Neewwwwww Yooooorrrrrrrk.......

Yes, in just a week, I will BE a part of it, old New York. My husband and I are spending five days there for vacation. This morning he asked me what I wanted to do. When I told him I wanted to go to yarn shops and fabric stores, his response was "WHAT??!!!!", as if I told him I wanted to spend the entire vacation in CVS pharmacy browsing magazines and greeting cards. My response to HIM (in a feisty, outraged tone of voice): "I am SOO blogging about this! Of course I want to go look at yarn shops and fabric stores. Ummm, New York happens to be THE place in North America for all things fashion."

He was sitting next to me at "Devil Wears Prada", he should KNOW!

Getting into a groove

I'm feeling really psyched because I seem to have turned a corner with understanding the Rowan pattern I'm working on. Now that I'm finished with the back, the front has (so far, knock on wood) been a breeze to translate! It takes a lot less effort to sit down and work on it, and I'm procrastinating much less. SnB'ers may NOT have to wait seven tyears, as originally anticipated!

I am fully planning on being at SnB this week. Work has been so busy, and knitting has been a good stress-buster.

I may try to bring in another pattern I want to work on next (also Rowan) for some guidance. There are some cryptic things in there like "K0" and "P0", which I take to mean don't knit any stiches. If so, why the $%^# can't they just say "slip stich"?

No knitting, only work

I won't be able to make it to SnB today. Toooo muuuuuchhh wooooorrrkkkkk.

:(

On the bright side, it looks as though I may be getting a much longed for dishwasher and garbage dispoal installed in my kitchen very soon. How did life get so these are exciting events? I don't have much good to say about the people at sears though. Ordering the $#@! machine was quite a task. We'll see if it actually gets delivered.

It was a good day.

So the weekend started out a little rough - blockages in the main sewer line in our buildings basement, that caused filth and water to spew forth when the laundry machine was in use. This led to me taking friday off from work, while 4 plumbing experts gouged out our pipes and restored running water and flushing toilets to us. Oh, happy day!

The weekend DID get better. I bought myself an early birthday present. The Canon powershot A630 . Sweet. I can't believe the level of detail you get with 8 megapixels! Check out some of the pics I took:



Lookit her wet nose.



Oh, and by the way.... I finished the back section of the sweater. Thanks to the good people of SnB who gave me the encouragement and tips I needed to persevere!

Stalled

Ugh. I'm stalled on my sweater. I can't seem to work up the courage to try and figure out the next chunk of my pattern directions on my own (my mom helped me translate the last part), but I feel its the next step in improving my knitting. I keep finding other things to be doing and avoiding it. But this weekend, I am going to do it, I swear!

Some of my procrastination activities have included purchasing MORE knitting patterns, such as Rowan Book #37.

Yeesh!