Bleargh

It is catagorically unfair for my body to keep me up all night when I specifically went to bed on time like a good girl.

I have no idea why it did that. Whole lotta no fun though, esp since I have my annual checkup in about 40 min (rather, I should say the appointment is in 40 min, when I'm seen is another animal entirely).

Though on the plus side if they let me into the exam room early I could just curl up and take a nap...

Back from the doc

Back from the doctor. Was there for only about an hour, all told, which isn't too bad.

Those of you who obsessively monitor my health will be glad to know that I mentioned the increased frequency of my headaches to him, so now I'm the proud owner of a prescription for... erm... something for migraines. I forget the name, it's in the car. Anyway, I'm to try that the next time I feel a headache coming on and see how it goes.

Now I'm at work for what will ultimately be a reduced day. Normally on Mondays we work 1-8. I'm here at 12:30 and will be leaving around 5, though with no break for lunch like we usually do.

[yawn]

Headache meds

People asked what I was prescribed for migraines. Apparently it's something called Relpax. It's one of those "take it at the first sign of migraine" kind of thing, so naturally I'm convined I'll get the first sign wrong and screw it all up. ;)

I'm back home. Going to spend the rest of the night being a lump on the couch until I can turn the lights off for good. [yawn]

Recs, knitting

Numb3rs fans should check out < 3. It's a nice little piece where the special Hell aspects of it are handled with a darn near perfect touch. Go read. I'll be here babbling in the meanwhile.

In knitting news: WANT. Oh how I want. My mouth has completely filled with drool. Eek!

You know it's funny, but a conversation in email made me pick up SnB and SNBN (the latter of which I have from the library) and reread the patterns as though I hadn't seen them before. Turns out patterns I had remembered in my mind as "I can't do this." were mentally marked as such because I didn't have the needles to do them. So on the first read through I tried to restrict myself to patterns that would only require a yarn purchase, because I was testing the idea of knitting out. Now that I'm past the testing phase and now that I have my interchangable needles, there's a whole host of stuff I can try! It's very exciting.

What's interesting to me as well is the concept of changing patterns. Granted I'm just a n00b who hasn't attempted anything truly difficult yet, but on paper it looks like so much of knitting - or at least working with patterns - is a little bit puzzle solving and a little bit math. What do I love? Puzzle solving and math. Why didn't you people tell me about this sooner?

Anyway, I now have my eye on trying to make actual garments. I figure I'll start off with doing a garment as-is in the pattern just so I can get a feel for it (esp since I haven't done anything yet which requires sewing pieces together) and if that goes well I figure the sky's the limit.

That and my budget.