god. Gargomel passed away yesterday (Monday, April 24th) I think he had a stroke or something because he looked like my grandma did right before she finally died after her big stroke. I was wrecked. So I took the rental car off roading--- that was fun.

AV Ford should have my car repairs done by tomorrow, hopefully. The bill? A jaw dropping, astounding $570 unless they don't find a problem with the emissions (which they SHOULD because you can SMELL GAS WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING AROUND!! grrr) it will be $88 more. Fuck. But the rental is covered so I will get most of my deposit back. Yay! It will go straight to AV Ford though, so boo.

I finished a calla lilly that I picked up from WildFiber in Santa Monica on Friday after I signed the papers to have my father cremated. Let's see... I watched Medium, last week's Smallville, and the 2 hour episode of Alias and now it is complete.

That's a quarter to show you scale. I haven't knit on size 10 needles in what seems like FOREVER!! I was shocked at how quickly the knitting went. The trickiest part was the light green area of the stem. Now all I have to do is thread a ribbon through the icord and weave in the end before felting away! Yippee.

Oh, and the remains from sp5 or something... I purchased a kpixie.com gift certificate but realized that my name would be included so decided to keep it for me. I finally got around to cashing it in on this:

Click the picture, but it's a needle felting kit to make itty bitty chickies. Yay! How cute. Of course, I am not 100% sure I should be handling anything that sharp at the moment so will probably have my sister hold on to them for me.

The doctors have me on lexapro and now zyprexa (olanzapine) for what they have decided is bipolar disorder. I was diagnosed in 2001 but was skeptical. I still am. However. In light of reading and personal notations on behavior, I am starting to realize that maybe they weren't wrong.

Mostly this comes from spending a greater part of my day thinking about how much fun it would be to go and try to flip the rental car over (as many times as possible) with myself in it. Even now as I write this I am thinking, "Hell ya! it would be a blast! What would it feel like to have the car be airborne... that is awesome!" Which is totally insane.