These are the baby mitts I worked on on Sunday.  I did it by holding two strands of fingering yarn together to get an approximate worsted.  I find it interesting that the orangish color is the same in both pairs but looks so different depending on what the other color is.  I'll make more of these on Sunday in different colors.  I started on the teapot cosy.  It seems to be going well but I feel like it will be small.  I'm going to measure it later.  The cosy is made in two parts then sewn together, I'm doing them at the same time with one end from the middle and one from the outside.  So the plan is: finish the cosy, make some flowers (possibly lots) and finish the cupcake.

Today I actually caught a girl, who usually isn't at the bus stop, throw a rock at someone else. Those rocks are just too tempting. I took a short walk and made sure to stretch afterwards.  I didn't stretch on Wednesday and that was part of the reason it hurt.  To add to today's excitement Mooky feel asleep on the bus and didn't get off at his stop.  I wasn't worried because I figured he was on the bus and just forgot to get off.  If Transportation had told me he wasn't on the bus then I would have worried.

I wanted to talk about the two walks I took on purpose this week.  When I used to walk all the time, and did about a mile a day, I loved it.  I liked looking at the birds and seeing if I could find the white squirrel that day.  It got cold and I stopped walking.  When the weather warmed up again and I started walking again I had dog problems so I stopped again.  I have been keeping an eye out all summer to see if that dog was there and I didn't see it so I decided to try again.  The first walk I took on Monday wasn't actually fun and that was sad. I felt like I had to keep looking over my shoulder to see if a dog was going to jump out at me.  The walk I took today was better.  I was a little fired up from having to break up the "fight" so I was walking quicker.  I didn't feel so stressed but I wasn't enjoying it as much as I did before.  I hope this bodes well and the next time I walk it will be even better.

I caught up on all my podcasts for the week.  I don't remember anything especially memorable just the felling of crafting with someone.  I like Yarnivore but I'm not getting into it as much as I was expecting.  I think it may be that I have so many already I'm a little burnt out by the time I get to it.  Time for a little kdrama break.

Other than our adventure today things seem to be going well.  Tomorrow we are going to my husband's home town for a parade and a carnival, assuming it doesn't rain.   Because of this I really don't think I'll blog tomorrow so I'll see you on Monday.

Oh my goodness yesterday turned out not the greatest that is why I skipped.  It started out o.k. but the kids at the bus stop were very energetic.  There were three or four moms at the bus stop and they were letting the kids play "tag" really roughly on a rock/gravel driveway (none of them were the parents of the kids being rough).  Because last year's issues I yelled at them to stop.  I could just see someone falling and getting bloody.  Maybe it's not my business but if it appears to me to be unsafe i'm going to say something.  They stopped but then picked up rocks so I said not to throw them. I jokingly said it was my job to be mean and one kid said, "No your job is to parent your child."  I said , "Yes but I choose to be mean about it, just ask my son."  Oh course Mooky agreed. The kid then said "You aren't my mom."  I said, "You're right but, if you do something dangerous I'm sure she would LOVE to hear about it."  I understand, kind of, parents not getting involved because some parents won't appreciate it but if something is dangerous I feel like you have to say something.  

That wasn't the bad part of the day, what happened next set that up.  After I dropped my husband off at work I ran to the school to drop something off.  I accidentally locked the keys in the car.  I walked home to get the other set, got the key to the apartment from the office, got some water and rested a little then walked back.  It only took an hour all told but there are no side walks, little shade and the lights are not timed for pedestrian traffic (speed limit is 45-55 mph).  Because I wasn't planning on waling in the first place I wasn't dressed right or had water at first.  I got so dehydrated.  I felt a little bad emotionally because the round trip was only about a mile and I could really feel it.  The dehydration was the bigger problem though.  It knocked me out for the rest of the day. I was so tired, I had a headache, I didn't want to eat, I was cranky, and I felt like I couldn't concentrate. I got nothing done.  No cleaning or laundry, no crafting and I barely made supper.  So of course no blogging. I feel better today so today I have to get everything from yesterday done and today's work.  bla.  It will be o.k. but it was not pleasant yesterday.  O.k. enough complaining back to the crafting.

