Busy Week

These last days have been busy, hence no entries.

I knitted on the cowl and participated in a TweetChat on another mental illness issue.

I ran across WIlliam Frist's book A Heart To Serve:The Passion to Bring Health, Hope, and Healing. It's great.  I am reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged, one of my favorite books.

Not knitting today

Today, the cowl did not get knit on. I stopped by my gyn's office today.  The baby booties I knitted for her new baby are too small and I still don't know if the baby is allergic to wool and neither does the mother.

Spent some time on a TweetChat on mental illness.  It was fun.

The Cowl

Today is Saturday.  I take Saturday and Sunday off from reading the World Book Encyclopedia to increase awareness about stigma and mental illness. I am promoting my efforts to increase the awareness of stigma in the  mentally ill on Twitter. 

The cowl I am working on is getting toward completion.  I still have a way to go, but it is getting closer and closer to being finished.

It's Been Two Months...

...since I wrote last.  My room has been disorganized and my computer has been dis-assembled. During this time, I have been knitting on a cowl for a friend of my mother's ...

...and I have been reading the World Book Encylopedia to heighten the awareness of stigma  in people with mental illness and of capacity in people with mental illness. Stigma is a major obstacle that people with mental illness face. Many people underestimate the capacity of people with mental illness. I am currently reading volume F.

Stay tuned...

Knitting the gussett

The disaster in Haiti has me sad and grieving. I pray for the diabetics, hypertensives, and people with mental illness and those with chronic conditions.  Where and when will they get their medications if the pharamcies are closed and destroyed and they have no money?  Surely, many will die.  Many people with mental illness will be unstable without their medications that they may not be able to tell rescue workers what they need. See: http://www.medicalmusingsandhealthhappenings.blogspot.com/.

Pat Robertson's comments were culturally insensitive and unconscionable. I suspect he would not have made such comments had the earthquake been in Europe or Asia.

I am working on the gussett of the sock.  I finished shaping the heel. I just figured out that I will have to sew the instep and the sole together.  Instead of describing knitting the gussett with the instep and sole together, I have an old pattern that describes knitting the sole as one piece and then sewing it to the instep flap.

I only have 1 3/4 ounces of sock yarn.  I must return to the yarn store to pick up a set of number 1 double pointed needles and more sock yarn, that is, if the LYS has the same yarn in stock.  If they don't have it in stock, I won't be able to complete the sock and the other of the pair.  I suspect that I will have to add the sock yarn to my stash and discontinue the project. Then move on to the next unfinished project. We will see.

Let's see what the yarn shop has in stock.  Monday is Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s holiday. I wonder if the yarn shop will be open.