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Happy Christmas! Andy had to wake me up today — I woke up with a cold/snuffly nose yesterday and though usually I am the one flushing toilets pre-dawn to wake the house up on Christmas morning, this year I got to open my christmas presents in bed! Good times — though it made me wish I got a glass of coca-cola over ice for a present Cause I’m just now starting to wake up (couple hours later)…

Things Santa/Andy brought me — some knitting/crochet books, needles, a Polamalu jersey (steelers player — my favorite one), osu shirt/jersey and the James Dean pic/poster that I have been trying to find for about 5 years now. Ever since I saw it in Red Robin (restaurant) — I have been searching trying to find it… and somehow Andy found it —

fabulous isn’t it?

I know right? I don’t know exactly what it is about this picture that captures me, but knowing more about him really makes me see the playfulness and the shyness in this picture. I just love it. Now to find a frame!

(p.s. the <3 is a heart)

so yesterday all of a sudden my cafepress sales start multiplying… and I’m thinking “Cool! The Christmas rush has started early this year — yay”…

and today they kept popping up and popping up, more and more notifications of sales…. so I was like “hmmmmm someone/something MUST have made mention of my design somewhere….” so I began to Google…

and…..

i’m famous!!!

the infamous Yarn Harlot (a knitting blogger/writer/celebrity) has mentioned me in her blog — thousands of ppl read her books and blog — and now they’re ordering my “I Knit so i don’t kill people” shirts/mugs/bags

how COOL is THAT!!!!!

that’s the good news — but unfortunately I discovered this at ohhhh 2:30am, so now I probably won’t get to sleep cause my brain will be awake all night going “wooooot!!! the Yarn Harlot!!! mentioned my shirt!!! zomg did you see that!! I can’t believe it!!”

Drove back yesterday from Georgia — had a great visit with Katie and Dave and “Lizbits” (love hanging out with that lil girl)

On my bday we went to see The Hangover — awesome film — very very funny — it was great, Dave and I were the only ones in the movie theater — then we went to Barnes and Noble bookstore to wander around — then cupcakes with Miss Lizbits and her singing to me after a delicious meal out — pad Thai is my fave!!

well today was fun — Katie and I made up a big batch of egg rolls (alot of which were sampled for quality assurance purposes of course!!) and in the middle of that I let Katie take over the entire egg roll operation while I cleaned and halved 2 punnets of strawberries for the first pie….

then after all the egg rolls were done and cooling… it was time to try out a new recipe — Coconut Cream Pie!!

I’ll keep you posted — let you know how it turned out… was an easy recipe (I followed it but also used the notes of the first person’s comments)

now for my british friends, I do not mean “pull” as in “score a date with” lol …. “pulling a kiki” has come to have many meanings among my gaming friends… just for example, running a dungeon without checking how many mana water potions you have (and thenceforth running out mid-dungeon) but the biggest use of the phrase has got to be — falling from a great height and dying. I have become somewhat of an artist in this regard… truly… I have fallen from bridges, from balconies, off cliffs, even off the edge of the world… probably my greatest coup de grace was the other night when I fell off Delaran (a city suspended in the air) — now if you played WoW (World of Warcraft) you might ask “how the hell precisely does one fall off Delaran????” and the answer, discovered by my good self, is: you travel through the sewer pipes and as you are navigating them, it appears as though you’re going over a hill, but no — the pipe just kind of ENDS… and there you are, falling through air… and splattttt. dead.

Now the funniest thing about this is that I even possess a skill that works somewhat like a parachute… it’s called Levitate and if I could stop laughing when these falls occur long enough to activate it, I would probably survive them… but — it’s so much funnier than I can handle… especially when I discover new and rare ways to accomplish it.

