It’s Monday

Thanks everyone that gave me congrats. It’s been one hell of a rollercoaster the past few days, and I still can’t believe it’s only just happened 4 days ago. Everyone keeps asking when we’re going to have it and where, and that stuff is still up in the air. The engagement ring has been picked out, purchased, and sent off to be resized, so once I get that in, pictures will happen. Colors have been picked (I picked blue, like that was a shocker, and Jared confirmed that purple is awesome). Other than that? Not. A. Clue. ::grin:: Discussions and negotiations will occur later this week.

In other news, I cast on a baby blanket for Breana, took it apart, cast it on again, knitted one row, pulled it apart, cast it on again, counted, pulled it apart, then cast on a 4th time. I think this one is going to stick. Sheesh. After I get done with that, I have another baby blanket, same pattern but a different color, to do for my friend Anne’s sister-in-law. At least this time, I know what I’m doing for the cast-ons!

Game-wise, I’m trying to get back into LoTRO, but my brain can’t handle it right now. I did get a Wii for Xmas, and bought myself a Wii Fit Plus, and have been making myself very very sore as a result. I think today is the first day that I’ve woken up with no back pain, but there were other things causing that, so we’ll see if it was the Wii or the other stuff soon.

Now to -finally- get to that book order and get some stuff done around the store!

It’s cold

It’s cold outside. Yep, cold. And I’m somewhere between “yey!” and “…hate you”. “Yey!” cos I’m tired of the hot weather. “…hate you” cos I loathe being cold. And I haven’t finished my first pair of hand-knited socks yet. I kinda got distracted with the WoW guild going boom, the release of Dragon Age: Origins, and restarting playing Lord of the Rings Online. Whoops. ^^;

LoTRO’s going well. I’m having a fun time, other friends are poking their noses in and checking it out, and while I still adore my hunter there, I’m having some amusement leveling a Guardian, which is a tank.

Yep, a TANK. You may now all feel free to pick yer collective jaws up off the floor.

Why? Cos someone had to do it and everyone else is too busy playing healers or DPS and giggling. That includes the “I’m a damned good tank!” boyfriend. He’s off either muttering “burgle burgle burgle” udner his breath before breaking out into giggles, or playing around on his Lore Master (think druid with animal pets instead of animal forms). His LM and my Guardian are the same level, so we’ve been leveing together. Which has lead to some interesting comments between the two of us.

“Grr.”
“What?”
“Nothing. Just, if I’m going to try to, well, tank, it’d be nice to get aggro FIRST.”
“…::dies giggling and pulls the next mobs with a spell crit::”
“…::sighs and proceeds to hit every threat button I have::”

My muttered comment to him, since he’s insisting on being Aggro Whore, is I can manage to keep the mobs on me, and not on him, by end game, I’ll be a damned good tank and able to handle anything. His response? “…::gringigglenuke::”

…bastard.

And in a bit of good news, the problems that were plaguing me in LoTRO before, which was my keyboard/mouse would randomly disconnect with no notice, then reconnect at it’s leisure, unless I plugged and replugged the damned thing were fixed. Turns out, the mouse disconnection was strictly because it was plugged into the keyboard. The Apple keyboard was the issue in Windows. Whether it was from a faulty driver, or it was starting to develop a short in the line, it’s been fixed. How? I bought a G15 keyboard. Things are much, much better. ::grin::

So this weekend, I’m hoping that I can get a little more cleaning done on the apartment, fix bagels again, get some LoTRO time in, and play some more Dragon Age. Still haven’t finished it, but been distracted. Oh, and knit! Mmm… knitting. /purr

I mastered the lore in Eastern Kingdoms

Yep I got the Loremaster achievement for Eastern Kingdoms yesterday. It was amusing. After merrily smacking my way through low level quests, running Scholo and Strath cos I’d find just one more quest for them, and gritting my teeth to just buckle down and do it when I got to the last 75 quests, the last 10 quests were more like a cakewalk than anything else. Oh look, it’s a quest chain. Whee!

And what happens after I get the achievement? I suddenly remember I haven’t picked up the two pets in Blackrock forWrenn yet. /facepalm So at some point, I’ll be going back in to BRS to get them, as well as do a few more quests in there, just for giggles.

