Can You Tell ...

that I'm into Teal?

The Pain, Boss ... The PAIN!!!

OK - so I'm able/allowed to knit once again ... so I started on this fabulous lace shawl pattern, and, after 5 days, I've reached the second repeat of the second chart

(only 4 more to go on that particular repeat).

In the "old days" (aka pre-6/26/07), I would have been shocked that I only had gotten

"this far" ...


but today, thanks to the OT/PT knitting gods,

I'm thrilled that I got THIS FAR!

Permission to Knit!

Today was my 6-week post-surgery followup visit to the almighty and glorious OZ - aka orthopedist non pareil ... after 18 visits to the Certified Hand Therapist, who worked me every which way but up, and I still had those "Jones Pork Sausage Link" fingers,

he said: "go forth and KNIT! I pronounce your wrist HEALED, but something has to be done about that SWELLING!"

The only thing that he could suggest, aside from BRUTAL STRETCHING of the RECALCITRANT fingers,


and ICING of said fingers, was to KNIT - what a guy!!!

So, in honor of his edict, I went to Knitty City and bought 2 skeins of Brooklyn Handspun in the Cool Creek colorway,

screwed my KnitPicks Options Harmony US 5s into a cord which would create a reasonable facsimile of a 32 inch circular, and knit away on this wonderful new shawl pattern called Oyster Bay, which I discovered in Ravelry ...

am I in Pain? but of course!

but then again, no PAIN means no GAIN ... I'll let you know in a couple of days if I have survived the agony of the feat, AKA knitting again! YAY!!!

The Birthday Reveal

So ... I wasn't going to get ANYTHING in the way of a present or dinner or anything for the big 6-0 ... if you all might recall, the wrist surgery was the gift - happy I had it, I think?

Anyway, here's what happened tonight; Rockstar son comes over with adorable GF, on their way back across the Pond; they tell me to get dressed, close my eyes, and trust them ...

so out the door we go (of course Froggy was not only in tow, but in on the whole thing)

herewith what I got: a PHENOMENAL dinner at Dovetail ,

(a super "in" and super hard to get into restaurant here in town),

and a GORGEOUS bracelet that I had coveted in Soho about a week ago -





OMG! what MORE could a girl want? maybe health and happiness? that should be the ticket, yes?

and one day soon I'll be able to model the bracelet on the left wrist, when it ceases to be swollen --

THE BIG DAY

... and I don't look a day older!

hair's just a little bit shorter and a whole lot grayer...

now please go and send HB wishes to my birthday twin as well ...

there's a saying that one should live to be 120 - if so, I've just started middle age!

ALL RIGHT, OK - I GIVE UP!!!

It's now officially one month since my surgery ...

I'm expecting more progress - competitive moi, what can I say?
Supposedly I'm doing exceptionally well for my time in the game - this is according to the therapists;

I don't believe them!

But ... maybe they're right ..
So, expect nada from me until I've lived through my 60th birthday (which happens to be tomorrow, 8-10-08)

I guess that we should all be so lucky, yes?

HB2ME, AKA the BIG 6-0!!!