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February 9, 2005

Some Days You're the Windshield...

...Some Days You're the Bug.  Do you ever have those days where you wake up and feel like you haven't slept at all, run late all morning, don't have time to eat breakfast, have to rip out some of your knitting because while you're counting stitches the slippery little suckers slide right off the needle and require you to pick up 10 stitches with a crochet hook, get to work and figure out you've messed something up the previous day, generally just feel cranky, and all before 8:30 in the morning?  Yikes.  This doesn't look like it's going to be the best day ever.

I've decided the legwarmers are a go.  I've received some wonderful advise from a KR member on yarn and pattern and I found a couple of patterns that I can take pieces from.  I'm going to order some yarn and DPN today.  This will be my first project on DPN, but may be a good starting point so I can get comfortable with them before I move on to socks, which quite frankly scare me.

The cami is coming along well.  I'm at the point where I start makig the V neck, which requires splitting the piece into 2 sections and working each side on straight needles - I'm going to start that over lunch today.  If I can keep the stitches on the needles, which so far has been harder than one would think it should be, I should be able to finish it by next week. 

I've decided that I need a vacation (not that this is new news, but ...).  I'm hoping that the trip to Phoenix in March for Ashley's wedding will be a bit of one (and I'm going to go to some yarn stores - it's non-negotiable, even if I have to drag Travis along with me - he'll love it, I'm sure), but I'm really thinking that we need to go somewhere tropical for a week.  I'm not picky, just so long as there is a beach and the weather is warm.  I know Travis would get on board about that, but it's the whole paying for it thing.  I am going to have eye surgery this year so I can see without my stupid glasses and in the grand scheme of things I guess I'd rather be glasses free than tan, but it's a tough call.  Oh well, I can just dream of a beach for now.