It's finished!  I'm doing a little happy dance.  I didn't notice till the picture that the lines of the cone are off.  That is the stuffing not my crochet so I can fix it easily.  My husband was teasing me about the progression of projects form "This is a cool idea I can't wait to get started" to "Ug I hate this I can't wait till I get done."  Part of it was I was making four.  If I had only wanted to make one it wouldn't have been so tedious.  Also I'm crazy because I'm already planning to use this pattern again.  I'm going to use the top scoop and modify the cone to make a cupcake for my niece that will be one in July. I do plan to put beads on it for sprinkles but I'm going to sting them on not sew them on so I don't think she could get them off.

I thought I might skip yesterday because I had a lot of errands.  On Thursday I did work on the shawl and it seems to be coming out well even though my gauge is off.  I worked a little on my Trillian in the car yesterday and when I finally got home I finished the pillow. After I finished the pillow I started working on a shawl. I like the patter it's easy and looks much more complicated than it is.  I have to rip it out though because it calls for a US size 9 and those are in the shawl so I tried a 10 and that's just too big.  I was going to listen to podcasts and work on the sleeves today (yuck) but I think I may play WOW.   I told my husband he could cancel my account but he never did.  Tomorrow I'll work on more baby mitts.

I don't remember anything special about podcasts on Thursday.  I did get to watch a few episodes of ... Alice yesterday.  Everything is about to fall apart.  I have been told that everything will work out in the end but there are going to be a lot of tears first.  I think I have four episodes left, so maybe one or two more watching days.

I don't think I have anything else to say.  The weather was beautiful yesterday and I really enjoyed it.  It's time to start supper (crockpots are wonderful things) and that's it.  See you next time.

We have ice cream pillow progress!  I finished the cone at the knit group.  I have only a tiny bit of yarn left so I need to buy one more ball to finish this off.

Yesterday listening to podcasts was interesting.  I'm not in Instagram and I don't participate in the Knitabulls group because they are so big and talk so fast I can't keep up. Because of this I didn't know that Diane's bulldog Mae died.  It made me cry because I know how much she really loves her bulldogs especially Mae. After telling the story of that she went on a  twenty minute rant about some things that are going on in her life. It seems there has been some high school "he said, she said" things going on in her real life and on Ravelry (same people just in both places).  She apparently has been really hurt and just need to get it off her chest.  It was kind of unprofessional but she never said she was a professional and it must have really hurt her a lot to push her to air it publicly (she never said names or gave specific situations).  Also she did warn that a rant was coming so I could have skipped ahead.  I have felt jealous of Diane before since she has so much more money than I do but I would never want her to be hurt the way she was.  Hopefully getting it out in the open is cleansing and will help her feel better.

As you can see I finished the cone and just need one more cone piece.  This knit night was more fun for me. Part of it I think was I got there earlier and left earlier so it was still light outside.  Another thing that was diffrent was the one lady that seemed to struggle with everything to the point of giving up wasn't there.  I ended up sitting next to the owner and had a nice talk with her.  Not everyone was talking about shows I didn't watch.  I also had a tiny bit of wine but that just made my cheeks hot not anything else.  Now that the weather is nicer I'll try and go more often.

Next time I'll tell you about the visit I had with my sisters and how the charity knitting went. Oh,  I forgot the pattern I made the socks with was called Hearts for you by Megan S. Wright.  Talk to you later.

I know this isn't the best picture but I like the artsy look.  It's the "toy camera" setting on my camera.  I'll put a better picture on my project page.  You can't see the pattern well but that has a lot to do with the fact I didn't know how to make proper yarn overs.

I finished a scoop on the ice cream pillow.  Now all I have left are the cones and the sewing. I did get a tiny bit done on the sleeves but not much.  Today I'm working on a cone then back to the sleeves.  I really am not going to get the sweater done by the end of April since I didn't even start on the front yet.

