Catching up again

OK, you land your plane on a landing strip in Africa around lunchtime. You drop off your delivery then go inside to get something to eat. You come back to your plane and see this... What do you do???

KITTY!!!!!

Now, what has been going on? I finally got my first heel turned on my socks I started over the weekend. I will post a pic once I have the other heel finished! Then, it's just knitting up the leg and it will be finished...

On Friday, I am heading over to the local high school to give a talk for National Engineers and Technicians week... Time to warp young minds as to why they should consider being an engineer. While they are at it, we will also be taking appointments for the mandatory lobotomy that you need before going out into the workforce (LOL!!!)

I leave on Sunday for the trip. I still need to do laundry, pack and get a few essentials at the store...

Trip to the Frog Pond...

Here lies the last picture of Jaywalkers part 2 before they went to the Frog Pond... Completely...

Why did they go to the Frog Pond after a heel turn? Tried one of the socks on and couldn't get the sock on past my ankle... Grrr... Rip... As Cartman from South Park likes to say "Screw you guys, I'm goin' home..."

What did the trip to the Frog Pond teach me? Plenty. First, some yarns are better for some patterns than others. Yarns like Opal and Jawoll have a looser tension to them, so they tend to stretch more. These yarns are good for a tight pattern like the Jaywalker sock pattern. Tight tension yarns such as Lorna's Laces and Socks that Rock do not lend themselves easily to a tight pattern like this pattern... So, what to do with this beautiful Lorna's Laces yarn???

We go WAY OFF THE DEEP END and design our own sock!!! Here is my progress so far on a pattern I am calling MooKitty's Toe Up Mock Cable Pattern... If you click on the link, you will notice the pattern is not complete... The pattern will be complete when the socks are complete... I figured it would be good to write down what I do on my "made up" socks so if I ever take one out and decide to make it again, I will know what I did... Yup, ADD is a WONDERFUL thing ;-) I will bring these to our Albuquerque SnB meeting on Tuesday to show everyone... The picture does not do the socks justice... So far, so good on the fit... We are using Lorna's Laces in the Georgetown color for these socks also...

We have started making plans for the business trip to San Jose starting on March 5th... One of my co-workers wants to go out wine tasting on the 5th (Sunday) to a couple of wineries close to where we are staying... So far, there are 5 of us going on this road trip... Should be a ton of fun!!! I want to try to go up to Sonoma on Saturday the 11th to go to a couple of my favorite wineries up there and get some yummy wine to bring back to Albuquerque... I also want to visit the Infinion Raceway again...

Time to watch the Busch race from California Speedway! And knit some more on the new socks...

Quickie Update

Now, doesn't this defeat the purpose of a bird feeder? Or do we have 2 bird feeders going on here? Yes, this guy was in our backyard hanging out on top of our bird feeder... In the middle of a very bustling suburb... The hawk is real, he is not a decoy...

Where to start??? Work has been a bear! I got back on Tuesday (after having President's Day off). I submitted my expense report for my last trip then turned around and made my arrangements for my trip out there starting March 5th... The good part? I get to go back to my favorite LYS in San Jose, Communknity, and play around there! I am looking forward to a couple of weeks of social knitting! It will help take my mind off of the fact that I will not be able to be with my Albuquerque SnB Grrlz! So, for the next week, I will be getting the cats herded for the next part of the trip ;-)

My socks that rock yarn came in yesterday! I got a hank of the Queen Rock yarn. I am looking forward to winding it up and playing with it on another pair of socks...

I "Allisoned" someone yesterday. I had been working on a pair of socks for a friend's wife. She got them yesterday and loved them :-) Always makes me feel good when one of my projects finds a good home! Still working on the Jaywalker socks, part 2, and another pair... At least the trip will allow me time to work on that. I am also thinking about digging out another sweater and working on it... It is a pretty cable design that I will use from a pattern book and I will adapt it to my style of working on sweaters in the round rather than a piecemeal sweater... Should be fun! The yarn is an alpaca/wool/silk blend that feels yummy on the skin!!!

