Category Archives: Life

~Chasing kids, mostly. The little booger-heads are hell to civilize. Stupid phases.

~Working an annoying mid-shift schedule at the Mega Lo Mart.

~Knitting a hat on my lunch break. Slowly, because knitting invites conversation and even though I can knit stockinette in the round and talk at the same time, the split in concentration slows me down.

~Not working on the ripple, because I need the kids to be in bed to haul that project out. I have a pic of the start of it, though:

~Made Evangeline:

and a New York Scarf:

and New York Hat that is too big to really be worn, but will have a photo taken eventually because it was my first hat knit in the round and so is cool anyway.

~Making sets of dishcloths for a friend.

~Did I mention chasing kids?

~Did I mention our schedule being all shot to hell?

~Oh, and I had some sort of flulike bug that knocked me out for a good solid week and is still hanging around a week after that. And I’ve been trying to finish winterizing the apartment. And trying to get things clean-clean instead of just barely good enough. And stressing out about Christmas, because we’re wicked broke and because the family shenanigans are exasperating. And…well, you get the picture…

Hopefully I’ll be able to find some sort of rhythm here soon.

But then this post would be as delayed as all the others around here. I keep thinking that I’ll post when I clear off the camera…

Anyway, my absolutest BFF, who has been putting up with me since I was 8 years old, sent me a birthday present. Janet Evanovich’s latest hidden in a huge box of odds and ends yarn. Seriously…the girl sent me a huge helping of random stash. The sort that takes years to accumulate. Scraps, but sizable ones. Nothing matches, and that’s the beauty of it…

Anyway, it’s almost all acrylic, and almost all worsted weight, so I’ve decided that it needs to be an afghan (or two!). And since I have never made one before, and this sort of assortment is perfect for it, I’ve decided that I’m going to make a ripple. And I’m so stupid excited that I think I’m going to set it up right now, instead of going to bed like a sensible person.

Yay!

Its been a couple of weeks without any real forward progress. Going to work, back from work, didn’t get to crochet at all…cant bear to report that every couple of days. So Ive been ignoring the blog instead. Heck, I haven’t even taken a trip down my blogroll in most of a week, probably. I’m not sure whats going on…it just seems like suddenly life has filled up all the little bits of space I was previously using to blog and design and play yarny games in.

I’m hoping to spend some time the next couple of days turning WIPs into FOs. Ill let you know how that goes.

I have all sorts of thoughts swirling in my head at the moment, but I’m short of time to make sense of them. It’s been a weird week. My work schedule was a mess because of our inventory and I’ve been under the influence of an on-again, off-again toothache that keeps popping up out of the blue to make me miserable. I honestly had no idea that it was possible for a freaking tooth to hurt this bad. As a matter of fact, I’m not even sure which one it is, because that whole side of my mouth goes nuts when I trigger the thing. I think I might have figured out what was setting it off, so I can at least avoid making the pain worse until I can get it fixed. But it’s sort of scary, because when it goes off it’s completely incapacitating until it calms down again. I’m worried it will go crazy at work and I’ll lose my mind right there in public.

Anyway, around all of this I’ve been working. My sample for my next pattern is almost done (if I can ever settle on a new border), and it ought to be out of testing in time to release it next week. I’ve been testing, too, and I can’t wait to be able to point you to the patterns I’ve gotten to test (well, I’ve only made it through one of them, but I have high hopes for tomorrow…heh).

It’s past my bedtime, but I wanted to check in. I feel bad updating this so seldom, because I have no attention span and tend to stop reading blogs that are as boring as I’ve been lately. With any luck, soon we’ll be out of the totally-focused-on-keeping-the-lights-on stage of our little financial catastrophe, and the words and the crochet will no doubt flow much better at that point. Crossed fingers, if you’re so inclined, and thanks for your patience.

A brief update:

–That dishcloth? Doomed. I just can’t find a stitch with the right proportions to make the shaping work out. If it comes to me in a dream…otherwise, on to the next thing.

–My two big design projects are coming along nicely, apart from the bit where I have to actually make the samples. They’re started, but I’m wrestling with the pattern instructions right now. I think I’m finally winning, lol.

–Anybody who thinks retail work is not challenging should be sentenced to a year of it.

–The baby destroyed my Irish-Hiking-Scarf-in-progress last night. One wip down…

Um, I think that’s it. Back soon.