Anyway, I love these little things, and I love working with digital images. I can’t make them, yet, but I heartily intend on learning. I have no drawing or painting skills by hand, but I find that by using digital media, such as Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks, or any of those, that I can at least combine images or alter existing ones. I find that it is a surprisingly fun thing to do!

I know that whilst I am sick, this is probably going to take three times longer than otherwise, but hey, I’m sitting around relaxing anyway! I have to figure out what I want to create, perhaps a cute knitting emote! A knitting cat! That’s what I want to make. There, decided on that. So, then I just have to study an existing one, and figure out how many frames I will need to make, and so on and so forth. It is all pretty darn exciting. I hope to have an entire set one day, all my own.

Now, as for today’s knitting pattern… It has to be something a bit groovy, and have a graphic edge. So I am linking to a Wonder Woman styled jumper. I know, that sounds a little odd, but it is actually very cool. I would consider altering the basic shape of the jumper if you have a womanly figure, as this is a basic men’s style jumper. My mother actually used to knit me jumpers with pictures on them… one was two children standing on a hill flying a kite. The other was a scene from a book I liked, ‘I only have to close my eyes’ with all sorts of wonderful stuff going on in the picture. I wish I still had those, but maybe it is time to make my own!

Anyway, whilst I am sick, I am having all sort of crazy nap dreams. Now, a nap dream is different from a sleep dream, because they seem to last about five seconds, and are completely lacking in story line. For example, here’s a dream I once had…

The scene, a beautiful valley, verdant and lush, high altitude, it leads to a waterfall. Smooth grass meets the bank of a stately river flowing through the centre of the valley. There is a small water mill on the river, and beautiful fish in the water, they aren’t overly large. Two men, clothed roughly, as labourers, stand by the mill. They have just found out that a special function is to take place in the valley. A fishing contest. They know special and important people will be coming. One of them takes the lead in deciding what will have to be done in preparation for this event. The man complacently tucks his thumbs in his belt-loops and says, in regard to the fish, “From now on, they’re Pike”. His satisfaction at this deceleration evident in the smug smile he beams down on the other man. “Right, Bill” says Tom. Bill issues “The next man to talk goes over”. “Right” Tom replies, ducking a nod in acquiescence. “Right. Over you go” says Bill, jerking his head at the waterfall. “Oh” Tom replies…

See, that is a real dream. And a funny one too, I woke up giggling. My fiance and I still joke ‘From now on, they’re Pike. A nap dream, now that is just totally absurd, and far too rapid. For example, yesterday afternoon I dreamt…

My fiance and I had decided to buy a house in the Philippines…

That’s it. That’s it? Yep. Well that sucks. I even went and looked up whether you can even do that form overseas, apparently you can, I found a site about Philippines real estate, but I wouldn’t want to buy a house there.

Ugh, too much for now, I’m going to go back to bed. But first, today’s knitting pattern! It has to be sleep oriented, so a pillow with a picture of a cat sleeping on it! That’s awesome!

Yesterday or the day before, I can’t remember now, I came down with something. I was so nauseous, I eventually lost my lunch, and have been going through the sneezing, coughing, asthma, and strangely enough, ringing ears. That’s a new one for me, well, in regards to having the flu, anyway. So I feel terrible, just awful. I got up in the morning today, and it seemed okay. I had breakfast, and about 20 minutes after I knew it was a very bad mistake. I have spent the larger portion of today, curled up on the couch in my dressing gown, holding my poor stomach, fighting to keep down lemonade and dry crackers. Yep, that’s what is has come to.

I am also dreadfully tired all the time, too lethargic to even sit up for long periods of time. I have to lay down regularly lest I feel utterly exhausted. As if that wasn’t enough, last night as I sat there on the couch, my girl cat ran across my lap. Nothing unusual there, but because I moved, she totally freaked out, and clawed my legs. Nothing really unusual there, either, but this time, she managed to slice one of her claws into a vein in my leg, and puncture the other side of the vein. So not only was my leg bleeding, but it was also bleeding into the tissue around it. Now I have red areas where she punctured my skin, and dark blue-black bruise like marks around the red ones. It truly looks horrible, and I am such a baby about that sort of thing. I had a similar incident happen when I had a blood test, once, and the resulting bleed out into the tissue nearly sent my into a panic. Of course, at that time, I didn’t know what it was.

Okay so before I fall asleep again, here’s today’s pattern. It had to be something soft and cozy to snuggle up in, so of course it is going to be a shawl or wrap of some kind. I am going with this one because it would be good for sitting around in, and because of the button you don’t have to keep it on you, it will just stay. Like a bed cape.

Off for naps now.