Running Man was fun.  Ryu Hyun Jin (pitcher for the Dodgers) is so funny, it almost makes me want to watch baseball. What's stopping me are two things: 1) He won't be funny when he plays, 2) I know a couple of die hard Cubs fans that would kill me if I rooted for the Dodgers.  EXO was in an episode but it was really brief so I'm glad I didn't have my daughter sit through the whole thing just for that.  The "suspects" episode I'm watching now looks like it might be funny.

Yesterday I was watching the sparrows outside and decided to look up what kind they were.  It turns out they are House Sparrows.  Aparently they are not native.  I really want to get at least one bird feeder.  My Husband's overnights are over! Yeah!  Now maybe we can get back to a regular schedule.  Today is gloomy and I even saw some snow for a second but the temperature is going in the right direction.  That's it for the random thoughts.  See you next time.

The fire ice cream pillow is done!!!  I'm so glad it's finished and he really likes is.  One more pillow and I'll be done with these forever!  It's not a bad pattern I'm just tired of it.  My daughter took this picture.

Apparently posting at night seems to be becoming a habit.  The weekend was uneventful.  I watched some Running Man, listened to some podcasts and worked on projects.  I worked on the sleeves for my husband's sweater but I think I'm only up to 6" and I need about 24". I messed up on the sleeves as well.  One of the sleeves will be a tad longer than the other because I put in an extra row instead of going to the other sleeve.  I'll finish it but I don't think it will be before the end of April.  I worked a little on the hitchhiker, a wash rag, and made another round on my daughter's sock (remember that?).   Tomorrow I plan to put in some time on my husband's sleeves.

I went to my friend's house again to help her with her sewing machine.  The first problem was that I can't find a manual on line for free.  Maybe I'm not putting in the right search terms but everything I find is from $5-$15.  I threaded it as best as I could but I could be doing it wrong.  The second problem is the tension.  I tried to adjust the tension but it is way to tight.  Part of the problem is it doesn't seem to be sitting in the tension nob right and I don't know how to fix it.  It might be something else.  She was fiddling with the nobs and I'm not 100% sure what they all do.  She was trying to sew with the tension like that and it kept snapping the thread.  I have to figure out how to get that tension looser or she is going to get frustrated and give up.  More yarn and sewing adventures next time.  

The sleeve cuffs cam out fine.  It was a lot easier to do this ribbing than it was to do the one on the bottom of the sweater.  The rest of the sleeve seems to be taking much longer.  I don't know why but the pattern seems to be more fiddly than it was for the back. I really don't think I will finish in time.  Twice I got the yarns mixed up and knit the sleeves together so now I'm being very, very careful.

Yesterday was just a weird sort of day where nothing happened but nothing got done.  My husband has had some weird 5 am till 2 pm shifts and it makes us all tired.  I know he works way harder than I do but I also hear the alarm and sometimes can't get back to sleep.  I will be glad when his schedule gets back to normal (for us).

Today didn't go as planned (that's why I'm posting so late) but in a good way.  My sister called and said she would be in the area and could she come over.  We got a little visit and I gave my niece her very late Christmas present.  I still didn't have her birthday present done yet.  After she left we watched a movie (on DVD) as a family, which is something we don't do often.  So now it's late and I actually have time to write.

My husband was very sweet and brought me home the pink and brown that I was missing to finish the ice cream pillow.  Now they both have pink scoops and one has a chocolate scoop.  Today I am sewing together my son's ice cream pillow but I'm not sure I'll finish it. I did get a little done on my Hitchhiker wile we watched the movie. I think I'm up to 23 teeth.

