More Yarn Porn

The last of the yarn porn before I begin the yarn diet... This was my package from Germany that was waiting at the post office... The top row and part of the second are Opal Petticoat, the rest of the second row and the bottom row are Opal Acalpulco... I think there is only one color out of the whole bunch that doesn't work for me...

A big thanks out to Beverly who had us all over to her place for Crafty Friday... It was a total blast! Met some great new people, got to try my hand at spinning thanks to Noelle, it was a total BLAST!!! Stayed out WAY later than my normal bedtime (I am usually in bed by 10, I left at 10:30) got home and crashed!!!

Saturday... No plans for the day... Just going to hang out here at the house, work on some knitting, put my feet up, watch some sports and be a lazy couch spud...

Yarn Porn!!!

I have been a BAD BAD girl... Yup, been travelling a lot over the last couple of months... Also been a few sales at a couple of sites and some new stuff I have wanted to try... So, my stash has expanded quite a bit recently...

Here goes: (From lower left corner across:) Opal silk (blue), Lana Grossa (multi color), Opal silk (yellow, green and pink) Lana grossa stripe (blues), More lana grossa (purple and grey), sock landscape (Reds and purples), sock garden (pastels), Color your own (white), sock garden (purples), Lana grossa (purple colors), Jawoll (black and natural), Koigu (blues and purples), Lorna's Laces (purples), Pallette (black), Simple stripes (purple, green, blue), Mama E's C'eye'ber Fiber in Scout color (purples and blues), Koigu (purples and pinks), more Koigu (purples), Lana Grossa (purples and pinks), more Lana Grossa (reds and greens), Artful Yarn (blues) and Claudia Hand Painted Yarn (baby blue)... And no, this isn't the end of it... I have my LAST package at the post office that DH will be picking up in the morning that came over from Germany... Yup, you guessed it, more sock yarn... I got a good deal on E-bay where I picked up the Opal Petticoat collection (8 colors) and the Opal Acapulco collection (8 colors) for $10.00 per 100g ball... Shipping wasn't really all that expensive, so I saved a few bucks... Guess what that means... I have now put myself on a sock yarn diet... BIG TIME... I need to tear through my stash before I can buy any more sock yarn... I have the next 4 or 5 projects planned out, so that should help... (No, the diet does NOT include the Socks That Rock club, that has already been purchased... LOL! Along with the one other sock club I belong to...) The yarn diet does not include a project other than Socks and sweaters...

Man, I have been a total, absolute, incredible BEE-OTCH today... I don't usually get cranky during my monthly celebration, but this time, I am not a good person to be around... I think it is a combination of hormones and the fact that my body has learned to metabolize my ADD meds (again...) and they don't work any more... I talked to the Dr. about upping the dose (again) so I only have another day or two on this present dose. The way it is working, I am better off not taking anything at all... I am completely absent minded, easily frustrated, unable to remember things, easily distracted, and REALLY FRUSTRATED!!! When I take the meds, I can concentrate... It is really frustrating to know how the meds are supposed to work and wonder at 10 am if I even took my meds at 7am... I feel like all I am doing is pounding my head into a wall... And the fact that I am currently having a major excursion at work and I can't concentrate and details are falling through the cracks doesn't help much, either... Yup, I am unmedicated and rambling again...

Tinking upon the great mysteries of the Universe...

Yeah, that's it!!! The cat got into my knitting bag and knit 4 rounds of my socks using the wrong stitches!!!

When will I ever listen? When will I learn??? Carole was just talking about this last night at our SnB group... Bring simple projects... If you bring a complicated project, go to SnB and have a beer, you wind up with F*'ed up knitting... Guess what I am spending my lunch hour doing today? Tinking the 4 rounds of sock knitting I did at SnB last night... LOL!!!

I am finding that tinking gives you time to ponder upon the great mysteries of the universe... Questions are popping up in my mind such as "Why did I decide to try to use black yarn on size 1 needles on a project??? Was I smoking crack again???" and "Would a psychic be able to predict the weather better than a meteorologist???" and "Will drinking catnip tea give me pointy ears like Spock from Star Trek???" and "Do I need brighter light or stronger reading glasses???"

