I think that might have been thunder I just heard. Winter has certainly decided to make an entrance — it rained Monday and Tuesday, Wednesday was all grey and blowy, and today is even greyer, windier, and cold. Quite a change from the warm, blowy weather we had right before Thanksgiving. In about a week we’ve gone from Red Flag warnings (for fire conditions) to winter. Sadly, it seems that even with rain last Friday and the beginning of this week people are having a hard time adjusting to driving in the water falling from the sky.

Yup, that was lightening I just saw… cool.

I don’t want to be at work. I want to be cuddled up in warm blankets, drinking hot chocolate or tea in front of a fireplace reading or knitting. Not going to happen since I have to be here for another 4 hours. Don’t have a fireplace anyways.

My friend emailed me some pictures of her daughter wearing the stuff I knit for her. Too cute. 🙂 Unfortunately, it looks like I got it to her just in time. How fast do babies grow? I hope she’ll be able to wear it more than once. Maybe I’ll have to come up with something a little more permanent. Maybe a stuffed animal of some sort.

The “Registration Saga of 2005” entered its third act for me several days ago when it was announced that the professor whose cataloging class I had registered for was no longer going to be teaching that class. The email then cryptically said that they were trying to keep it an online only class. This sucks because I signed up for this particular section for the professor and for it only being online. Now it looks like they may have gotten a new professor, but no word on the status of the location of the class.

The Husband and I drove down to Monterey on Wednesday to spend Thanksgiving with my parents. They also had guests (Covent Players) staying with them, so The Husband was cooking Thanksgiving dinner for 8. Come Friday I was extremely ready to come home. Being around new people that I have nothing in common with tires me out physically and emotionally. So, it was either leave or start smacking people for being too up.

The rest of the weekend was recovery from Thankgiving. Saturday, we went to see Harry Potter. Sunday was originally intended to be a pajama day, but we decided to take the scooter out for a spin. The Husband, who took care of all his motorcycle license paperwork on Tuesday, had not been on the scooter since I got it in March. Apologies were made to the scooter for not being ridden in almost a month, tire pressure was adjusted, and I rode off towards my work while The Husband followed me in the car. He got to toodle around the parking lot, then ride it home.

I get to go to the DMV on Friday morning to turn in my safety course completion form and so they can take my picture for my license. This is of course why there is now a rather large pimple forming in the middle of my chin.

I took the Clapotis for my mother-in-law to my parents’ house. I got a lot of work done on it that I then got to rip out as I realised that instead of making it slightly smaller than the pattern, I had managed to do the exact number of repeats as instructed. So, I ripped back to the point where there’s only 5 repeats total and moved on to the straight rows. Thankfully, this is a rather easy pattern to memorize.

The afghan for my mother is being worked on at home in front of the nightly TV watching. It is going to take forever. And now I’m hoping that it will be wide enough… slightly hard to tell when the thing is wider than the circular needle you have it on. It’s a 40″ needle, and the pattern says it’s supposed to be 45″ wide. For some reason, 45″ on my measuring tape seems wider than on the afghan. I’ll just write it off as I’m not drinking enough while working on it.

Have you ever tripped and then, in trying to get up, tripped again? That’s how I’ve been feeling lately. I’m not entirely sure what’s causing it; I think I’ll just blame the fact there’s only something like 3 weeks left to school and only 2 major things left to turn in (my final XML project is due 12/8 and my final collection development paper is due 12/11).

Knitting amazingly enough has been occuring. I have moved off onto a couple of Christmas projects (go ahead laugh… it is funny cause I’ve never really been inclined to knit Christmas gifts before). One is the Homespun afghan I’m knitting for my mom; I work on it in front of the TV at night. The other is a Clapotis for my mother-in-law that I’ve only sort of worked on. It will be my Thanksgiving knitting since we’re going to be heading down to Monterey tomorrow to spend the holiday with my parents. It also shouldn’t take too long to make since I’m changing the dimensions to make it slightly smaller (my mother-in-law is 5 foot tall and I don’t have the yardage called for in the pattern).

Now, I have to go find my new nearby cube neighbor cause something in his cube makes a beeping noise about every five minutes, and it’s going to drive me batty.

I think this is a first for me… I uploaded pictures Wednesday night so I could post about them yesterday and then I promptly forgot about them.

I have a friend who had a baby in September, so I whipped up a cute baby set for her. I finally got the package in the mail yesterday… here’s hoping those 0-3 months booties will actually fit.

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I did EZ’s Surprise Baby Jacket. I thought it was a wonderful pattern and spent a good deal of the time I was knitting it wondering why more patterns weren’t written like this. Then, due to other things going on in my life, I realized that it would require to people to actually comprehend what they are reading — something that seems to be woefully lacking these days (one of my favorite Nonsequitor strips is a park bench that has a sign on it reading “Warning: Dry Paint” with a tag line stating “Real Life Reading Comprehension Test”).