Snap back to real life now… we went to see District 9 at the movies… (excellent movie by the way — very interesting) and got bargain tickets for going early, bargain drink and popcorn with our loyalty point rewards… Andy is carrying the large drink and I’m carrying the large (almost overflowing) popcorn — he will eat it but he doesn’t really like the smell… go figure. Anyhow… picture the interior of a dark movie theater, climbing the steps slowly… I somehow manage to trip just a tiny little bit, jarring the popcorn and scaring me *just* enough to panic and for reflexes to kick in and for me to brace myself… Begin slow-motion… I go down onto one knee on the step above where i am and the popcorn begins a wonderful cloud upwards around my body… I begin to laugh because it’s so pretty and funny at the same time… Slow-motion ends and all the popcorn drops to the floor in a big pool around me — I’m unhurt and laughing still…

thank goodness I pulled the kiki *up* the stairs not *down*… I somehow suspect there would be significantly less laughter if that had happened….

I have been working on this amazing knitting project — as my first lace project… talk about adventurous! The Shipwreck Shawl

I started it in mid-May and just finished on Tuesday…. mine is currently a cream color, with purple beads…. soon to be a purple color, with purple beads…. Brian and I (knitting friend) are going to be dyeing them soon hopefully — I want to wear it out for my bday!!

you beat me to it — and omg where did you dig that pic up from hahaha — we’ve definitely got the “in sickness” part down — here’s hoping that the next 10 include some “in health” parts….

Got an answering machine from the Endocrinologist’s office today to say the test results/scans came back negative so that means I’m all clear again — so woooooot — no more radiated iodine for ME!

*happy dancing*

andy said he fixed it — so it wouldn’t try to get re-routed etc. and end up with the 404 error…

this past week was pretty awful but it’s done — and I survived — so yay… the good news is that I’m not in quarantine (silly doctor’s office sent the wrong paperwork — apparently the type of radioactive isotope that they gave me is only for the pictures part of it, not the killing cells, and therefore doesn’t have any restrictions!) — so my reaction was like 95% wooot (woohoo in geekspeak) and 5% annoyance — you’ve got to be kidding me, all that rescheduling of appointments, warning to friends, planning of meals, etc etc etc — all that drama for nothing… oh well!! at least I have my freedom!!!

And I have been enjoying that freedom! Mom and I went to the Yarnmarket over in Pickerington — had a fun lunch at Steak & Shake (which I didn’t realize was an old-fashionedy style diner inside — sit-down kind of place). Got some more of these square Kollage needles that I’ve fallen in love with… getting more people hooked on them too… hahaha…

Thurs I went for the scans (another very very very early morning) — got there at 8am (mind you I stayed up all night tuesday night, got no sleep whatsoever) — and they have you lie down on this platform to go underneath this giant plate that takes pictures — the room is darkened (thankfully, otherwise you’d end up with one hell of a headache!!) and you have to lie still for about 35-40 minutes… then back out to an uber-full-uber-tiny waiting area with a tv tuned into Regis and Kelly (kill me now) and the only available chair being RIGHT below the tv… so I popped my iPod earphones in and tried to tune out the obnoxious show… about 45 mins later I get called for the second part of the scan — the closeup of the neck… another 20 mins on a different table in a different machine… then back out to wait for the doctor to tell me the results/decide if I need to have more scans done or not… He says it all looks normal and that the real decider is the bloodwork (to be done friday).

Friday’s bloodwork was a bit of a nightmare — this woman has drawn my blood about 4 times, and she’s hit and miss, literally… sometimes she’s straight in and it doesn’t hurt, others she misses badly and I end up with a raised bump and major bruising where she went in… This was one of those times — I came home and iced my arm with frozen peas — the bruise is really dark.

Yesterday I must have been ready to catch up on my sleep… I slept until about 1:30pm It was crazy — the worst thing was I felt like I could have gone back to bed and slept some more still…

Same today — woke up around 12 noon and still felt like I could go back for more…

Not really doing well on this CPAP machine though I put it on every night but because I toss and turn so much, it wakes me up cause of bumping my nose or cheek (and also I’m getting slight acne from the points where the mask’s straps touch my face)

Looking forward — this week I’m “on vacation” — that’s what I told andy anyhow — cause all the meals are planned and the ingredients bought and they are all simple meals…

Brian and I are supposed to hang out Monday — we have fun adventures together…

Friday is our 10th wedding anniversary… whoa where does the time go?