This, that and something else

I have been good and updated my wish list, though it still lacks all the items I have under wishlist_additions tag.

I am also insane: I'm going to stitch the design for Linda's bourse over one on 36 count linen.
The design is actually quite problematic... I have monochrome and four different colour schemes (of which I have two different versions) and I can't decide which one to stitch! So, I let Linda decide for me... she doesn't know how it looks like, but I have asked her to tell me which colour out of those four she prefers.

"You have a large envelope awaiting"

I had a notification of a large envelope few days ago, but as I have been a bit tired I haven't bothered to go to fetch it - until today. And it was just what I hoped it would be: my order from Interweave Press' Hurt Book Sale!

And here's few of my favourites:

From left to right:

1. Domino knitted linen baskets.
2. Cashmere Crossings shawl from the Wrap Style.
3. Tapestry Garden shawl from the Wrap Style.
4. Kuba from the Knitting our of Africa.

Wrap Style and Domino Knitting are good, as is Knitting out of Africa even though I have one complaint: where are the vivid earthy tones?! Most of the designs are worked with greys and in my opinion that is a flaw: colours are one way to create the style and when some says Africa most people think of vivid, a bit earthy, tones.

Doctors and results

All the results were "within normal limits" (I have to remember to ask my hemoglobin as I am curious to know is it still 120 (which is within normal limits... lowest "normal" is 117)), but I got new call time from the head physician of the health centre for next week.
That doesn't mean that I don't have asthma, back in stone age my brother had perfect spiro results but he got asthma diagnose anyway. No one knows what is my normal, so even the generic "normal" may be reduced flow for me (once again, I sang in a choir, my lungs are "strong").

And... mr. GP wrote the missive for thorax x-ray, but he never told me that I can just walk right in to the local hospital's x-ray unit. He only talked of the spirometry.
How the Heck someone like him is allowed to do work with patients?! (Ok, I know there are worse: like that GP who prescribed aspirin for former neighbour of ours because she suffered of stomach pain... she died of ovarian cancer couple of years later, and it's likely that she might have survived if the doctor had gave a damn. (Yes, in theory I could have a lung cancer, but with my rather cancer free family history (I know of three known cancers within the last three generations, two of the cases were lung cancer, both of them smoked heavily, 50% survival rate (my uncle's cancer metastized(sp?) to his brains before it was diagnosed...) I don't worry about that possibility too much.))