Here are the orange socks I made my son.  They are long but he will grow.  The down side is he says there are itchy.  I'm done knitting socks for a wile (unless I'm in a waiting room or something) because I have commission knitting and then any Christmas presents I want to make. There is a quilted thing you put in a picture frame to hold your jewelry and it looks easy.  I also wanted to make some knit Christmas ornaments. Those of course are on the bottom of the list but you know I have tons of plans.  I have started working on my niece's hat again after a couple of days of not knitting.  I have about 5 hours done on it.  There are 36 stitches on the needles and when I decrease to 6 I will be done so no more than an hour.

I didn't do much watching or playing yesterday.  I did listen to a couple of Dramabeans podcasts.  There were a bit hard to follow for me because I am so bad with names and they say it so fast.  It was interesting to learn some behind the things about recapping.  Today I think I'll try to listen to Yarnivore.

Yesterday we went to Amey's school for backpack nigh.  We were there for about an hour which is way longer than it should have been.  For middle school it's not so much about finding you class and meeting your teacher but about finding your locker and being able to open it.  For the fifth graders they have those short double row lockers and Amey's is on the top so it's hard for her to see the numbers.  She had a hard time opening it so I tried.  It took me five times.  It was so stiff and hard to open it.  Amey had trouble, I had trouble, one of her little friends and his mom had trouble and even a school employee had trouble.  They put some WD40 on it and it was a little better but not a lot.  She finally did get it open on her own but she was almost crying at one point. I reminded her over and over it wasn't her and I think it helped that adults couldn't do it either.  I told her to tell her homeroom teacher because she is going to need help for a wile.  I was a little irritated that people seemed to think she didn't know how or that she was doing it wrong.  She'll be o.k. just a learning curve.  Poor Mooky was so bored but he did o.k.

Today is rainy and it's my first day by myself.  We'll see how it goes.  I'll talk more about the first day of school tomorrow once I see how their day went.  Have a good day.