Look I made a mess!

Little putz likes stealing my android charging cable

Fuck you grass allergy

This was the swelling after 30 minutes before leaving doctors office. That is grass of course

This was mid afternoon by then it was the size of a loony

It good as big as a silver dollar at the peak of allergy

3 days later. Still see bump and bruising. It is yellow.

I feel like a colander

After calling from November onwards I finally got appointment with allergist on March 15th. Should have been for aspergillus.  Since last I had allergy tests was when I was 17, the doctor decided to do standard allergy tests. 

The left row is fungii, the middle row was pets and the right row was trees and plants. The only thing I did NOT react do was dogs. I react to animals, dust, mites. all molds, mildly, and all plants. The grass one was so intense that I had reaction all the way up above my elbow. 

All the hotwater bottles.

So I bought two more hotwater bottles, these on Amazon. They are not in rubber but in some form of plastic. The blue one is from Ohuhu. The green one from another vendor. Both were under $15 and they don't stink like the old rubber bottles. Some reviewers say they stay hotter than the rubber, I say it's about the same.

I love having two hot water bottles, one for my tummy and one for my back when Terry works nights at the hospital. Keeps me warm and comfortable. I bought a couple more mostly for camping. In April or October, a hotwater bottle in the sleeping bag 30 minutes before  bedtime can make it far more comfortable.

All the nightshirts, all flannel, all the time.

Last nightshirt for this season

All the nightshirts I made so far in 2017

There's a picture of all the nightshirts I made so far in 2017.  The one in the middle was an attempt at updating a pattern. it was too short, hence why I added extra penguins on the sleeves and at the bottom. However the three to the left, is the updated design, and it is perfect for a short nightshirt. THe two on the right are made with a new pattern I picked up in February. That nightshirt goes almost to my ankles whereas the ones on the left go to my knees.

Another week-end more sewing...

Flannel nightshirt that has cat with heart shaped glasses

Little black dress out of knit

Sewing projects from This week-end.

Top made with left over Rayon Knit.

PJ top for bf

This week-end I sewed 2 items. One top made of a left over and one PJ top for my bf that matches his "Jurassic park" PJ pants and his black flannel PJ pants, as as Valentines day present.

Lovely Rayon knit from Club Tissu

I asked for Christmas a trip to club tissu in St Hubert. Terry brought me there and while we were there he really liked this Leopard rayon knit. So I bought 2 meters. I ended up making both a dress and a top to wear with skinny jeans with the fabric this week-end based on his suggestions on what to do with the fabric.

Another flannel

This one is made from a new pattern so it was long very long.

Dresses made in January 2017

A-line dress made in January 2017 out of a cotton dragonfly print picked up at Atlantic Fabrics in New Glascow in August

Mod dress finished January 2017, made out of cotton dragonfly print picked up at Atlantic Fabrics in Darmouth in December 2015

Rayon knit top made out of a two way stretch knit, printed on the wrong side of grain picked up at Club Tissu

Lace dress, lined in merino wool knit.

My Quebec includes Muslims, excludes racism

My view of Quebec and Canada includes Muslims.

No one should decide who should live or who should die.

More details.

It's the little things...

I found this in the steam of the bathroom. It's so cute...

OH Boy, I got an appointment.

After calling relentlessly Dr. David Thompsons office at Statcare since late november, I finally have an appointment with the allergist!!!!! It's going to be in March. Funny I'd given myself March as a deadline, if I didn't have an appointment to try another allergist. I've read good reviews about him and he's in the same office as my GP so it's the perfect fit.

Who the fuck is SUE

There's some bitch out there called Sue that is using my Gmail to sign up to tons of coupons and promotion sites. I've been added to over 20 sites since Saturday morning.

WTF ????

OEM's what have you done to your Websites????

I've been making budgets for work for years. I am seasoned dealing with OEM websites like Dell, HP and Lenovo. I don't know who they have been hiring to maintain their websites but it's turned to shit.

