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*ouch*

Posted on | April 17, 2008 | 9 Comments

This has been an ouch week.  Tuesday I had to be prepped for a crown and honestly, I’m a big baby when it comes to going to the dentist.  I always have been.  When I was little, the dentist had my mom give me a sedative before my appointment.  She crushed it up and put it in a Coke and it was the nastiest thing I’ve ever tasted.  Drinking a Coke at that age (6? 7?) was a rare treat but that Coke was godawful. 

I’ve had a lot of dental work over the years.  When I was in 7th grade, I went camping with my friend Sarah, her two older brothers (high school age and thus both scary and fascinating) and her parents.  Not only did Aunt Flo come to visit that weekend for the very first time EVER, but I had a bike wreck and my two front teeth did battle with the asphalt.  The asphalt won.  I had to have posts put in my teeth to strengthen them and have the bottom edges rebuilt.  Eventually they were crowned.

I had braces for almost three years.  Sometimes I think there’s more artificial material in my mouth than real teeth.  If archeologists ever look at my bones, they’ll say “man, that sister had soft teeth!  And made lots of dentists rich!”

Anyway.  My other ouch is the thumb on my left hand.  I went on a marathon sock-knitting jaunt this weekend and knit a sock from Friday night to Sunday afternoon.  I had new yarn; I was in a groove and couldn’t stop.  My thumb was not happy.  So I’ve abandoned all my projects that require metal knitting needles or cotton yarn or ittybitty stitches.  And I’ve cast on for this:

 

Panel Jacket by Unicorn Books.  I plan to perm my hair and wear lots of lip gloss when I wear it.  And walk around all jaunty-like.  I’m knitting it out of this:

Araucania Nature Wool that I got from Webs on clearance and then realized I’m really a solid color sort of person.  I worried that anything I knit with this would pool and flash horribly.  Flashing in socks in one thing – flashing across your chest is another.  The small panels making up this jacket prevent the pooling and I’ve got to tell you – my thumb never felt better.  Squishy wool yarn, bamboo needles and garter stitch = comfort knitting.

You may have noticed that I haven’t been posting much lately.  I feel guilty about starting so many projects and not finishing them so I avoid posting and talking about them.  Isn’t that silly?  Like you guys care if I finish anything!  The guilt is my own – I want to be an accomplished knitter, I want to actually finish the projects I start.  Instead of having UFOs all over the house, I want to have finished, functional knits!  I suppose there’s only one way to do that…knit on!

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