Also last night, I managed to finish the last piece to a project I’d been working on for almost 8 months now. I’d put it at the end of the list because I don’t have a sewing machine readily available to help finish it, and I had gotten amazingly tired of knitting one big line of stitches over and over. After the shawl and the baby blanket, though, finishing one last strap was cake. And since we’re going to visit my mom tomorrow, and she DOES have a readily available sewing machine, I’m going to finish out that project hopefully this weekend.

Of course, I’m hoping I’ll actually HAVE the spare time. When we get up there tomorrow around lunch, Mom and I have to go over stuff for the stores, go over stuff for the house she’s building (apparently, she had me so she could have free tech support and design/decorating services) since they’re finally putting in the foundation this week and will start framing next week, meet with her builder on other things with the house, and just chat in general. Saturday is taken up mostly with the Ole Miss/Arkansas football game, and this will be Exar’s first time at an Ole Miss game, with all it’s insanity and weirdness. Sure it’s the normal college football insanity, but then there’s the Grove, and tailgating in the Grove needs to be seen to be believed. And Sunday we drive home, hopefully early enough that I can get laundry done before hopping into game for a while.

Yeah, that’s right, I said “into game”. I still have Kalimdor to clear! A girl’s gotta have goals.

But yeah, it’s gonna be a busy weekend, and one that’s gonna leave me wanting to flop over dead at the end. I’d give anything for a real vacation, where I don’t think about the store, and don’t worry about phone calls, and don’t run around like an insane woman. Dragon*Con is lovely, but I’m so tired by the end of it, I need a vacation from the vacation! So for Christmas this year, I’d like Santa to bring me the following:

1. 10 skiens for Noro Silk Garden in 252 colorway. I have a project for all of that and want to get started nao!

2. A small beach cottage with a good internet connection, one week rental.

3. One week off to pack up Exar and I, and all of our stuff, and go to said rented cottage. I can go say hi to the beach in between knitting and gaming and he can read and game.

4. Oh wait, can I add reading to my list? Yes, reading must be added, kthxbai.

5. I’d also like a 40″+ HDTV at this mythical beach cottage so we can bring the PS3 for console gaming. Oh and I’d like a second PS3 so we don’t have to fight over who gets to play single player games on the one we have right now. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, MADDEN FRANCHISE! /sulks with my Katamari Forever disk

6. (I’m somewhat kidding about the fights over the PS3. I’m just waiting on Dragon Age: Origins right now before I start using the claws and teeth.)

7. And last but not least, a new home to come home to when this vacation-of-my-dreams is over. One without neighbors below me that we can hear talking loudly at 2am, or with neighbors next to us that have a dogs that is howling and/or screaming at 2am, making me think someone’s getting beaten and making the cats completely spaz.

… oh yeah, I could use some sleep about now. -.-

Fall Melancholy

Fall has always been an odd season for me. There’s a sense of melancholy attached to it for me. A bit of happy, a bit of sad. When it came to the happy, I was one of the weird kids that actually looked forward to school starting, cos I loved learning, and cos I got to see my friends again. Yes, I’m one of those people that gets a whiff of erasers in August and has fond memories of shopping for back to school clothes and supplies. Usually by November, the warm fuzzies between me and school were over, and I just wanted holiday break to come quickly.

At the same time, I was sad to be watching the leaves wither and fall to the ground. There was a feeling of the earth dying, showing off in one last blast of riotous color before turning into the grey of winter. If summer was sun, sea air, and the cries of gulls, fall was a cool breeze, dew on the grass and spiderwebs, and the scent of burning leaves.

Scent is a funny thing. It triggers so many things in humans, not the least of which is memories. Back when I was 10, my mom moved the two of us up to Knoxville, Tennessee, so she could attend the University of Tennessee and work on her PhD in Anthropology. (For those that are into that kinda thing, yes, that’s where Dr. William Bass taught, who formed the first and best known “Body Farm”. Mom took classes under him, and he was a wonderfully sweet guy to the 10 year old kid sitting in his classes next to her mom, including his forensics classes.) (Why yes, I did have a weird childhood, why do you ask?) I was not the happiest kid in the world about leaving all of my friends and moving to some strange town, and sulked for a good chunk of the time there.

Around October, Mom found out that Silver Dollar City, a theme park in Pigeon Forge, TN, was having a Fall Arts & Crafts Festival. Mom was a big believer in getting culture and education in while having fun (and if it was inexpensive, all the better!), so we drove up on Saturday to check out the park. When we got there, it was open, tour buses were lined up and dropping their passengers off, and the BBQ pit was in full gear. We spent the day wandering around, checking out the crafts, watching the blacksmithing, glassblowing, and giggling at the lines of people staring at the quilters (my great-grandmother was still alive and very much still quilting at the time). I was fascinated with the chandlery and had to be dragged out of there. The colors of the waxes fascinated me to no end, until we saw the weavers and my brain completely popped.

