Schrodinger's Kittie

In making An tUasal’s socks, I have discovered just how big my man is. I am just boggling at how much yarn it is taking to make his socks. I kid you not. It is taking as much yarn to make his socks as it does to make myself a halter top.

**blinks**

It makes my brain hurt to contemplate. I mean….I knew he was big. I just…wow.

So sorry there has been next to no posting, lately. But I’ve been working on this one project…..

Yes. Just the one.

It’s black.

It’s frustrating.

It’s not going to be done in time for Christmas.

However, I did manage to get him a full set of Anton Chekov’s work as well as another Turgenev – the novel “First Love”. I know he’s going to love those.

So. I’ll shove the sock on his foot and see how poorly it fits, make adjustments and then complete the pair. I figure finishing them will be his Valentine’s present. **snickers**

He took me to lunch today. We needed that. He’s such an amazing guy. I’ve been blessed with the men in my life. My son is just amazing. A child that just blows stereotyping right out of the water. And An tUasal is just…he’s such a “macho man” in so many ways…yet quite a bit deeper than that. Even if he does earn the title Captain Oblivious from me from time to time. He’s a good bloke with a great heart and always willing to listen when you knock him upside the head for missing the “obvious”.

Happy holidays to you all, in whatever form or fashion you choose to participate – that includes attempting to ignore all the “holidaying” going on around you.

Camera’s USB port’s busted so I have a card reader on order. I was going to go to WalMart and get one, but the price online was $20 cheaper and I just couldn’t justify the additional expense just for instant gratification.

So…not like I had too much to photograph, right now, anyway. Absolutely all projects are on hold until this pair of socks gets completed. Yes, you read that correctly. No other projects will be worked until this pair of socks is completed.

Why? Well, because they are for An tUasal and … well ….I just don’t knit fast enough to work on anything else and get a pair of size 12 men’s socks completed in time for the holidays. Size 12 men’s socks knit on size 1 needles. Sad, but too true.

They’re black Lanett Superwash, by the way, so photographs of them in progress would have been unilaterally uninspiring anyway. Am I the only one who doesn’t think twice about using “baby” yarn to make socks? **grins**

I did, however, take time out tonight from my knitting to make an orange gingerbread cheesecake for tomorrow. The boys at work have an appetite that I very much enjoy feeding.

Yup, you know it. I love the man something silly. **toddles off to knit some more**

I got to spend a great Saturday with a wonderful gal today.

My day started like most any other Saturday. Getting up at 6:30 to let the pups out – no matter how hard I try, I can’t seem to get them to understand that weekends means I get to sleep in. Puttering around the house until 9:30 am and then getting ready and heading to my knitting group at Cafe Caffiene. The gals there are always wonderful.

One that I always look forward to seeing in particular is Erika ((waves)) who has joined in on the Dulaan project ((YAY!)). Not that I don’t enjoy all the ladies there, several in particular, but Erika is one I keep chattering with about hooking up outside of our knitting meetings.

After playing “show and tell” with some non-knitters at the coffee shop who wanted each of us to show them what we were working on, and a couple of hours of great conversation with the rest of the knitters, Erika went home to gather one of her spawn and I hit the corner shop to pick up a quick bite and some molasses. ((I’m gearing up to make orange and gingerbread cheesecake next week))

We took her oldest to “Ninja Camp” and then headed up to Bluebonnet Yarn Shoppe. She’d never been and I was really looking forward to introducing her to my favorite yarn shop in the area. She ooh’d and aah’d appropriately and behaved herself ((as well as can be expected when faced with such temptations)). She’s promised to attempt to make the Lover’s Vine socks following my pattern. I guess we’ll see how badly I messed up as she struggles through my rather…not so intuitive….pattern.

She also got some absolutely lovely yarn to start a Clapotis. I can’t wait to see how it works up for her.

Me? I was ((gasp)) a good girl. I had gone there to get a 42″ or so circular in size 0s since my current set is occupied on another project. I ripped out the mister’s sock that I had started…Why? Well, I found some great, black superwash at the shop. So…three balls of superwash black, a set of needles and I’m good to go to start my two at once. I’m hoping I can get them finished by Christmas, but if not – they’ll be a great V-day present.

Erika’s oldest is just adorable. She held my hand on the way in to “Ninja Camp” and chattered and joined in on the conversation and just overall enforced her mom’s stories of what a great kiddo she is. I almost wanted to take her home with me…….though I think Erika might have taken exception to that idea. ((grins)) What a great kiddo.

On that note. I’m dosing myself heavily with ibuprofen and going to go lay down. I appear to be working on a mother of a headache….

But…..it was such a great day.