A wonderful day off...

Ashley (Boo) kitty being cute, as usual...

Not much going on today... Went to the LYS to get a couple of balls of yarn... I think I drove poor Jaime nuts... In and out of the store 3 times within an hour... I have picked up some new yarn for my next project. A nice gray sock yarn for some fun knitting...

After I got home, went to the airport and picked up the kiddo. At the airport, I ran into another fellow knitter... I gave her one of our SnB cards, I hope we see her at a meeting soon :-)

Tomorrow is our weekly SnB meeting... I am looking foward to being with the grrrlz again! I missed not being there with them last week. I will be casting on the new pair of socks and working on the Jaywalkers part deux...

Time to go get some sleep and work on getting rid of this cold...

The Olympics are WAY COOL!!!

The most awesomest sport in the Olympics has got to be CURLING!!! The guy they are interviewing from Italy looks like one of the guitarists from Bare Naked Ladies! Way cool!!!

Here is my progress so far on my pair of Jaywalkers using Lorna's Laces in Georgetown. Of course, the color is totally washed out in the photo... This pair seems to be working out quite well...




Here is the yarn stash I got while I was in San Jose... I am excited about starting a pair of socks in the new Lana Grossa...

Thank Goodness tomorrow is President's Day, we get a day off of work!!! I plan to work on my socks and stop out at the LYS to see how they are doing after the break in this weekend...


I still have this stupid cold... Last night, I spent the night out on the couch cuz of the cough... The cough seems to have died down today, so I can sleep in bed tonight...

The Daytona 500 was a pretty interesting race... It was weird seeing someone else driving my guy's car... That car is truly cursed... Right at the end of the race, he gets hit and finishes in a really crappy position... Bummer... Jimmie Johnson won the race... The weather looked really crappy in Daytona today, glad we didn't go to the race this year...

Yeah! I am HOME!!!

Here are the socks I finished on my way home last night... Go Sock Team! Yup, these were my toe-up Olympic Knitting socks... The turned out better than I thought they would... I am wearing them around the house right now...

Yesterday was not a good day... I am on my way to the airport, so I decided to stop at a LYS in San Jose to check out the yarn sold there... I was picking up some Lorna's Laces and saw a big old advertisement at the register for Stitches West... Stitches West was going on that day, at a convention center that was 1/2 mile from where I had been working all week... I WAS SO PISSED! Next year, since this seems to coincide with our big litho conference, I will go out to San Jose a couple of days early and go!

There were a couple of nice knitting shops in San Jose. One store, Communknitty, had a really cool back room with tables and couches where the local SnB group meets. Apparently, they meet on Wed and Sundays... When I am back out there for business, I will be heading there for the social knitting... The other neat thing I saw at both of the yarn stores was that they were both full with folks just sitting in the shop knitting... Cool concept. They had some really cool Lana Grossa sock yarn... Since I had heard about it but I have never knit with it, I picked up a couple of balls (80% wool/20% nylon) and give it a try... No one in San Jose carried Opal... Weird... Lots of Cascade, though... The other store I visited, The Knitting Room, carried a HUGE selection of Lorna's Laces... Picked up a couple of hanks of it also...

Looks like I will be spending a bunch of time in San Jose that I was not intending on doing... The first third (Silly me, thinking I would finish) of the audit was very enlightening... We are messed up... TOTALLY! It will take us a while to get everything taken care of and in order... I will be back for a week to get things organized then back out for a couple of weeks... BLEH!

I have started my new set of Jaywalkers with Lorna's Laces Georgetown color... I will post a pic once I get a little further into it... Let me tell ya, casting on in a VERY crowded LAX (LA Airport) with a TON of flights running between 1 - 2 hours late was a challenge... The place was a freaking zoo! Both of my flights were delayed last night... Instead of getting home at 9:30, I was flying in at midnight... Between the west coast weather delays, the midwest weather, and the fact it was a 3 day holiday weekend, we didn't stand a chance. We spent 30 minutes in line just to go through airport security at San Jose... Now, San Jose is not a really big airport... I am glad I got there 2 hours before my flight...

