I don’t know HOW I slept last night, but when I woke up this morning, I could barely move my neck and right shoulder. Ouch! I could barely reach down to my dresser drawer with my right hand. So, I’ve been slathering on Blue Stuff* (provided by Mom), and taking Advil, and trying to be kind to my right shoulder all day. I am feeling a bit better, but . . . sheesh! How is it possible to go to sleep feeling perfectly fine, and then sleep in such a way as to cause serious aches and pains but not to wake up? You’d think the brain–sleeping or not–would think at some point, “I should probably move the neck,” but no! It’s like falling asleep on your arm–you wake up in the middle of the night with a dead weight attached to your shoulder and then wonder why the internal alarm system didn’t go off sooner.

But, see? I jinxed it. I said yesterday that Chappy’d had four days of walks in a row . . . and then today, of course, I couldn’t hold the leash. Poor boy. It was about 50-degrees today, too, and would have been a great day for a walk.

All I can say is that I hope this won’t interfere with my knitting tonight. If I don’t have any new pictures to show soon, you’re going to think this has become a Reading-and-Chappy blog.

I did, however, make a knitting-related purchase today, for which I entirely blame Liz/Lizzy. She should know I have no self-control and shouldn’t show me these things! (Yep, there I go, passing the blame again.)

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Now, we had so much fun with yesterday’s reading-related meme, let’s join in with this week’s Booking Through Thursday

This week’s questions are from Cate.

1. Do you have any books that are signed by the author? A couple, but not many. I did get Kaffe Fassett’s signature in my copy of Family Album.
2. Do you have a story behind the autograph? Um, well, Stephen Huneck drew a picture of Chappy inside one of his books, which was pretty cool.Mom’s got the best story, though–a friend of hers lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, including a lot of her Martha’s Vineyard paraphenalia (her father had been one of the lighthouse keepers when she was growing up). Well, when Mom went to MV last December, she went to the bookstore and it turned out that Linsey Lee, the author of “More Vineyard Voices: Faces and Voices of Island People” was signing books. And that Mom’s friend was one of the people interviewed in the book. The author wrote a very sweet inscription on the page with S’s picture, which Mom sent as a very-special Christmas gift. But–even more–when the manager of the bookstore (Edgartown Books) heard the story, she asked for the friend’s address so she could send her a few Island books, just because. How’s that for a good book-signing story??

* Note: I certainly found the Blue Stuff to be helpful, and Mom swears by it, but apparently there was a lawsuit objecting to their claims of pain relief. Who knew?

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