The hat at the top of the page is the toddler hat that took me about 2.5 hours.  All the hats for my sister are done and she picked a pattern for the tea cozy so I'll start on that.  I'm still looking for flower patterns.  After that I need to finish the cup cake then the totoros.  I did work a little bit on my sock yarn blanket square and a little on my sock.  The sock just gets dragged out for waiting room knitting. 

I've been listening to my podcasts. I didn't get them all listened to so I plan to catch up on them today.  I was planning to listen yesterday but I got distracted by a Youtube show called Off The Great Wall.  It had some funny parodies of anime and drama so I got sucked into some of their other topic relating to China and other Asian things.  

I think that is about it.  Today's goal it to drink lots of water so if I have surprise exercise again I won't dehydrate and fix today what I couldn't get to yesterday.  Not the most fun thing in the world but it must be done.  I hope you have a better day today than I hade yesterday.   

Here is a shawl I made for my mom.  I like the colors but I was hoping to pooling would be different.  I also realized that this pattern, wile pretty, was too pointy (for lack of a better term) for me.

Yesterday was a podcast day.  I listened to Wolf Farms, Highland Handmades, Kintabulls, Dramatic Knits and a couple of old episodes of Knitting Pipeline.  There is a guild around here that would hold a fiber event about an hour away.  I liked going to it, it wasn't to far away or expensive.  They would rent space from a college but then the college decided that since they were not a student group they would not guarantee the space if a student wanted it instead (or so I was told).  So they moved the event an extra half hour further away and I stopped going because it was farther than I wanted to drive alone. When I received the reminder/prepay notice I just threw it away.  Shortly after that I found out that Steve, from Dramatic Knits, was going to vend there with his new dyeing business.  I threw a fit.  Now I am an adult so I was not rolling on the floor kicking but I was upset and disappointed that I was going not only miss the event but not get to see him and his new business.  I still secretly hope I will get to go but probably not.  I was getting frustrated because the internet was not working well so listing to Kitting Pipeline was difficult (it was taking a long time to load).  I know it's a first world problem but when you pay for something you expect it to work.   Today is Kdrama day and I think I will have the same internet issues.  I'm going try watching something on Netflix or Hulu instead of Gooddrama.  Not that it isn't still the internet but I think it won't randomly stop as much.

I got the spiders done! I have them in a lingerie bag ready to go in the next load.  This weekend's project will probably be putting puff paint eyes on them.  When they are all the way complete I will post a picture.  I'm working a bit on another granny baby blanket as a pallet cleanser. I would work on the sweater but that requires concentration and I can't read subtitles and concentrate on my knitting at the same time.  I figured out what project I need to do next.  I need to make little monsters for my daughter to give out at Halloween. I'll start setting that up when I finish the ball of yarn I'm on for this baby blanket.  I think we are going to use dice to decide what color, how many eyes, what kind of mouth etc.  Next time I have a podcast day I'll work on my sweater.  I'm still worried that it will be to small.

We had another bus stop incident today.  The other mother who usually comes and I were standing back form the kids, looking in their general direction and talking.  The kids were all in a knot, which is typical, and we were far enough back we couldn't hear them talking if they used regular voices but if they used loud voices we would have. I didn't see any big movements or I would have paid more attention.   Suddenly one of the girls comes out of the knot crying.  We went closer and tried to figure out what was going on.   As far as I can tell they were having some sort of pushing/hitting "game,"  she hit a little boy and he shoved or hit her back harder that she thought the game should have been.  She said it really hurt and I couldn't tell if was because of the crying or the hit she seemed like she couldn't breath well.  Of course this is the day when neither mom had our phone on us and the bus was right there so a decision had to be made.  We sent all of the other kids to the bus and the other mom took the little girl home to her mom.  It was a sad situation so I just posted on Facebook, "What do you do when the kids at the bus stop hurt each other :( ." I wasn't looking for an answer just sympathy but someone answered.  She said that according to the police you can get in trouble for touching kids to break up a fight and should call the police.  This is even sadder but I think it's a little different when I'm a mom of other kids at the bus stop not just a stranger wandering by.  It makes it sound like our bus stop is bad but it's usually ok.  On a side note it's 50 degrees out don't send your kids to school in shorts, capris, or short sleeves.  I know it will be warm when they get off school and not all kids get cold easily but really it's called layers people.  Ok I'll get off my judgy pants soap box. 