I heard our LYS was broken into last night... I tried calling the shop but got no answer... Does anyone here in ABQ have any more info on what happened and how they are doing??? Since we really only have 1 LYS in the area, this is a huge blow... I hope everyone is OK and that things weren't too bad...

It takes a week long business trip to really make you appreciate the comforts of home... This morning, I was looking through the refrigerator thinking about how lucky I am... I crashed in my own bed last night with DH and most of the kitties... It was SO NICE! I have really missed this place... It is really great to be home again...

Yeah! Finally on my way home...

Here are Mewstradamas and Roxie having fun with each other on the couch... They still haven't figured out that dogs and cats do not get along and are sworn blood enemies...

I got the suitcase packed up and checked out of the hotel this am... I am finishing up a few last minute things here at work then off to get some lunch, gas up the rental car and go to the airport... Cattle Call Airlines, my favorite...

I hope to have some pics up this weekend of the knitting I was able to do here in CA... The weather turned a little chilly yesterday. I am SO GLAD I packed a turtleneck and a sweater... I still have this stupid cold... The nice part is that this weekend is a holiday weekend at work, so I will have the day off on Monday... More knitting time!!! YIPPEE!!!

This Sunday is the start of the NASCAR season with the Daytona 500... It is really weird watching the race without my favorite driver behind the wheel this year... I am still trying to find another driver to cheer for... OK, I have been trying to find a new driver to cheer for for over a year now with no success... I may fall back on my hubby's favorite drivers, Tony Stewart and Kevin Harvick until I find someone else... Who knows???

Happy VD everyone!!!

OK, so things aren't quite turning out as planned...

Knitting time??? Yeahright.... Been busy working! It's been fun! I come out here to learn new stuff and I end up teaching about past problems we have seen! Awesome experience, but no time to knit...

Today, I am away from my honey for Valentine's Day. Happy Valentine's Day, Sweetie!!! I am thinking about you lots and lots! I really miss you and I am looking forward to seeing you on Friday night ;-)

I also miss hanging with my SnB girlz tonight... I will be thinking about all of them while I am working on my Olympic socks tonight...

The weather here has been beautiful... No jacket required!!! I love being able to go outside in a short sleeve shirt and not freeze my butt off!!! I don't think I will be going anywhere nice for dinner tonight, probably just pick up some "bait" (AKA sushi) and have a quiet night in the hotel room...

It's time for me to fly....

Here is progress on the Olympic sox as of noon yesterday...

FYI - no pictures of knitting progress this week. I have opted out of bringing my camera on a business trip... I will update the pix next weekend...

9:30 am... All packed and ready to go. I brought a couple of extra knitting projects with me, including my UFO sock from the cruise... I have another pair of toe-up socks, a pair of Jaywalkers I want to start (toe-up, 2 at a time) and a pair of solid color to start a "design your own" sock... I think this should keep me busy this week while I hang in a hotel room after work... The best thing about a business trip? PLENTY of uninturrupted knitting time... The worst thing? My wonderful hubby and teenager are here, my kitties are here, my puppies are here and I am there :-(

I have my Munchies and my Dove chocolate, time to catch a plane to the Left Coast...

Let the knitting begin...

I have finished the 2 socks on 2 circs top down socks... Took about a week... Not too shabby ;-)

We FINALLY got the cast on for the toe up socks... It only took me about 4 hours to get the hang of how to do it... (This includes nap time due to a cold...) I have cast on and done my increase to the foot width... I will post a picture of my progress tomorrow...

Man, somehow I ended up with another cold... This bites! Yuck...

WHEE! My packages arrived today :-)

I am so excited!!!!

