Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Stuff

I haven't been posting on the blog much. Life has kind of gotten in the way of that. We had whatever plague that has been going around. The one that has a cough that lingers for weeks, and sounds like you are about to fall over dead because you can't possibly be breathing? Yeah, that one.
I've finished 2 pairs of socks so far this year. I've knitted and frogged several more, but I've acutally finished two pairs. One I gave to a friend for her daughter, since I made them too short for Siara. (my daughter)And I think I may have a pair done by this weekend as well.
I got some yarn from Jimmie Beans, part of their Lorna's Laces odd balls, and whether my mistake or theirs, 4 skiens of it was sport/dk weight instead of the sock yarn I thought I was getting. So, I'm looking at things to make with that, since I don't want to have to deal with shipping it back. I think one set will be a poncho or sweater for Siara, and the other will probalby end up as a scarf for *ME*. There is one I've been looking at for a while, and it's not to big to lug around here in the AZ heat.
I'm starting to work with circs when I do the socks. I'm still going kind of slowly with it, but it's really nice to have the tofutsies NOT fall off the needles. LOL
Oh and totally off topic, we got a dog. It's a trial thing, and she's been on kind of a Ben Franklin schedule, early to bed, TOO early to rise. So we are working on that. She's a 6 month old belgian shepard and hound mix. Nothing beautiful to look at, but a good dog for the most part. She is on the timid side, and evidently really wants me to know that *SHE* knows that I'm the Alpha B*tch because she does a bit of submissive peeing everytime I tell her to do anything. We have only had her for 2 days, and I haven't raised my voice to her at all, except to tell her to hush when she was barking, and even then, I really, honestly, wasn't loud. Hopefully she'll figure out that I'm not going to hurt her soon. I'm just getting real tired of cleaning up dog pee.