Hells Bells will it never end?

So my kids come home for spring break sick. Of course being the little germ spreaders they are ,I get sick. Not too bad, little scratchy throat for a couple days, some sinus pain and pressure for 2 days, mild cough, nothing productive or scary (bronchitits=scary) I wake up monday morning not being able to take a deep breath....I'm thinking it's sore muscles from all the coughing over Easter. Tuesday morning, I just can't breath unless they are shallow breaths... so I go off huffing and puffing to the dr. office. He takes one look at me and his eyes go kinda funny looking and he calls for his nurse to come in with the ekg machine, glances back at me and says "I just have to make sure you don't have something life threatning going on here" So I start huffing and puffing a little quicker.... think beginning lamaze :he he he who: he he he who! Too bad I won't end up with a newborn out of this!! :-/ Then it's off for a chest x-ray down the street, and a wait for a call from him. He takes my cell # and tells me he'll call me within 2 hrs. Well he called me back in about 45 min and tells me to head over to the ER to get a ct scan, there is something in my lower lobe of my left lung (and this is what I get for stopping smoking?!?!!) {41 days and counting} Thankfully I didn't have to be admitted, but it still took a little under 8 hrs to come up with a diagnosis of LLLP Left lower lobe pneumonia. Now I don't know about you, but I thought pneumonia comes with a cold... a big nasty sloppy cold, lots of snot, lots of congestion. And it's NOT painful! Wrongo bucko... it can be a slight case of the sniffles that just migrate into your lungs and it is so freaking painful!!! I have had numerous surgeries, spontanious pnumothorax (collapsed lung out of the blue) and I'll tell you I was beginning to think this was another lung collapse! FARK!!! Looking up at God..... Haven't I done enough of this crap already??......

Hey, I guess I am here for a reason.... I must not have knit enough.....

Where has the time gone??!!!!!

WOW! Jan. 16th was my last post to this blog! I can't believe it.... my, oh my, how time flies when you are knitting!! I just finished my Lady Eleanor, and with confirmation from Cory and Trisha at Nana's Knitting Shop that I didn't ruin it during blocking, I can relax and tie knots for the next day or so!
Let's see, what else have I been doing other than dreaming of what to knit next?? My husband and I, along with a co-worker of his drove to Starved Rock State Park a couple weekends ago. We had heard that there were American Bald Eagles that winter over at the park. Who woulda thunk it? Bald Eagles less than an hour and a half from my house!!! Joe gave my husband great advice on purchasing a camera for my last birthday, so we went to take some pictures of these "supposed eagles" that were rumored to be there. Holy crapola!! We weren't out of the car 2 minutes and we scared our first eagle out of the tree we parked under!! We watched as this magnificent bird swooped down and picked a fish right out of the water not 30 feet in front of us and flew off to the nest. Every single one of us was beaming from ear to ear!! I had goosebumps most of the day.... not from the cold, but seeing these birds. At the end of the day (trekking over the ice) we probably saw between 25-30 eagles. What a great adventure it was!! The very next day, just the hub and I took off for downtown Chicago to see the lake that we had heard was frozen solid. Mmmhhmm.... skeptics that we are we had to see it for ourselves before it warmed up. (yea, warm in feb. is like hell freezing over!) The pictures I got speak for themselves. The ice was on average 4 inches thick. The next day on the news there was a reporter standing in the exact place we were and the whole lake was shifting with the waves underneath, so I guess we have impeccable timing!