I hope Noor feels better soon, Dotty. That does sound frustrating. But if you’re keeping her well hydrated and electrolyted, she can manage a surprisingly long time just fine. The good news about babies is that while they can be fragile, they can also be just astonishingly resilient.
I’ve had a seriously lazy day, sitting on the sofa and knitting and watching golf. I’ve never played a round of golf in my life, but I do enjoy watching the major tournaments; the shots those guys hit well are amazing, and since this was the British Open, the shots they screwed up on were magnificently hilarious!
I’ll get around to buying the Harry Potter book when I happen to go to a store that’s selling it. Since I haven’t gone anywhere for two days except to the dog beach, it hasn’t happened yet.
And I did venture into the purse thread, but only briefly. And learned that Vera Bradley are all those bags I’ve been seeing women carry around here that look an awful lot like my knitting bag. They look like they’d make great knitting bags, actually. I may find a pattern that’s pretty and get one on eBay or something (for far less than the original price, natch!). Because some of them also have lots of little pockets to put all my odds & ends of knitting stuff in.
But I did buy bacon salt. As a surprise gift for Papa Tigs. He’s gonna love it. 
Now that i have inserted a lifeline into my knitting, wouldn’t you know I’ve had no more problems with it. Grrr. I’m sure when I start the next pattern section, I’ll need a lifeline then, though, at least until I can see the pattern growing. Knitting can be very annoying. But when it turns out right? Oh my goodness, it’s gorgeous. I’ll take photos of this shawl when it’s done; you guys won’t believe how beautiful it is. I don’t myself!
The only other productive thing I’ve done today was make plans and let Papa Tigs find me a deep discount plane ticket to go to Miami this fall for my oldest friend’s son’s bar mitzvah. Kathi and I met the first week of college and have been close friends since; adding up the years, we’ve now known each other for over 35 years. Oy! But needless to say, we’ve been close for so long that I’m family. Plus she loves having me come to these events because I have an interesting job: I get to tell off her supremely obnoxious brother-in-law, who’s an utter jerk. She likes me there to say all the things she can’t say. Hey, at her older son’s bar mitzvah a few years ago, the guy was being a total ass, and once I chided him for it in words of one syllable, it was fun to see how many other family members joined in with me. What are old friends for, anyway?
Papa Tigs is so talented. He was just able to completely delete a virus from his computer that even our super-good firewall couldn’t get rid of. He knows how to find that stuff. But it’s so sneaky these days – he was just browsing websites doing some research for something-or-other, and managed to pick up a virus that would pull up an order form to buy security software – that would get rid of the virus that the company had just put on his computer! I don’t have any idea how he finds all that kind of stuff, but he does; he speaks incredibly fluent computer! He’s useful to have around, needless to say. 
I guess I should go do something useful. What I really want to do is take a nap, but it’s too late. Grr.
And poor you, too! A week like this can drive anybody, well, dotty… Sorry, couldn’t resist, d&r…
I saw a commercial for the Miller Chill last night too - it’s beer with lime juice and salt? Dunno … maybe I’ll try it; the only time beer tastes good to me, though, is when it’s really hot out and the beer is ice cold.