By the time the day was over, Fall became cemented in my head with a full array of memories: the fascination of learning, colors from every spectrum, the scent of BBQ, charcoal and diesel exhaust, a crisp breeze, red plaid fabric, the sounds of crowds and the crunch of dead leaves, and missing friends and family horribly. To this day, most of those can still trigger a melancholy in me for a moment, but only for a moment. Then the good memories rise to the top, and I start to think of the possibilities that fall can bring.

Like finally being able to wear things I knitted! WOHOO!

Baby knits and pics therein

So the package of baby stuff I’d knitted for friends (that I met through WoW, go geek team!) got to them yesterday, and the Daddy happily took pics of them for me (since I was a dumbass and forgot in the rush to get them to the mail center).  The big item was the blanket. I’d had an idea what I was getting myself into, but not really. That was a lot of knitting. God help me when I actually decide to tackle a sweater. At least the stole was “make you think once every 4 rows”. This was mindless knitting. Which actually was nice come to think of it. I got to watch a lot of TV and get caught up on some series I’d been missing, cos it was easy enough to knit and pay attention to the TV, not my hands. Okay, ignore the bitching. It was just a LOT of pink and normally, I don’t do pink.

The pattern was from a book called Stitch ‘n Bitch. I saw the Big Bad Baby Blanket in there and knew I had to make it at some point for someone. In this case, the someone turned out to be my friends. I still like the pattern, and suppose that for mindless knitting, it works out nice. I just wish I’d been able to work on it a bit more regularly instead of in bits and pieces when Life wasn’t getting in the way. But since they’d requested pink, and since it was for a baby, I declined to purchase a bunch of handpainted wool like the book suggested. Instead, easy-to-care-for, but still passing the “oh that’s nice and soft!” feel test, baby pink acrylic won out. And since that was a hell of a lot of pink, I ended up renaming it the PANK! Big Bad Baby Blanket of Dooooom.

Yep, that’s pink and a lot of it.

While I’d been chatting to the parents-to-be, I’d jokingly threatened to make a hat and booties to go with it. But I didn’t want to use the same yarn as the blanket. Easy care, yes, but wanted something a little more special-ish than what I’d knitted the blanket out of. I’d seen an organic cotton that looked good, but it clashed bad with the blanket. There were a couple of other choices, but they all clashed with the blanket. About the point I was going to give up and just knit it all out of the same thing, I saw some bright pink yarn. Hey, lookie there! They actually go together! One’s just LOUD pink and one’s baby pink! Oh what the hell, it’s worth a shot. After running around on Ravelry for a while, I found a couple of freebie patterns for a hat and booties. The booties were… interesting to knit up. And I think I knitted the hat 3 times before it got finished. Slippery yarn + metal DPNs = dropped stitches and swearing.

See? Rather a bright pink! But do they go together with the blanket?

Yep!

Aw yeah, that’s working juuuuust fine.

Apparently their first little girl has decided that the baby stuff is hers as well, and as a result, I’m currently working on a knitted kitty for her from a pattern I also found on Ravelry, in a soft lavender in the same type of yarn as the hat and booties. Hopefully that will appease her for a little bit til the new sister arrives.

Word of the Month: “Damp”

No really, it’s damp here. just about every day for the past week, it’s rained. I’m damp and feel like I’m about to start growing moss. NOT HAPPY! Even better, all the rain lines swooping in suddenly have wreaked havok on my sinuses, so it’s been one slow steady headache for a while. Ick. /sighs at more rainclouds incoming

This past two weeks have been chaos, as per usual these days. In WoWness, Brewfest came and went, but I got a Brewfest Kodo, and the Brewmaster title (now why can’t it say “Brewmistress?! Srsly! /pout), so that was good. Wrenn’s now rockin’ the 2 piece T8 bonus, which is also excellent. The guild finally got raid-happy again, and we’re now back to where we were progression-wise a few months ago when a bunch of the regulars went off in new directions/left game/vanished. We downed Ony in 10-man, and I would have loved to have been there for a 25-man kill with another guild, but the game decided to lock up whenever I rezzed outside when we wiped. Bleh.

