Just found a new blog in the ring! Cherry Duckie Knitter. And she has a picture of Anastasia Romanov on her blog! (How cool is that...)

Ok, thanks to Teresa's hint about W.Bloggar I've been playing. Too garish? Too gross? Too hard to read? I imagine that I'll be changing things (again) soon. (Like getting rid of those yucky-poo stripes on the side------>)
But at this point I've been neglecting the stuff that I "should" be doing today (i.e. cleaning the bathroom. Blech), and my eyes are crossed from staring at the computer. Off to inhale lovely, lovely Comet fumes...

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(I got this from Kat'nea)

~Knitting Magazine Rant~

So I crawled into bed last night with a heating pad and a knitting magazine. Not a knitting magazine that I pick up on any regular basis (and that shall remain nameless-though the whole thing was just an ad for the book "Hand Painted Country"); but I thought I'd give it a shot.

Anyhoo, I'm flipping through this magazine, and find a picture of a sweater. It's a nice sweater. I could live with it. So I look at the directions...

And see that the sweater on the model in the picture is an extra large...

I look back at the model...

And see that she might fit into a medium on a really bad "I'm so fat" pms-y sort day!

Question:

Why make an extra large sweater to put on an extra small model?

I'm not a petite person, and if I know that a sweater is an extra large I want to see it on a model that is also an extra large! I want to see how that sweater is going to fit on the size person that it was actually made for, not pinned and tucked on some skinny minnie. (and I have nothing against skinny minnies-I use to be one~grin~)

Yeah, I know that's how it's done. Yeah, I know that's what it's all about. They are trying to sell a product; but i'd have been much more likely to make that sweater if I had been able to see how it would have looked on me.

~End Rant~

How dumb can I feel?

I hurt myself knitting.

Yes, knitting.

I'm playing with a shawl idea and was using some circular needles last night. Maybe I was just sitting funny. I know that I was holding the needles differently than I am use to. All I know is that I woke up in pain from what feels like a pulled muscle in my back, and it didn't get any better as the day went on.

Tony did some serious work on my back between his picking me up at my job and then heading out to his. I'm still feeling very stiff and sore. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.

At least I got to get my hands dirty at work today! I planted a couple of plug trays of argeratum. I love this time of year at work, everything getting all green and flowery. And the chance to get dirt under my fingernails! I never thought that it would be something that I'd actually want to do, but as I get older I'm discovering that my mental health can actually hindge on how often I get to stick my hands in damp earth.

I really need a yard...

I just got to "run the blogs" for the first time in a few days. A couple of new faces, and a couple of re-names. I've got some updating to do!

I have been lurking, also, on the knitblogs list. (Yes guys, I'm there!) Ivete, I feel your pain! It's awful to put your heart into something and have it just not "be right".

Feeling rather blah and not with it today. A nap would be nice, but the chances of that happening are slim-to-none...

Find your inner donut.

Ugh. The doctor started me on some medication yesterday that has me half asleep most of the time. At least I have the mindless mohair to work on, everything else seems like a ton of effort. I hope this is a side effect that wears off quickly. *yawn*

I went and got my very own domain name registered! (Yahh! May not seem like much to some, but it's cool to me.) Now I've got to get rocking on putting my welcome page together. Six million ideas, just got to organize them...

Finished my "Knit for a Cure" scarf last night-finally! Simple, brainless garter stitch on size 15 needles and it took me, like, two weeks to do. Granted, I've been working on other stuff too; but sheesh!

I started trying to cast on for the second leaf sock, but couldn't get my brain wrapped around it for some reason. I think I'm still trying to adjust to the time change. So I grabbed some "sunset" colored mohair and cast on for another simple scarf-not at all practical!

Note to self: DO NOT rub eyes while working with mohair!!!

One of Tony's nephews is here. They are taking off to go play in a 7th Sea card game tounament. But for meinwhile he's amusing Irina to no end! It's wonderful...and making us think that we really need a NANNY! (We Wish!!!) They're taking off until who knows when this evening, and the small one and I are going to hit the quilt store. (I'm just gonna look, really...)

AHEM!

By Popular Demand...(Hi Kate! *Kim waving madly & spilling her tea*)

The Lace Leaf Socks Or, at least the one I'm almost done with...





And the really annoying thing is that they still have a leaf border that gets sewn on around the top of the cuff. No, actually that's not the annoying thing. What's driving me crazy now is the fact that there is a mistake in the pattern for the border. I was working on it way too late last night, and was wondering if there was something wrong with ME because I couldn't figure out why I suddenly had 12 stitches in one row when I'd only had 11 in the row before. Yes, I was swearing at my knitting last night...

But this morning a cooler head prevailed and I sat down and worked it out...And, WooHoo, the pattern was wrong. It wasn't me after all. So I should get the border finished tonight and sewn on tomorrow. Then I will begin the second one...

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Oh, Hooray! I am really, truely almost *done* with the first of those lace leaf socks! (I'd have been done before now if I'd actually worked on it in any consistant manner-You're not reading this, are you Mom?) I will be able to start the second one tonight after the small one is in bed! I'd love to just do something mindless for a rew days, but I have the feeling that if I don't just dive into this other sock I am never going to get them finished!

The small one is going to drive me out of my mind today. Anyone mind if I scream?

Hmmm...I'm hosting a quilt block swap for my friends over at Foolishness, and of course, silly me, I made a challenge of the fact that you can only use fabric from your stash. Now I'm going through *my* stash (trying to come up with the fabric for a sample block) and thinking: Gee, some of this would be nice, and some of that would be nice...I'm feeling a trip to the quilt store coming on...

Sounds about right, but way too introspective for this time of the morning!

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Ohhh, ohhh, ohhh!!!! A woman named Mary on the Socknitter's list created these amazing Snow Dancer Socks! Hopefully, someday, her pattern will be available for us lesser knitting mortals!

Ivete is cool! She set up the Knitting Blogs mail list! (Now we can all talk as well as read! TeeHeeHee!)

Had to go out and buy a new printer today. I didn't realize just how much I was printing until I couldn't for a week. Got an inkjet this time. The bubblejet that I had was OK, but I think I'll have a few more options of what I'll be able to print decently.

I also picked up a couple of loose leaf binders and page dividers and the like. Now I will have someplace to put all of the things I've been printing! This girl is gonna get organized! ...yeah, right, who am I trying to kid...

Spring is coming! Spring is coming!

Really tired and cranky today. Stoopid pms. Don't even feel like knitting, it just takes too much energy. Chocolate, must have chocolate...