And The Good News Is...

No surgery.... hopefully not ever. Orthopedic surgeons have joined the trend so it seems. They are taking a much more conservative take on doing back surgery. The up shot is that there will be more drugs....  (always gotta love that) but only during flair-ups with my back. There will be less invasive stuff like MRIs, which frankly, would result in really screwy images since my Harrington rod happens to be steel (stainless though it may be). So no surgery... and I just have to live with it.... (my back that is) and lose weight... (like that thought hasn't crossed my mind a few times!)

That's the end of the good news.... the rest is just usual stuff...... which I might add, really will help you sleep if you are having problems...

I've been knitting... lots.... with all those power outages.  KNITTING  REQUIRES NO POWER. I just love that. I have the scarf done except it needs some trim work finished and a good wash.... I also have one shawl just about finished and a long way to seeing a second one finished. One shawl is for the Art show that the NPSW will be having one year from now, and the other is for a Christmas gift..... yes one of you lucky family members will be receiving something hand made by moi.... and I'm not saying who! Nah nah na boo boo! I am also working on a pair of socks... and they are also for a family member for Christmas..... and I'm also not saying who..... hee hee hee hee hee.  Some pictures on ongoing works will be presented here soon. 

Today is gray..... it feels like the cusp of winter.... though not really cold but dark like winter is looming. I feel like Jack Frost is hiding somewhere very close by. It's rather eery actually. Like something dark and foreboding is nigh. I really hate that.  Don't you hate that?

Recently my mind has been turning to the world at large.... now that's weird eh?! I've had my mind on those Chilean miners..... the People living near the Danube River and their problems..... the flood victims of Bella Bella, and Newfoundland..... hmmm, wouldn't it be nice if the world would just settle down....  and stay calm for a while. My Auntie sent me some pictures from the town where I was born after hurricane Igor hit..... it's awful.

I'm thankful it's not me.... but I really wish that these horrors wouldn't befall others..... say a prayer for those miners.... imagine having to get into such a small space as an 19 inch tube that you can't get out of for about an hour in order to see the light of day..... yeah.... I can't even go there mentally.... it would just make me... well, mental actually..... my prayers are with them for sure....

Anyway, since it's a gray day and I have bored the pants off you, I will head off to a neighbour's garage sale with the daughters..... to purchase other people's junk that will, to quote my level 4 instructor, "Just end up in the land fill anyway!".... Oh well, I have to do my part to keep it out of the land fill, at least for a while!... : )

By the way, this makes good reading if you want to go to sleep at night..... ; }