Platformnine Designs

I have had a really rough time over the last few weeks. First, it was my birthday, which always brings on the heart palpitations (of the bad variety) and the fear of growing up and growing older - thoughts of my bills and such running frantic through my head. And my friend brought me the cottontails. Sadly, the gimpy one didn’t make it through his amputation operation :c Then a week later, my friend’s cat got another little bun from the same litter, so I nursed him back to health. I had a home set up for them, and they were just about ready to go when the girl I was taming them for said she wants a dog instead. A lab. With a 3 month old baby in the house. Riiiiiight. So now I’m sort of stuck with these boys until I can find a good home for them. Now that I’ve tamed them, they can’t really go back in the wild. Anyone want bunnies?

Then I was really excited to be getting Jersey Woolys. I was adopting from a litter that was due last week. The litter was born, but none of them made it :c Apparently that happens sometimes with first-time moms!

And this past weekend my Poppop, who is the strongest man I know - and was a longshoreman, was admitted to the hospital for severe breathing problems. He hasn’t been the same for the past year since they put a stint in his heart. They thought he had a clot there, so they opened him up. They decided the clot was definitely not as bad as they thought - it was considered normal blockage - but they decided to put the stint in anyway. Now his kidneys are only working at 64% and there is something wrong with his diaphragm, and his whole left lung doesn’t work. The whole thing sounds like a major malpractice suit to me, but we just want him to get better. This weekend he couldn’t breathe so we admitted him to the hospital. He’s been coughing up little bits of brown phlegm, but he tested negative for pneumonia. On Monday, when I was there, he had a breathing scare because he couldn’t breathe just going from his bed to the bathroom and back again. Nurses and doctors rushed in and my heart was pounding. He couldn’t get any air, but when they tested his oxygen saturation level in his blood, the numbers read as perfect. Textbook. This keeps happening, but it’s obvious that he’s not getting air. None of his doctors (the thirty or so that he sees) have been able to figure out what’s wrong with him. I wish Doctor House really existed :c They put him on steroids, and now he’s much much better (not better than before the stint, but better than he’s been in the past two weeks), and he might be coming home today. It’s SO hard for me to see him sick, because he’s my rock. I’m so close to my whole family, especially my Mommom and Poppop.

And as all of this was going on, I think I’ve been let go form my job at the rescue center without actually being told. My boss ignores my calls unless she has an emergency and needs me to foster (I feel so used :|), and she won’t talk to me about scheduling. I understand she can’t afford to pay me as much as she used to (not that I was rolling in the dough from what little pay I got) because of her budget, which she frivolously spends paying her office BFF Debbie - a middle-aged woman with grown up kids that sits on her ass all day and pretends to answer phones. For $16 an hour. While I got $8 an hour for doing six million things.

I got a little depressed for a while, because life had just been crapping on me over and over again. However, now things seem to be looking up for me! I have another job lined up - nothing fancy, but it will certainly pay the bills! Plus, I can knit/spin/dye while I do it! (I’ll be nannying for my cousins - who both want to learn to spin/knit/dye/etc) AND another Wooly breeder finally got back to me - one that has kits ready to go! I’m waiting to see if she’s keeping the two REW does (white ones), which if she doesn’t they’re mine and if she does I think I’m getting a grey doe and the tan one, if it’s a doe. Either way, I’m getting two does. Another plus about getting the Jersey Woolys from her is that she’s MUCH closer to me than the other lady was! Also, I got a message on Ravelry the other day from CanarySanctuary - she wants to do a little designer spotlight thing on me for my indie designs! I’m so geeked and flattered about it! It’s inspired me to pick up some of the designs I put on the back-burner and work on finishing them! The most recent thing I finished is the Beckett Beret, based on Det. Kate Beckett’s beret on ABC’s new show Castle (if you have not watched this show yet, WATCH IT! You’ll love it!). I was curious about CanarySanctuary, because she sounded familiar, so I stalked browsed through her profile today and saw that she is actually one of the designers I fangirl love! I have just about every one of her designs in my queue! I also checked out her blog, and aside from finding some really great designers I didn’t know about I fell in love with her blog! So, yay, new blog to follow! Go check her out!