Exactly how sick IS that dog???

Why do people always say "I'm sick as a dog"? How sick is the dog? Do dog's get more sick than humans? Regardless of how sick Fido is, I think I might have him beat. I've been running a temperature for 2 days now. Last night I thought I would drown the sweat was rolling off of me so badly. Stupid me tried to go to work today. I made it 5 hours. Which considering I felt like I was living inside a marshmallow, is something I guess. They weren't too happy with me when I said I needed to go home, but at that point I was doing no one any good, and probably infecting everyone I worked with. Everyone else had either already had this or was getting over it, so I thought I might skate by for a change. No such luck.

Anyway, I obviously didn't get Mom's suit done in time for her birthday party, so I clipped a swatch off a scrap, and safety pinned it to the pattern envelope so she could see what it she was getting. In hindsight, this is probably a much wiser way to go, than to finish it and then it not fit right. Atleast this way I can have her try it one before I finish off the seams and hem. I did find two other pieces of suiting that I really like for her. One is a brown, almost corduroy. I know that sounds really funky, but its not. Corduroy is the only thing I can equate it to that a non-sew-er would relate to. It has micro-fine ribbing, a little stretch, and a little nap to it. The other piece is a tencal type fabric with a good amount of stretch to it in a dark teal. I'll try and get some pics posted soon.

On the knitting front, I found the yarn I want to make my S.O. 's sweater in. He likes blue, and I fell into a great deal at Michael's. I found this lovely dark blue Bernat Berella "4" for $1.00/skein! How lucky is that? The only problem I can forsee is he is a BIG man, and I want to do a cable sweater for him. I think yardage may present a problem, so I'm pouring through all the sweater patterns I can find to get the right one that uses the right amount of yarn. He wears a 3X Tall, so this is quite a challenge, especially in my drug induced state.

I found loads of other goodies this weekend, which I will post pics of soon. TTFN, I'm off to take more drugs and look at pattern's until I'm cross-eyed.