So...

So...

Soooo....

SOOOOOO need to update.

I keep meaning to make new posts but then something happens and that gets pushed to the side.

I promise. At least one good meaningful blog before the end of the week. And then I must get back into the swing of things :-)

Sleep Study

For the last year and a half or so I have been exhausted. I mean, driving to work in the morning and sitting at a long light leaves me seconds from falling asleep in the car.

When I go to bed at night, I'm tired. And normally, I fall asleep pretty quickly. When I sleep, I feel like I sleep well. I don't remember waking up most of the time (however I am notorious for talking in my sleep). Every once in a while I have to get up for the restroom, but I go back to bed very quickly.

So, I decided to go to the PCP (primary care physician) and ask about the fatigue. She took bloodwork (checked for lymes, iron, mono, pretty much whatever you can think of that would cause fatigue) and it all came out fine. I apparently have a tiny itty bitty level of mono that she could see so I would have had it a while ago but nothing active.

This leads us to the sleep study. My PCP referred me to a sleep specialist to see if he can figure out what is wrong with me.

So here are some pretty entertaining pictures of the sleep study (didn't bring my camera so I am sorry for the quality).

This is a picture of the room. It was pretty much like a small hotel room. It had a bed, lounge chair, bathroom with a shower, TV, etc.

The TV

The spy camera that was watching me while I slept. Super creepy but it wasn't like there were cameras everywhere.

After sitting still for over a half hour with my nurse-friend spackeling sensors to my head, chest and legs.

Sensors on the legs

The typical Facebook/Myspace bathroom mirror picture. In this case, it was quite useful to take a picture of all of the gadgets that were sticking on or hanging off of me.

Told you sensors were spackelled to my head

Overall it was a decent experience. I slept a lot better than I thought that I would with all of that crap on me. There were also some tubes that were placed up my nose so they could monitor the amount of carbon dioxide that I was exhaling. Actually that was the most annoying part of it. Because of them having to hook all of that up to a central spot, if I needed to use the restroom, someone had to come and unhook me. So when i woke up around 4am and had to pee, I just closed my eyes and went back to bed. I woke up a second time around 5:50 and spoke to the man in the ceiling (there was an intercom so they could listen to me sleeping too!!) and they came and released me for the day.

I wish that I had taken a picture of the oh-so-sexy hair that I had after they removed all of the sensors from my head. Just look at that first picture of me, and imagine my hair about 4 inches higher and more "mad scientist"-like.

I get the results July 15th.

We'll see...

Holy Toledo, it's been over a month!!

It has been a month since my last entry. Why? I've been busy.

Scratch that, I'm always busy.

I'm going to have to admit that I completely forgot this part of my web life.

Let's see, where to begin the updates...

Well I attended a Fiber Bash where I saw some very talented ladies spinning yarn. One of which was Rose from Alma Park Alpacas. It was watching them that inspired me to finally take the dive and purchase some roving yarn from Alma Park (below)

and then immediately when returning home I purchased a drop spindle kit

and a Turkish spindle (which as you can see, Mia really likes the spindle)

I received them the other day in the mail and immediately went to spinning (although in all reality I should have taken the nap that I so desperately needed).

I began spinning the Grey and Navy roving wool as provided in the drop spindle kit (there's no way I'm using my lovely roving yarn from Alma Park until I know what I am doing).

I've created a very interesting looking, yet not entirely functional, two-ply yarn.

It is quite lumpy (completely inconsistent and barely usable) but I'm going to try to make a small swatch with it just to see how it works up. I was pretty happy with my first go at it, even though it didn't come out so well. I mean, at least Mia likes my yarn.

Team Tuesday! Featuring LunamuseFibers

So this tuesday, as I don't have a significant amount of time to spend crafting the blog, I've decided to flip through my favorites and find a EtsyNJ team member that I have a ton of favorites for.

Introducing LunamuseFibers!

I love this color.

And she can even make pink (which if you know me, you know I hate pink) look great!

There are just so many things on my wish list!

And not only does she spin and dye her own yarn, but she also works with it.

Check out her store! And check out more entries for EtsyNJ Team Tuesday!

Semi-Wordless Wednesday

Quick promo to a college friend of mine, her site DomesticAdventure.com is great.

Check it out

Working like a crazy woman, damn the man!

So, the last 2 weeks or so have been a bit crazy.

I have 2 projects going - a blanket/hat set for my cousin's new baby Stella (born last week) and 3 puppies (based on the picture below) for a friend of mine

Sadly, I've been so busy with work-related business that I haven't had a lot of time to be working on any of these things.

I've got completed:

• Baby blanket (below) - still need to weave in all the ends
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• White baby hat
• 1/3 of the striped baby hat
• 1 pink puppy put together but with no face
• 1 purple puppy almost put together - needing some more stuffing
• and pieces of a yellow puppy that i need to complete and then put together.

All of these things I would like to have done before the end of the week.

In the meantime, I've got a few projects going on at work that I am waiting to get the green light on and when i do it'll be super crazy.

Also in the meantime, I am working on a freelance project that I have received from a friend of mine, which is great because our hole in the house roof and the horrid roof on the sunroom that both need to be fixed are begging for some funding. So all this craziness is paying for at least the roof to be taken care of.

Hopefully I can get my freelance stuff completed AND take care of the other projects I am working on.

To Do List

I spent the better part of Sunday morning taking pictures (which was not the best day to take pictures as it was quite grey outside) and they did not come out as well as I thought they did (curse you little screen on the camera)

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However, I did manage to make out with some acceptable pictures, at least a few per piece that I can use to finally create the listings! Now, the problem is, I didn't measure anything. At all, and I normally include measurements. So I am going to have to create the initial listing and then update later on. But YAY for finally taking the pictures (which is half the battle).

Still to do:

1. Take more listing pictures
2. Take measurements of new items
3. Take new listing pictures for old items
4. List, list, LIST!!

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