The heat is fixed! Yea! This was mainly taken care of by The Husband, while I was curled up on the couch, dozing. I think I may have been fighting something off, because Monday and Tuesday, I was a little congested, but feeling really run-down and tired. Today, I feel a lot better, but I'm more congested. Go figure.

Last night was Open House at school, preceded by the mad dash to get things mounted and hung on the wall. It actually went a lot faster than I'd thought. At 2:00, I was beginning to be afraid that I'd have to stay really late, but I was on my way home by 3:15. Everybody seemed to have a good time. They usually do, but it's always nerve-wracking, because I have the paranoid fear that someone is going to be unhappy with some aspect of their child's work and make a scene. I know it's crazy, but knowing is half the battle. I really appreciate team-teaching this year. It's so nice to be working with someone who's creative, and has so many good ideas, like writing down some of the funny things the children have said and putting them up on the wall.

I'm really digging the shawl pattern. I've used up a skein of yarn, and it's maybe a foot long. Fortunately, I've got, like, 11 more I can use. Now, though, I need to go start dinner.

Diamond Wars is over! Yea! I will not be nastycrat for an event for a long, long time. I am totally cool with having to ask my children at school "did you flush the potty and wash your hands?" because they're still learning to take care of themselves. The fact that I had to clean up after adults at this basic level disturbs me. I should not have to wipe urine off a toilet seat after a grown man, nor should I have to flush for an adult.

Our heat is out. Fortunately, the home warranty is still in effect, and someone should be calling tomorrow. Even though it's been chilly outside, the temperature inside the house has stayed in the 60's, mostly upper 60's.

I'm starting to get back into projects. I'm still working on one sock. I'm kind of waiting until Friday nights even out, so I can get some help with turning the heel of the second one, and write down the instructions this time. I've started working on a shawl with the wool/alpaca yarn I collected. I'm using a stitch pattern from the book of, well, knitted lace patterns I have. I can't remember the name off hand. It's just a rectangular shawl in pale blue worsted weight yarn. I'm going to finish Hunter's quilt, and then after I finish piecing it, I may start a new dress.

I'm getting back into my original persona, which is late period Irish. I think I'm going to go late 15th/early 16th century. Actually, I've kind of decided on Italian/Irish. Italian woman married to an Irishman. I've even decided on a name and device, Medb an Doire, "Medb (pronounced MAY-ve) of the oak grove." I may register an alternate Italian name later as my "birth" name. I even have that picked out, Mea Caterina Della Rovere. I was going to register that, but still go by Medb, figuring that my Irish husband picked that as my Gaelic name, but it would cause less confusion, I think, if I just register that as an alternate persona name. It kind of still works with wearing Turkish garb. There are a lot of portraits of Italian women, particularly from Venice, wearing Turkish enteri/yelek/caftans open over gowns, even closed over chemises.