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  • duct tape coin purse and keychain ID pouch
  • a birthday scarf for Nana
  • some junk out of wire
  • the scarf for Bill
  • that pouch for my camera
  • Klutz capsters
  • a simple stripe-y hat in Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride Bulky (leftovers from the buttonhole bag)
  • buttonhole bag from Mason-Dixon Knitting
active:
  • a Wonderful Wallaby in Wool-Ease for Adler
  • a Dr. Who scarf (season 12 pattern) for the DH
  • Brainylady's basic cabled socks (for me!)
  • a Linux illusion scarf
on indefinite hiatus:
  • the fuzzy steering wheel cover from Stitch 'n Bitch Nation for Lucy
  • a sleeveless top in Patons Fresco, semi-improvised pattern
  • Kitty Hat from Stitch n' Bitch in grey Wool-Ease
  • gigantic Wool-Ease T&Q sweater for the DH
  • skull & crossbones Christmas stocking
  • days 'til the DH's birthday
  • more days until our 2nd wedding anniversary
  • days 'til spring break!
  • more shopping days until my b-day
  • more days until W's out of the white house
I stole the idea for this cute little countdown feature straight from the far-superior blog bag 'n' trash, a fellow member of the mini knits webring; I got the code here. Wanna buy me something for one of these upcoming events? Well, I do have a Froogle wishlist and an Amazon.com wishlist. Hee.

Friday, January 20, 2006

crap in my lap

Uhm, not that kind of crap. Crap like, I just spent the past 3 hours on the couch, frogging the leg of the socks I knit for the DH a while back. 3 hours, people. I'm sure the more experienced knitters among you already knew this, but when you're ripping out ribbing starting from the cast-on edge, it takes for-freaking-ever. I only had like, an inch-and-a-half of ribbing to rip, too (the rest of the leg was in stockinette - which the DH said felt too loose around his ankle, hence the ripping). I ripped down to just above the heel, picked up the stitches, and now I am going to knit back up to the top in k2-p2 rib.

3 hours. And that was just for one sock. I think I discovered a couple little tricks that might make the second one go faster. Of course, once I got past the ribbing, the rest of the leg took about 30 seconds to frog. Hooray for stockinette!

In other news, we haven't even had a full week of school yet, and I am sick of it already. Physics class is so chock-full of busywork, I'm not sure when I will find the time to actually finish it all, and we have to use these degrading clicker-things to answer questions during the (really boring and crowded) lectures. My organic chem professor thinks he is so way cool and funny, when really he is just obsequious* and weird (not that there's anything wrong with being weird - it's the obsequiousness that gets me). Japanese is kicking my ass - so much new vocab! All at once! And the labs haven't even started yet. Ugh. I may only be taking 13 credits, but you sure wouldn't know it from my workload.

Well, back to sock-frogging. What a depressing way to spend a Friday night.

*This is not really the word I want here, but it's close, and I can't seem to come up with anything better at the moment. The connotation I want is "trying to hard to be cool, but really just being kind of patronizing and annoying." Help me out here, people.