Evil Triplets

New Start! New Start!!

2008-09-10T15:17:00.001-07:00

It's official!! EK and I are finally insane!!! All the crazy hours of work has finally caught up to us, took our marbles and tossed them out to sea!

But far be it for me to complain since in those few seconds of insanity, we found our joy for stitching again!!! We've both been in such a horrible rut of late, and while we both felt bad about it, nothing seem to work in getting us going.

Today, oh glorious day, we have decided on new starts, a double SAL of sorts.... Tiger and Dimensions:

White Lightning for EK:

Regal Tiger for me:

Let the good times roll....

My Misadventure in the ER

2007-08-09T09:23:00.000-07:00

Warning.....This story is rated PSF: Possible Spew Factor. Do not read if you are eating, have recently eaten, are thinking about eating soon or currently drinking in front of your computer. And whatever you do, DO NOT Google for images to find out what it actually looks like. This reporter is not responsible for any nausea caused by reading this Totally True Story. Names have been changed to protect the guilty.

Let's start by saying that "I" have allergies. Actually, let's start with have you ever seen the movie - The Blob? If not go ahead and Google for pictures. It will give you a nice visual. So I have allergies and I came to realize that during certain times during allergy season, I saw a blob-like substance in my nose. I know what you are thinking, blob-like?, you mean snot right? NO, I don't mean snot. I mean a solid gelatinous looking thing that is stuck inside my nose and won't come out no matter how hard I blow. I figure that if I can't blow it out, it probably belongs there. So I use Nasal Steroids when it really bothers me and pretty much ignore it otherwise.

Why not see a doctor? Well I got the steroids and it doesn't hurt and I got this thing about not going to see a doctor unless something is falling off. Boy does that come back to bite me in the arse. So last night I'm taking a shower and get an itch in my nose, so I blow it. And something feels weird. Like I have this pressure on my upper lip that wasn't there before. Ever see the movie, The Grudge with Sarah Michelle Gellar? Or at least the scene where she is in the shower, washing her hair and she feels something weird and freaks out while the audience sees the hand in her hair? So of course, since I didn't see any snot, I reached up to my nose and felt it....The Blob. I'm like, WTF! Holey Sheet (DH and I are trying to not cuss in front of DS so Holey Sheet, Cawd Hammit, you get the picture). I get out of the shower, wrap a towel around me and look in the mirror. OMFG! I blew my sinuses out of my nose! I new it wasn't snot cuz it was too solid, and totally attached. (Yes, I tugged gently. Who wouldn't?) So now I'm totally freaking out and call DH and tell him I need help. I preface our conversation with, "I'm sorry this is totally gross, but I need help" and pull down my hand from my nose to reveal the Blob. His eyes widened and he took a step back as if it was contagious! He looks at me in absolute horror as if I had suddenly grown a penis. (Think - The Crying Game movie shock, the girl is actually a guy with a penis). Then morbid curiosity gets the better of him and he steps in for a closer look.

"Can you blow it out? Pull on it?" he asks. Thank you captain obvious, I would have never thought of that!

"No. Should I keep trying? Can you blow your sinuses out your nose?", I asked.

"Yes. Don't know. Let me Google it", he answers with a horrified look in his face.

In the meantime, I go back in front of the mirror for a closer inspection. Now if you don't quite have a visual yet, think of a naked guy running away from an ax-wielding maniac flopping his family jewels all over the place. In fact, the Blob looked like an inflated scrotum. (So my dear kind triplet who is laughing hysterically as I tell her this story the next morning...Thanx Mezzo!...christens it - THE DONG).

Well, the Dong is not going anywhere except flopping under my nose. So I go and help DH research and thanks to Google and Wiki, we think we found what it is...a Nasal Polyp. (Don't Google nasal polyp - reality is so not as funny as this story).

"So....should I just shove it back in? Or go to Urgent Care?", I ask calmly. CALMLY, you wonder? Well, I'm not in pain or bleeding and since I'm pretty confident that it is not brain matter, I figure that running around like a headless chicken will only make the Dong flop around more.

DH ponders, broods, daydreams, considers the meaning of life. "Urgent Care", he finally responds.

BTW - have I mentioned this is at night and its now 9:15pm? So we look for one that is opened and close by. Find one but they do not have ENT (ear/nose/throat) docs on call. I head out alone (DH has to stay with DS who is 5 and really, REALLY wanted to see mommy's nose ouchie). Then half way there, I realize that our alma mater has a medical school and a huge hospital and its close by so they've got to have ENTs on call. So I call DH on cell phone and have him call them to make sure. They do so I go to their Urgent Care/ER.