So my friend (without me) found a sewing machine at Good Will for $25 (great deal). It’s a White model 614, it's very heavy and is a in a table. It seems fine to me but there are two things that might be a problem. 1) it is a knee pedal not a foot pedal. At some point it fell out of it’s space and I couldn't figure out how to get it back in. It looks like it slides but there didn't seem to be enough room to get it to slide back in. 2) with the way the bobbin is it feels tight (to me) to change it. I was just looking and trying it quickly so there may be a trick to it. Hopefully she will like it and when/if she can get the knee pedal figured out I can talk to her about sewing. It came with some bobbins and she was asking about them. She thought they unscrewed to get the thread on and off. When I said no she looked at me with horror thinking she had to wind it on. I told her the machine will do it and she said “even one this old?” I assured her that I had an older one and it could do it. I need to go look up a manual so I can see how to thread it.  This should be an adventure.

Here is the back of the sweater blocking.  I feel like I had to stretch it like crazy to get it to 23" and it was suposed to be 24.5".  It also seemed to be stretcher up than out.  I think with this information I will be making the bigger size for the front, especially when my husband likes things on the baggy side.  The sleeves seem to be going well.  I almost have the 2.5" of ribbing done.  It went much smoother and faster than the ribbing on the bottom of the sweater. I may actually catch up.

I tried to make a new scoop on the ice cream pillow but I realized I'm out of the dark, chocolate color.  I decided to do the other pink scoop and half way through the final row I ran out.  So I'm going back to the sleeves.  If I can't get more yarn then I will sew my son's pillow together.  I want to make so many more things.  I need more arms to make them all at once.  There is a designer who is getting married and in honor of that she gave away her patterns for free, about $200 worth.  She has socks, sweaters, and cowls and I want to make ,most of them.  I need not to start any more projects.

It was fun to listen to a bunch of podcasts yesterday.  It really feels like sitting with friends.  There were some Knitting Pipeline recaps.  I'm really going to try to make it to that next year.  Skein After Skein asked what are our top five yarns.  It's a fun question to think about.  I listed what what yarns I had the most fun knitting with since there are many different ways you can define "favorite" (work horse, softest etc.) Here is my list, they are Ravelry links so if you don't have an account they might not work.
1) Araucania Huasco
2) Wishfox lace
3) The Painted Tiger Panda
4) Yarn I have spun myself
5) Berroco Comfort

That's it for today. 

This is the "toy train" setting on the camera.  I think it looks really neat but the color is wrong.  That "pink" is really more of a peachy, coral color.  This is the Highland Handmade yarn and it's being made into another "Hitchhiker." Sadly this was about the only thing that got worked on wile I was reading Franklin Habit's blog.

I finished reading the blog and got in a little Running Man.  Haha has his hair blond and I don't really like it.  He is a funny guy but his constant fear of many things (like heights) makes him appear whiny sometimes.  I think Gary and Kwang Soo are my favorites right now. Some of the members just seem irritating from time to time.  Maybe I need to take a break and actually watch "drama" and not "variety."  I probably won't though.  Today I will be watching podcasts.  I probably won't play WOW for a wile.  I feel so behind and I can't play and craft.

I finished the cone on my son's ice cream pillow and the back of my husband's sweater is soaking.  I cast on for the sleeves and did one row.  Hopefully this will be faster because once again I am at least two weeks behind where I feel like I should be.  Today was also my nieces's birthday and I don't even have half of her pillow done.  I should be able to get a bunch done wile listening to the podcasts.

I found out that a teacher I had in high school died. I thought he was a good teacher if not more that a little crazy.  I figure you would have to be crazy for teaching inner city high school.  He died in October but there is some sort of memorial or candle light vigil for him on Sunday.  One of my classmates put a note on face book and it was really interesting to see names I haven't seen in twenty years on the list of others the note was sent to. I kind of want to reconnect with them but we weren't all that close to begin with.

I don't want to end this on a sad not so I will say that my kids are doing well on their school work and at least the snow is gone.  Hopefully next time I can be more cheerful.    

Oh look one more ice cream scoop, aren't you excited?

Friday was as errand day so the time just got away from me and I didn't blog.  The excuse for Saturday was that I didn't have any pictures.  Wile this is true, the biggest detriment to my crafting has been the discovery of Franklin Habit's blog.