I have now "officially" entered the knitting olympics! (No ADD tendancies of procrastination on this one! LOL!) I was playing catch-up with my blog reading and was over at The Knitting Fiend's Blog and looking at the page. Under Project teams, I found my Olympic match made in heaven... SOCK TEAM USA!!! Since my current passion runs with socks, this is perfect! I have mentioned my sock knitting goals were 1) 2 socks on 2 circs cuff down 2) 2 socks on 2 circs toe up and 3) design my own sock pattern. I am about 3/4 of the way through goal number 1, I thought the 2 socks on 2 circs toe up would be a GREAT project for the Olympics. I will be stretching myself to learn a new technique or three and I will be doing the project I love most, which is making socks!

Last week (to fulfill goal #2) I ordered Queen Kahuna's "Crazy Toes and Heels" book to learn the toe-up method and I decided to try some sock yarn from Knit Picks. For $2.99/50g ball, I figured I have nothing to lose on the yarn... I just wanted something inexpensive to try these new projects on. I have the Lorna's laces to use once I have mastered the new technique... I chose the Parade yarn in Blues Parade, Plum Parade and Gumball Parade and 2 balls of the Storm Simple Stripes yarn. It's 75% Superwash Wool and 25% nylon. The Parade yarn knits up to 6 stitches per inch on size 3-5 needles! Yeah! Fast socks!!! The Simple Stripes knits up 7-8 stitches on size 1 - 3 needles (more fingering yarn...) This is what the Postal Delivery Person had waiting for me today when I came home from work :-) I am SO HAPPY!!! Now, I can take all of the goodies on my business trip to San Jose (on the Left Coast) next week...

Congrats to Scout for her National Exposure!!! I know someone famous now :-) (Well, there is this race car driver who knows me by sight, but that doesn't really count... We see each other and chat once a year...)

Stitch and Bitch was really fun last night! We had 28 people at the Flying Star!!! I sat with Scout for a bit and helped her with 1 sock on 2 circular needles. Scout, I have a really good book called Sensational Knitted Socks that goes into the technique. Let me know if you want me to bring it to Village Wools when I stop up there on Saturday afternoon! I worked a bit on my current sock project and probably did more bitching than stitching last night :-) I am gonna miss my girls when I am out of town next week... I REALLY look forward to our weekly gatherings... It is great to unwind with an excellent bunch of women while enjoying one of my favorite hobbies and an adult beverage or two! Scout showed us this really cool twisted drop stitch I will have to try sometime... We also had quite the lively conversation about the men's equivelent to Valentine's Day...

Work has been absolutely brutal... Let's just say we had the Queen Mother of all Data Pulls due yesterday, I present the white paper tomorrow and I have 2 more days to get all of my stuff together for this trip next week... Today was the first day I was able to get out by 5pm...

Today's saying du jour: Cats - the only self-cleaning appliance!

Stupor Bowl X-tra Large knit along...

Scout asked for folks to play in a Super Bowl knitting challenge. This here is my picture of the before... When we came home from the party, I started working on the socks again. Here they are as I am starting the heel flap...









Here is my progress through the game. After the game ended, I had finished the heel flap, turned the heel, picked up the gussett stitches and started the gussett decreases. I have a ways to go on the decreases before the straight foot part.

The party was great! We really had an excellent time! Hubby and I stayed at the Embassy Suites last night. It was a very romantic evening... We had a nice breakfast this morning, then went and did a bit of shopping (pet food, Stupor Bowl Food...)

Good game! Congrats to the Steelers! I give the game a B+, the commercials were a C-...

Do you know the way to San Jose???

My hubby came home from the grocery store singing this little ditty. He has been doing it for about 3 hours now... I am about to send him to San Jose... ;-)


Yesterday was the big day. Resident Weed came to visit us at work... Oh joy and rapture... Yesterday, I witnessed the death of Free Speech. They would not allow anyone to protest the Resident's visit. Not even at the public park across the street. I guess I had better keep my political opinions to myself before I end up in some dark cell as a threat to National Security...

