What's in the stars?

So this is my horoscope for today...when the heck is this conversation going happen? Do I really get a raise today? There are still a few hours left in the day, maybe my boss will call me tonight to tell me the good news...

...or I can just knit till I fall asleep.

Finally...

...The stockings are D-O-N-E DONE DONE DONE!!! The ends need to wooven in and they need to be blocked and well I do have to make the garters BUT the hard part is over. I feel so accomplished! When the garters are finished and everything is washed and blocked I will model them for you all I promise.




I did start the garters, well one, and I got a few inches in before my wrist started to hurt too much. Sometimes I think I over do it with the knitting a little but when you're on a roll you go with it right?

Only about um...20 inches to go and then another 26.5 of a new one. I think this will be my bus knitting for the week.

But now that I'm finally done with the stockings I was able to caston the Ocean Toes for the Knit Along with Knitwits KAL. I'm really didn't like them at first but you know what, they're growing on me. I bought new yarn for them from the store in the lobby of our new building, Stitches East. Now I have to say I had heard the ladies there were mean and I have shopped there before but never interacted with anyone there. On friday, I went to find new sock yarn because I thought if I could get excited about a yarn I might just get excited about these socks (thank you jitterbug for making awesome sock yarn). In the process of picking out yarns I actually talked with some of the ladies that work there and I have to say, I take it back, they were lovely. So if you're in midtown on Park Ave stop by their shop. They have lovely things and the ladies aren't as mean of the reviewers on citysearch made them out to be.

Don't ask me what colorway this is because well I didn't look and I can't find the label right now. I do like it a lot and the socks are coming out pretty cool. Damn you Ocean Toes, I tried to hate you but I can't.

When I'm done with these I think I need a break from the socks (I know shocker!). And I'm going to get this Puffball Skirt done and the Flair Jacket as well. I have spent WAY too much money on the yarn for these projects not to make them. Plus I really want to wear them! Hopefully these socks will continue to knit up quickly.

I also watched The Jane Austen Book Club this morning and it was great! Not quite a Jane Austen novel but for the Jane obsessed it was a nice salute to her timelessness.

Lastly, for all my You Make my Day nominees thank you for all your kind responses. It is hard to pick just ten blogs. There are so many great knitters with wonderful knitting blogs out there. I love this wonderful knitting community the web has established. I used to knit alone and thanks to the web I have found a knitting group in my area (you all rock PS) and I have made so many knitter friends around the world. Knitting really does bring people together. Maybe that's really why I love it so much.

And since Carl's out showing apartments all afternoon I can blast some Josh Groban and get back to my knitting.

You Make My Day

I'm a little late but So KnitPicky gave me a You Make my Day Award earlier this week, Thank You! I remember when I started blogging how excited I was to see maybe 1 or 2 people read the blog. Now that I have a few people it feels great. I never thought anyone would really care about what I have to say but I'm glad that at least so of you enjoy my ramblings. Thank you for reading.

I'm supposed to pick 10 blogs now to give this award to so here I go:

1. Knitting up a Storm
2. Knitting Knews
3. Queen of the Froggers
4. Ysolda
5. You Knit What - Part 2
6. Shut up I'm Counting
7. See Jo Knit
8. Subway Knitter
9. NH Knitting Mama
10. BarknKnit
    

Now these are in no particular order but they are blogs I love to read and I'm sure you will too. Also, there's a little contest over at BarknKnit. She would like to know how you and your sweetie met. There are some wonderful stories over there. Check it out! And let her you know you came via my blog!

I'm also very pleased to tell you all that I have started to turn the heel on my VERY LAST STOCKING! I hope to have them finished by Monday so I can cast on my ocean toes for the knitting with knitwits KAL. Or maybe the skirt or the flair jacket...we'll see I guess.

Pomper C'est Super Cool

So last night BGF was a guest vocalist for this acapella group Duwende. We apparently went to school with some of the group members but I did not know them. He's a vocal percussionist and is BFF is the vocal percussionist for the group...I don’t know but its kind of a big deal for him. Anyway, so Carl and I went down to The Bitter End last night to show our support! It was a great time especially their last song Pomper which basically is a silly song in French about how push-ups are super cool! It had me in stitches (stitches get it this is a knitting blog...yup I'm a dork). I forgot that they did that song. I saw them once when I was in college and I remember laughing my tush off then too. It was a good night and BGF was adorable and I'm so happy Carl came and suffered through it (I learned form BGF this morning that Carl looked a little bored, I wouldn't know I was watching the performance). But I love him for trying to seem interested.

Anyway...That's all I've got. No FOs and not much progress on my WIPs so I'm trying to distract you with various factoids about my life...distracted yet?

Ahhhhhh

Going to bed at 9:30 is wonderful...

