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February 3, 2005

Some People

My brother-in-law is getting married this summer and if we survive the wedding, it will be a miracle.  I really don't know why people think that planning a large (like 500 people) event is no big deal and anyone with access to the internet can do it without a problem.  Now, I may be a bit biased in this area because my mom is an event planner and does simply fabulous work and when she offered her assistance it was not well received.  However, despite all of that, it seems that some people are just clueless.  People with no idea or experience in setting up large tents should not try to do it on the day of the wedding with absolutely no professional guidance.  Call me crazy, but I see disaster all over that!  Anyway, enough of my ranting about trainwreck weddings.

My hat is coming along, but I had to rip out about 5 rows last night - twice.  I probably shouldn't have worried about it because the mistake was on an edge stitch, but I wanted it to be right so a rippin' I went.  Despite that, I still got one of the 4 V's for the hat shaping finished.  By the way, decreasing sucks.  I don't generally mind your every day knit 2 together kind of thing, but when you're trying to decrease on the purl side so that the decrease slants in the proper direction on the knit side and you have to do it on each side of every row and the pattern gives you no advise other than "decrease", I get a little cranky.  However, thanks to Vogue Knitting I think it came out fine.  Only 3 more V's to go - yippee.

I ordered yarn for the honeymoon cami from a wonderful little store in Omaha - Personal Threads.  I had no idea finding GGH Mysik would be like finding a needle in a haystack.  Not the easiest thing I've ever done - I had to call about 6 stores.  I ended up calling Churchmouse Yarns & Teas in Seattle and they found the store in Omaha for me.  Very nice people there and wonderful customer service.  I'll definately try them again.  I finally purchased the required number of balls and hope the color I have in mind is what I get.  The lady was very helpful and thought the color she had sounded just like the celedon I was looking for.  I sure hope so because I won't have time to send it back if it's wrong.  I'm hoping that since it went out UPS yesterday and Omaha is fairly close to me that it will come by tomorrow so I can start on it this weekend.  That will give me about 10 -12 days to get it finished before I have to send it off.  Yikes - I'll have to burn the midnight oil on this one!  Oh well, what is life without a little procrastination and a deadline looming??  :)