Since the Dong is disgusting, I cover it with a tissue in order to protect little kids psyche and old folks from croaking at the sight of my Dong. About 2 hours later, I finally get to see the nurse who will assess the nature of my emergency.

"So. What brings you in tonight?", asks the pleasantly bored nurse.

Slowly I move my tissue away from my nose and ....TADAAAH!

Her eyes widen. She cocks her head sideways. I see the startled look in her eyes and think, Wow, ER nurse and she's surprised! THATS SOOOOO NOT GOOD! "Well. That's different", she replies.

"I think it's a nasal polyp", I said.

"Had it before?" she asks as she turns back to her computer and types away.

"Nope. Googled it and Wikipedia. But I didn't want to yank without being sure in case it's something that I should keep". Yank the Dong...Now that's funny.

"Good for you. But I don't know how you managed to not yank it. I don't have a room but I can give you a mask which has got to be better than the tissue and you can wait in the waiting room." That sucked but I wasn't in pain and I wasn't bleeding so I take it and go back into the waiting room with my SARs mask and continue to read my book. Life Lesson: Always take a book, a Gameboy, or you MP3 when going to the doctor's cuz if you expect to be there an hour, it usually means you'll be there for 5 hours.

So I get called in around 11:40pm to wait some more on a gurney in a hallway cuz there is still no rooms available. So I again, wait and wait on a gurney in front of the bathroom. Then another nurse comes around and is waiting for her patient who is now using the bathroom. She sees me and asks if I'm waiting for the bathroom. I tell her no, I was told to park it and wait for the doc. She looks at me and asks,

"So, what are you in for?" Slowly I pull the mask aside (don't want the Dong to get tangled). "WHOA!" (like the keanu reeves whoa!). "Tell me about it", I reply.

So finally I get to see the doc, tho I'm still on the gurney. So I'm figuring, that he's gonna have the same reactions as the nurses and I'm gonna have to tell him i think its a polyp. So I do my now well rehearsed, TAADAAAH!! But if he was surprised, he didn't show it. Nerves of Steel, MAN!

He looks into nose, both nostrils. "Yeah, I see you have polyps on both nostrils". Both? BOTH?!?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN BOTH!!??? "But the other one is small." Well, compared to the Dong...who wouldn't feel inadequate? So he takes my history and calls the ENTs.

He comes back about 20 min later with options. "Normally, ENT would take you into surgery to get them it out and in the process get both out. But since that is not an option for you we have two other options. I can shove it back in and we can treat it periodically until you can have surgery."

(The thought of the DONG being shoved back in and having to deal with it for months is unappealing to say the least and I can't help but think hemorrhoids. )

"Or we can pack it with cocaine, then inject lidocaine and something else and I can cut it off." Thank GOD, he's offering to cut off the Dong tonight!

I question the safety of the medications and when I'm satisfied, I say, "CUT IT OFFFFF!" So the Dong is wrapped in a cocaine soaked pad and we wait for it to work. If I understood it correctly, its to restrict blood flow since polyps are rich in blood. So I finally get a room at around 1 am and they start to prep for the castration of my DONG. The original nurse sees that I'm still there and he's going to cut it off and so she gleefully volunteers to assist. I secretly think she has something against Dongs. So they unpack the Dong and now its no longer the DONG but rather a shriveled raisiny pathetic shadow of its previous glory.

It was cold!!!! SHRINKAGE!!!!! Mezzo yells out in defense of the original DONG.

The coke shrank it. Life Lesson for the Guys: Stay far, far away from cocaine. At least be sure not to wrap you family jewels in a coke soaked gauze. So now instead of a fat grape in my nose it was a long old raisin. The Doc and nurse are surprised at the shrinkage but it gives the doc more room to maneuver. So he pulls out a speculum (Yes ladies, just like the duck bill at the OBGYN but thankfully smaller) to open up my nose and goes to work.

OMG, tho I couldn't feel any pain, I did feel him cutting. Very unnerving to say the least. I moved my arms cuz at first they were laying on my stomach but i realized that if I jerked, I could hit him so the nurse asks, you ok? "I'm fine just don't want to accidentally hit the doc", and should have added...and end up with a nose ring.

So he cuts it off and I can immediately breathe better. He asks me if I want to see it. Well, HELL YEAH! Gotta see it out. When it's something that disgusting and it comes out of your body, you gotta be curious. Kinda like I was when I delivered DS. I was the talk of the nurse's station but thankfully not so Ripley's Believe It or Not that they felt they had to call all of the hospital staff to take a look at it. To get an idea about size, look at your pinky. Take about 60% off the total size and that was the size of my lumpy PINK DONG!!!! Who says women have penis envy? We can get our noses to grow one!

