Miss Victoria

She was put to sleep on May 5th, 2009. She was definably different from other rats we've had; more stand-offish, hated to be held by anyone (or touched, really), not very interested in getting to know you. She was my stuck up lady, and putting her down was hard to do. I was thankful for my teacher, Barbie, for helping me out and administering the drug that stopped her pain, and understanding my tears.

So far as I could guess, I'd say it was probably liver failure, or something along that line. She had rapidly lost weight, showed little interest in food, and slowly started losing motor functions. She had agonal breathing, and was starting to go cold in her extremities. It was a hard choice to make, but I knew it was the right one to make when she no longer tried to squirm away when I touched her.

She's buried at a friend's house in Kentucky, the one I'll be living in for my last semester.

I'm making a pair of socks, kind of in memorandum for her. I designed the lace pattern myself, and the pattern will be available either for free, or a small amount of money. I'm knitting the socks in a dusty rose pink, which I think is perfect for her.


The post I promised before will come before next week, I've been busier than I thought, and I wanted to get new (and better) pictures of all my projects for the year so far.

Thanks for reading this.

I'm not dead.

But I have been fairly depressed and busy lately, and I fail at blogging apparently. Oh well, I'm here now.

School's been over for a while. This semester was crazy busy and hard. It was not a good idea to take 4 500 level classes at once. Finals week was so stressful, with studying and packing all my stuff up, and I ended up having to have Victoria put down. I'm thinking she had liver disease, as she had lost a bunch of weight, was having a hard time eating and drinking, and then she starting losing her movement. One of my teachers was able to put her down for me. I miss her little cranky butt, but she was in too much pain. Lacey's doing great still, all spunky and happy still. She sleeps more than she used to, but she is nearly 3 years old.

On the knitting front, I plan on doing one big update at the end of June, complete with a crazy amount of photos, of all my projects for the year so far.

Flash Your Stash, 2009

Okay, so not really the post I said it would be, I ran out of time today. Instead, here's pictures of my yarn and fiber stash, for the sake of Annual Flash Your Stash day.
Despite seeing how I really do have a good amount on fiber and yarn, I still want more. I'm trying to resist!
Well, at least new yarn. After all, I spin faster than I knit, and I plan on selling handspun.
But I still want more yarn!