Lost Day

Yesterday was a complete loss. I got a pretty severe migraine early in the day. Not the usual annoying ones, this one was the kind with deep, hot pains running over my scalp. It felt like someone shoving a hot poker through random parts of my head. One attack hit while I was walking down the stairs with a basket of laundry. I started crying before I had even really registered the pain. After the third or fourth lightening bolt across my head, I decided to take the heavy duty medicine. I hate taking the stupid nasal spray. It works about half of the time, sometimes it can cause rebound migraines. It seems to have worked this time, but not 100%. I still have pains through my brain and just under my scalp, my shoulders and neck are stiff and sore, and my stomach is a disaster. Hopefully the pain stays to a manageable level today. I have a really long to-do list to get through and frankly, I have too many lost days.

14 days.

That's two weeks. Yikes.

The Hive hat was frogged last night due to some shitastic yarn issues. As in I was using shitty yarn and it sucked. I dropped a stitch about 4 repeats below and was trying to repair it but the yarn would not budge. It was being a prat. So I ripped back a few rows to try to fix it. No good. Ripped back another few rows. Nope. Ripped back more and now I am only one repeat above said dropped stitch -- FINALLY got it fixed...

And. I. cannot. get. the. stitches. back. on. the. damned. needle.

I dug into the DPN stash and pulled out 6 tiny sharp metal DPNs. All size 3, I was using a size 8 for the hat. I picked up all the stitches (which was still frakkin' hard with those tiny needles!) thinking I can just transfer them over to the 8s as I go.

NOPE. The yarn had other ideas.

So I showed it! I ripped the whole hat out. HA.

I think I may have screwed myself over while teaching the yarn a lesson.

Crap.

Back to the drawing board for me. I'm reinventing a few items already knit. I have some better yarn to knit hats out of and I have a rather large scarf that I need to start but I don't have the right yarn. Nothing in the stash was speaking to me.

OMFG. Christmas? Seriously?

Where the hell have I been? What the hell have I been thinking!?! I haven't gotten ANY of my Christmas knitting done. I just made a quick list and I need at least 9 hats, probably at least a dozen ballbands, maybe a scarf or two and finishing a blanket. Who am I kidding???


*deep breath*

Hats.

Hats are easy. Hats take a few hours. Hats I can manage.

Ballbands.

Also easy, also take just a little while. I need some more yarn though. I'm out of white.

Scarves don't really have to be fresh knit, I have quite a stash hidden away... the main one I'm worried about is the blanket. I want to finish it! I need it done and off my plate... Granted I haven't touched it in months but whatever...

I have 19 days. In that time, I have quite a lot of car time. At least 20 hours to Ohio and then the 20 hours back. Some things might get mailed after the holiday, but we're pushing for before.

Wish me luck!