OMG it's been over a month

Hey all,


There hasn't really been anything interesting or exciting to talk about, except the magic of allowing a new furry little person into your life. She is a little angel. Maybe the Angel of Destruction and Insomnia.


Here are some pictures to make up for some of it:














Now back to work.

New Kitty!

Orion and I have added added a member to our family.





Meet Tatiana, our little kitten from the shelter. We took her home on Tuesday, and she has settled in quite nicely. She is eating from her dish, uses the litter box correctly, and loves all her new toys. She's still a little scared after a night alone in the living room, since she won't come sleep in the bedroom, but I think she's decided our place is okay. She's even purred a couple times.


More photos can be seen on this slideshow.

Happy Halloween!!!

This is totally not knitting, but I thought y'all might want to see my costume.











It is surprisingly expensive to go goth.

Fast blanket

Okay, can't talk long cuz I've got to get to work, but here is what I've accomplished this week.





This is the Hemlock Ring Blanket from Brooklyn Tweed.


As always, before blocking, the lace pattern looked like ass.





But after blocking, even clumsy, unsophisticated blocking like mine, the project looked right pretty.





And finally, the socks that I've been working on. I worry that they are a little tight, but I think they should be okay.





Now off to work!

That didn't last long

I've cast on three projects since the last post, and I haven't finished a single one of the projects that had been hanging over my head. But I'm an adult now, and I don't have to finish my stuff if I don't want to!


I think everyone should take a look at this site. Awesomest useless knitting ever. If I could go to the gallery show, I would.


So yesterday, instead of working (which I really should have been doing), Orion and I went on a road trip to Devil's Lake State Park, going over the utterly creepy cable-driven Merrimac ferry. After that, we came home and watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory with RiffTrax. We then were trying to figure out what else Gene Wilder had been in, and saw an ad for Nightmare Before Christmas 3D. Within ten minutes we were out the door and on the way to the theater. It was an awesome day, full of hyperlinks. Maybe that will make up for the lack of pictures.

Ravelry Stole Your Bloggers

So if you knit, and you haven't signed up for Ravelry yet, you are probably wondering why your bloggers aren't talking quite as much. All of our time is on ravelry. All of my new FOs are on ravelry. I swear, I think I've left my mind on ravelry a few times there. Plus, my work hasn't decided to firewall that one yet, but they won't let me sign in to blogger, so that one is easier to get to. Sign up.


Things have been going well here: Mom and Ken visited, headaches have been reduced, weather finally got Seattle-style (no more insane heat!). I still have stuff in storage from Austin, and that has been nagging at me. But things are now... calmer. (Not to be confused with Rowan Calmer.)


!!! FOs !!!


Okay, so it doesn't have the stuffing yet, but that's with the Austin stuff:



Oh yeah, you see it:



I have also finished the pair of socks I had been working on ages ago. No second sock syndrome for me!



Okay, so I guess that isn't a whole lot of FOs for the 2 weeks or so that I've been absent from ya, but it seemed like I was finishing like a madwoman lately. I'm tired of having all these unfinished projects over my head, so nothing is getting cast on until everything is off my needles (maybe I'll make an exception for the mystery stole. That would just be too mean.

FO!!!!

Yay! I finally finished something!





This is the Notre Dame de Grace sweater from Interweave Knits. I like it a whole lot. It was fun to knit and it is snuggly and warm. Of course, since I made it with angora, it also sheds amazingly. Still, I love it.


Here's another pic:





The kimono has been sleeping a bit while I've finished this up. I guess I just wanted to get something done. Goodness knows MS3 isn't getting done any time soon. The white guinevere shawl ended up so badly I couldn't even frog it and had to throw it away.


In other news, I've been hurting a lot less lately. I have an MRI on Friday, though. Wish me luck.