Catch up with gifts

I must apologise to anyone who has sent me gifts for POM, Dishcloth exchange or just because they are wonderful people, that I haven't posted photos of the gifts, well here they are, and please don't be mad if I have forgotten anyone, it has been a rough week in this household. DH lost his job last week, #1 son was really sick last week, couldn't keep food down, lost heaps of weight (wish that was me), and is very pale looking, our Dr. picked up that his Specialist gave him the wrong medication, son stopped taking them on weekend, a day later started to feel a bit better, after a blood test yesterday, our Dr. rang and told me to get son to emergency in Wollongong Hospital straight away he needed a blood transfusion, he got there about 5pm. Not only did specialist prescribe the wrong medication but failed to act on his last blood test a few weeks back that was showing his blood count to be low. He rang us at 1.20am to see if we could drive in and pick up his girlfriend and take her home, I drove in and picked her up at 2am in the morning getting back to bed at around 3am, after 14 hours in hospital overnight all is well with him now, I just need to catch up on some sleep and find some stress free things of some kind so I can feel a bit normal myself, all in all not a good week here. Anyway can't complain, things can get worse and probably will, the house is a bit of a hot topic here, with only about 4 weeks of money to keep us going, things look as if we won't be enjoying our new renovations for very long, and that some other family may just benefit from them. Not a happy knitter am I.


Shannon sent me a nice tea bag in a lovely bag, actually two tea bags, but customs opened it and sent one to me with sticky tape on the end of it where they had opened it, so it went straight in the bin, what do customs think people are actually going to consume something they have literally cut open then taped back up, what are they stupid. The remaining surviving tea bag was really enjoyed, thanks Shannon.

My dishcloth pal sent me a lovely Katharine Hepburn book, I love Katharine Hepburn, wish my spirit and get up and go was like her. Along with 4 very lovely dishcloths, which I did take a photo of when they arrived but it got misplaced somewhere along the line, so I took another one tonight, they have all been used and the red one with the initial "A" on it is in the washing basket (clean) waiting for me to fold and put away.

Then there was a lovely gift again from Shannon received today, some really nice Halloween things, I have to admit, I have been eating the candy while typing this, pretty nice, washed down with a bourbon and coke....lovely.

Another gifts received today was from Amysue, a lovely Autumn note pad and a lovely note typed on it, with a lovely autumn leaf shaped stitch holder with the intitial "A" on it and some pretty pink ribbon.

What else, oh yeah... pictures of the scarfs and gloves I am knitting for someone who ordered them, not doing that again, not really my thing. I still have to sew up one of the mauve gloves and finish knitting the blue fingerless glove, hopefully tomorrow night that will be done and I will try to contact the woman and see if she will collect them while I am at knitter guild on Saturday.


I also have on the needles a Bendigo cotton summer top for me, the back nearly finished, but will take photos next time.