I had an appointment with the eye doctor on Friday; my father kindly drove me there because I was pretty sure I wouldn’t be able to see well enough to drive afterwards. I really didn’t have any idea of what to expect since I had never had the pupil-dilation thing done before. Despite the fact that I have been seriously myopic all my life and had been seeing optometrists and ophthalmologists regularly since I was in fourth grade, I had always managed to dodge that particular bullet.
But this appointment was to see if the diabetes had damaged my eyes and if it had, how much damage was there? So I really couldn’t pull my usual shtick. I had to be a grown-up and just deal. Okay then, I’ll deal - deep mental breath - this will be fine.
And then Thursday night, I had a dream - a nightmare - in which the drops were placed in my eyes and I became blind. There were many doctors there, men and women both, discussing the situation calmly in contrast to my rising terror. Then a voice told me that more tests would have to be done and that they were putting me in the hospital. I started to cry, and finally woke up.
Of course there was nothing to worry about. The doctor said my eyes were in good shape and that with a little care, he didn’t see any real problems down the line. That was good news. And, when I walked back outside into the winter sunshine, the world looked like an over-exposed photograph - no more than that and sunglasses corrected the situation nicely.
I found it interesting that I hadn’t known I was afraid until I woke up from the nightmare. I would have described it as a mild sense of discomfort but nothing that couldn’t be dealt with easily. After all, I’m an adult - right? In my dreams :)
Saturday was a banner day, but not because of anything I did. I received two (two) packages in the mail. The first came from Anne at Busy Needles and contained these:
But that’s not all. There was a second box, this one from our own barb-in-east-texas and it contained...well, look:
The box was also stuffed with sock yarn (six skeins - enough for three pairs) and undyed fingering weight yarn (three skeins) along with Paas easter egg dyes to play with! I am looking forward to that, though I’ll probably wait until the weather warms up a bit and I can open the windows so the vinegar doesn’t asphyxiate us all :) Even that wasn’t all! Barb included (knowing my pathetic addiction) coffees - two kinds - a New Orleans blend with chicory (which I have been drinking all weekend - delish!) and a Kenyan varietal from Gevalia which I am saving for a bit :) Oh, and one more thing -
I have never seen this outside of a web page - none of the stores I can easily get to carry it. I begin to understand all the noise about the fabulous colors. This is gorgeous stuff and I’ve wound it up already because I’m desperate to try it! I have a skinny scarf in mind that, because of the rain-forest rainbow of colors, will go with just about everything I own! Thank you Barb - I am going to have such fun with this unexpected bounty.
I did also get in quite a bit of knitting this weekend, but I’ll save reporting on that for later :)
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Glad to hear that your eyes are okay - need them to knit.........;)
You will love the Koigu - I have some Koigu socks on needles right now, and I forgot how much fun it is to knit with!
Enjoy! 
(drools hopelessly over the Koigu)
Thanks Christine :) The Koigu is interesting - very springy stuff!
::Quickly snatching the Koigu out of Kathy’s immediate vicinity:: My Koigu - get dome of your own to drool on :)
Other than winding the ball, I haven’t done anything with this yet - is it really that nice to work with?
I have some of the Alpaca Cloud in the same Iris colorway. I ordered it and two skeins of Shimmer in the Jewels colorway to make the Flower Basket Shawl from Interweave Knits magazine. But now I am rethinking that—the new issue of Interweave Knits has a lovely scarf pattern called Trellis Scarf that uses the Alpaca Cloud and it is calling my name. Now I am thinking I will make one Flower Basket Shawl with the Shimmer and two Trellis scarves with the Alpaca Cloud. Just a suggestion. 
Oooooh! Lovely yarn goodies - thanks for sharing! Great news about your eyes too. :)
Karin - Thanks for the suggestions - I’ll check them out :) A future project in any case as I have a largish shawl and an afghan to finish up first. But, it’s so nice I can’t help wondering what I’m going to do with it :)
Bron - Well, I always enjoy it when you share too. I often get to see yarns I’ve never even heard of :)
