Wondering....

if these count as socks for Summer of Socks?

So its a crummy photo, but they are Debbie Bliss' Bunny Baby Booties from her Nursery Knits book. I knit them in Heirloom Easy Care. They are getting easier the more I make them (this is pair four).

I've also started 2 Argosy scarves from Knitty - the first is in a "time out" waiting for more yarn to show up (yes, I dreadfully miscalculated.....) and the second was started to stave off the craving to finish the first one. Since the yarn for scarf 1 showed up today I now have a dilemma.....

Okay - I'm now torn. I, in a moment of weakness, placed an order with Amazon last week. No, I didn't order Harry Potter. I ordered a couple of books - one The Harlequin by Laurel K. Hamilton. And all I want to do is read. I admit - it's 9:00 pm and I just finished my workday (yes, it started at 7:00 am and there was 2 hrs of commuting in there too) but hey - I'm done. So now what....knit.....read....knit.....read. If all decisions were so difficult.

I'll probably put a movie in the DVD player (since TV is just not cutting it tonight) knit for a while and read before I go to bed.

Well - everyone (assuming anyone is reading this!) have a great evening. I'm off to non-computer related activities!

Bright spot

Knitting was accomplished this week! It wasn't as bad as I thought....I finished turning my heel on my July socks and started on an EZ baby surprise sweater for a friend of mine who is due in October. I have a sneaking suspicion that the shower is coming up in the next couple of weeks....good news is it's a quick knit and I bought the buttons when I bought the yarn.

This week is shaping up nicely. Yesterday after many hours of cleaning we are now able to walk through the house with minimal walking over things. Except for around the mound of teenager "stuff" that is still in the living room. He's getting the you clean it or I will tonight with a tomorrow deadline.

Well, no pics of knitting yet.....we just found the camera (or should I say DS just found it). The bunny baby booties have gone to their new home, but I need a second pair so hopefully I can get a pic of them.

Proofs from DS senior pics are available here - http://orserstudio.com/seniors2008/adamhopkins1617/ Votes are in - he's a cutie (if I do say so myself)

There's also been a hardware disaster since last week. We've lost the wireless router.....so I'm sitting here with a laptop hardwired to the modem. On a very hard dining room chair.

Things left to do tonight - 2 letters to knitterly pen pals....ironing (yick), dinner (DS is grilling), more tweaks to furniture in my bedroom - yes, almost done after 3 months! The painting is done, the stash is organized and now it's just the last putting the pieces back!

Hope everyone enjoys their week!

Have I mentioned......

that my job seriously gets in my way? I mean. It's 7:30 pm. I have several hours of work to complete to be just behind instead of pathetically buried. I was in the office, on a conference call at 7am this morning (as I will be for the next SEVERAL weeks). I worked 15 hours over the weekend.

So here I sit on my lovely couch with a crabby teenager (girl trouble) upstairs waiting for dinner to be ready looking at my socks. I have May Day socks. I have the lovely green ones below all needing good photos. Oh - and the bunny baby booties. Then there's the serpentine cable July socks. The first one just about has the heel turned.....not gonna get that done tonight - or anytime this week I suppose. Mothers shouldn't let their babies grow up to e software test specialists. Did I mention my lace tank that the back is half finished? Sniff.

So, hi ho, hi ho it's off to work I go....so maybe I can squeeze in some knitting later!!!!

Ahhh, my June socks are done for the Sockmania KAL. Additionally, because I started these socks on June 24 - the also count for Summer of Socks! Two for one! Wahoo!

Here's the pic -

Photo quality - poor. Sorry. Camera phone. Milk crate - well after the water in my basement, let's leave it at my basement is still living in my living room.....and since it's 12:30 at night, really it was the best I could do.

Fiber is Lang Jawoll superwash in a color I'm calling celery. Unfortunately the label doesn't identify it.

Took DS for his senior pictures today. That was an experience. The first of his senior year. Kind of freaky for the mom. He's a cute kid. The photographer did an amazing job with him.

Mostly dry.....

And the report from the front.......we're pretty much as dry as we're going to get I think. There's one patch of mud under the stairs and it's in a place we really can't get to so I'm thinking it's time to put the panel back up. Close off that area and call it good.

The part of that which worries me is the sand outside. It's been a week. I would expect it was fairly dry outside. Not so much. It's still very damp. Like the waves just washed out on the beach damp. Think foot prints in the sand damp. It worries me a little.

Washer - an F11 error. Dryer - smells like it's burning. Freezer - chugging along like a trooper. Furnace - well, we need to turn it on and see. I fear this activity.

Summer of Socks update - I turned the heel on my first sock of the KAL! Yippee! That means sock 1 is half done. And since I am able to work from home this week - there's hope! I may actually get these socks done for Sockmania and also for Summer of Socks!

Last night DS and I assembled our new grill and cooked hamburgers on it. Pretty exciting. We both recognize we have a ways to go before we can consider ourselves "capable" at grilling. But we're working on it! Pork chops tonight!

Hope everyone is doing well!

The week in review....

So far this week has been a disaster. Follow along -

About 12:30 - 1:00 Sunday night/Monday morning I hear a weird noise outside. Figuring it's a poorly maintained car I don't think too much about it. After about 5 minutes I look out to see what it is. The water main outside has broken. Again. In the same spot as three years ago. Because my entry is below ground level, guess where the water is going. Did you get it in one? DS and I started moving things out immediately. Then we started bailing, and the neighbors started bailing. At the highest I had eight inches of water and mud. We were fortunate to only lose things that for the most part we had planned to send to Goodwill. DS did lose a tote of kids books and VHS tapes but we're inventorying and I'm sure eventually we can replace them. The bad part here is that my utility room is also on that level. Including the furnace, water heater, freezer, washer and dryer. Water heater and freezer seem to be working. Furnace probably needs a new circuit board. Washer and dryer - I haven't gone there yet.....

So we worked from 1am through to 9pm on Monday. While I was waiting for them to repair the main I sat down to eat a granola bar. Bit into a cherry pit that had been kindly left by the manufacturer and broke off a tooth.

Tuesday I thought all was going well. Things seemed to be drying well and I went to shut the garage door. The cable from the door opener broke and the pulley bashed me in the nose. Fortunately I don't think it's broken.

Today. Today also a treat. It rained in Detroit. And I mean RAINED. The drain in front of the garage is still apparently blocked because it backed up into my garage again. SEVERAL frantic phone calls later the township sent a truck to suck it out again. And the dentist - yeah, let's just leave it at I'll be spending some quality time there for the next few months.....

Hope everyone else is doing better.......