It's Finished!!!!

2007-06-13T21:51:00.001-07:00

Floral Retreat
Dimensions Gold Collection
Stitched over 2 on 28ct cream linen
Cross-stitch and half crossed with a varied number of strands
Finished: June 13th, 2007

All done, with a week to spare... whoot whooot! This chart was very well designed and charted.

Christine, thanks for all your cheering and encouragement. ^.^

Floral Retreat Update

2007-06-11T15:05:00.001-07:00

Almost there...... can you feel it, can you feel it? ;)

Floral Retreat Update

2007-05-23T07:43:00.000-07:00

Finally!!! The latest picture for Floral Retreat. Deadline is coming up.... just a month to go. Fortunately I'm not feeling the pressure.... yet. ;)

What's This? Something New??!!

2007-05-21T11:24:00.000-07:00

Weekly update? What might that be, pray tell?

Mwa-hahahahaha.

Yes, yes.... will have a picture tomorrow or the next day. Not much done, games intruded. ;)

So much for weekly posts! 5/14

2007-05-14T11:05:00.000-07:00

So this Tiger. Took some time off stitchin 'cuz i was sick and kinda bored and unmotivated but I blame that on being sick. That's my story and I'm stickin to it. So my self imposed deadline came and went and there is very little chance it will get done by the end of this month but its about 1/3 done. So that's progress.

Oh, if you are wondering about the green circle...its from me eating a choccie mint patty at the time. HOW that happened is still a mystery as the whole thing was in my mouth at the time. Maybe next time I will bite and chew rather than suck! LMAO

I like it... I love it....

2007-04-25T11:56:00.000-07:00

I want some more of it.... (it's that Tim McGraw song)

I think this is setting a good precedence with these update pictures once a week. It's quite amazing to see the progress we can make when A isn't ready smut! LOL! I do think this deadline thing has helped lots.... not sure how long we can sustain this though.

Floral Retreat 4/23

2007-04-25T11:51:00.000-07:00

Way late post..... work taking up too much time. Need to win the lotto. A, are you on that?!! ;)

Hmm... this is scary how A and my schedules end up the same.... missed a few days of stitching too cos the stupid pillow I lean on when I stitch it too hard and my back was kicking up a fuss. Will leave the sicko-ness all in A's court though. Mwa-hahaha.

Update for this week:

Royal Tiger 4/22

2007-04-23T11:31:00.000-07:00

Eye got my eye on you! It's about 24 days timewise. Missed about 3 days of stitchin this week cuz I was a sicko. Well, ok...I'm always a sicko, but I was actually ill last week. LMAO

Floral Retreat

2007-04-19T15:00:00.000-07:00

Apparently I have been remiss in my blogging. It's all this stitching going on I tell ya... but hey lookie, A and I are posting regular updates. ;)

WIP date: April 16th, 2007

Regal Tiger 4/17 Update

2007-04-17T11:09:00.000-07:00

So this is about 3 weeks worth of working at it. I've actually been pretty good despite some froggage and it seems to be going really fast. Prob 'cuz there isn't a lot of "detail stitching" *snark.

Following in her footsteps..

2007-04-09T22:30:00.000-07:00

... here's the new piccie of Floral Retreat. Has to be finished in about 10 weeks for my mom, which makes it about 500 stitches a day.... which would make it 1000 stitches tomorrow since I didn't stitch today! Egads!!!

hallefrackinluya! its a post

2007-04-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

So if you scroll down a bit, you will see the pic of what this is supposed to look like when its finished. This is about 2 weeks (timewise) worth of work. Good start! It needs to be done in about 4-5 weeks as a b-day pressie.

Metamorphosis Update

2007-02-11T09:59:00.000-08:00

Ta-dah!!!! (Finally... hehehehe)

New Starts

2007-01-04T15:34:00.000-08:00

A and I started early on our Christmas gifts this year. Ok... they were started towards the end of last December, and ok... it's ONLY our Christmas gifts for each other. Sadly, I can't post any piccies here cos the floss and fabbie are supposed to be a surprise.

I'm kinda freaking out cos I get so anal about giving gifts cos I'm always afraid the recipient would hate it and be too polite. Been there, done that, and all that. *giggle* Fortunately, everyone I've showed it too has loved it, and I'm loving the colors the more I stitch. So I'm thinking, A can always send it back to me on the occasion that she doesn't have my good taste. Mwa-hahahaha!!!

2007 SAL Plans

2006-12-13T14:17:00.000-08:00

A and I have put into motion our 2007 stitch-a-long plans, NO WAY set in stone, and will probably be subjected to many, many changes as the days go by.

