Last Monday after work, just 2 days after getting the car, I worked out and immediately started coming down with a cold. I’ve been sniffling, draining, and miserable ever since, and instead of going out and doing all the stuff I planned to do, I’ve been going to work, coming home, and crashing, every night.
So it’s not surprising that I cast on for some socks this weekend. I started and finished these between Thursday and Sunday:
That’s fast, even for me. They’re very pretty– someone called them “orange sherbet,” but they have more purple in them, so I like to think of them as Rainbow Sherbet. Either way, they have that vibrant tone to them, and are definitely on the wild side.
- Eat breakfast at IHOP, where server ignores us for 10 minutes and doesn’t bring drinks or refills, then ignores us for half an hour, bringing other people their food long before ours… and then screws up my order. Check!
- Buy nice, cheap car. Check!
- Get library card and check out a CD to listen to in the car. Check!
- Donate about 10 units of plasma and red blood cells, thereby saving some babies’* lives. Check!
- Buy floor mats, seatbelt adjuster, windshield screen, and cell phone holder for car and install in same. Check!
- Clean out trash accumulated from the day’s purchases. Check!
- Come home, read book, collapse. Check!
- Make a delicious and quick chicken dinner of chicken and mushrooms sauteed in a wine-garlic reduction sauce with brussels sprouts and brown rice. Check!
- Watch The Incredibles on TV and snuggle with Johnny, Alladin, and my knitting. Check!
All in all, a pretty nice day. The item on my to-do list that was most pressing was “Do corporate taxes,” which are due March 15. I get no check for that one, and today’s to-do item will be “file for extension.” Boo.
By the way, the picture of my car yesterday is a little deceptive. It’s actually a light/pale green, not unlike alien skin or the soft underpart of cthulhu’s tentacles. It’s a 2002 Kia Rio, and it drives well, has 4 doors and an automatic transmission, and is basically a very basic car. The temptation to turn it into the Alien Art Car is very, very high.
* “Babies” because I’m CMV negative, which means my blood is free of an antibody that cannot be transfused to newborns.
Just bought this from Harold at Honda West in Las Vegas. Thanks, Harold!
Books
#6 One Night with a Prince
#7 Bastard Husband: A Love Story
#8 The Third Heiress
#9 With Extreme Pleasure by Alison Kent
Movies
#7 But I’m a Cheerleader
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Here are some lovely detail shots for you to enjoy:
And the full scarf:
It’s a sampler. I cast on 30 stitches and worked garter stitch on the first and last 3 of each row. The 24 stitches in the middle were where I worked the patterns. I drew from stitch dictionaries, my own head, other people at Madrona, and the pages of my stitch-a-day calendar from my desk at work.
Yarn is a camel-merino blend, handspun on a Turkish drop spindle, and knitted directly from the energized single (normally, one would ply before knitting). This results in a slightly biased fabric, but blocking it yesterday gave the stitches a little more even-ness without destroying the character of the scarf.