not

No sock progress. I'm a loser, I know.
It's okay. I'm really okay with my loser status.
I've got one week left to finish. I really have longer than that, but I have a tendency to be late, Lori's Mandatory F___ Around Time has to be factored in.
Hey, don't judge me...

The other day I was driving home from work. Minding my Ps & Qs. In the correct lane to go forward through the light. A guy in the lane to the right of me (another forward lane) pulled in front of me, so that he could get in the left turn lane. I beeped my horn at him, just a little to say, "Hey, I'm right here." He proceeded to pull in front of me and into the left turn lane, then stop along side me, roll down his window and ask, "Are all Minneapolis drivers this fucking ignorant?!" All I could do was sputter and stare, and yell at him to kiss my butt as he pulled away.
How about that? I was in the correct lane. He was in the wrong lane and had to cut me off in order to get in the lane he really wanted, and yet I was the fucking ignorant one.
Wow!
I just don't get people.

Tomorrow I will go with my Dana Friend and Kelly to Let's Dish to make 8 separate meals that each serve 6. I'm very excited about it. All I will have to do is defrost & cook them. Trying to free up some time around here.
Then Saturday Dana & I will meet with Lynne & Nancy at the Yarn Cafe, to see Anne, Rosemary & Beverly. I hope I don't get tempted by any yarn. I've been so good lately. And that's no fun!

Time to play with doggie a little bit before bedtime. He's growling at me, and keeps bringing his blue bone to me and dropping it at my feet. It's a sign.

Goodnight.

wishful thinking

Well, another lovely weekend is over. Spent quite a bit of it cleaning house. With two weeks vacation and being sick for two more weeks, my house was a dusty mess. I got lots done yesterday, and feel a bit more in control of it now. It sucks though, to spend all of that potential knitting time doing sucky house work.
Had to be done.

Went for a nice walk with my beloved husband and doggie tonight. And, (drum roll please) I jogged again! The last time I ran was July 15th. I didn't take any time away from the kids to exercise during their visit, and then got sick right after I got back from bringing them home. I really can't remember being that sick before. Not even when I had pneumonia. I had no energy and couldn't breathe, but I didn't feel as awful as I did this time. I so just wanted to die~that's how bad I felt.
But tonight we walked for 20 minutes, and I jogged for 3 one minute intervals. So I'm back where I started, which is not great but is ok. At least I was able to run at all.

The socks are still coming along slowly. I am so close to heel turning time, just about every row I try them on. My sock pals measurements are dang close to mine, so I'm using my foot to measure. If I finish this here post in time I may actually get to the heel tonight.
Plus, I am done with the purple shawl. It really was all but done when I got back from CA. Just 17 rows and then sewing in ends. Perhaps I will take a picture of the beauty and post it tomorrow.

But maybe not.

My dearest did laundry today, and my pants paid the price. I love the man to death, but he just cannot seem to take my pants out of the dryer in time to avoid horrible wrinkles. Which means that I have to iron them.
I hate ironing! Especially when I have to use the sprayer thing, because the wrinkles are such bitches and don't want to come out. Ironing is just such a huge waste of time. I could be knitting for crying out loud!!!

Oh well, it's the only inside chore he can do, and I have to let him. He really hates that I have the bulk of the chores these days. Truth be told, I hate it too. We keep praying for recovery, but I have to say, the more time goes by the less hopeful I am.

Enough of that. I'm gonna end this thing and go knit!

So.....goodnight!

the tortoise and the hare

In other words, the socks are not yet done. I got into a traffic jam at Harry Potter Blvd. And then I took a wrong turn at Stephanie Plum Ave.
The good news is, the books are finished!
At least I don't have books and socks hanging over my head, right? I mean, I can breathe (knit) easier now that the books are read and out of the way.
I do knit on them a little bit every day. It just doesn't look like it. There's something about the place I am in these socks...they look the same every day. Like I didn't knit 10 rows, or 20 even, last night. Every day at lunch I knit on them (and get lots of lovely comments from my knitting co-workers. I hope this means my SPal2Za will love them) and then I knit on them again at night. And they don't seem to be growing. I do remember, even though it was several years ago that I knit my other two pairs of socks, that this is the longest stage.
I may change my tune when it's time to do the ribbing. I can't remember that part of my previous sock knitting.

Tomorrow I will go to my Dana Friend's house after work. We will eat something wonderful she has prepared, knit a little, and catch me up on Six Feet Under. Even though I know what happens already, I haven't watched the last several episodes. So it'll be a good night.

Speaking of goodnights, it's time for one for me. What a good place to say...
Goodnight.

are you ready for some...

Just knitting away on my Sockapal2za socks. Not very exciting, really. I'm almost to the heel turning point. Maybe once I get through the heels I will take a picture to post. Until then, no sock pictures.

I'm so excited about football season being here! Well, I know it's just preseason, but I still love it!! I keep thinking about doing a Fantasy Football thing, but have no idea how to start. It's probably too late to start one now. Which is ok, considering I have plenty to do these days.
It's ok~I feel so much better now that I actually give a rip about the dust bunnies taking over my living room. Well, half a rip, at least.

Well, when I started this post I was full of wonderfully witty things to blog about. And now they're gone.
So this is a good time for a goodnight.

Goodnight.

welcome back potter

Well, something happened when I looked at my socks...I decided I didn't need to rip them out. That made me very happy. I have maybe another inch to go before I get to start turning the heel. I really hope I remember how to do that. I just did some heel turning, on the little baby socks I made.
But that was 2 months ago.
I've slept since then.

