I love this picture of my son.  Theses were the "book worms" we gave out last year for Halloween.  The yarn was reclaimed from the fist scarf I tried to knit.  The patter is
Michelle's Bookworm Recipe  by Michelle B. (free on Ravelry)

Lets see what I did this weekend.  On Saturday I played WOW.  It was really fun on my level 90 going back to some of the lower areas and just killing things.  It made it fun to play again and the quests are so quick.  I think for Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor getting Lore Master shouldn't be to hard. I almost have my panda out of Outlands but sadly my hunter is about to go in. It's also WOW's 9th birthday so I did a little toon hopping this morning to get the achievement.

Yesterday I listened to podcasts.  There was The Fat Squirrel Speaks, Homespun, and old episodes of Joeli's Kitchen. It's fun to sit and listen wile I'm making things.  It's like sitting with a friend that is showing you their projects.  It's also interesting to hear things about the crafting community in other countries.  Apparently in Europe Aldi sells yarn but not here sadly.

I finished the first of my daughter's socks.  I told her I need a little break before I make the other one.  Size 1 needles are not my friend.  I've been working on my husband's socks.   I really like the pattern.  It's toe up and I'm to the heel.  The heel always makes me nervous.  It's not that I can't make a heel it's just that if you make the heel wrong you mess up the sock. At least my husband's socks are in sport weight and not fingering.  It feels thick after working on my daughter's socks.  I've been trying to sew some for the shepherd's outfits.  I messed up the calculations a bit but it's fixable.

I did do my exercises on Friday but they were late and shortened. I'll do today's late too.  The day is just getting away from me.  That has a lot to do with my husband being home.  He's not a bad guy he just messes up my plans for the day.  Since he's home I'll probably end up watching TV with him and watching my kdrama tomorrow. 

I did want to make a little mention of the tornados yesterday.  We had a massive temperature drop in a short period, hail for about a minute and heavy rains for about 30 minutes.  I had no idea it was going to get so bad for those east of us.  It's always so hard to know.  The weatherman says "It's going to be bad" and most of the time it's no big deal.  "There's going to be three feet of snow stock up on bread" and we get a foot or less.  This time sadly the weatherman was right.  The tornado(s) took out a town about an hour and a half east of us.  The thing is that is the town that Paula of Knitting Pipeline lives in.  With the help of Ravelry it was reported that she was ok and her house wasn't damaged but there was no power and her cellphone was running out of power.  She has over 2000 people in her group and I feel like many of them are waiting, with hooks and needles in hand, for her to say what the town might need.  I know there are things like the Red Cross that always help with things like that but if she were to say something like "we need hats and mittens and scarves" the town would have a flood of hand knit goodness.   Also she is slightly Ravelry famous and I know many podcasters would say "Paula said they need this" and reach an even bigger audience.  This is all to say that I am grateful that we are ok, that Paula is ok and I have hope for Washington Illinois because of the generosity of crafters.  That's it for today.