Yes, I had to take another sick day today. Dagnabit. I was having a WONDERFUL day yesterday - good weather, work-productivity-good, visit-with-Peter-coffee-break, all's right with the world kind of day. Stopped into Yarn Forward to get something (nothing specific in mind until I walked through the door, but 25% off made me pretty sure something was coming home with me!) Picked up a couple balls of camel-hair/wool blend (I'm thinking bedsocks or wristers), a skein of Briggs & Little in manly-type brown-mix colours (scarf for dad, maybe), and then realized - hey, I should get that Patons Classic Wool for that vest I want... ha! So now I have six balls of Classic Wool in "Evergreen Mix" which is TOTALLY beautiful and will make a gorgeous vest for me to wear in the fall. Yay!
So to round out my day, I figure I'll stop at Starbucks for a beverage and knit a bit on Mom's sock. Ordered an iced hazelnut soy mocha. Yummy right? Right. Except the serving staff were arsing around behind the counter and must have mixed up the order because I got regular milk. Which I can't have. Which triggered a MASSIVE IBS attack within about 15 minutes. Which ruined my evening, led to no dinner and little sleep, and me staying home from work today. Which annoyed me, but there it is. Sometimes you just have to stay home. And then, I realize just 10 minutes ago that I also missed my writers' group tonight. Dammit.
On the plus side, a whole afternoon of quality couch-time means that the shawl for Peter's Mom is done for Mother's Day (have to weave in four ends, but that won't take long). And I got to see the HBO/BBC two-part movie "Elizabeth I", starring Helen Mirren. She was awesome in the role, and I don't care what anyone says, Jeremy Irons is a damn sexy man. Of course he dies at the end of the first half (oops, sorry!), but he's terrific. Apparently he's done some books-on-tape - I will have to seek them out because he's right up there with Sean Connery and Morgan Freeman with the "all-time great male voices".
So that was my day. And now it's over and time for sleep. Goodnight bloglanders.
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