the end of the down and the beginning of the up??

I can only hope!!! It has felt this week that I have finally started an upward move -- changed from Zoloft (which was working well but had side effects of nausea and shaky hands etc.) to Wellbutrin which seems to be working with only minor side effects (dry mouth being most noticable)... synthroid is on a better level now that we have found the ceiling of "too much" and we already know the floor of "not enough" so the gap is narrowing and soon we should be in the land of "just right"!!

Next blood test is a week on Wednesday and will meet with the doctor (or her assistant) at the beginning of the new year (omword are we really THAT close to 2008??!!?)...

Also making huge progress in my latest craze of knitting -- finished the 5th pair of regular socks -- this pair is for a buddy of mine that I golf online with. Basic summary of my socks so far:

1st pair - did in the Basic Socks class - double pointed needles - learned from scratch how to do socks - made for Andy (twisted stitch socks)
(if he ever clips his toenails!! no way I'm letting troll-toes kill my socks!!)

2nd pair - used Claudia yarn first time -- LOVE IT!! - ankle socks for me - (twisted stitch)

3rd pair - did in Socks 2 class -- circular needles - same yarn as first pair - made for me - ankle socks (re-learned knitting so no more twisted stitch except when i do it on purpose cause it looks so stinkin cool!!)

4th pair - footies for RK (golfing buddy -- footies were his request!!) - double points - first pair of footies - really proud of figuring out how to do it myself -- did a cuff of 5 rows and then thought "hmmm I could just start the heel right now and they'd be footies!"

5th pair - long leg socks for Dash (nother golfing buddy - he asked me to do a pair the very first day he found out I was learning how to knit socks) - double points - first time doing a pattern in the leg/foot -- did a Waffle pattern of k2p2 for two rows then straight knitting for 2 rows... They turned out SOOOO cool!!!

6th pair - currently on the needles -- Candy Cane Socks!!! Cannot WAIT to show you all the pics of these socks -- the knitting ladies that I meet up with (3 times a week now) have been laughing at me because I sit and knit these socks and just giggle at how COOL they are and because I am SOOO pleased with them! I took one strand of white yarn (just regular doubleknit wool) and one strand of fine mohair and it has created the NEATEST effect!! I am not sure that pictures will do it justice but I will take some!

My current nickname from the ladies is "Sock Princess in Training" -- because my two closest buds are my sock instructor and the lady nicknamed the Sock Princess!!

I have posted some pics up on my ravelry account but I don't know if you guys can access that unless you have an account there (it's a knitting website -- really cool!!) -- but if you do look me up, I'm kristenkristen on there... I have pics of my first pair of socks...

I still plan on posting them here too -- maybe i'll do that next post.

Posted by kristen at December 8, 2007 9:41 AM