I never did get around to blogging yesterday, so I'll double up.

Yesterday was just one of those lupus days. I slept until almost 1pm, percocet and other pain killers didn't help, so sleep was the best escape the pain.

I mentioned this year that EVERYONE is getting scarves for the holidays (yes, I'm PC when it comes to this. Please don't start). So I started working on what I thought would be the eaiest, and so far, not so bad. I'm about 1/4 of the way through my father-in-law's scarf and probably an 1/8 of the way through my younger niece's scarf. I dismantled my handwarmer b/c I was running out of yarn and kept making mistakes.

What has been so interesting about this process (and this is me processing on paper) is that I've found so much JOY in this "adventure." I thought about it for a long time, and I realized it wasn't because I was doing something in which I excel, and it wasn't because it makes me feel productive. Both of those are true, but it was the giving that made me so happy. I can rarely find the words to thank everyone for all they have done for me, and I tend to shrink whenever it comes to expressing real emotion. But I'm creating this with love for people who love me as I am and I think they get that.

I may not be online, at a NaNoWriMo get-together. Hell, I may not even leave my bedroom, but rest assured that I'm doing something that makes me very, very happy.

I still have the flu or whatever and am feeling the beginning signs of pleurisy, so today is a rest day. I'm going to work on my novel, knit, and work on separating clothes for laundry, wash and donation. Don't ask how it got mixed together. In all likelihood, I am going to go back to sleep in 30 minutes, wake up for lunch only b/c I have middle of the day pills to eat, and then do what I can before dinner. Then we are kicking off the holidays!

That's the next post!









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