Of course like any good crafter on Ravelry I'd heard of him but I didn't pay too much attention.  In one of the group someone linked to a little cartoon he drew about penguin sweaters (I'm not going to explain the penguin sweaters).  The cartoon was on his blog and I noticed he's from Chicago.  Since I miss Chicago I wanted to read what he had to say.  It seems he moved to Chicago about the same time I left.  Of course because I'm crazy I started reading form the beginning and am reading them in chronological order.  He's been writing for a wile so it's taking some time.  The biggest problem is I can't craft and read at the same time.  He is an absolutely excellent writer.  I love the way he words thing and his stories about his imaginary sheep roommate are hysterical.  I think I'm about half way through at this point.

My other "problem" right now it that the kids are on Spring break.  It did make my morning easier but the rest is a little harder.  I love my kids I really do but sometimes my daughter begging for ice cream and my son whining that he can't play on this or that device gets to me.  My plan for summer is to be out of the house and on the go as much as possible to combat that.  You can also list me with the other mean mothers of the wold since I did make them do some school work this morning.  It's good for them and any practice Amey can get on her multiplication facts and Mooky on his reading is a good thing.  They have done everything I have asked and can now go outside but none of the other kids are out so we are watching Spirited Away.  Maybe I will have more progress tomorrow.

This is the point at which my daughter says it looks like a cow.  I don't think I'm going to finish it by my nieces birthday and if I do I won't make it to the post office.  Since I'm doing these four back to back I don't think I'll want to make another one for a long time.

I didn't really do anything yesterday except rest my arm. I did watch Running Man and watched one of the episodes with my daughter.  I thought she would like the superhero episode and she did but I expected it to be funnier.  I also am not a fan when they bring guests in at the end. I really need to get back to more dramas and less variety but it could be a wile.  Today is a podcast day and since no one has really updated since last time I will be watching a lot of Knitting in Circles.

Part of the reason I didn't get anything done yesterday was I had an unplanned adventure.  I got a call from my daughter wile she was at school because the appliance in her mouth was falling out.  I got her in to see the orthodontist and they fixed it but that was time out of my day that I wasn't expecting.  It did however provide some snuggle time wile we watched Running Man.

I've been feeling like I should bring my camera with me more.  Maybe it's because I have a new camera but I kind of see things differently.  I see interesting things and think, "that would make a neat picture, I wish I had my camera one me."  I have been having good luck with my finished objects but not so much with landscape.  I know that my eye is much more awesome than a camera but with a nicer camera I assumed the difference would be smaller.  I need to practice more to get a better idea of how to make the camera see what I see.  I also need to learn about post processing.  It seems you just can't take pictures anymore you have to adjust them in something like Photoshop.  Somehow that makes me a little sad and I'm not sure why.  If any of the pictures turn out like I would like I'll post some of them here.  I think that's all of my ramblings for today :)

Magically another scoop appears!  Just the cone and the sewing together left.  I'm sure my son will be happy with it but I will be happy to be done with it.

Over the weekend I listened to podcasts and watched Running Man.  I worked a lot on my husband's sweater.  I'm up to 24" at last count.  The cables are really pulling it tight so it looks tiny.  It was suggested that I block it and see how big it really is.  I'll do that and start working on the sleeves wile I think about what to do about the front.  I was thinking of going up a size for that but we will wait for the numbers to come in.

I remember laughing so hard at Running Man that I started to cough but I don't remember why now.  I think it's funny some of the things that aren't games.  There was a water challenge and a towel had gotten soaked and was heavy.  Jae Suk threw it at Kwang Soo and he fell over from the weight.  Then other members didn't believe it was that heavy and wanted it thrown at their head.  I was also amused by the "figure out what food we rubbed on your ear" game.  Who thinks of these things.  I'm listening to podcasts today.

Today the weather is beautiful and gives me hope.  On the down side it's really muddy.  I think that's it for now, see you next time.

I need a better way to take pictures.  Here is one half of the fire ice cream done.  I'm working on the second red scoop today.

