This is Buddy. He lives at my house now. Tonight is his third night with us.  So far so good I guess. He hasn't had many pee accidents in the house and no poopy ones. Mostly he hangs out here in this pen in the kitchen because the cats aren't used to him yet and might eat his face off if we aren't able to shoo him away from them when he tries to go up and make friends. He's the  biggest thing going on around here this week.
I haven't made much progress on anything else really. Started knitting a new scarf, and got a big printer so that I can print some stuff to sell on etsy, but haven't got anything fixed up yet since I've been kind of busy with the puppy since it got here.  Still sleeping days and up all night. It's kind of a good schedule with the puppy cause then there is always someone awake to take him out to potty in the middle of the night, but I'm missing out on daytime fun things and I hate that. Today I kind of feel like crap so maybe I can get some sleep in between doggie potty times and be awake tomorrow during the day. That's my plan anyway.

I didn't forget about this thing. I swear. I've just not had any inclination to post anything on it since I stuck it up here back in October. So, here's what has been happening since then:


- Got the tumors out. Got my whole dang uterus out, actually. That happened November 28th. Best damn thing ever. I'm not sentimental at all about my unused organs once they turn against me. Don't miss that thing at all.

- I'm finally getting off the last of the drugs they put me on to combat the side effects of the tumors. First they put me on different birth control pills than I was on before to make the tumors not grow as fast, which did not do shit to the tumors, but DID make me have a crazy lot of migraines. Then they put me on the Topamax to combat the migraines, and some pain pills to combat the pain from the fast growing tumors. I was pretty well stoned off my ass from early October till late January, folks. Sorry if I offended you during that time or if I was supposed to do stuff for you and forgot it. Just remind me what it was and I'll get right on that. Anyway, I'm weening myself off the Topamax right now and it kind of sucks due to the withdrawal/side effects, but I think things will be fine in a couple of weeks. I can already feel my wanting to do stuffness coming back.

- I can't sleep at night anymore. I'm on vampire hours pretty much. I go to bed at 6AM and get up at 2 or 3 in the afternoon and then it gets dark around 5:30 or 6PM, so I don't see the sun. I keep trying to switch myself around to normal human hours, and so far it hasn't worked for more than a day or two at a time. The earliest I can go to sleep is like 4AM. I guess it'll work itself out once I'm completely off the Topamax and no longer sleeping 8-10 hours a day. If I go back to my normal for me 4-6 hour sleeps, that puts me waking up around 10AM again.

- I lost about 25lbs since October. I still need to drop another 10-15 I think, but the doctor is happy with me and my cholesterol is all normal again pretty much. 

- Lots of garden planning going on over here. Not much actual garden building yet, but lots of planning. I'm going to start my tomatoes and stuff indoors this week and if I can get to where I'm awake during daylight hours I'm gonna start in on the actual garden spot too since it doesn't seem like we're having too much actual winter this year.

- My productivity is in the pooper right now. I don't get much of anything constructive accomplished ever anymore. This stinks. I'm hoping it will change once I'm not dealing with drug side effects and all that stuff all the time. I did manage to get my closet cleaned out and get rid of a bunch of clothes that are too big for me, but my room is still a mess from that and I still need to finish it up, then finish moving all the yarn from the old yarn room to the new patio room/studio space, then we're turning that room into Steve's new office/closet, and once that is done I'm going to have to organize all the crap in the studio space so as to be able to use it again. Right now there isn't really room to walk in there much less make art or use the looms or anything. It sucks.

- I'm supposed to be going on some trips this year. Originally we were gonna go to Hawaii in April, but then Steve dicked around and didn't get the tickets yet so now 2 tickets there plus food for a week and volcano tour etc.  is almost as expensive as 2 tickets to Europe plus 21 day Eurail passes and food etc. which sounds like a hell of a lot better trip to me so I think we're doing that. Hotels are free everywhere due to Steve having a million Hilton hotel points needing cashed in. So if things work as planned I'll be over there in late May/early June.  I also want to go camping and stuff more this year than we have in the past few years. We have a ton of camping and hiking stuff so we may as well actually get some use out of it before we're so old we don't feel like moving. At least Steve is no longer having to live in Wyoming. He's living back here at the house again. Of course that means no more hotel points are getting racked up. haha

That's about it. I made a new page for a photo a day thing I am starting today. So keep an eye on that or just go check it out once in a while if you feel like it. I'll also put those on Facebook.

DANG. It seems like every 5 years or so my life gets boring and/or something comes along that turns everything upside down. 5 years ago I opened a  yarn store. Now, I closed it down to do something else. Closing the shop is, in many ways, a relief to me since I've been working 6 days a week 8-10 hours a day on it for the last 5 years, and I'm tired. I've also got a new working from home type job that I can do any time day or night from anywhere I can get a decent internet connection so that is somewhat freeing. 
I see a bunch of Travel in my future. I'm in Wyoming right now visiting my husband Steve for a couple weeks. As luck would have it, just as I got most of the loose ends tied up closing the shop I found out I have some health problems (uterus full of benign tumors) for which I will need surgery, and then my doctor put me on some medication (topamax for migraines) that has made me have a pretty severe case of ADD for the first couple weeks getting used to it. That has been insane. It also gave me tingly hands and feet, which is freaky, but not really too bothersome, and loss of appetite so severe that I do not experience hunger anymore to the degree that my first indication that I forgot to put food in my food hole is when I start to pass out. 
As you can see from that photo of me and wax Elvis up there, I'm not a skinny type woman, so forgetting to eat is a new thing for me. I had to set an alarm on my phone to remind me. This has made losing weight (doctor wants me to drop about 30lbs) delightfully easy since I don't care about eating anymore so choosing healthy stuff over unhealthy stuff is no longer a struggle. That's one good thing in all this - the silver lining to my tumor cloud. 

So anyway, I'm not sure what this little website will turn into, but here it is. Glad you found it.