The Purple Biscornu

I’m still here. No, really.

I’ve started working at Childrens’ and Adolescents’ psych, and the commute is killing me. Gah. Everyone’s nice though, so I hope I’ll get used to the additional two or three hours a day.

I will be off in a few minutes to see Bouncy Haired Girl and go to Louisiana (the museum, not the state) to see a fabulous Cézanne-exhibit. Yay! I hope my stomach behaves, it has been keeping me awake lately with incessant cramping. No fun.

I shall be back with you soonly, and there shall be funny cat pictures Promise

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This is just a little test to see if LJXP is working.
And look! Joni showed me how to do linebreaks! I’m one happy bunny

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Dö-dudl-dö ist zweites Futur beim Sonnenaufgang!

Click!

Ein Klavier, ein Klavier!

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You won’t think this is too much fun unless you know German and probably Loriot too, but it made me all happy to find this

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He’s about 75 years old and comes to his appointment with his son. His clothes are impeccable and he’s carrying one of these bags that try not to look like a handbag by having a handle on the side.

He shakes my hand and makes a little bow. Both he and his son have this adorable accent that makes me smile and tells me they’re from Finland originally.

He walks into the room and stops in front of the two visitor chairs.

“Please, sit down.” I tell them.

He looks from one chair to the other. “Which one?” He looks up nervously, then looks down again, touching first the one chair, then the other. “Which one? Which one should I sit on? Which one?” he murmurs. He seems lost and tortured.

“Take this one, dad,” his son helps, and he sits down on the right one.

This won’t be fixed with just pills, goes through my head.

We talk about how he normally has no problems taking care of himself. He lives in a house by himself, but lately his son has been staying overnight more often or he has been staying with the son’s family.

“A beautiful house, yesyes, I have to springclean, there’s so much to do!”

He’s wringing his hands and the torture is back in his eyes again, this hunted look that always shows up sooner or later when you have to live with a constant nagging anxiety.

He is like this almost all the time now, worrying, thinking in circles, never a calm minute. He gets scared at night and won’t calm down until everyone there is awake so he knows all are accounted for. 

He has had these problems before, they tell me, and he was treated with ECT and had done well for years afterwards.

“Oh, that was a great treatment,” he says. “Please, I just want this to go away. I just want to get better.”

I tell him he will be fine.  I call psychiatry and get him an appointment at two p.m.

When I tell him, the haunted look is back. “Oh, at two. Downstairs? Downstairs. At two? It’s eleven. What are we going to do?”

“It’s okay, Dad, we’ll go have lunch”, the son says.

“Oh, all right,” he says and stops wringing his hands.

“I hope all goes well later,” I say, and hold out my hand. He shakes it and gives another correct little bow. “Thank you very much,” he says. “And good luck with my case!”

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I’ve been on the lookout lately for other blogs to read regularly. Right now I mostly read stitching blogs, and while that’s always great fun, a little diversity can only be good!

So I surfed around and found a blog that really made me giggle. It’s called Yummy Baby . Normally I’m not all that fond of mommy-blogs – I like children, actually, but I don’t want to read about them all day. This blog is different though, and I stayed there and read a bunch of posts.

The little one is adorable of course, but not only that – the blog is written entirely from her perspective. She’s almost a year old, and it’s fun to read about how she likes her mom’s computer better than her own, and what’s going on with her and her friends. Her mother started the blog when Amayra Muneez was just five months old, so you can follow her almost from birth and see how she changes. I hope this blog will be continued for some time, I’ll certainly be back to read!

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What have I been doing today, you ask? (Or not, but it’s too late now!)

• I updated my Wishlist. Now when you click on the tab up there that says Wishlist, it will take you to my personal save-up-list. Of course, every time I think I’m finished I think of five other thing to put on it, so right now there are only the absolute essentials.
• The pictures in the WiP section of the sidebar are now linked to their respective pages - so when you click e.g. on the Dragon pic, it will take you to the Dragon Luck WiP page.
• Trolly didn’t put the contents of his newest box on his blog. NOOOOOOOOOO! *giggle*
• I have coffee, and tonight there’ll be Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves on the tv. That’s doubtlessly a ploy along the lines of “Harrharr, we’ll just be showing crappy old movies so everyone will watch the hockey!” Not working, guys. Especially if you’re giving me Alan Rickman, who will be talking, which is better than coffee. And chocolate. And a lot of other things. A LOT. Rawr.
• I’m half done with the Quaker Sampler. It’s such fun to work with overdyed threads. Click the thumbnail to get to the WiP page with more pictures.

• I made a Finish a month or so ago that I forgot to announce. It’s an adorable PINN pattern. I just found a companion piece called Mermaid Heaven, and I think I will remake them both on Polstitches fabric. Click the pic to go to the page.

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My new blog design got finished today, and I love it!

I’m impressed with Joni from Elegant Webscapes, not only for the beautiful design, but for not going insane with my ever-unprecise explanation of “something purple that flows, and flowers, fairies and cross stitch”.

I also got the newest Wordpress and a few nifty plug ins installed. For example, the nifty thing you see when you mouse over ”Joni” or “Elegant Webscapes”.

Now, when you comment and I reply, my answer will appear here under comments, and will at the same time be emailed to you. I really like that feature, because I for one always forget to come and check back to see if any of my comments have received an answer.

Today I have been tagging all the posts - phew! The old version of Wordpress didn’t have any tags. I’ve upload all the WiP’s to the sidebar. The pics are not linked yet, that will be fixed tomorrow.

I’ve also updated the WiP and Finishes pages. The rest of the pages will come over the next weeks.

I hope you like it as much as I do :) 

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Joni said to write a test post so here it is!

Let’s try inserting a random image. Hmmm…

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I’m high on painkillers, which is indefintely better than migraine and PMS. Anyway, the tornado ep of Desperate Housewives was on (don’t you dare spoil me, I have no clue who’s alive and dead yet!). I love Desperate Housewives, this season is great - I’m looking forward to watching it every week.

Today’s source of amusement:

Carlos, seeing Gaby is packing two giant suitcases, “I told you to pack only the neccessities!”

Gaby: ” These are neccesseties!”

Carlos *points*: “Is that a boa?” 

Yes, I’m easily amused.

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