Something spooky for you to enjoy at the Pagan New Year
[Can you work out how it's done? I have; it's pretty simple once you catch on :)]
And how about this quiz from the BBC site:
I managed 7 out of 9 questions.
Brightest Blessings to all this Samhain. Hope it's spooktacular for you :)
At 11.00am we've been married for 19 years.
This year for my anniversary he's bought me an exercise step and has ordered a suitable DVD to go with it.
He wants me to get fit ready for this holiday.
Nice, eh?
Actually we went for a walk around the Trafford Centre this past week and while I was feeling some pain in my back and legs after walking around the place for 4 hours, Himself was left with severe sciatica and could barely move for three days. Perhaps he needs the exercise?!
He did also buy me a rather beautiful Aquamarine pendant. Apparently this is the gem for 19 years. It's also my birthstone.
19 years....
It just gets better and better.
Over at That's My Answer I was asked:
If you mixed up the letters in the name of your blog, what new name would you come up with?
I get:
'Tis A Domed Globe Cat Cage
I think that used all the letters too :)
Comments (3)Over at That's My Answer I was asked:
What three sounds do you love?
I don't hear so well so three things that I find delightful to listen to are:
Babies laughing (especially when they're my grandchildren),
My dog howling (because he's so little and it's the funniest noise)and
Sleigh bells jingling(they remind me of Christmas when I was small).
What about you?
I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.
-- Gilda Radner
Could this be -
The Most Terrifying Video You'll Ever See
?
What do you think?
So far this past week I've managed to finish
4 maternity tops for daughter1
1 baby blanket for the new baby
1 matinee jacket for the new baby
still to finish:
1 stripy sweater for Himself (I'm on the last sleeve and then there's the dreaded sewing together :/)
1 lace cardigan for granddaughter3 (body is almost finished then I have to start the sleeves)
New to the list:
1 aran cardigan for granddaughter3
1 lemon cardigan for the new baby
I'm going to have to change the list of projects for 2007 because with the new baby there've been lots of extra things to knit. Some of the stash busting items I'd hoped to do this year just won't be happening.
I desperately want to get pictures of finished objects onto the blog but I've no batteries for the digital camera and I keep forgetting to buy some. Something else to put on the To Do List!
I've had another email from my mum who tells me that my dad has improved a little. No other details except to say that he will be having further tests.
On a much happier note Daughter1 has had her 20 week scan and everything is progressing nicely with her pregnancy. She was hoping to find out the sex of the baby but baby would have none of it keeping his/her legs firmly closed. Daughter1 thinks that as the baby is so shy then she's probably having another girl. Just 18 weeks left to go (she'll be having the baby early via elective C-section) and then we'll know for sure. Time soon flies past doesn't it?
I've just received an email telling me that my father is seriously ill in hospital in Australia. He was taken into hospital early Saturday Morning, Australia time.
I'd have much preferred to have had a phone call. I could have asked more about his condition and at least offered words of encouragement to my mum. We just don't have that kind of relationship though and I suppose I should be happy to have heard anything at all.
She's staying at my sister's house and I don't have a telephone number for there. My sister and I are estranged, to put it mildly.
I hate family situations like this. I never quite know what to do. I've replied to the email and will just have to wait until I hear anything else.
My local Sainsbury's has had selection boxes and other Christmas packs of chocolate in since the beginning of September. Mince pies and Christmas cakes/puddings are well stocked on the shelves. But could this be the earliest that anyone has decorated for the Christmas season?
Christmas comes early for couple
Himself and I had a visit to the hospital this week for one of his bi-annual check-ups. He always gets nervous before one of this appointments. He's never treated badly and has named nurses who are very sympathetic; he just finds the visits difficult. Being a qualified doctor doesn't make it easier. Knowing exactly what's going on can have a terrifying effect. Sometimes the unknown can be less fearful.
He's been taking Copaxone for several years now. He's part of a long term (10 year) study of the effects the drug has on MS. He has to fulfill certain criteria to be part of it; the MS has to be relapsing/remitting and he can have no more than two relapses a year. He's come perilously close to that this year. He had a mild relapse in January and is in another relapse at the moment. His named nurse has had to make note of it and has warned Himself that it's based on any rolling 12 months so we need to keep an eye on how the illness is progressing.
Apart from that it's a matter of keep taking the meds. We've agreed that he probably is still in the relapsing/remitting stage of the illness so we don't need to have any more tests done at the moment. He does get tired but he can rest as necessary. It's been suggested that he should try some exercise. Apparently it can ease the exhaustion. I don't know if Himself was too pleased with that suggestion.
It's sort of good news - if you can have any good news with MS - the condition isn't any worse even if it isn't any better.
That has to be a good thing.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
- Jean Kerr
You've no idea how much I can relate to this one...