I couldn't find the HP Z240 model I had put on my sheet unless I look for it on google. Instead of putting their machines in series like they used to, you get about 100 systems listed when you look for a desktop.

And what moron at Dell thought that putting the 3420 and 3620 together in the 3000 series was a good idea. I don't want to find out after completely configuring a system that it is the WRONG fucking system. And the Dell 3420 does not come in Tower form but their websites leads you to think it does. Imagine a purchaser in a regular company that has to buy systems...


I thought it was just me, but everyone else I've talked to, also says it's almost impossible to find anything.  How come the sites were so good in the past and such crap now?

Lung function is 100%

When I don't have allergies or asthma.  When I do, well it's anyone's guess. However this is good news. After getting told off for "having the lungs of someone who's been a heavy smoker for 30 years" apparently my lung function is 100% when I don't have asthma, allergies or some infection.

Apparently asthmatics can show perfectly normal breathing tests when they are feeling fine, despite the fact that the breathing test appeared like one of the worst workouts that I'd done. It was done without any medications too.

At least it proves what I said to the doctors, that before I got sick with laryngitis, I had good lung function and I was as healthy as I Could be for someone who has lived with smokers all her life and who smoked at some point in her life.

The Doctor recommended that I take the steroid asthma meds twice a day. So I will be taking Pulmicourt for the rest of my life twice a day to keep my allergies at bay.

The other good news is that the Allergist's office called me back asking if I need an appointment. I called back and said what I need it for. Hopefully I will be called with an appointment.

STupid back

Last week I spent Wednesday Thursday and Friday in bed because my back got all whacked out. AGAIN. It's still sore but I'm at least ambulatory.

I hate back aches!

2017 is a flannel year!

Modified a pajama top into a nightshirt. Needed adjustments. Hence the penguin border

Made a Large PJ top for my BF. Pattern only went to Medium.

Green Flamingos. How cute is that?

Fell in love with long flannel nightshirts, so have been experimenting with making them. The green flamingo one is absolutely perfect in everyway. I use a meshing of 2 butterick patterns to make it. One from 2 years ago and one from 20 years.

The house of the Rising Lice - WIth Lyrics!

My friend Jeff Lee made a song of it...

There is a house in the West Islands
They call the Rising Lice
And it's been the ruin of many hairdos
And God I know I have one.

My step-mother was a tailor
She sewed my new pajamas
My father was a drumming man
Down in the West Islands

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Share your hats in school and misery
In the house of the Rising Lice

Welcome to the house of the rising lice.

When I went to Fabricville on Satuday I was itchy like hell,. I figured it was the thought of lice that made me itchy. Think again.

I have LICE.  We found 2 adults about 12 teens and probably 50 eggs.   I'm so pissed. The best way to find them is to slather on lots of conditioner and go through with a fine tooth comb. The lice can't run and hide because it gets stuck in the conditioner. The first time he checked me on Wednesday, we didn't use the conditioner, so the fucking bugs probably ran and were not seen. Assholes.

Until last night thought it seemed my boyfriend with his long blonde hair all the way down his back, didn't have any. It seems they aren't on his scalp but hiding in the length of the hair. For the past 2 weeks he's been complaining about having itchy shoulders. Well yeah his lice hang out in the length on his back.... That's where we found a couple ... not on his scalp but in the length.  I would have been so pissed if I had them and he didn't. I mean we sleep cuddled. If they are on my head they should be on his.

We have yet to do treatment because he's working nights and we want to do treatment at same time. We want to use NYDA which has to be on head for 8 hours overnight.  He's not working tomorrow night so that's when we will be treated. Until then using tea tree shampoo and conditioner and passing fine tooth comb in hair twice a day to get rid of the live ones.

I got lice because I put my winter coat on the coat rack above or below Zoeys jacket during the holidays. Sucks balls.