yarngurl: the crafty one

posting drought

i know i know a bad blogger i have been, but i have very good reason. i just started a new job and....I AM ENGAGED!!!!

my new job has a gazillion responsibilites and i am in the early stages of planning a wedding in costa rica, so i have not had a moment to knit, much less post. i have thrown away the idea of knitting or making presents since i have no time. so i will ask permission to digress from my knitting to discuss my pending nuptials....if any of you know me, i have been  known to have a little girlie tendencies, but even this stuff is likely to make me barf.

me, wearing an engagement ring, and a big white dress, bananas(and not happening)!

in light of the massive size of both of our families, my beau and i have decided to take the show on the road, moving the wedding to the glorious playa tamarindo, where i can get hitched and fulfill my surfdiva fantasies. we plan to have a big celebration when we get back to include all those who can't make the trip.

well that's it for now, i am going back to celebrate my engagement, and rest up for my big day of work ahead of me.

big things a gwon

life has been getting in the way of blogging. this has been a very stressful week for me. i have not really started officially working at my new job and i have been working from home getting ready for the big day, which seems to be tuesday, so keep your fingers crossed! i had a house guest in my apartment for 5 days, so that was also a little time consuming. i thought that i would be able to knit my heart away but there is never enough time in a day! october is birthday month for most of my friends and family so it seem that every evening there is somewhere for me to go or some party to attend. my mother's birthday would have been the 14th. her best friend's b-day would have been the 13th, so i know that their spirits are together somewhere celebrating... with all this to do going on in my life, i have not been able to blog much less knit. but i will keep trucking along on my weekly holiday knitting plan.....

so, they finally got my teeth out! well, at least two of them, which is good enough for me....the right side of my face is swollen, AGAIN! Still no crunchy or spicy food, and back on the soup, yogurt and ice cream diet. i was so disoriented when i came home from the hospital last night that i messed up on basic stockinette. i don't even know what i did but it really sucks cause i was making so much progress on the vogue knitting cabled sweater. i mean i started on sunday and i just finished the armhole decreases....will post pictures soon.

dental drama

so they tried to extract my tooth with only local anesthesia which was horribly painful and the dentist had to stop midway through. they told me to come back today to complete the job, only this time, i would be i.v. sedated. well when i returned to the doctor, i looked like this and felt like crap! i was in so much pain that i couldn't even knit! well, the folks back at nyu told me that they could not use the iv since i couldn't open my mouth and may have complications breathing....they sent me to bellevue hospital where i was given stronger antibiotics and will have to have serious surgery to remove the wisdom teeth. i mean general anesthesia and intubation. i didn't know this would be so tough. i am out of work for the week and am still in pain. i just want this to be over....