Aside from the Cinema scarf (whilst I am sitting about waiting places), I've not done much knitting at all this week.

Last night I PLANNED to knit. But when I got done at work, I got to thinking "I really need to run to Sherman." I had a coupon from the Jo-Ann's and a plan - I had been looking at my copy of "Joan Russell's Soft Toys and Dolls" (She used to do a lot of designing of toys for Women's Day, back when they had crafts that involved more than a glue gun). I wanted a Pink Mouser and Blue Drowser (two cat pillows in the book - they are roughly cat-shaped but have no projecting limbs, so they qualify as pillows). I am also dying to make a new Basil the Basset to replace the one I loved to death as a child.

So, off I went. And I found some good stuff: some striped and matching small-floral-pattern heavyweight cotton for the cats, and a nice printed corduroy (in a funky tartan pattern) for Basil, somehow having an unrealistic fabric for the critters appealed to me.

I checked out and paid and thought happily of going home and tracing the patterns, but first I had to eat and go to the grocery.

In the grocery line it hit me. If I had been smart, I would have asked the cashier's pardon, turned around, and gone back to the pharmacy for a bottle of Excedrin Migraine, and also bought one of those little bottles of spring water, and taken it right there.

Driving with a developing migraine is not fun. It is especially not fun when the sun is shining full in the driver's side window.

I was almost in full-blown migraine mode when I got home. I bunged the things that needed to stay cold into the fridge, ran into the bathroom, downed the Excedrin, and crawled into bed.

Alas, it was too late, and I had to lie there feeling like three ice picks - dull ice picks - were rammed into my right eye socket, and being able to feel every sinus cavity in my head because of its throbbing.

oh. and if you are brewing a migraine (I kind of had been headachey all day), Chinese food is NOT what you want to eat, no matter how loudly they claim not to use MSG. ugh.

Finally, after a couple of trips to the bathroom to hurl (that's another side effect of migraines for me), I fell asleep.

by the time I woke up (feeling better), it was past my normal bedtime. I said "the heck with it, I'll catch up on sleep" and went back to bed.

This afternoon, I've decided to cut out the dress from the dragonfly patterned fabric I bought LAST month. I think I'm going to pre-shrink the critter fabric, even though it will remove the sizing. (supposedly, leaving the sizing in for pillows and such helps them resist dust and dirt).