Holding Together Very Well

I know I had a rocky bit a few weeks ago, but I’m back together and staying together very well. I was dealing with my depression and took care of itself with the meds. I saw my therapist. With things picking up and getting busier I know that I’ll be staying together. The busier I am the better I stay together. Well, off to do housework and knit

Busy Time Of Year (not Complaining)

It’s one of the 2 busy times of year for me. The other time being the state’s legislative session. This time of year I call Training and Preparing. I’ve got so many trainings coming up that I sometimes wonder what’s going on. Like the previous 2 years I’m taking the ”Essentials Of Legislative Advocacy” and “Legislative Leadership Training.” Each one is 2 days long. I love them and look forward to them each year. They are both put on by the Keep the Promise Coalition (KTP). KTP is doing another training this year about access to medications and housing next month and I’ll be attending that too. That is also an important one as the lovely state changed the rules about access to psychiatric medications and this will help us to understand more about it.




In addition to that I’ll one person on a panel of 4 be teaching a 5 week 30 hour class to mental health providers starting later in the month as long as enough people sign up. NAMI-CT (National Alliance On Mental Illness Connecticut) will be having their annual conference on Halloween and my roommate will be at that too. We’re on the planning committee and we’re also going to have a table at the conference regarding Self Injury Awareness (SIA). That’s the first of 3 SIA events we have in the next 6.5 months.



All this is going to be going on while taking care of regular life. What’s that? Monthly Community Advisory Board Meetings where I’m President, local NAMI meetings 2 times a month, KTP meetings monthly, watching a friends store 2 times a month, dogsitting for 4 or so days next month, attending curves 3 times a week minimum, and a few other monthly meetings I know I’m forgetting.



This time of year is coming just in time. I was starting to get bored

Scarf Travels

On Ravelry I'm doing a Travelling Scarf. I'm so excited about it and looking forward to sending my first section off. Also to getting to knowing the other people in my group. Especially my up and downstram people.

Back to Normal

Just wanted to say I'm back to my normal self.

Shuttle Follow-up

By the way, the blasted shuttle is backordered. I was called Friday and told that it would be backordered till 9/3 and I could wait till then, get a different one, or a refund. Now I've waited this long...give me my money back. I'll go elsewhere where I'll be told quicker if there's a problem, 2 weeks is too long to wait to tell somoeone that something they ordered is backordered. Grrrrr.

What a summer!It’s been one of those odd summers here. I swear July had to go down ad the coldest and wettest on record. It was definitley cooler and wetter than I ever remember it being. On the bright side, the Self Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) bill got signed by the Governor. It (SIAD) was actually in with a bunch of other days fo rhte bill and got passed by the state senate with les than 2 hours to go in the session. It then took about another month to get it signed. It’s signed though. That makes us the only state to have SIAD on the books.



At the end of May I sprained my ankle. I did it good this time. At the ER they weren’t sure if I broke it and ruled it out by asking if I’ve ever injured it before. My regular doc had it MRI’ed. I ended up in PT for it. Otherwise things have been going well.

No, I don't knit. :P We all know I do though.

Well, if today doesn't show my knitting side to myself, nothing will. It was the first of 10 classes that I'll be teaching with 4 other people. Now the 4 other people know about me and knitting. The one's we're teaching though, know nothing about us. as the morning goes on we discover that they are a very quiet group. We ask a question, about the format of the class and wether or not they like it, and they don't respond. i go to say something and have to stop myself to say something different.




What I wanted to say was, "Don't worry I won't tie you up in yarn or get you with my pointy sticks." with a laugh of course. Instead I say, "We don't bite." I had to stop because I realized they wouldn't get the joke like the 4 that know me would. It's like the other week with the customer in the shop.



A customer comes is to use the class grinder and is wearing a nice scarf. It's made from at least 2 balls of Lion Brand Landscapes. As she's about to use the grinder I remind her to take the scarf off. My concern was first for the scarf, secondly for the grinder, thirdly for the customer. I didn't want to see the yarn ruined. Afterwards I started to laugh. You'd think that my first worry would be the customer. She's a nice lady so it's not like I had anything against her. Thankfully I didn't tell the customer my line of thought.

3rd year in a row

So, came home from knitting and went to the mailbox. Next thing Robbyn knows I'm giving my excited yell. Why? There was a nice big brownish flat envelope from the Governor's office in our mailbox. We put a proclamation request in a couple weeks ago for Self Injury Awareness Day as we have done for the past few years, since 2006 to be exact. We have gotten it granted for the third year in a row. We didn't get it the first year.




So, we're good for the year. This gives us time for the bill to get through legislation. The differnece between the bill and the proclamation is that with the proclamation we have to ask for it yearly. With the bill (that's if it gets passed) it would be yearly automatically.

What a week

It's been one of those weeks I'll tell you. Between rescheduling the Self injury Awareness Day Informational Fair (SIAD), doing a new website for SIAD, cancelling this months board meeting, finding out one friend might be dying of chirrosis of the liver and another having a 90% of cancer I don't know which end is up.




The one that might be dying of chirrosis is an alcoholic and was just/is in the hospital for internal bleeding. The friend that might have cancer had a biopsy yesterday and we're waiting for the results now. This one is a good friend of mine and I'm really scared for her. At least tomorrow's saturday so I can get together with my knitting group.

Winter Weather

I may have grown up in this region, but I never have liked snow. I never will either. This winter is really getting to me too. Every week a storm! Come on mother nature, give it a rest already. People do have lives and you're mucking them up. I want to see the ground again, and not covered in white crud.




Okay, It doesn't help I have a CAB meeting Wednesday and we whave a storm forecasted that day. I'm still not used to being president and putting the president's report together. So I'm stressing. Time to step back take a deep breath and relax a little.