9:22 am
    Late already but too bad. I have a lot of bunny work to do today. I need to move about some cages. I will probably use one for the 2 young white babies, then move Bavarian Cream and her babies to the long cage. I may eventually need the really big cage again temporarily. Then I’ll have to get ready – pack and all – for a trip to our family house. I’m not feeling very sociable and in a way don’t really want to go, but it being my sister’s 60th I must. And, damn, I should have thought of some sort of gift. After all I gave my other sister a skein of angora, though I don’t think she has actually used it. Still, it was a present and I have nothing for ds#2. I suppose, since it is not actually her birthday yet, I could send something next week…. But what????? I absolutely HATE the whole process of gift giving. It is a fear thing – that I won’t find the right thing. And probably part of it is that I actually don’t much like getting gifts since so often they are things I don’t want and then what do I do with them? I don’t like having random extraneous stuff around. So I don’t  want to do the same thing to someone else. It seems so wasteful to give them some random thing, that will either end up cluttering up their space, or else that they will need to get rid of somehow. And of course, one feels guilty throwing away what was a gift. That was the glory of our old “crap swaps” that we used to do with the investment club. We could get rid of stuff we did not want and get something we actually might be able to use. The best was when I got chocolate and got rid of the singing turkey! Now I just bring stuff to the Take it or Leave it, and that works.
    But back to a gift for the sis…. Earings? Something I have made… but what? I do have that angora purse, it is kind of funky, but maybe she would like it, and if she didn’t well she could give it away…… I doubt that I will ever sell it. I certainly cannot give her anything warm to wear, she would hardly find that useful in Virginia. I don’t really want to think about it. See, this is one of the problems with gifts, I obsess about them.
    I went to work again yesterday and it went well except for right around lunch time. I got the worst case of butt burn I think I have ever had. Anyone reading my blog will not have any idea what I am talking about… I suppose I could add an explanation. To keep it short: 2 years ago I had my colon removed (UC and precancerous cells). The surgeon formed what is called a “J-pouch” which allows the small intestine to be reattached to the anus, so I do not have to have an ostomy bag. This is good, but one consequence for me is occasional “Butt Burn” which is exactly what it sounds like…  Anyway it really sucked and it really hurt. Usually it does not last that long. I didn’t even want to eat, but I made myself eat just the meat part of some stew with carrots I had brought. I am wondering if the carrots from the night before had been the problem, I’ve had trouble with them before. And I had more psyllium, and after a while I did feel a bit better and then I went upstairs to finish setting up the metabolism monitors and I think it was enough of a distraction and I did feel better.
    Last night I went to a friend’s for pizza with several other old friends I was not feeling very sociable then either, and it was kind of wearing. What a total putz I am. Before that I did get some more carding done and that was much more satisfying.  I’m about half-way through what will be over a pound of these nice batts.
    Ok – meditate and then get a move on….
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