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jake went with me and i only had a cleaning and xrays and the hygenist was super nice. she said that the gaping hole in my mouth may not need a root canal (i hope) it may be able to be filled because it looks really clean, like it just broke. i can’t remember if i had a filling there or not. wanna see it? do ya? it is a bit hard to see, but the silver thing is a crappy filling my last dentist put in even though i wanted the white stuff, and the gaping hole…that is the…hole. so. how cool is that machine. and the pics behind it are of my teeth, as well. the lady told me my teeth are really nice, which stunned me. i thought they sucked. i guess the monthly teeth brushing is really paying off. i also asked about getting my front teeth smoothed out because they are chipped for no apparent reason and they are a bit bucky and big. i have always hated that, so it would be really cool to fix it, both things. they were super nice there…look how unafraid i look…if a bit disheveled…i am wearing spinning clothes, my hair needs to be dyed really really badly and i have almost no makeup on. other than that…gorgeous! i am still really nervous to find out if it will be a root canal or just a filling, although the nurse was very unimpressed by it, and i thought she would be shocked when she saw the giant crater. so that was really good. also, she gave me this tiny tin of dental floss that is adorable.

what else do i have to show you? well! remember the stuff i got in the mail that i wanted to photo before i told you…well! i ordered the cat from here at her adorable etsy store called moss and then she made the two sheep out of my handspun, the greeny one is made from a yarn that has big spirals in it that make it extra sheepy. i cannot believe how great they crochet up! and she made me the two headed kitty, which i love. i actually have a tattoo of a pink two headed kitty on my wrist. she put in loads of other great stuff, as well. i am hoping to work with her to do some crochet kits, including the little sheep, which she designed herself, as well as the two headed cat and she has a ninja on her etsy store…so go and check it out! she is having a baby next month, so order stuff while she still has a moment! you are an inspiration diana! she is the kind of woman that can do anything she is interested in and do it super well.

i am still organizing my bloglines, which is a formidable task and i have a hard time figuring out how to categorize things and whether to separate friends, but then i actually have become friends with so many people that it becomes an issue in and of itself. the main thing is my memory is horribly and i forget what blog is whose and get totally out of touch. so i may not do a friends category after all.

otherwise, i am working on my fourth sock and i think i have some of the things i was confused about figured out now. my biggest issue is that i am not sure how to change the numbers on patterns to do bulkier yarns or to alter a pattern from dpn’s to two circs. if anyone has advice or knows of some other book than the cat bordhi one, gimme a holler. i imagine that just like with hats, once i get comfortable with making them, i won’t need a pattern anymore unless i am making something complex. usually once i figure things out, and make a couple i am solid. i am a slow learner, i think, but once it is in the brain, it is there. it is odd because obviously the engineering part of knitting and crochet is what is difficult. the actual sculptural aspect is not hard for me. so when i look at a pattern without a schematic and have to visualize what it will look like, i can feel my brain writhing about in my head. poor short attention spanned brain.

speaking of brains, i had a hideous migraine again, although i got rid of it i feel really sleepy and out of it.

the new hell’s kitchen is on, i love gorden ramsey. he is such a badass. you know how girls like “bad boys”?(i hate even typing it) men like him are my idea of a badass, not some pot smoking, hippied out loser who is not allowed to drive. i like talent, passion…or even someone who is so passionate about the things and people that he loves that he would do anything to protect them…and that is what makes my jake a badass. my own little badass. such a sexpot, that one!

also, the new show how to get the guy, which is a really cool dating show which i wish i would have been able to watch and understand as a kid. i hope that anyone single and looking will watch it. it is not the least bit negative towards women, or men, it just shows you how important it is to give people the impression that you want them to get. simple things like being approachable, which is one of the biggest issues for me, even in dealing with people in general. what else? not telling people everything, especially not every gory detail of your miserable life. anyway, you singles, i won’t mention any names, check it out and i bet you see a bunch of stuff that you do wrong. i said to jake the other day, i wish i would have had the faintest idea how to deal with people when i was young. i was picked on so much and we moved so often that i just found it easier to appear aggressive so people wouldn’t pick on me. it didn’t matter whether i had a lot of friends because we were gone soon enough. but as a teen, and an adult, just in dealing with people, i could have skipped that parts of my life that had the terrible life-sucking people in them. and that would have been a good thing.

i spun some fairly thin silk today that i had dyed…really pretty soft purple and mossy green, sort of pale. i will post photos soon. i am not sure whether to ply them together or leave them as a single, they are about sport weight, i think. i never used the regular flyer before today and it is really nice.
i am getting sleepy sleepy.

there are some new yarn photos on my flickr, please let me know if you are interested before i list them…

so….xoxo,
n.