I thought the niftiest thing was the way the jacket went from an odd looking rectangle of knitted fabric to a baby jacket — presto chango!

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Rabbitch said…

… This is one of the signs of the end times, isn’t it? The Apocalypso is nigh.

How ’bout making something boring, like a garter stitch scarf, and sending it off to the Dulaan project or giving it to a shelter? It’ll make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside and you don’t have to even think about it …

It’s either that or you have to go out and spend $500 on alpaca, and you know it.

I hope not, I’m not really a fan of calypso music. 🙂 That Banana Boat song just gets on my nerves something fierce.

While I’m not a big fan of acrylic because I don’t like the way it feels, I think it has a place. I mostly use it for the preemie charity knitting I do since that’s what the charity requests. Acrylic for afghans that need to be able to go in the washer and dryer for dog hair removal also makes sense (and cause I don’t think my mom was very happy with me for giving her socks that needed to be handwashed (although she liked how soft the alpaca was)… I don’t think she’d appreciate a handwash afghan). The Homespun pisses me off more for all the spliting it does than the fact that it’s acrylic.

I had briefly considered superwash wool, but I’d like it done in this lifetime; the Homespun is bulky, while all the superwash wools I like are sportweight.

The mention of spending $500 on alpaca is funny cause I just ordered 12 balls of Lana Gatto Feeling from my LYS. One of the employees convinced me that I would only need 12 balls not the 16 I thought… and I discovered that purchasing more than 10 balls gets me a discount… how could I resist? 🙂

A good weekend to everyone!

I think I am beginning to climb out of the blah hole I have found myself trapped in. I just feel tired (like I could do with a month off from things I don’t want to do). The Husband keeps saying I look stretched thin (probably not a good thing).

I’m finding myself bored with my knitting… every project I have on the needles at the moment has some sort of complicated part to it. I just want to knit (which is funny cause I’m generally not a fan of garter stitch), which is why the Feeling hat was such a nice project, but I finished it too quickly. Even feeling this malaise towards all patterns that are not simple, I continue to try new projects that have something I have to pay attention to.

I went to Jo-Ann’s last night a picked up several skeins of Homespun (I know, now I’m even buying acrylic) to give an afghan for my mother a second try (why the first one went away is a long story). Why Homespun of all dreadful things, you ask. Two words — dog hair. I using to make one of the afghans off the Lionbrand site… it’s got a sort of wavy pattern to it, which means it’s got complicated pattern bits.

Why do I keep doing this to myself?

Maybe I am getting sick… it would certainly explain the odd food cravings I’ve had the last couple days.

Okay… so I’m still trying to figure out how a whole week went by without my posting a single thing. The reasons in the running are “too much other crap to do,” “too damn tired,” and “I better not be getting sick again.” *sigh*

Maybe it’s just a combination of my introvertedness being on the upswing (I so haven’t wanted to deal with other people to the point I haven’t even been reading other blogs) and the weather confusing the hell out of me (it’s 75 F today… it was like 60 F yesterday). And, of course, there are the above reasons… why do they all seem to be related to each other?

I think I need chocolate…

My quickie luxury hat was done a few days ago, so of course I have no picture as of yet. What was truely amazing is that it really only took one ball… well, one ball and a few yards off the second. Doesn’t that just piss you off? You have only like 7 rounds left, every other row reducing stitches, and you have to join a new ball. I guess I shouldn’t complain too much… it was quite fun to knit. I felt as though I was flying by the seat of my pants, yet it fits. And it doesn’t make my forehead itch, so I can wear it for longer periods of time.

Since I pretty much had the whole of the second ball left over I cast on Branching Out. This of course means I’ll most likely need to get at least one more ball… maybe two. Cause I may need to knit myself a matching pair of fingerless gloves as well. Yeah, I may go for the entire matching set because this is a rather nice yarn… but the real reason is I’m currently freezing my butt off in my cube. We’re talking fingernails turning purple here people. All I can think about it how nice another scarf (I’m wearing one right now) would be along with something to make my fingers less purple.

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I just saw a bird flutter by the window next to my desk. For some reason it reminded me of somthing that happened recently (unfortunately, I can’t even remember if it happened yesterday or on Friday).

What I think might have been a bird flew into the window the other day. I briefly thought about going down to check it out (I’m on the second floor), but came up with some excuse not to. If the bird was alright, me poking around in the bushes would just frighten it. If it did hit the window at full tilt, then fell 2 stories to the ground, it was probably dead and there was nothing I could do about it.

I don’t know why I didn’t consider the three option of it being injury and unable to fly. If it was hurt, I could have gotten security to call animal control or something. But I didn’t even bother to go check.

Now I feel horrible.