Give me a break, I can't be descriptive at 4am!

[jeshyr]

It's 4:30am and I am still awake. Insomnia sucks.

Dropped a ceramic cereal-type bowl this morning and scored a direct edge-on hit on the toenail of my big toe. OUCH! Was 18+ hours ago and still hurting badly - I may have to roll down to the doctor's tomorrow and get it checked out. It's not visibly swollen or discoloured/bruised at the moment, just hurting like a very painful toe.

I finished sewing a felt stegosaurus today! I drew the pattern before sewing it and have kept a copy in case of a need for further monsters too, but I think the pattern will be revised if I do another one - in retrospect, it would be easier to sew the body and legs separately and then attach them.

Visual description: Dinosaur made of a very pretty felt which varies between dark brown and cream colour, vaguely resembling a stegosaurus I hope. There is a ridge of triangles along the spine made of a pinkey/orangey felt. It's about as large as my hand if I spread my fingers out.

If you check out the rest of my arts and crafts photos on Flickr you can spot some in-progress photos and a wonderful shot of vicious felt stegosaur attempting to eat dog! I am currently dog-sitting for my middle brother and sis-in-law while they are on their honeymoon. The dog is teensy tiny, it's a cross between a pomeranian and a long-haired chihuahua and it's wickedly cute! It's exhausting having three animals here but quite enjoyable too.

I have been doing some more programming for Dreamwidth which is really nice. I'm working on things that regular users won't see at the moment but I still feel like I'm really stretching my brain and it expanding in response - a nice feeling. Probably illusory, but still nice!!

In less fun news I'm still really sick following my brother's wedding 3 weeks ago (plus a bit). It knocked me around more than I expected which is really disappointing, plus the weather here has been very variable which is really not helping. I have been sleeping a lot and doing a lot less "up" stuff - previously I was able to do some small bits of gardening (sitting beside the garden pulling weeds), sitting in the recliner, or sitting on the kitchen floor to direct people at cooking for me, but I'm pretty much back in bed all the time now. I don't like it! Here's to more health...

Love you all.

Comments

[dreamatdrew]

I seem to have caught teh kyoot and AM DYING OF IT!!!

(also, be sure to show this to ghoti, if she are not reading youze. She has a steggie. )

[indigojo]

What language do you use for programming on Dreamwidth, then?

[jeshyr]

Mostly in Perl. There are bits of JavaScript and CSS of course (it's a website, d'oh!) and there is a stupid made-up language called BML which we are trying to eliminate and replace with TemplateToolkit.

And I think there is a sort of S2 markup which may or may not qualify as "language" which is used for themes too.

[dragonsally]

How are the cats coping with having a dog in their midst?

Very cute stegosaurus - I'm impressed.

[jeshyr]

The dog is obliviously wandering through quite happily.

Anekin is OMG WORLD ENDED I HATE EVERYTHING I WILL DIE! and Foster!Tammy gets annoyed when the dog comes too close but is otherwise fairly blasé.

[moonvoice]

That felt stegosaurus is adorable, and I love the colours you've chosen.

I'm sorry to hear that you're still sick, and with a sore toe to boot, (I've had ongoing toe pain in the past, and it's a nuisance and crappy all at the same time.) I hope you feel better very soon.

[acelightning]

i started looking at the embroidery pictures, but got distracted by the kitties :-)

several people on LJ have recently called attention to the "knit a sweater/jumper for a penguin" project. (i wonder how penguins feel about embroidery?)

sorry to hear you're sick again, and with a banged-up toe, and variably warm weather. up here in the Northern Hemisphere, it's just beginning to get suitably autumnal - i've had lovely cool weather for sleeping for several days in a row now.

here's hoping you feel better soon, with much snuggling of kitties to speed the process.

*hugs*

[vass]

That stegosaurus is adorable. Very cool.

[xanni-au.livejournal.com]

I like the stegosaur! I hope your toe is OK, the bones there are only little and break surprisingly easily; Muse once broke a toe just by dropping an umbrella on it!