The nice thing about these socks is they seem to be knitting up quite quickly. No knittting tonight though (well, 4 rows but I'm not counting them) since I've been watching some pre-season football on TV.

Mike Tice may very well be able to pull a football team out of his ass here. I've been very impressed by their behavior on & off the field. I've never been quiet about my belief that a certain ex-Viking was just a waste of humanity. I don't care how awesome you are in a sport, you still have an obligation to your team to act like you are one of them.
That's all I'm going to say about that asshole. I mean that jerk.

So, maybe tomorrow I will actually be able to do a little exercise. I haven't done any at all since I got sick. And even though I'm not completely recovered, I feel much better. I'm ready to do a little walking. Or something. And yes Mom, I'll take it easy.

My Dana friend just got back from her Alaska cruise, and guess what she brought me tonight when we met for dinner? Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince! And 10 Big Ones from Janet Evanovich! And some beautiful silver dragonfly earrings! They are so sweet and perfect for me. And the books~oh. my. goodness. I've been waiting for them, oh so impatiently. She's such a good girl for sharing her books with me.
Problem is, all I want to do is read. And I've got socks to knit. But maybe, just maybe, once I've turned the heels and I'm doing the ribbing I'll be able to knit and read at the same time.

Wish me luck!

ouch!

colors changed
Ok, so I changed the colors of the socks, just in case my Sockapaltwoza pal happens to check out my blog~I want the socks to be a surprise!
I decided not to do a 'pattern' because I want the yarn to do its thing. It's variegated, not self-striping, but I thought it would look cool to just knit away without a design. We'll see. Already I am worried that they're too big. I think I may have to unknit at least an inch. That makes me very unhappy.
But it's all about the knitting, right?
I read a lot of knitting blogs, and there is conversation sometimes about 'it' being about the process, or the end result. I think I must be a process knitter, 'cause I'm never as happy to start or finish a project as I am to be in the middle of one. I have to be in a particular frame of mind to start something new. Come to think of it, I'm the same with finishing. That could explain why the purple shawl is still not finished, even though it's less than 10 rows from being done.
This could also explain why I have way too much yarn in my stash. For the last 4 years I haven't allowed myself to buy yarn unless I have a project to go with it. No more skeins of this yarn or that yarn because it was so pretty/soft/colorful/calling my name. (I may have slipped a time or two, but for the most part have obeyed my self-imposed yarn rule.)
I think I'm afraid of it. I mean, afraid of a new project, not the yarn.
Sometimes, I get so worked up, looking for patterns and yarn, making sure everything is just right. Sometimes, I just suck the joy right out of a new project, because I worry about it so much. I gotta learn to relax and knit, for pete's sake.
No relaxing and knitting for me tonight though.
Must Go Unknit Sock And Not Poke Self In Eye With Needle!!!

me and Trish

smile

missing you

Tonight on my drive home from work I heard Pearl Jam on the radio. It instantly made me think of my girl, and of the music she used to listen to.
You may not know this, but some Pearl Jam got mixed in with some Soundgarden and came out as Temple of the Dog. As soon as I realized it was ol' Eddie singing I had to call her up, and ask her, 'what was the name of that group that Pearl Jam made with that other group?' Classic Lori & Trish stuff. I must've asked her that a million times. And each time she'd tell me. Very patiently, as if she hadn't told me a million times already.
After I'd been home for awhile, my cell phone rang. It was Trish, telling me to guess who was playing on the radio at that very moment. Yep, Temple of the Dog. Very freaky, goose-bumpy moment.
Man, I miss her. I wish I didn't live so far away. Breaks my heart when I think about it.
So I don't let myself think about it very often.
Easier that way.
Not easy tonight, with the missing and the memories all jumbled together.

Not easy tonight.

not better, but late

Well, vacation is over. It's been over for a week now, and I'm just now sitting down to blog. It's been a busy week, and made worse by me getting sick this weekend. I have a 'viral respiratory infection'. Just means I get to feel like crap for another week. I just hope the lovely little pearl shaped pills I got really do help the cough stop long enough for me to get some sleep. I'm going on 3 nights of inadequate sleep. This makes me very crabby. Plus missing two days of work, and possibly another tomorrow, if I don't GET SOME SLEEP!!!
The good news is, I did finally start my Sockapaltwoza sock (socks). Yes, I'm doing them both at the same time, toe up on two circulars. I've made two other pairs of socks, one pair one sock at a time and the other both socks at the same time. I definitely like to knit them both at the same time. Besides my little, ahem, finishing problem, I could tell a difference in size between the two socks I knit separately. Knitting them at the same time means two socks, one size. With the added bonus of not having to really talk myself into finishing the other sock.
I am using the Meilenweight Multiringel yarn I bought at The Yarn Cafe. I lost the ball band so I have no idea if I'm spelling that right or not. So far, it's working nicely. I'm not doing any kind of pattern, since the yarn is one of those variegated types. I just want to let the yarn do its thing. I don't have enough knitted up yet to be worthy of a photo, but maybe soon. Although I still can't seem to get any pictures to post ever since Blogger changed its picture posting thing. And yes, this may be operator error (as usual) and I've just gotten too impatient to try and figure it out. Like I would do that! Currently, Blogger is supposedly posting a picture as I type. It's not working though. And I'm pretty much done here. I have a picture of the two Meilenweight yarns I have that I thought I'd post, with the striped one I'm using in the front. But, no luck.
So, time to end this thing and go back to my regularly scheduled coughing.
Here's to your health, and mine too!
(Someday)