Early Birthday Present!

I have been dyeing yarn for my shop lately. I started taking pictures of them, very necessary for a yarn shop.

Grape Harvest

Chocolate Covered Cherries

They look good, but the colors are... not always that spot on, especially in the purple.

So... I got this for an early birthday present today.

A REAL Camera!

My first REAL camera! It is a DSLR. The lens comes off and everything! George said he was ok with a fancy camera because he is attempting to re-kindle my love of photography that died 8 years ago when someone stole my camera. Here are the same yarns again.

Grape Harvest

Chocolate Covered Cherries

You can really see the color of the purple MUCH better. The detail is so much nicer as well. This was at night- it would be even better in the sunlight! I LOVE IT! I now have the requirement placed on me that I will take and upload at least one picture a day. I hope I can catch the AMAZING color of the trees here in the morning. They are so beautiful, nothing like it in Texas.

Rachael

Round 2

I noticed I had not posted for a while, and maybe someone out there is wondering what I am up to, so here goes. 

Last month of fertility treatment I took clomid for 7 days (I think it was 7). How does that medicine work? Well, first, you need to understand the beginning of a female cycle. The body produces estrogen until a part of the brain (pituitary) says that there is enough via some receptors. Well, my body was not producing enough, which is one of the reasons I was not ovulating. Clomid blocks the receptor in the pituitary from knowing there in enough estrogen, so the body produces more, thinking that the level has not yet been reached. After my taking this medicine for 7 days, my estrogen level was still too low. So I had to have 2 estrogen shots to increase it. After all that, I had 1 good follicle. Only 1. Well, that follicle did not decide to become an embryo, so I am back here again. This time, because of the failed experience with clomid, my doctor went straight to shots. 10 days of shots. Well, one thing happened from that so far- I got over my horrible fear of them out of necessity. 6 days into the shots, I went it to check my estrogen level, still too low! So now he has doubled my dose of shots. I think one problem is that my cycles are usually 5-6 weeks long, and they are forcing them to be 4 weeks. My body is used to producing the little estrogen it does manage around week 2-3, not 1-2. So I am just getting straight artificial hormones, rather than working with what my body can do. I guess it is all the same in the end. I have the next check in the morning (Tuesday) to see if this dose is good, or if I need even more. I don't even know what to think. Last month around this time my boobs were getting huge (that is very disconcerting actually, to have something about your appearance change so fast) and this month, not. I think I am a bit more crazy-like this month, but not quite as snappish.

If any of you are paying attention to what time this post is at, you can see I am a bit... nocturnal. I was back to a normal schedule earlier this week after lots of work. Then I woke up one morning, went downstairs, ate food, started knitting, and started developing a migraine. So I went back to sleep. I slept something like 18 hours in a 24 hour period, it was insane O.o It also completely ruined the work I had done to fix it -.- Now it sucks even more, because George is not awake at the same times as me, and it gets lonely. I will try to stay awake today and power through! (I said that yesterday as well...) This also can't be that good for trying to regulate my body's cycles, ugh. 

I have been dyeing LOTS OF YARN! Here is this months' work so far.

Still working with the graphic artist on the logo for my shop, but it is getting close. I also realized a few things I had no idea on how to do (like calculating shipping) and I am working those out. After dying 15 skeins this month, I can tell you I think I was meant to be a dyer. It is so satisfying, even after doing so many.

I have picked up Roller Coaster Tycoon as my new game I am obsessed with. Well, not so new. I have it on a Windows 95 virtual machine to get it to play right =P I remember some of the levels being hard as a kid, and they are not all that hard now. 

Time for food, and back to knitting while listening to my book- Wheel of Time Book 4.

Rachael