is leftovers, drinks, salad dressings, tortillas and a block of cheese. Very sad little fridge. Good thing it's a new month and I have a grocery budget again :)

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[absolutions.livejournal.com]

I hope you feel better! :)

[nevers.livejournal.com]

hi kate- listening to the "new possibilities" mix you made me (which i like a lot a lot) and i was just thinking how the chords on beth amsel's "means to this end" sound so much like indigo girls' "watershed". i was wondering if you noticed that or if i'm just nuts :). one of these days i'm going to put together a mix cd with back-to-back songs that remind me of each other. i have three pairs so far. hehe.