More cheer!

So I'm still feeling all bitchy and exhausted, but the sun came out today. And even though I really wish I could go out and board in it, I still can't help but feel awesome in the sun. I tried going out for lunch and discovered just how much my shuffle-walk has been buggering up my knee while waiting for my groin to heal. Back on the couch with the legs up and taking pictures of my laptop love cove(r) from here.

Featured in the above image:

1. My whittled chopstick/cabling needle - I started off knitting with sanded chopsticks of which I have too many. During that time, I began cabling. Scored the chopstick (okay, I was trying to cut all the way through) with a pair of scissors and then broke it in half off the kitchen counter. Serious mis-use of a paring knife. Hand sanded with left over sandpaper. Works awesome although I can really see the use of having a curved cabling needle.
2. Wild oak cables - I think I'm doing these wrong. Or this is how they're supposed to look. I think the former.
3. Super-easy twisty cables! - do these even have a name?
4. My not-chopsticks-needles - in fact, they are bamboo ended circular needles. The pattern calls for circular needles, although I have yet to figure out why. Probably so the dudes the pattern is targeted to don't feel like grandmas with their needles. Obviously not comfortable with their granniness.
5. Mah wicked yarn - probably going to get 30 rows out of one ball. Which means that I will need about 4 balls, maybe three and a half with the adaptations I made to the pattern.

I like numbered bullets. It's like I have something important to say. I wish I had thought to number my image for reference (zomg, which one is the cabling needle and which one is the circular needle?? she didn't number the image to correspond with her list!!)

You know what, food? I love you.

Mah groin!

I picked up a beautiful board yesterday. Loaded Pintail. Reading over the website and some reviews, I realize that I should have gotten a different flex. I got a 1 which is apparently geared towards 200-220lbs riders. I'm a skinny bitch and probably should have gotten the 4. But I am a skinny newbie bitch and will not complain.

It's been a very very very long time since I did any riding and am still not used to longboards. My joyful testament: I pulled my groin yesterday, not three hours after buying the board. One leg and knee stopped, dropped and smashed and the other leg kept on going with my board.

My treatment of a pulled groin:

• Immobilized the leg and raised it. Got good and comfy, because I was not going anywhere for awhile, my friend.
• Ibuprofen, extra strength. I got the gel ones. Took two. Perhaps overkill, but damn.
• Ice! On for fifteen minutes, back in the freezer for 45, then back on for another 15. Repeated until my friend was bored of walking back and forth to the freezer, because I sure wasn't doing it.
• Heat (I'm not really at this point yet). Apparently one should apply heat to the area before exercise or stretching. I'm still having a pretty hard time shuffling over to the freezer for more ice.
  
• Light stretching (see above)
• Going to the frickin' hospital, dumbass. After reading a couple websites (why do I always do this after I've done something stupid?) I apparently have a grade 3 groin pull, including difficulty walking and pain while sitting and sleeping. As it is feeling significantly better than yesterday afternoon. I choose not to believe that I need surgery to stitch the muscle back together. But it could happen. Crap.

I really feel like I should be eating more protein, but I can't really get up too long to cook. I guess this gives me enough time to get to my knitting.