Yesterday I watched some Harry Potter (Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix) and dizzed all my big batts of the wool/angora/cashmere into balls of roving.  The roving is no where near perfect, there are big clumps and nepps and little felted bits but it is buttery soft.

And today I finally got to spin.  I only did one bobbin full, I would have liked to spin more but I had other things to do (I just imagine how much spinning I could get done if I didn’t have dishes or cleaning) so I had to quit.  The singles are coming out fine, a little bumpy and uneven and there is still some VM stuck in there but as a whole I’m pretty happy.  I’m shooting for a worsted weight two ply so I took some Peace Fleece worsted, which is a worsted weight two ply, and split the plys apart and I’m using that as a guide for how to spin my singles.  I’m doing just okay, I keep wanting to spin thinner so I just have to watch what I’m doing and keep correcting myself. 

Last week I spaced out an completely forgot about my blogiversary.  Friday the 17th marked my seventh year blogging and I know everyone says it, but I really can’t believe it’s been so long.  When I started there were less than a hundred knitting blogs and I had never heard of knitting socks.  I could do the whole Knitting Bloggers Webring in less than a day, in fact, I read every blog on the ring once a week.  It’s just amazing how much the online knitting and spinning world has grown and I’m so happy to be a tiny part of it.

I hate being uninsured.  I really, really hate it.  I need to go to the dentist again, it seems that I have a couple cavities.  I’ve put it off as long as I can but my mouth is really starting to hurt so I can’t put it off any more.  Luckily I have some money saved up and I can borrow any extra that I need from my parents.  I hate to get political, but I’m a prime example of why we need better health care access in the US.  I have chronic kidney problems, that I was born with, and go untreated because I don’t  have a few thousand dollars to shell out every few months to see a specialist and have the tests and check ups that I need or take the medication I’m supposed to have.  The only way I’ll be able to get any treatment is if something seriously goes wrong and I have to go to the ER, there’s been a few times when I thought that time had come but I waited it out.  A couple years ago I got an ear infection that was so bad the left side of my head swelled up and I could not hear out of my left ear for three days but I was broke so I didn’t go to the doctor.  I was seriously afraid I would lose my hearing forever.  I work now but I don’t make a lot of money, even with a mandate to buy insurance it would probably be cheaper for me to pay a penalty, if I could even get coverage since I have a pre-existing condition.  I hate hearing all this talk about Obama giving us socialized medicine, because his plan is nothing close.  I want socialized medicine, or at least something like what Canada or England or even China has.  I want to be able to go to the doctor when I’m sick and not worry about being able to afford it.  I don’t want to have to choose between getting my teeth fixed and going on a short vacation and dental care isn’t even being discussed when it should be.  This is an issue that is so frustrating.