After work, I cruised over to Village Wools for SEX!!! GET YOUR MINDS OUT OF THE GUTTER, PEOPLE! SEX is a Stash Enhancement eXpedition! Scout was working, so we chatted for a bit. I got some of the BRAND NEW SnB cards for our local chapter!!! Awesome!!! I also picked up some Jawoll, some Cascade Sassy Stripes and some Froelich Special Blauband... I put in an order for 8 hanks of Lorna's Laces sock yarn... The Amethyst Stripe looks SO FREAKING COOL!!!

After SEX, I went for my hair appointment with Jen. She is a GODDESS when it comes to color! I knitted on the 2 socks on 2 circs project while she did the color. A different Jen did the blow dry on my hair. We got to chatting about knitting... She has a boyfriend who is a knitter and also plays in a heavy metal band... IS THAT COOL OR WHAT??? Of course, I gave her a couple of the SnB Cards that Scout had just given to me... She sounded excited about joining us with her friends!!!

I just got the email that my book is on it's way!!! YEAH!!! The folks in my Socknitters group were talking about a book called Crazy Toes and Heels. When they described what was in the book, it was just the book I have been hunting high and low for! Since I am abolutely HOOKED on the 2 circs method for sock knitting, I have been wanting to learn how to do 2 at the same time. I am doing the cuff down socks now... This book will help me with the Toe-up method, which was the next project I wanted to tackle. I should have the book just in time for my business trip to San Jose next Sunday...

Tonight is our company Winter Party... Every other year, they have this party where we get to eat, dance, play gamble and have a good time. This year, they moved the party to the Embassy Suites Hotel. Right after I picked up the party tickets, hubby and I made reservations to stay there for the night tonight!!! Cool! We get to party harty and don't need to worry about driving home until noon tomorrow!!! So, I am heading back to my cool hairdresser at 2:45 for an updo for the party. I love this party cuz it's the one time every other year I get to shock the living crap out of my co-workers. I wear a formal dress, high heels, make my hair all pretty, put on some make-up and a little bit of perfume! In other words, this is the one time every other year that I actually look like a GIRL!!! Or as my family likes to say, "Damn, you clean up well!"

I am going to do my own personal Knitting Olympic event... The original one had you pick a project that it would be a challenge to finish between opening and closing ceremonies... For me, I am going to challenge myself my learning and practicing knitting techniques I have wanted to learn but I have not had the time to do!!!

The Secret Cervix have landed...

Here is the progress on the 2 socks on 2 circular needles project. I am using Lorna's Laces in the color of Sand Ridge. They are really going fast and this picture doesn't do the colors justice...

Yesterday, I found out that we are going to have a "Special" visitor at work on Friday... This "Special" visitor has our whole workplace in a true tizzy. It would be really funny, but it is really messing up everything. Tomorrow, we all have to be at work before 7am (normal time to go in is 8am) or we will not be able to enter the place or find parking. I will be riding my motorcycle in 30 degree weather at 6am to make sure that I can find a place to park and get through all of the security to get into work. Since all of us are coming in at 6am, the place will be deserted by noon! It gives me a good excuse to go out yarn shopping! I would have taken the day off, but I have 2 meetings with outside folks that I can't reschedule...

Who is our "Special" visitor??? Let's just say if you watch any of the major news outlets, the company I work for and our "Special" visitor will be all over the news... Our "Special" visitor has a group of folks surrounding him that we have been joking calling "The Secret Cervix". The Secret Cervix really stand out at our workplace. They wear suits and walkie-talkies. NO ONE at my job EVER wears a suit... Tomorrow, there will be even more Secret Cervix agents camped out with weapons of various calibars in and on top of a variety of buildings... We have been wondering if they make bunny suits for the bomb sniffing dogs??? Where would their tails go???

Today, one of the bosses sent out an email telling everyone to "play nice" with our guests tomorrow. I guess since only 50% of the folks in our state supported our "Special" visitor, they think we would do silly things like protest, make really snide remarks or generally voice our discontent that would make the company look bad. Yup, I would have... In fact, I was trying to find my most subtle protest wear. Since we got the note (and I do enjoy living indoors and eating), I will play nice... Better wear my tin-foil hat so that they can't read my thoughts :-)

And if you are wondering, "Special" is short-bus special... Yet another thing to add to the 2" thick file the governent already has on me right now... Should you trust the government? Ask a Native American....

