a bit less tired

[dichroic]

I spent all weekend vaguely unwell, but I don’t really know why – no real symptoms except for being completely exhausted, and when I ate something, from Saturday night on, I’d just feel even more tired and a tiny bit queasy. I seem to be better now. One theory is that I just didn’t eat enough Saturday – I spent the day out at Carnaval, watching parades and hanging out. But I did have a bratworst, french fries, and 2-3 (small) beers, so I just don’t know. I did the back-of-the-hand pinch test and it didn’t look like dehydration.

I was eventually cured by dumplings, oddly enough. We’d been invited over by a coworker of mine and his boyfriend (who is from Hong Kong) for dumplings, and despite feeling like I wanted to stay on the couch, I forced myself to go. We had a good time, and the dumplings were delicious. For a while I was too tired even to converse much and had the same sinking feelings after eating (I tried to just have a couple dumplings and take a break, which worked because they were cooking them in batches) but by the end of the evening I felt a lot better.

Whatever. I just hate when a weekend is wasted that way.

On the plus side, I finished the first pair of mitts I’ve designed and now I’m making another pair, in a larger size. If any woman reading this happens to have a tape measure at hand and wants to be helpful, it would really help a lot if you tell me the circumference of your hand at the base of your fingers, and the distance from wrist crease to base of fingers, plus whether you’d consider your hands small, medium or large. Mine are very small, and the first pair fit me; I just don’t know how much bigger to make the others. I’d planned to go to knitting group and measure the other knitters, who would understand, but on Wednesday I’d had an intense (not bad, just intense) day at work and all I wanted was to lay down in a quiet room with no one talking. (Come to think of it, maybe that was the start of the weekend exhaustion.)

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.

Comments

[antisoppist]

circumference at base of fingers = 17 cm
wrist to base of fingers = 11 cm
middle finger length = 8 cm (not that you asked but I get told I have long fingers and I wouldn't want mittens that were too short)

I think I have small hands.

I'm knitting my first pair of mittens at the moment and am on my third attempt because the first two were enormous.