AHA! I found it!!! Lesson learned, do NOT put your knitting down in the middle of the row. Your sock may get turned inside out and you start knitting back over what you just did and all the stitches come out backwards... D'OH! I didn't think that the Mosiac socks would be such a challenge. First, I took the book's advice and cast on 84 stitches for the sock. Tried it on after an inch, too freaking big... So, I frogged it and went down to 70 stitches (which by the book would be too tight for my foot). Tried it on, fits fine... Go figure... 1/2 inch to go and I can start on the pattern!!! WHEE!!!!

Well, I heard through the grapevine that our LYS just got a HUGE shipment of Koigu in... There goes my yarn diet... Time for a little SEX after work... (Stash Enhancement eXpedition)

I am also pondering submitting a short syllabus for a class on knitting 2 socks on 2 circular needles at our LYS... First, I am afraid of rejection... Second, I am not sure if I should teach toe-up or cuff-down (I am leaning towards cuff-down). Third, would anyone be interested in taking the class??? I guess I will ponder it for the rest of the day and drop the idea by the folks at our LYS and see what they think... It's worth a try...

It's Great... To BE.... A FLORIDA GATOR!!!

I don't believe it... I absolutely DO NOT Believe it!!!

Congrats to the 2006 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS in Mens Basketball, THE FLORIDA GATORS!





What a game!!! We went out to Coaches Locker Room with most of the Unofficial Gator Club here in Albuquerque to watch the game... Yup, I am still very superstitious... So I knit... A LOT... DURING THE GAME... Hey, even my boss sent me a page to stop knitting... Well, I didn't stop knitting... AND WE WON!!!

This is Century Tower... One of the landmarks on campus... We are with all of you celebrating at the O'Dome and on University Ave tonight!!!



'Neath the Orange and Blue VICTORIOUS
Our love shall never fail
There's no other name so GLORIOUS
ALL HAIL, FLORIDA, HAIL!!!
(From the Florida Alma Mater...)

My beloved Gators, Clapotis and AFGO

Sorry for the lack of postings this week, I had some bad back spasms all week that didn't allow me to do much other than lie down and take some muscle relaxers to take the spasms down to a dull roar...

Last night, we went over to my boss's house to watch the Final Four in Men's BB... My Beloved Gators were playing against George Mason in the first game and UCLA played LSU in the second game. We got there a few minutes after tip-off and my Gators had a pretty nice lead. Then George Mason started catching up. Me, being extremely superstitious, realized that "Hey, I need to knit... My Gators don't win if I am not knitting". So, this party is going on and I break out my knitting... ROTFLMAO!!! It worked! Gators won the game by a pretty good margin and are going to be facing UCLA tomorrow for the National Championship... Did I think the Gators would be in this game??? Nope! But, I am happy that they are... We are going to Coaches Locker Room tomorrow night to watch the Gators with our unofficial Gator Club...

I finished the Clapotis during the second game and decided that since it was a bit chilly that I would wear it... My boss's teenaged daughter said "Hey, that's really cool, did you just make that today???" LOL! Teenagers... It felt good getting a compliment like that from a teenager...

We then watched the Formula One race from Australia... What a cool freaking race!!! Dang, when those engines "done blow up", they do it in pretty spectacular fashion... Still debating on going to the F1 race in Indianapolis this year... It could be fun :-)

What is AFGO??? A very wise woman told me that when things really seem to be going wrong, they aren't going wrong... It's AFGO... Another F*cking Growth Opportunity... Well, the newest "growth opportunity" hit me square between the eyes yesterday. My 17 year old son announced that he was going to move back to Florida to live with his Dad after the school year was over... I know this is nothing personal, but it really hurts like hell... Even though I think it would be a good thing for him to do... It's a mixed bag... I don't think I am really processing it yet... I still have a couple of months left with him before he goes... Honestly, I thought I had another year before this day came... I will make the most of the time we have together... I know I have raised him well and we all need to say good-bye to our kids at some point in our adult lives. I have always told myself that my job was to make sure he had the right skills to go out and be successful in the adult world... I think he has most of those skills... His dad has done a lot of good growing and changing in the last several years and I think that he can give my son the last of those skills before he really moves on... I am gonna miss him like crazy, but he is a man now, he deserves to make these decisions in his life and I am going to support him and love him no matter what those decisions are...