Lots of changes........

Let's see....I guess the biggest change is Tory coming home and living with us. Actually, it doesn't FEEL like a change.....it just feels RIGHT. Like this is where she belongs. She's a totally different person than she was.....so much the wiser. Isn't it sad that pain is what makes us wiser......we are a pretty dumb species, I guess. Anyway, it's a joy having her here and I'm loving it.
She got an apartment up the street and will be moving in there at the end of this month. She's counting the minutes, I think.....between our 2 dogs and 3 cats and her cat, the poor girl can't stop sneezing and sniffling!

Jeff called and will be coming home on Christmas Eve!!!! I am so thrilled. What a Christmas present!!!! All I need now is Emily, sigh. I miss her so much! I love talking to her on the phone and wish our relationship IN PERSON can be like it is now on the phone. I guess it's better because neither one of us is in the other's face/space.

I am trying to get off the Ambien. I **REALLY** don't want to take it anymore. But, now my sleep is hit or miss and I'm having a terrible time. Friday night I took 2 Benedryl at 1830HRS with .5mg of Klonipin. Jim and I were asleep by 2030HRS! So why did we sleep until 1130HRS that morning????? Then we ate and went back to bed at 1300HRS and slept until 1700HRS! What the heck is up with that????
Last night, I took some doxylamine sulfate and I was still up until after 0300HRS. Needless to say, I didn't make Mass this morning with Jim and Richard.
I got up around 1100HRS and then spent the entire day on a Knitting Marathon. I got 10 rounds done on my PI Shawl!!!! That's 5760 stitches!!!! Now I just have 2 more Chart A's to repeat and then the edging and I will be done. BUT, I'm still only at 48% done! But the shawl part is 71% done.........so 29% of the shawl is the edging!!!!!! I guess that's because there are 576 rows of edging to do.
While I was awake last night I fixed the stitch in my shawl. It turns out that it wasn't a broken ply, but rather a dropped ply!!! Here are the pics.

This one shows how the shawl is being held together by one skinny little ply!!!!!

I didn't pick up both plies when I made the stitch.....lesson learned!!!!

Here's the result of today's Knitting Marathon. I did almost a whole Chart A section!!!