Jaywalkers are done!

Here is a picture of the completed pair of Jaywalkers. Roxie decided she didn't want to move off of the couch, so she is there too. The kitty behind Roxie is Boris...

I have gotten a start on my 2 socks on 2 circs project! The cast on was a bit confusing (if all else fails, READ THE DIRECTIONS). Once I cast on, the socks have been sailing! I am doing a simple alternate twisted rib on this pair so I can get the hang of the 2 sock thing... I think I like this. It seems to go at the same speed as one sock, but when I am done I will have a finished pair!!! No more second sock syndrome...

I made my travel arrangements for California. I leave a week from Sunday and come back the following Friday. 5 straight days of really hard work, should be fun!!!

Last night's Stich n Bitch was a great time. We had a blast bitching and knitting and being girls!

Oh yeah??? Well I am CUTER!!!

Came home from another short 13 hour day at work and found this... Had to take a picture of Natasha on the computer monitor... I guess the Gargoyle is protecting her so she can have pleasant kitty cat dreams...

Doing a Meme

OK, I read Scout's blog this am, I have a few minutes, I am going for it...

Instructions: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot.

Unraveling
Knitorious
Woman Obsessed
Scout's Knitted Swag
MookittyKnitting

I'm tagging anyone who has the time to do it.

What were you doing 10 years ago? I was going to school at University of Florida to get my degree in Chemical Engineering

What were you doing 1 year ago? Working as an engineer.

What were you doing 1 hour ago? Reporting out at a meeting. They wanted to know the progress of our current problem solving endeavor

List five creative things you want to achieve this year:
1. My first adult figure skating competition
2. Design and write my first creative sock pattern
3. Learn a camel spin
4. Learn to knit 2 socks on 2 circular needles
5. Make enough socks to last me through next winter

List five snacks you enjoy:
1. Smartees
2. Dove Milk Chocolate
3. popcorn
4. Snap peas - raw
5. Cheese - sticks, blocks, shredded, fried, baked, etc...

List five things you would do if money were no object:
1. Get a boat and mooring and live on it somewhere in the Eastern Carribbean
2. Open up my own no-kill home for kitties until they find a permanent family
3. Expand my yarn stash
4. Send my son to the best college for his chosen field
5. Go back to college and become an MD

List five bad habits:
1. Road Rage...
2. Procrastination
3. Not putting things away after I use them
4. Reacting right away rather than taking time to reflect on the situation
5. Intolerance of stupid people

List five things you like doing:
1. Knitting
2. Figure skating
3. Riding my motorcycle
4. Attending auto races (LOVE the smell!!!)
5. Getting to know people

List five favorite gadgets:
1. iPod!!!
2. Laptop - both work and home - COULD NOT live without them
3. XM Satallite radio
4. Ball winder and swift
5. Corkscrew

Name one thing you like about yourself: Plays well in the sandbox with others :-)

A new feature on my blog...

This is Natasha... She is the sweetest little kitten you could ever have the pleasure of knowing :-) She is shy, so it is tough to get a picture of her...

Everyone seems to have a special feature that their blog is known for, whether it's yarn, stashes, patterns or whatever... Here is my idea...

The new feature is going to be called "Hold my beer and watch this..."

Most of my family still lives down in the South. Drinking in the South is a pretty common thing to do... After a few too many beers, there is usually one person who says "Hold my beer and watch this"... This is usually last thing the person says before they become a candidate for the Darwin Awards. We have noticed that we live in a part of the country where there are some folks who say and do some not so intelligent things...

For some reason, there has been a recent rash of folks saying and doing some pretty dumb things, so I am starting the feature... Do you have a story that would fit that has happened to you? Feel free to email me and I will post it :-) We all need a good laugh every now and then...

