Well, my life has taken a turn in the past few weeks or months. I went to Rhinebeck, which was honestly a huge disappointment. I came home with my budget spent, but not a lot of purchases. I did get a few splurgy things like a beaded shawl kit and a cowl kit. I found a Diz, but am not a fan of it so far. I got some spinning fiber, but no clue what I'll do with it. Everything there was super expensive and there wasn't as much yarn as I had expected for an event that size. I'm looking forward to going to the Central NY festival in Herkimer next year instead.
My mom has been very sick. She's been suffering from Heart Failure since spring of 2020, causing her to be on an iv pump of heart medicine. She's been in & out of the Cardiac ICU and there is nothing more they can do except make her comfortable at this point. She's too sick for Hospice, which would require her to be taken off her IV meds. That would essentially be taking her off life support, with a life expectancy of hours to a couple days. At this point my prayer is that we have her through Christmas and New Year's.
Instead of knitting or crocheting, I've been spending all my time journaling and going to the gym. I have been getting up early and going to the gym at 5ish in the morning and go again in the evening with my coworker several days a week. Ironically I'm not losing any weight with this extra exercise, but I've also gone back to drinking regular coke and hopefully I'm at least increasing my endurance & strength for skiing, which we'll start doing again next month. Jo is really looking forward to skiing again. I'm less enthused. I may go and sit and knit while they ski if I don't like it the first time we go. I took a couple lessons last year but it's like the info goes in one ear and out the other. I'm tired of being scared and falling. I wiped out hard one time last year and that was it for me & my season.