Tonight, we step back into Uldar for raids again, and I’m hoping that at some point in the next few weeks, I can work on that whole 700 quests in Kal and EK for Loremaster crap. Sitting at over 600 for EK, but just over 400 for Kal. Gah. >< Then there’s the tracking down the few extras in Outlands (okay and almost two whole zones, since I totally skipped out on some of that while leveling Wrenn). So yeah, I have some plans for her in place, just need to get to them.

In knitting news, I managed to clear out just about every project that I had on the sticks. o.O Finished the stole, blocked it, and it’s wonderful. I just haven’t taken pictures of it. I finished all the baby stuff, packed it, and sent it on it’s way. In fact, it should be there today, according to FedEx. But, I forgot to take pictures of them before I shipped them off. And because I was working myself up for another project, I needed a fast distraction, so I knitted up a kitty ear hat, and, you guessed it, haven’t taken pictures of it yet. I’m sucking on this whole taking pictures thing as of late. /sigh At least the baby stuff was promised to have photos taken of them once they got to their destination. The kitty hat and the stole are all on me. Dammit.

So the thing I was working myself up for, knitting-wise? Socks. Again. Except this time, I decided two at a time was the way to go. Okay, one really long-ass circular needle it is! Two balls of yarn? No sweat! Oh wait, it’s black yarn, and I have a dark apartment. No matter! We’ll get through this! Um, “Magic Loop” method of circular knitting? Hmm never done it before but bring it on! Oh and while we’re learning a new needle method for something I’ve not really ever completed successfully, using yarn that’s causing eyestrain, with twice the number of steps since we’re doing two at a time on one needle, let’s start these from the toe-up instead of the way I learned before which was cuff-down! Whee!

For non-knitters, translate all of that to “standing on the roof in the middle of a bad storm, on one foot, replacing shingles while discussing quantum physics and playing a grandmaster in chess.” That’s where my brain is.

Fortunately, so far, I seem to be okay. I got past the cast-on for the toes, got the increases done, and am working on the body of the socks now. Nothing fancy, just simple stockingette. Using some KnitPicks Kettle Dyed (in, yes, black), and they’re looking good so far. Once I get past these, and they come out okay, then I’m breaking out the good stuff. There’s some Fleece Artist that I have that’s just begging to become some lovely socks to wear. Mwhaha!

At the same time, I’d like to knit another stole/shawl, this time in something a bit larger in size. I could have added another skein to the feather-and-fan that I did, but I wasn’t sure how far it would block out. I’ve got a better idea now, and have a few ideas in mind, so we’ll see what shakes loose in the next few weeks. I also need to work on a gift or two, plus Anne’s requested some more fingerless mitts, just in something that’s a little more “tough” to handle being used while someone’s in a wheelchair. She knows another lady in her apartment complex that would love some as well, so we’ll see how that goes.

In non-knitting and non-WoW news, …well a bunch of shit happened, some good and some bad. I’ll happily share the good, which is Mom has started work on the addition to my great-grandparents’ house that she’s currently living in. It was built in the early to mid-1930s, and they’re going to make the addition blend in with the current house: Arts & Crafts/Mississippi Delta Farmhouse. It’s gonna look good and we’ll be taking pics of the whole process.

And that’s about it for right now. Store’s decorated for Halloween, I still need to find my vampire teeth (made from dental materials and yes, I can bite someone with those and have it hurt like hell) (can also eat with them in too, which causes quite a few double-takes), and figure out what other than the kitty ears from DragonCon and the teeth I’m going to be wearing here at the store since I’m working that day.

Bottom line, insanity continues as it’s normal pace, with occasional bouts of sprinting chaos, and flash floods of water. Pictures to come at some point when the sun is shining again.

13 Heroics, 4 plain, and a con to bake for

Sorry about last week. I had a small case of exhaustion mixed with stress that made me fall over for about 3 days. ^^; I love my store, and I love having all the teachers come in and get what they need from us. Same for the art students. But lordie, I was TIRED when it was all done! I think I’m just about caught up on sleep now, tho, so that’s good. Just in time to lose it all again! Whee!

Yep, this week is one I’ve been looking forward to for months. It’s Dragon*con time! What is Dragon*Con? To quote them:

Dragon*Con is the largest multi-media, popular culture convention focusing on science fiction and fantasy, gaming, comics, literature, art, music, and film in the US.