This is supposed to be Jiji from the Ghibli movie "Kiki's Delivery Service."

Running Man was interesting yesterday.  They changed up the format, now the regulars have to find the guest (or guests).  They use many extras that look similar or have similar costumes (like masquerade masks) to the guest so it makes it difficult.  The guest must find things (usually balls) and when they do, the names of the regulars that are written on it are out.  I like this game but because it's so long some of the other games are not as interesting, they seem short or weirdly thought out.  I still enjoy the show and I actually kind of recognized some guests.  They are the group TVXQ! and I have watched a couple of their videos.  Now I would not have recognized them if it wasn't stated where they were from, I just don't recognize many of the celebrities by sight. (I probably wouldn't recognize many form the U.S. either, I'm just not good with that).  I also realized, in a "duh" moment, that one of the regulars was also in a drama I have watched.  No wonder he looked so familiar.

Today is a WOW day.  I have 4 active toons (characters). Tati is a level 90 arcane mage, Believe is an 85 frost mage, Quina is a level 64 fire mage and Lucyanna is 48 hunter.  Now I do know about dual specialization but I enjoy having all my mages.  My husband is home today so he took Tati to the Timeless Isle and we got her some gear.  I'm probably going to avoid Believe today because she has a quest I don't want to do.  So I'll be working on getting Quina out of Outlands mostly I think.  I really hate that expansion.  I know if you aren't into WOW this made no sense to you and I'm sorry.  Oh I talked to my husband and I made a mistake. He only has 7 90's (the highest level you can go right now) but he had 10 85's so that's where I got the number from. 

I washed the swatches and they didn't shrink but they did pill like crazy.  So now I know when I finish the sweater not to put it in the laundry like that.  I'm going to redo the swatches and be very careful with the stitch count because I think I may have messed it up a bit.  It looks like it might be an inch bigger all around. The spiders are not hard to make but I hadn't made them in so long I had to relearn and it was much slower than I remembered.  I assume that is because I was reading at the same time and you have to pay attention at least a little or you end up with a seven legged spider like I did.  I didn't realize till I tucked in all the ends so I just gave it to my daughter because I was not ripping it out.  The other little  mistake I made was setting a finished one on my keyboard when I got up to make myself lunch.  I made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich and without thinking I moved the spider when I sat down to watch another piece of an episode.  There are so many peanut allergies I want to be careful.
I set that one aside but I might just put all of them in a lingerie bag and wash them before giving them (they are acrylic).  I may also glue goodly eyes on but I'll decide that later.  I only have 7 made not counting the two mistakes, I thought I would be a lot faster.  Oh I forgot to mention that spiders are crochet and the pattern is free in Ravelry. If I do anything today (I don't get much crafting done on WOW days) I will do the swatches first so I can get the dissertation turned in then I will work on more spiders.  The math for the other yarn is going to have to go on the back burner.

I took a walk today with my husband since he was home.  Because he was with me I when past the German Shepard and my husband was not amused either.  We did see the Boxer in it's back yard so it must just have gotten out the other day.  It is such good dog it was probably there the whole time and I never noticed because it's so quite.  I think I'll try that loop again on Friday. 

I don't know what bus stop etiquette is. Most parents send their children to the bus stop by themselves.  I take my kids mostly because my son is not good socially and is sometimes fearful (my daughter would rather I stay home because she is so big). I'm the mean mom will scold the other children if they are doing something I think is dangerous (throwing rocks, going it the street).  I know boys horse around so unless feet come off the ground I usually let them wrestle and stay out of it.  Today there was a little toy being tossed around in a "keep away" fashion.  I figured as long as they weren't being mean about it everything was ok.  One of the little girls got it and her older brother took it from her saing it was his toy.  They were struggling a bit and she ended up sitting on the ground crying.  I went over and made him give it to me, I gave it back to his little sister and told her to put it away.  The boy was insisting the whole time it was his and I told him to take it up with his mom when he got home from school.  I never know if this is my business or how it should be handled.  I tiny part of me is expecting a visit from the children's mother saying I should not scold her children and mind my own business.  We'll see.

My son has an appointment tomorrow  and  Thursdays I usually drive another mom from the neighborhood around (she doesn't have a license) so tomorrow may be late if I write at all.