I almost forgot to write today.  Spring pictures, at the school, are supposed to be on Wednesday so we got the kids haircuts today.  Today I'm working on the ice cream (like I said) and listening to podcasts.

Yesterday I worked on my husband's sweater.  I feel like I made progress but I haven't measured it lately. I took it with me to the knit night at the yarn store.  It was better than last time but I still feel like people don't know things that should be clear or easy.  I think some of it is I kind of get down on my self and think I don't know much so when someone else knows less than me I'm surprised.  I almost brought wine home (they had left overs) but they had accidentally thrown away the cork and I didn't think driving with open liquor was a good idea (especially across state lines).  I told my husband when I got home and he said, "What kind of stitch and bitch has wine?"  A good one I think.

Running Man was o.k. nothing that jumps out really.  Oh there was one thing, there was a game where you had to do an activity to get a clue (like sit ups or jumping jacks) and Ji Hyo got a funny one.  She had to shout out the name of someone she loved then write their name with her butt.  She picked her mother but of course Gary had to come around when she was doing it and when she shouted "I love you," he said "Thanks." When there are more kpop stars as guest (that my daughter knows) I'll watch the episode with her.

I forgot to tell you I saw two robins on Wednesday.  This means spring is coming. It felt really nice yesterday but today is kind of gloomy.  My getting healthy plan was side tracked by girl scout cookies.  That's not good but I can recover.  We have a time change tonight.  I really hate the idea, it feels so outdated to me.  They need to put it back to the way it was and leave it alone.  No one is going to listen to me though.  I feel like I had something else to say but I can't remember so it must not be important, right?  See you next time.

Here is the completed caramel pillow.  I didn't realize that picture was so blurry.  I think I stuffed it better this time.

I had no crafting mojo yesterday morning.  I did get some as the day went on but it was not easy.  I got three repeats on my daughters sock.  I want to finish one more then I'll get back to the fire pillow.

I listened to podcasts instead of playing WOW yesterday.  I'm just not in a WOW mood.   I should have played today but I'm watching Running Man instead.  I'm just not leading an exciting life right now.  Part of the reason I don't have any mojo is because most of the projects I'm working on right now are taking a long time and not that fun.  I really want to cast on something new but I don't need another project on the needles (hook).

I have been doing my exercises so that's a start.  My knee is still sore but seems o.k.  It snowed again and I can't seem to get my son's boot dry.   I'll have to try again.  It's a bit warmer and the snow is melting again.  I'm definitely ready for spring.

Here is the finished scarf.  On this one the ends, where I had to join a new ball of yarn, ended up in the same place so I go an odd lump.  I don't know why it looks skinnier at one end when it's the same number of stitches.  I do plan to make a hat but I have so many other projects to do first.

I did finish stuffing the ice cream pillow for my daughter, I just haven't  taken a picture of it yet.  Today I will work on my husband's sweater.  I think at last count it was at 12" but it might be 13".  I have a hard time measuring sometimes.  I am enjoying the yarn bowl so far but it is a tad clunky to go anywhere with.  I started a new wash cloth.  It shouldn't take me long.  

Yesterday I had fun with Running Man.  I was going to watch Let's Eat but I am spoiled.  I don't like to watch things at my computer, I like to watch them on the TV.  The internet was not letting me do that so I watched Running Man instead.  Jackie Chan was on an episode and he looked really different.  I know he's older but I think it was his hair cut.  He seems to have his hair the same way in many of the movies that I have seen and this time it was a buzz cut.  He was really funny but some how the over all show wasn't that funny.  I know that the whole Gary/Ji hyo, Monday couple, thing isn't real but they look so good together and work well together, it's hard not to have a secret hope that it's real.  And then they played the biscuit game and it had my silly little heart all a flutter.   The biscuit game is where you take a long "biscuit" (it would work with a pretzel) and one person holds it in their mouth as the other munches toward them.  It make it look like they are going to kiss.  I can see why people think Gary wrote "Zotto Mola" for/about Ji Hyo. Kwang Soo was funny when he had to play the biscuit game as well.  It was so adorable.  Kwang Soo is becoming on of my favorites.  He is a model and when you see his professional pictures he looks so different.  In Running Man they have him play the role if the fool and edit and style him that way.  In the beginning he just got bullied by everyone and made fun of.  Now he's kind of standing up for himself and showing what he is really capable of not just what he's scripted to be and I enjoy that.  Ji Hyo is funny too.  In one episode they were supposed to do something with heights so she was climbing a tall tower and said "I'm getting sleepy, I'll go bungee jump." Who says those kids of things? She was the only one who bungee jumped that just went for it and wasn't afraid.  Apparently I'm enjoying Running Man lately. 