Neeeeeeed Sleeeeeeeep

So last night I could have gone to jail...if I had done all the things I wanted to do to Carl last night. Carl had to work late and BGF came over, we cooked dinner (I cooked he opened the wine) we had some ice cream, some wine, watched a little Family Guy. BGF left, Carl finally came home around 11. He was wired I was tired and a little drunk (1.5 bottles two people...you do the math). I managed to stay up with him for a little bit but then I was exhausted. I went to bed and was almost asleep when Carl came to bed. I think he was a little tipsy because he was in a really silly mood. I was no longer asleep. He was then passed out and snoring....loudly. I actually spent 30 minutes just hitting him and yelling at him to roll on to his side. He didn't move. I tried to sleep on the couch, I tried reading, I tried everything. By 2:30 am I just wanted to smother him...I've never felt such a strong urge to smother anyone in my life. If I had succumbed I would be in jail right now. Somehow I managed to get him to wake up and go on the damn couch himself. I managed to squeeze out a couple hours sleep.

Now I am exhausted. I knit about an inch of the stockings and now I'm so tired I can't see straight. It is time to sleep.

Oh to top off my night/day, Carl called me today at work to whine about how tired he was...HE'S TIRED!!! Psssssssssshaw!! Heck no, tonight I'm the only one in this house who can complain about being tired.

Night everyone! And excuse any spelling and grammatical errors I will fix in the morning.

WOOO!!

GO GIANTS!!

As much as I don't understand football I definitely found that to be an amazing game! AND I found a solution to my earlier freak out, I needed to knit something quick so I could feel the satisfaction of a FO. So I made a hat today!


I based it off of Le Slouch but I made some modifications so that I could use the butterfly stitch and have it be a little bigger around since I had heard Le Slouch ran a little small. I really love it. And the boys were mighty impressed when at the end of the game I had completed a hat! I'm apparently productive!


I feel much better now and can get back to my stockings....Sigh

Books Football and PANIC

I finish The Seduction of the Crimson Rose yesterday. I always hate when a good book ends. I was so totally wrapped up in the world of Lord Vaughn and Mary and French spies...it was great. This is Lauren Willig's 4th book in the series and I've decided to start again from the beginning. I realized that I don't remember how all the characters related to each other anymore. Plus I'm in the mood for a good romance!
The only problem is that with all this reading I'm not knitting my stockings!! Which I'm going to be honest with you, is starting to freak me out! I feel like they're never going to get done and I really want to finish them. I have so many projects in the queue and a sock KAL to start which I haven't even looked at the pattern really...this is a knitting panic!!!!! I need more knitting hours in the day.

Super Bowl isn't helping either. We have a party at a friend’s house and I'm not "encouraged" to bring my knitting. I don't know why but the guys we know just hate it when I knit. Frankly, I don’t think it's fair. I don’t like football so I should be allowed to do something I like while I'm forced to watch football. I hate boys sometimes! I know I sound like I'm 4 but sometimes I feel like they are and they bring me down.

Ok I'm going to squeeze in some knitting time this morning before I have to stop at 5. I'm sneaking in my knitting though and I'm going to wait till they start to get a little drunk and I'm just going to hide in the corner and knit. I'm standing my

I heart Ken Mehlman!

This has nothing to do with knitting and I know politics are never a good subject but I love Ken Mehlman! My college sponsored a Presidential Forum thing tonight and Ken Mehlman was a speaker. I do truly love him. He's F&M Alum just like me and I sat at his table at senior dinner. I fought for a seat. My best friend Maggie and I were the only girls and I don't know how excited we were to be at that table. Whatever you're political leaning he's fun. I've heard some pretty great stories from his fraternity days, though I will not share because well I'm not a mudslinger. All in all he's a great guy. It was interesting to hear his take on the upcoming election. It’s always interesting to hear from an "insider".

I also ran into one of my little sisters from my sorority days. We stopped talking about a year ago when she started dating this 40 year old married drug dealer. I love her but I just have too much to lose at this point in my life to associate with people in that kind of life. It was weird. How do tell someone you just can't be her friend because their antics could negatively effect you're own life? She means well but she needs to get her butt in gear. I guess we all group up sometime right?

I also met a guy who played poker for a living. It was actually really cool to hear about his life. I wouldn't do it but it was interesting. He lives with two other professional poker players...I think I hear a reality show in the future...maybe...it’s better than woman "fighting" for a man's attention by taking their clothes off right?

It was an interesting night. Back to my coughing...Happy Knitting!!

Ugh

How am I sick again??? I'm miserable and I can't take a sick day because there's just so much going on at the office. So knitting group must suffer I'm afraid. I'm playing hooky tonight which is really sad. I really want to be there and not here on the couch hating life. But I need all the rest I can get at least.

Also I'm thinking that maybe I shouldn't have eaten half a pint of grape tomatoes...ooops!

And Jen, no stocking stealing...I know you could make your own fabulous pair if you wanted to.

ok the new Lauren Willig book The Seduction of the Crimson Rose arrived today so I'm going to curl up and try to read through the coughing and stomach ache...DAMN TOMATOES!