Random Ramblings - February 11th 2022

When Logan was a puppy and we were having a very hot Summer, the vet advised us to put him in the bath to stop him keep getting dehydrated.  At first he wasn't a fan - he wasn't keen on the whole idea of water in general, which was actually the problem to start with.  But after a while he started to love it, and it wasn't long before he started getting excited about baths, and learned how fun it could be drinking waterout of the tap.  And, when he got big enough to do so,he started jumping in to the bath to ask for the tap to be put on.  This had the unfortunate side-effects of making him use a bowl even less than he already had been, and meaning I couldn't have a bath or shower without first giving him a few moments to drink from the tap (at least, not unless I wanted him to attempt to join me in there).  He does now drink from a bowl regularly, but not nearly as much as he should, because he still prefers to get his water straight from the tap.  Just like he's doing in the below photo, which was taken a couple of weeks ago.

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I still don't know what my blood test results actually were.

 

Nobody who can get access to them sees any reason to tell me, because apparently if they're fine it shouldn't matter what the numbers are, and those who would tell me - even though they also find it odd I want to know when the doctors are clearly saying there's no immediate issue - don't have the authority to discuss them, not even with me.

 

The best I could get is the secretary of my doctor telling me I could find out from the doctor when I see him next (which will be in a couple of months time; date to be confirmed via letter closer, apparently) what the results had been, but to not worry about them in the meantime, because the doctor is satisfied my levels aren't a concern right now, so I shouldn't be concerned either.

 

Good to know, but frustrating for someone like me who likes to know the numbers.

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I technically finished the purple scarf that was my first loom knitting project a couple of weeks ago.  Then a mistake while casting off had it unravelling on me, and my attempts to stop that happening made it worse, so I ended up starting it over.  I suppose that's one way to get in some loom knitting practice.  Anyway, I finally finished it for real yesterday, so here it is:

I also finished this white needle knitted heart:

As well as this little red crocheted heart ornament:

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I'm also attempting to learn how to do something called a heart stitch with crochet.  I still need to work on that.  My first attempt, done while in the class, I wasn't at all happy with, but it seemed too pretty to unpick (despite not being quite right) so I used some of the loose ends that needed weaving in to make a sort of braided tastle on one end, and turned it in to this little red and white crocheted bookmark:

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February started with the Lunar New Year - so welcome to the Chinese year of the Water Tiger.  And Imbolc was at the start of February too, so a belated blessed Imbolc.  Also, Valentine's Day is coming up on Monday, so happy early Valentine's Day.

We didn't do anything of note for Imbolc, did even less for the Lunar New Year (AKA, did absolutely nothing for it; I only mentioned it because it happened and I could) and already did what we plan to for Valentine's Day, which was to treat ourselves to Dominos Pizza.

 

We don't have it often, because it's expensive.  But there's one near enough to us that they'll deliver to our door (and for a reasonable price) and they do a pretty decent vegan pizza, so we treated ourselves to that.  I haven't personally had take-away pizza since we left the Hastings area, which was more than 14 months ago, because most of the pizza places around here don't cater to vegans.

 

Anyway, we had it Wednesday, because we didn't want to be trying to have it over the long weekend with everyone else possibly wanting to celebrate Valentine's Day by ordering from various places too (estimated delivery times are around an hour here as it is) and since Wednesday's a pretty busy day it was a good day for a dinner that didn't require us to do any cooking.