Translation? 30,000 geeks, freaks, furries, nerds, and gamers (and the people that love them!) in downtown Atlanta, GA for Labor Day weekend. Oh yeahhhh. Looking forward to seeing the guys from Ghost Hunters, Adam Savage, and the cast of Farscape and B5. And then there’s the authors, friends, artists, and just plain people-watching. God I love this con.

Instead of getting hotels rooms this year (hey, money’s tight!), we’re going to be staying with friends at their house. As part of my “thank you!” and bribe, I’m baking cookies for them. Oh and bagels. Can’t forget the bagels. Thursday we’ll drive over and end up having dinner with them and another couple we know that are coming in for the con. Friday night, we’ll be having dinner with an author friend that’s coming in for the con. Hopefully they haven’t double booked her for panels this time like they keep trying to do. Saturday is going to be insane racing around in the afternoon to get to everything we want to. Sunday’s gonna be a bit more relaxed, then Monday we drive home, complete with a kitten in the back of the car.

Why a kitten? Well the friends we’re staying with took in a stray cat, only it was a soon-to-be momma cat. She gave birth to a healthy litter, and one of my employees fell in love with the pictures of one of the kittens. So we’re transporting him to his new home when we come home. Yey for kitties with homes!

And then there’s this weekend. Saturday, during the raid, a couple of us were chatting and decided to hook up on Sunday to run “old world” heroics. So Sunday afternoon, Jared and I logged in, grabbed the others, and went racing around Burning Crusade picking up achievements. We started around 2pm, at 5:30 took a 2 hour break, then finished up around 10:30-11pm. That was 2 Hellfire Penninsula heroics, 3 Coilfang heroics, 2 Auchindoun heroics, 2 CoT heroics, 1 Magister’s Terrace heroic, and 3 TK heroics. Plus, I didn’t have the rep for the key to get into the TK instances, so add in 3 regular Mech runs to get the rep, and a regular MT run since I hadn’t ever been to it on Wrenn to get keyed for heroic mode. Oy! But damn it was fun!

So this is what my week looks like right now:
1. Knit like it’s no one’s business to finish one project
2. Go to Kara for a fun run (how fast CAN a bunch of lvl 80s cruise through there with bad jokes and puns a’flyin’?) tonight
3. Finish laundry tonight
4. Clean kitchen tonight
5. Start baking bagels and cookies tomorrow
6. Settle who’s babysitting the cats while we’re gone
7. Raid tomorrow night
8. Finish baking bagels and cookies Wednesday
9. Re-clean kitchen Wednesday
10. Doublecheck laundry pile to make sure it didn’t regrow Wednesday
11. Pack Wednesday (make sure to take items to be signed, multiple books from multiple people, DVDs, etc, plus clothes, etc., gifts, baked goods, batteries for camera, cables for eletronics we’re taking, Katamari games, PSPs, extra books to read, plus knitting for the drive)
12. Clean out car trunk of excess crap Wednesday
13. Attempt to go to bed “early” Wednesday night
14. Wake up at “deargodnoit’stooearlydon’tmakemedriiiiiiive!” on Thursday and get this whole thing started!

…

Damn. I’m gonna be busy. o.O /gets back to the knitting frenzy

Rest, I can has it?

Thursday was a lot of running around. The store did great, the teachers are all coming in and getting their stuff for back to school, and Mom was in town. Granted, her car was in a local shop getting repaired (catalytic converter decided to quit), but it’s a decent mechanic and everything looked to be done on time for her to leave on Friday. We even went out for a nice supper that night, along with Jared. Yey free food! The downside was that the raid was frustrating on Thursday night, but that happens sometimes. There were a few too many odd things happening by the end, so on our last attempt at Malygos, when we made it to phase 3, landed on the red dragons, then had them vanish under us, land on another set of dragons which proceeded to vanish even faster than the first set, letting us all plummet to our deaths… yeah we called it a night. Too much weird stuff.

It’s a good thing I went to bed early tho. I needed the rest. Turns out Friday, with all the running around I had to do, plus the store being swamped by returning teachers, meant that I was drained by the end of the day. By the end of the day, Mom had gotten home, Jared had gone to the eye docs again and gotten his new computer, and the store had it’s best single day ever since we opened just over a year ago. I’m still in shock over it, but thrilled. And to add to the happy, my friend Anne finally got the box of knitted goodies I’d sent to her earlier in the week, so now I can share pictures!