Knitting in public... Yup, I got some strange looks today for my KIP escapade... After my hubby and I went out for brunch at the Tamaya, he wanted to go over to the Santa Ana Casino to play a little blackjack... I am not a big fan of gambling. I don't think it is wrong, but it isn't something I enjoy doing. Hubby asked me why I don't like to gamble... I told him that if I had the choice of sitting at a blackjack table and losing $20 during that time or using that $20 to buy 2 hanks of Lorna's Laces sock yarn, the sock yarn wins hands down :-) Well, he decided to go play some blackjack and I followed him... The table wasn't busy, so I sat next to my hubby, took my Jaywalker out of the knitting bag and continued to work on the sock while sitting at the Blackjack table. He started having some bad luck, so I took a couple of chips and played for a bit while I was knitting on my sock... Knitting socks at a blackjack table WILL get you some strange looks. After a few hands, I left the table and went into the bar and continued to knit while hubby played some more blackjack... Knitting is wonderful! You can take it anywhere and work on it... Bored? No prob, pull out your knitting...

After we got done, we did a little shopping. I got a bigger rubbermaid tub for my sock yarn :-) Now, all of my yarn fits in one place :-) We also got a featherbed mattress topper for our bed. OMG!!! I had experienced these in hotels I had stayed in while on business trips (especially the Westin). I didn't know you could get these in a store... Yup, my shopping is usually limited to 2 - 3 times per year because I have run out of jeans that fit, need more shorts or need sheets... (Now, yarn shopping is ANOTHER story...) I put the featherbed on the mattress and felt a big hug from my bed... I think I am going to bed early so I can just lay there :-)

Here is the scarf...

Here is a pic of my hubby's scarf... The most common question asked while making the scarf? "Is that for Halloween???".... Um....no...

Just hanging out, watching the end of the 24 Hours of Daytona Rolex race... My favorite driver, Rusty Wallace, was in the race for his first time... The car actually lead the race at one point, but a win was not in the cards... The car was retired from the race during hour 8 last night. I have a TON of admiration for anyone who competes on a team in this race... 24 hours of straight racing in one car is an endurance test for any engine...

I am looking forward to getting my Lorna's Laces sock yarn that I ordered a couple of days ago. The woman who I am getting them from had a great selection of yarns with colors I hadn't seen at my LYS. The package shipped yesterday :-) I fell in love with this yarn when Carole was knitting with it during our Jaywalker knitalong for the Albuquerque SnB group... The yarn felt so soft and her sock knitted up so nicely. I am looking forward to a couple of projects with this yarn! I have shyed away from working with a lot of sock yarns because I had such a hard time working with the size 1 DPN's. My hands were cramping up like crazy when I tried using yarns like Opal or Regia... Since I have learned to do the socks on 2 circulars (I am using 24" Addi Turbos, size 1 and 0), I no longer have the cramping problem. It is nice to have this whole new world of yarn opened up to me!

Shopping is hazardous to your health...

Here is Dust Bunny looking out the window. He likes checking out the birds...

We finished the motorcycle scarf today :-) Hubby will be wearing it on Tuesday when he takes his bike out...

Still working on the second Jaywalker sock... Up to the heel flap today :-)

This afternoon, a bunch of us decided to go do a little shopping. We made our semi-annual trip to Fred's for some intimate items... After that, we hit Barnes and Noble and I picked up a couple of new Women's Studies books. Then, we hit Macy's... Shaelyn told me that they had silk jammies... (I absolutely ADORE silk PJ's). We went up to get a pair, since they were $40 each. After we got to the register, they rang up for $14.99 each... Do you believe $14.99 for 100% silk jammies??? Needless to say, we bought all of the PJ's that were left in each of our sizes... 3 pairs for the price of 1... Damn, I can't complain about that :-)

Tomorrow, heading out for brunch with the hubby and will be working on the Jaywalkers... Next up - 2 socks on 2 circs!