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i put a pain patch on last night because i was feeling awful, pms i think, makes all my ailments kick in. i had a headache and my legs and feet were all cramped up and i was feverish. i woke up this morning and my skin is clearing up and i feel decent. i woke up early and feel good. i start to think i am lazy, because i never have the will or energy to do anything, and then i realize when i have pain meds that are working that it isn’t my fault.

fishie jojo is still kicking. he swims to the front of the bowl to see me when i come in to the kitchen and comes up to the top when i put my fingers up there. he loves the peace lily i put in there, he swims in and out of the roots. yay fishie! i wonder if my mom would like to have one.

anyway, this is angela’s shawl that is made from 30 different yarns, mostly waste yarns. she is the girl that unravels thrift store sweaters. i am so excited to go today. i saw the shawl in that issue of interweave and had no clue how she had made it. i want one. i will make myself one. i keep 12 inch scraps of yarn and i never knew why. now i know. i believe that if you click the link it will get you to her site which tells you how to unravel, etc, it’s very cool. she also has ideas for cutting up things and sewing them together.

i started on the back of my clutch, and had one of those skeins of yarn that are center pull yet the whole center comes out in one tangled chunk. grrrrr…

jake has been hating his job lately. i mean he always does, but he has been really miserable and doesn’t have a day off until we go on vacation in may. i feel like such a lazy asshole that he has to get up at such an ung-dly hour and work 12 hour days and drive and hour each way. its making him old. he is so bummed. and then he comes home to sick me, and a messy house. i feel like a bad wife. he does so so much, and i feel like i do nothing.

i got gabe some groceries and then forgot that they were in my trunk, so i hope nothing went bad. it hasn’t been freezing but it hasn’t been warm either.

my really good friend john from pdx is coming in this week, his wife left a message and i didn’t realize it or remember to call her back even though it was a week ago. i forgot.

hopefully heather will come and see me today and go to the thrift store.