I'm still here and I am knitting. Work is typing and editing all the time so sometimes the last thing I feel like doing is blogging when I've been dealing with Word and FrameMaker on and off during the course of the day.

So, I'm still working on the ribby cardigan. I've finished the back and the left front. About 1/3 the way up the right front. After the sleeves, it's just a simple collar so the finishing up shouldn't take too long.

What else have I been doing? Well, finished up the last of the belly dance classes I've been taking through the Fairfax County Parktakes program. Next Sunday, I start Tribal style belly dance classes at an actual DANCE studio! I am very jazzed about this although I don't think American Tribal style (ATS) is my style either. I'm not into the showy choreography that is the cabaret style (what you're most likely to see in a middle eastern restaurant) but ATS is kind of boring looking when it's only one dancer...I think my style is kind of tribal meets burlesque...

Triburlesque!

At any rate, I start classes next Sunday morning। Hopefully the drive won't be a drag। I've been slowly acquiring materials for a suitable costume once I get my tribal on and my former instructor is going to put together a performance troupe so I'm thinking of joining that. I'd be THE tribal dancer and I'm also THE seamstress; I think I'm a shoe-in!!

My sister was down for a visit a few weekends ago. She looked much better and her hair is about an inch long. The day before she came down, she had written me an email that said her doctors think she might now have liver and lung cancer. Understandably, I was freaking out. Then when she gets here she explains that her liver and lung levels aren't showing up within the acceptable range in her tests and it may be more cancer or it may be the sarcoidosis she had about a decade ago is out of remission and that may be what's attacking her lungs and liver. She was supposed to have both a CAT and a PET scan this week. I haven't heard from her.