The mitts are of that bison-wool blend yarn I got at the BPAFF. The socks are a String Theory Continuum self-striping yarn - the colorway is called Dopamine (All of her colorways have some kind of astronomical or biochemical reference. I have some called Strontium-20 that is pink, yellow, and black, and when I get around to knitting it up (for me), it's going to be either my Electric Fluttershy socks, or Goth Fluttershy, or maybe Punk Fluttershy. I haven't decided yet)
I also re-did my pedicure. I had bought some pale orangey polish (Essie's color called "Tart Deco") a while back with the thought of, "I'll have to put this on when deer season starts and if anyone comments on it, I can say it's the closest I get to blaze orange." (I guess bow season has already started, so I missed that one). Well, anyway, it's orange for fall and Halloween.
Except in some lights it looks more peach than orange. And this is about as "wild" as I will ever get with nail polish.
When I went to Sherman on Friday, I went to the natural-foods store. One of the things I bought was a purple-fleshed sweet potato and I cooked it up for dinner last night.
Yeah. That's purple. (That's the color AFTER cooking). It kind of tripped my "I'm not sure if I want to eat this" sensors at first, because of the odd color. But when I smelled of it, it smelled like a normal sweet potato, so that was okay. I didn't like it quite as well as the regular kind; it's actually less strongly flavored and it has a heavier, pastier texture than the orange-fleshed sweet potatoes I'm familiar with.
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In other news, I'm having bad sinus/upper teeth problems. (I am pretty sure it's sinus and not a bad tooth, because the pain jumps around in my mouth and is worse at some times and better than others. It gets better upon exposure to heat, for example - if I drink hot tea or take a shower). There's a retired dentist who attends my church and I asked him today if the desensitizing toothpaste would do anything for that. He said that it couldn't hurt, but what might be better would be to use saline nasal irrigation. I've had other doctors suggest this to me, but when I tried it in the past it freaked me out too badly (I felt like I was drowning) but I decided to try it again. (I didn't get a neti pot; I got one of those squeeze bottles that comes with a lot of little sachets of pre-measured salt and sodium bicarbonate.) It's kind of involved; with the first use you have to boil up water (even city tap water, apparently, needs to be really sure it's free of any critters) and wash it out, and then you use boiled water to mix the solution.
It's a weird sensation. I understand enough cranial anatomy to know why squirting water up into one nostril makes it come out the other one (instead of your mouth), but still, it's a weird experience. It did help a little, and I supposed I'll do it every couple days for a while (apparently some of the studies suggest doing it every day can be a little much) and see if it helps.
Hopefully when this next front comes through my sinuses will hurt less. And during cold and flu season it might not be a bad idea to do it periodically and flush the stuff out of my sinuses.
I also took the window unit air conditioner out of the window today and stored it. There were a couple little gaps (it doesn't fit perfectly) and I figured allergens could get in more readily than would with a closed and locked window. I didn't put the screen back on; I didn't have the energy do and anyway, I think if I would need to get out a back window in a hurry - like a house fire at night - it would be a LOT faster to do if there were no screen to have to punch out. (A design flaw, I think, on these screens - they can only be removed from the outside, so if you were having to bug out of the house, you'd have to kick the screen out of the way or cut it.)
1 comment:
Wow! That is really purple! Fascinating.
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