I just got back from the doctor. He told me no doctor has ever bothered to tell me, although I've had this problem for years and years, with a brief period of getting better while I was in the US. Apparently part of why I'm getting so tired is that while my blood count is low my red bloodcells aren't too happy about making babies, so I have too few ( Read more... )

I finally got my period (44 days, beat that if you can!) and have been using these new pads I made. So exciting. Although not half as exciting as actually having a washer and dryer and being able to wash your pads every day ( Read more... )

I come from a family of packrats, which is why I haven't been able to put my clothes in my closet. It is full with boxes of Christmas stuff and other boxes of things that nobody even cared to unpack when they moved in here seven years ago. The closet is enormous though. Probably half the size of my room. So today I took all the boxes and stacked ( Read more... )

I am officially dumbfounded. Yarn is so cheap here! This amazingly beautiful alpaca, for example (and this is just a site I grabbed out of nowhere because I wanted an example) is just 39 kr, which is like $5.50 for 180m/196 yards. I just petted some that my cousin had bought, and it is by far the most beautiful yarn I have ever seen, well, after my ( Read more... )

My sister is home now and she is just like she used to be. Nothing has changed, and that is just awesome. I need people who are their same old selves, and hanging with her is so great. Right now I'm knitting her a hat, according to her four million specifications, since she can't find one she likes. For some reason she asked for bulky yarn, and ( Read more... )

I'm sitting here reading back my entries. Why? Because I woke up to a horrible message from Tracey telling me just how mean and awful and cruel I am for bragging about spending my money on myself and then going home to my mom and not having to spend a cent on rent or anything. I called him and told him that I will have to shut him out if he keeps ( Read more... )

I'm home. My grandmother wouldn't stop hugging me and told me she thought that she would never see me again. My grandfather is almost blind. My parents are cute as always and took me to see my siblings first of all. My sister is just the same and my brother is about a foot taller than me. It's amazing how things change. Now I'm waiting for a friend ( Read more... )

that I would be good even if I did nothing ( Read more... )

On an awful awful day I have found two things to laugh at:

The second picture of this post by Crazy Aunt Purl.

This excerpt by the newest Dooce post:

"This is how you know Leta likes something, she requests to sleep with it, and when we come to get her in the morning she is usually arranging all the inventory into straight, even rows. With the ( Read more... )

I have sort of unexpectedly found myself as a spokes person for clothpads. Which is kind of funny, because a few years ago, when Suz (
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