I’d made for her a shawl and some fingerless mitts from patterns found on Ravelry, a lovely online community of knitters, crocheters, spinners, and dyers that has a wealth of information. So since Anne whimpered that no one ever sends her knitted goodies, I rummaged on Ravelry and found some patterns for some things I thought she might like.

First up was a pair of fingerless mitts. On Ravelry, they’re called “Nalu Mitts“, since “nalu” means “wave” in Hawaiian. Me, I never can remember that, but I remember “wave” in Japanese is “nami”, so I keep calling them the “Nami Mitts”. Hey, it’s my brain, work with me here! I’d made a pair of them in blue and love them. They were perfect for working on the computer when you’re just a bit cold but still want to feel to type. Since Anne gets a sea breeze where she lives which can get a bit nippy sometimes, I asked her to pick a color from a range I gave her. She picked “spring green”. To me, the yarn is a spring green. She swears, now that she’s seen it, it’s moss green. All I know is she loves the gloves, thus, I’m happy.

The other item I knitted was something called a Sunday Market Shawl. This one came about because Anne saw a ball of Noro yarn on my Flickr page, showing the various colors in the ball. She drooled on it, said I needed to knit her something with that yarn, and I eyed the one green mitt I’d already done. But since the pattern for the shawl said it was great for those evenings when there’s a light nip to the air but you don’t want to wear a full jacket, hey, I’ll knit that instead! And in the yarn she’s drooling on! Awesome! It was an easy enough knit, and once again, she loved it. It was amusing when she called to say she had the box, cos she was under orders to not open it til she called me. Once I gave her permission, she chatted away as she opened it, then nothing but “Oooo!!!!!” for the next two minutes. I finally looked at Jared, who was with me at that point, and grinned. “I think she likes them. I think I broke her.” She finally said something coherant at that point, and we got on with the talking. ::grin::

So yeah, Friday was good. Saturday? Eh. We cleaned up the mess at the store, putting everything to rights again, and tried to figure out what all I have to reorder today to have back in stock for the next wave of teachers. As the day went on, the headache got worse, and the tummy decided it had had quite enough tyvm, so I had to back out of raiding that night to go to bed early and try to not be sick. Sunday was grocery shopping, laundry, and me baking two batches of bagels: one for me, and one for friends next to the store. This morning when I dropped the bagels off, they cheered and were petting them, last I saw.

I’m hoping this week will be as busy as last week was. It’s making me feel better, and not quite as worried as I was back in the June lull. We’ve got one year under our belts now, and people are beginning to rely on us for their art and teacher needs. Now if I could only get more book shoppers in! (Darn you, Books-a-Million!) This weekend I have off, and I might end up face down in the bed for most of it if this week’s anything like last week. Whee!

Oh dear… I still have to look at orders for the community college kids and art supplies! Gah! /flail

Weekends are good

Well the idea that I had that I might slip back into WoW this weekend died without even a whimper. Instead, I spent the weekend knitting and watching TV. Oh and randomly snarking. Jared loved that last one (not). (Sorry, sweetie.)

The knitting was for a good cause tho. Friends of mine are expecting their second child, so I’m knitting on a baby blanket. It’s pink. Those who know me take one look in the knitting bag, say “…It’s pink”, then look at me in confusion. Pink is not a color I have much to do with. Purple, green, even red (and of course blue), but not… pink. Thus the rampant confusion and constant asking if I’m alright. Fortunately, as soon as I say it’s a baby blanket, they relax and life moves on. Then I bring out the other (pink) yarn for the booties, and it starts all over again. Thanks, John, you’ve made me confuse about every single person I know and it’s making me giggle.

The other thing I worked on was finishing a project for my friend, Anne. Tomorrow, I’ll be shipping it to her, and as soon as she gets it and I’ve determined that she does like it, then I’ll post pics. Til then, she doesn’t get even a hint of what it is. Mwhahaha!

Next up in the knitting line is a naughty project for my friend Melissa. Since it is naughty, sorry, no pics will be posted. ::grin:: After that, it’s back onto the stole/wrap that I’ve been working on for what feels like forever, and see if I can get it done sometime this century. Then, who knows. Maybe I’ll get back into trying socks again.

Tonight, I’m going to try to log into WoW as soon as I get rid of this headache. Oh and eat something. Food would be good since I missed lunch due to Jared’s insane eye doc taking @%%@#!% 3 hours to look at him. Missing lunch sucks. /sigh