I feel like I’ve been sick for a month. I was really sick a week 1/2 before the Spring Fling, luckily it was just a cough by the time I got there but all that talking aggravated it and when I got home I lost my voice for a couple days, I promptly caught whatever new bug Eli brought home from preschool and once more feel like I am dying.
Eli had his first speech therapy appointment the other day. I have opted to stay in the waiting room while he’s back there because I know I’d just be a distraction to him. He went back with the woman really easily. She said he was well behaved, there are some attention issues and they will work on “wh” question (ask him whats this and him responding with what it is instead of just repeating what is this, etc), yes/no questions and personal question (getting to answer things like whats your name, whats your sisters name, how old are you, etc, he only answers how old are you).
We have had it with how our pediatrician is dealing with Eli’s eczema, we’ve requested a referral to a dermatologist, hopefully they give one and hopefully insurance covers it since they’ve decided to be asses as of late.
So, the Spring Fling… it sucked… kidding! I loved it, I had such a good time! I was worried there for one moment that I’d be miserable. The first few hours in the hotel lobby it was just me and a handful of other flinger’s. Me, Kellie, Laura and Leslie headed out for some sushi, to pick up cupcakes and to hit up a yarn store (because loopy central wouldn’t be enough lol). When we got back a few hours later the lobby was packed. I panicked and ran to my room, called Ben and told him I wanted to come home, I wouldn’t fit in. He told me to take a few minutes and relax and go back down and have fun. So I did. I calmed down, cranked down the AC to cool off (I get all hot and sweaty when panicky), freshened up and went back down. Mingled a little and headed to happy hour and the rest of the Fling went off without a hitch. Ok, one hitch was my new shoes tore my feet up and I was hobbling around like a cripple by the time we left.
I met some really amazing people. Everyone at the Fling was so nice. Have you ever just instantly hit it off with someone? That doesn’t usually happen to me. I’m shy, I’m uber shy. I’ve hit it off right away with 2 people in the last 10 years- Ben and my best friend Jennah. I got on amazingly well with so many people right away, it was amazing, these women where funny and smart and fun, I wish I could take them all to my knitting group! There was one person in particular who I latched onto right away, I joked with her on the first day that if she wanted to get rid of me she just needed to kick backward, I’d probably be behind her. I call her my new foreign BFF, Kellie-
I missed her as soon as I got home. 
Why do all the great people live so far away, Jennah in Texas, Kellie in New Zealand! She is such an awesome person and I can’t believe just how much I liked her, I mean I knew I liked her online, but talking with her was so easy, not just joking but talking, hanging out, it was so easy and fun, know what I mean? If that wasn’t enough she bought herself in to my heart 
Look what she got me-
I’ve been coveting a Lady B in dutch treat forever! Plus, before she left she gave me NZ candy which was essentially pineapple flavored Charleston chews, yuuuummy.
There was a lot of laughing.
There was a lot of money spent (remember my haul)-
There was knitting… I’d say a lot… but there wasn’t’ as much as I was expecting. I honestly thought my shy ass would be watching movies in the corner and knitting alone all weekend. I moved around and laughed and talked so much that it took about a day for me to really start knitting.
There was sock trying on-
(hey, that awfully pretty sock Kellie is trying on? That’s Perfect Day Yarns, baby, it’s Beat Sock in the colorway Jungle)
There was spinning-
and there were classes. Cookie’s class was too early for my brain to work (9am is too early how sad) and turns out I’m just not interested in designing my own socks. But it was very interesting to hear how she she thinks and to pick up tricks about adjusting patterns and sock construction. Plus she had samples of some of her socks and getting to see them in person made me fall in love with patterns I had no interest in previously.
Before the Fling I was pussying out of Wendy’s class because it was circulars and toe up and I wasn’t feeling the love and didn’t do the homework. Thursday night while out to eat with a group of Flinger’s I got yelled at to take the damn class! I then pleaded not having yarn or circular needles. I was given yarn by Kellie and circulars by Leslie and a copy of the homework from Maya, so I gave in and said I’d go to the class after all. I’m not a Wendy reader, at least I wasn’t till now. After meeting her I can see why people like her so much. And the class? It rocked. I struggled with the 2 circs at first but it turned out to be fun. I did my heel and my toe and I was so proud-
I already have plans to buy some smaller circs and give toe up on 2 circs an honest try with a pair of socks 
Last but not least, my roommate, Amy-
I brought her yarn to make up for any snoring and coughing but she said I wasn’t bad to room with She was so sweet and lovely, she made a good roomie!
As for knitting while there- I fucked up my montego bay scarf and had to frog it, gah. I’ve given up on the yarn (yarn pirate merino tencel in butternut) it’s now in my trade section on Ravelry.
I finished my Roundabout Socks-
Pattern- Roundabout Socks
Yarn- Knitting Like Crazy, Cherry Garcia
Needles- DPN’s size US1 & 1 1/2
For- me
and made a big dent in my Monkey socks knit with the Perfect Day Yarns Yarn Haven sock club May colorway On Maumee (which are now hiding from me)-
I love that I can spend all morning writing a post in between fits of coughing and not being able to breath.
