Anna's this and that

Hi everyone! I've been missing in action for a month but here I reappear. Sometimes blogging is less important than other life things. As a shortcut I'll just say I'm still seeing doctor after doctor, making different tests and checks and I'll go on with that for the next months, till a certain issue is found out. Others have been discovered, so apart from more checks to do and a treatment to be ordered (kidney "sand", a lighter form of stones), I will undergo a surgery on March 18 to get something removed and tested. I try not to chicken out, but it's 20 years soon since I last have stayed in hospital and I got unused to having anything done to or in my body. The good (I won't know what's happening!) and bad (always that fear of not waking up...) thing is they'll make me sleep for the duration of the op' and if no complications, I should be home in the late evening or the next day. Hopefully the endoscopic procedure will be enough and they won't have to cut in the usual way. So, here's the big news in my current life. I was told I will have to rest a lot for 5-7 days and will probably feel pain, but what are pain killers for if not that? :) Anyway, I try not to stress too much even if the whole thing is a bit, well, uneasy. I'll remind you to cross your busy fingers for me that day!
H. will be here to take care of my stress, walk Happy and cuddle Toska :)

I've been sorting a lot at home and my camera just can't be found! It's decided to hide somewhere under a random bit of paper and it drives me nuts. Hopefull I'll find it today because I have lots to show!

A short stitching update:

- I'm almost done stitching the 5th of my PS private exchange and then I'll finish all of them off in one batch. Mind you, each of them will be finished differently and each is different from the others in colors and shape :) I used silks and overdyes and they look very cute even unfinished :)
- Nath' already sent me her piece and I'm expecting it to arrive tomorrow. I just can;t wait because if you know Nath', you know she is an awesome stitcher!
- I finished several samplers and other pieces. Two: The Blessing (Examplar) and Haste Ye Back need an additional skein of WDW to finish the background but otherwise they are done. I finished the recent reinder (Dash Away All) by Tanya Anderson (sorry I forgot the name, need to check) and today I received two more charts bought at her etsy shop. I was hoping for H. to receive one of them stitched and all for St. Valentine's but it's one of those cases when the mail plays tricks on you and it took 3 weeks to arrive. So I will stitch it today, finish tomorrow, this way I will still feel St. Valentine'ish tomorrow :) and offer it to him nicely packed in March. Hah!
- One of my PS pieces is highly experimental in colors so I thought I'd ask, in alphabetical order: Cheryl, Donna, Ela, Nath, Sharon - is there one of you who likes bright, bright colors? If not I might keep it for me. It definitely is a PS chart but it doesn't look PS too much now! I mean, PS colors are very much muted, at least the older designs.
Hoping I'll find my camera ASAP, I'll leave you here now and start digging it from under the many piles on my desk, sorted but yet not put in the right boxes!