Boring is good

Boring is good. Boring is dull. Boring results in fewer blog posts.

Boring means I have no dramatic ER visits to report, no fevers, no infections, nothing major.

So okay, I am shedding a frightening amount of hair, resulting in (a) one of the cashiers at the office cafeteria asking me if I cut my hair [um, no...it just looks like I have a pixie cut... eek -- so I might as well get one!], (b) every shower resulting in the tub looking like Cousin Itt of The Addams Family had visited, and (c) my scalp is becoming faintly visible (!!!) ... although the billing statement (none of which I have to pay -- RTBT!) for my last ER visit was over $3,000 ! Aaaiiiee!! THAT'S dramatic certainly. Ergo, I am all for Obama's healthcare reform plans, and I am one of the lucky ones who like their insurance!

Granted, my digestive tract is permanently unhappy with me because all of the various medications have uncomfortable side effects.

But really, everything's going well, all things considered.

And since it finally stopped raining tonight, I walked to Chelsea from the office (2.7 miles according to Google Maps).
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After which I even had an impromptu tasty Thai dinner with my friend Sam tonight at a place in Chelsea named (what else?) Pad Thai (although the neon sign says "Pad Thai Eighth Avenue"). Note the photo of my tasty Thai "bento" box above, a godsend for the terminally indecisive (like moi). Sam had the pineapple pad thai special, which he said was very tasty and had 3 tiger shrimp in addition to the generous numbers of regular shrimp. The free amuse bouche was deadly (caloriewise) though: seasoned deep fried rice vermicelli sprinkled with diced scallions. Yum!

I have also been diligently knitting away on my Little Bubbles sweater for my great-niece, my very first top-down project ever. A peaceful visit with my sweetie's parents on Sunday provided a tranquil setting for a large portion of the knitting.

Right now, I've finished the yoke and and am about to split the body for sleeves. So far, I really like the actual knitting for this project (if you exclude the frustrating directions) -- enough variety to keep me interested, but not enough to drive me to distraction -- and am considering making it again in a different color scheme for other babies-to-be.

It may look like a demented jellyfish, but I kinda like the checkboard-esque pattern. And the inside (look towards the top) looks funky, no? Shockingly for me, I have even been weaving in the ends as I go, instead of dreading the morass of dangling loose threads at the end of the project.

Okay time to go beddie-bye. Ciao!