#1. Dimensions' "Regal Tiger". We are only allowed to start this AFTER we've finished 2 pages of our girls. Me: Meta; A: Motherhood. EK has been trying to talk me into a Jan. 1 start with the Coven, and I think if A and I are really good, we'd be able to get things done. I have 2 Christmas gifts to finish, hopefully by the end of the week, and then it's Meta all the way. Well, for 2 pages at least. Mwa-hahahaha.

2. Per Segno Per Filo's Vis-a-vis and Nappe. A will be stitching Nappe for me, colors etc a surprise, and I will be stitching Vis for her, same goes for the color. These were supposed to be our gifts to each other this Christmas. But since we're still young and in our prime, we thought we'd live a little and make them NEXT year's Christmas gifts instead. HAHAHA. We're planning on stitching these in conjunction with Regal Tiger and our gals, cos we're thinking these shouldn't take us too long to stitch up. Famous last words.

3. We're also planning on stitching flowers for our moms: A is planning on doing Tulip Trio and I will be doing Floral Retreat.

4. Depending on A, we will also either start on Caron Vinson's Gothic Fairy Attitude for me and Glam Gothic Fairy for her; OR Eye of the Tiger for me and another tiger design for A (can't find the link for the one she likes right now.)

According to A, we also have to start on Taj Mahal by the end of next year. Also, out of the blue, she yelled "MIRA!!!!" The girl is scaring me.... OH, and today I get an email from her with the subject "Evil on its way". That's what she's calling the package she's mailing me. I shudder at the mere thought. Oh yes, however could I forget the 3 Sara Butcher charts she gifted me with?

I can almost hear the Bandits cackling in glee in anticipation of all these starts. But mark my words, A and I are planning on working on these one or two at a time so that we'll have a slew of finishes.

Well, you know what they say about well-laid plans. ;)

Me and My Gal 11/6

2006-11-06T12:30:00.000-08:00

Progress is the word of the day! Yippeee!!!!!

Before:
Now:

Oh Aaaaayyyy....

2006-11-05T20:40:00.000-08:00

Look what I found for you... don't forget to intermittently wipe the drool off your face. Mwa-hahaha.

Not for the faint of heart...

2006-11-03T11:10:00.000-08:00

A sends me this link today, and we feel that we should share it with all of you other out of the kindness of our hearts.

So, all you dog lovers but then again maybe it's dog luuuvers, dive right in. Hmmm umm, perhaps that phrasing is not the best one to use in this case....

My Other Girl

2006-10-25T16:19:00.000-07:00

Here she is, after 4 Sundays. The yellows are a little darker than I thought they'd be, so I'm a little worried about that. I saw Judy's WIP of her today too, and she's started on the face, and that turned out pretty cool, so looking forward to getting the face in soon. Anways, here she is, as of Oct. 22. Part of a wing, some moon or sun (???) and some tufts of hair. LOL!

Me and My Gal

2006-10-17T09:46:00.000-07:00

Before and After! Yes, it's true, I have been stitching. The baby is almost done and you can see hints of her ear. It's progress! Yippeeeeee!!!

Who Said Women Aren't Visual....?

2006-10-16T16:57:00.000-07:00

So I had NUTHIN! better to do one day and put this little collage together. It served several purposes:

Eye Candy
ET's Harem
World Building

Baby made a point when I complained about my writing, of lack thereof. It will never be perfect. There will always be some tweaking to be done. So JUST SHUT UP AND DO IT!!!! Since I needed a little visual help, I created this (Mezzo DEMANDED to have some of her favs included too) to help he "see" my characters. Hmmmm, all guys? Who would have thought? LOL

Phoenix Rising

2006-10-09T21:26:00.000-07:00

Here we are, progress from weekend #2 of which I spent a mere few hours on Sunday. Getting my butt in gear to stitch more during the weekend could be a good plan, but I haven't been feeling like doing too much lately except for vegetating on the couch or messing with blogger templates. Ok, ok, I admit, it's mostly the latter. Hehehe. But that part's over and done with, so we should be seeing more stitchy time... so the voice inside my head keeps saying. *snort*

PHOENIX RISING
Artist: Linda Ravenscroft
Chart: HAED No background
Fabric: Fire Burst
2 over 1 tented on 32ct lugana

I've been stitchin!!!

2006-10-09T12:26:00.000-07:00

Yes! That's right, I've taken a break from reading those helpful and enlightening self-help books (ET catchphrase for: smutty erotica) and did some stitchin on my gal this weekend. Now all I need to do is find my digicam to take a piccy. Dacuteone (aka CoitusInterruptus) loooves my gal and thinks its a "Mommy and Me" picture but doesn't quite remember when mommy was a mermaid! LOL