(I have knitting to show, really I do, but I'm just too lazy to go to the other computer.)

Here's a meme I stole from GoodKarmago.

The things I have done are in bold.

1. Started my own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than I can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain
10. Sung a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched lightening at sea
14. Taught myself art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown my own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitchhiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of my ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught myself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing (indoor)
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had my portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had my picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee
100. Rode an elephant

I have so much to show, but not a lot of energy to talk about it. School starts tomorrow so I'm a bit frenzied. Here are the pics and short dets (click to enbiggen)...





First two pictures are the 5 X-mas Fetchings.


Next is the scarf I made for my cousin.


First picture in the second row is fetchings for my cousin who loved her mom's pair so much.


Middle of the second row is a hat to match my top-down gloves, which I finished, but are too big and need some fixing.


Lastly, something new!! That's just a gauge swatch. The color is the same as the first pic of the second row (same yarn even). More details later.

First day of school was spent not in class, but at the ER. I slipped and fell and did something awful to my elbow. It may or may not be broken. Fingers crossed that it is just a sprain, and I'll be better by Friday.


Any ideas of what you can do one-handed/armed with your non-dominant arm? (Other than very slow typing.) I've watched 4 episodes of Roseanne this morning and am bored!! I can't knit or play video games. It is hard to hold a book. I don't feel like typing lectures. I need entertainment ideas!

1. Left handed typing skills improving!!


2. We took off the splint Wednesday night so that I could get a shower. I'll spare you the picture of my elbow, but let's just say it was a lot of very unpretty colors. I was able to move it a little bit before putting the splint back on.


3. Yesterday I went back to work. I recruited students to help me carry stuff to and from my office and classrooms. The students were sympathetic. All I really wanted to tell them was that my hair usually looks much nicer! My last class of the day was more interested in asking questions about my arm than about the syllabus. I only took meds in the morning; the only pain I experienced during the day was in my upper back. I didn't realize how heavy my arm is in the sling.


4. Last night we took the splint off again. The colors were a little less horrifying. My elbow extending about a 1/4 down my forearm and 1/4 up my bicep is still very puffy and swollen. I was able to straighten my arm about 85%. Yay!


5. Today I had to go to the dentist for a couple tiny fillings. That was all good. The thing that annoyed me was everyone I walked by as I walked to the dentist (about a 12 minute walk) staring at me. I wanted to yell "yeah, I got a bum arm! Stop staring!!" I actually walked by three very dirty looking dudes, one of whom actually said "hey, look at that chick" to his buddies.


6. Not being able to knit is driving me crazy. It is making me less interested in Ravelry as well, which takes away a huge time killer. I just might have enough coordination to try making these.


Time to figure out what I can eat for lunch...

Arm update... last night after leaving the splint and wraps off for about an hour, I decide to stop using the splint and just wrap the elbow for support. Boy did that help me to sleep better! The new plan is to leave it unwrapped while just sitting around at home, and to wrap the elbow when going anywhere or sleeping. The only pain is when I try to extend or flex too much, and most of that is an achy muscle type of pain (akin to if you did 800 bicep curls with a 20lb weight). I really wanted to leave the splint off because it is really f-ing up my wrist more than anything. Aside from the muscle stiffness achy pain, my wrist is what really hurts to move and use. I think (in my nonmedical opinion) that the wraps and splint were forcing the swelling to move to areas that were more able to puff up, and with the help of gravity, that swelling moved to my wrist and hand, and that's causing the wrist pain. My hand/wrist is so puffy that I wore my fetchings (which are stretchy, and loose normally) and had ribbing marks when I took it off. So as I sit here enjoying the NYTimes magazine, I've got my arm elevated to hopefully depuff my hand/wrist.


And speaking of the NYTimes magazine, the cover story is on female desire and very interesting. In fact, one part sparked a whole set of interesting research questions related to my own research projects! I need to find some of the research articles discussed and read the info for myself, but if the journalist didn't take it way out of context, I may have a few new avenues to steer my research down. Yay!

I still don't know what officially happened to my elbow (sprain? dislocation? broken?) because I wasn't able to get to my appointment on Wednesday because of the weather. So I have to wait another week before I can see the orthopedist.


On the good news side of the elbow, the swelling is just about entirely gone, although the bruising is still extensive and colorful. I can't bend more than 90 degrees or extend it 100% straight, but I can use it more everyday. I can make peanut butter sandwiches again. I can type with two hands. I can actually write, though not for too long.


And, I can knit!! So well that I busted one of my Knitpicks needles. The cable snapped off the needle. I am confident enough in knitting again that I think I might pick up the sweater that I had just started the day before all this drama.