I'm sorry if you have no interest in Running Man.  That last paragraph would have been extremely boring then.  I was planning to play WOW today but when I logged in it was lagging so bad it wouldn't have been fun.  I'm listening to podcasts today.   

It is cold again today.  I took the kids to the bus stop and I had on what I thought were decent gloves.  By the time I got half way to the bus stop the tips of my fingers were cold.  Apparently the gloves weren't as good as I thought they were.  I'm just glad I made my kids were their snow pants even though there isn't much snow.  Today is supposed to be the coldest day this week so hopefully it will start warming up now. That's it for my complaining, see you next time.       

Another ice cream scoop, so boring I know.  This is the first scoop of the ice cream pillow for my about to be a three year old niece. On the plus side I'm going to work on sewing together my daughter's pillow, you know the one I've had done for a wile.  I'm putting up the pictures in the order they were finished so the next one will be the stripy scarf.

Yesterday I fixed the problem with my husband's sweater and created a new one.  I skipped a knit and purl row so one repeat is short.  I'm just going to leave it.  It will equal out the long repeat from before.  I didn't take a picture of it because it doesn't look any different.  If I finish Amey's ice cream cone pillow then I will go back to working on the sweater.  It's about 12" and I hoped to have the back done by now.  I did finish a wash cloth as well, so I printed off some free ones.  I want to make lots. I never seem to be able to find one when I want one and I can retire some of the old ones I have that are falling apart.  

I listened to podcasts yesterday but I don't remember anything standing out.  Watching Knitting in Circles really makes me want to spin more but I have so many other projects to do it tends to fall to the bottom of the list.  Today I'll watch Running Man.  

My nose is still runny but I actually did my exercises properly so this is a step in the right direction.  I need to go change the bedding and get new toothbrushes to get rid of the last of the germs.  It is so cold today I really want spring.  Hopefully next week will be warmer.  

 

Fire ice cream, just what you always wanted.  See how that red is kid of a Kool-aid red?  A crayon red would have been better but it still works.  It's just not fun to crochet.

I'm sorry I skipped yesterday.  I had errands that took up too much time.  I listened to podcasts on Tuesday and that was fun.  On the Fat Squirrel Speaks, Amy Beth showed a journal that looks interesting.   It has a quote on the top of every page and you just write one sentence about it then over the next five years go back  and do the same thing.  So over five years you get five sentences for every quote. I think I want to get one for me and my daughter (my son doesn't read or write well enough yet).  There was a podcaster named Karrie Steinmetz (knitpurlgurl) who influenced many people.  I never hear her podcast but she is spoken of on many podcasts.  She died suddenly in November of 2012 and everyone was shocked and hurt (understandably).  It is so weird to watch old podcasts where they say "Knitpurlgurl did this..." or "I talked to Knitpurlgurl last night..." and know whats coming.  You want to make them stop or wish you had a time machine to warn them.  On Knitting in Circles I just passed the episode where they found out she died.  It was very sad.  

On a lighter note yesterday I watched Running Man.  I enjoyed it more than I did last time.  There were two episodes especially, the Running Man Olympics and the reincarnation episode.  I had some really good laughs.  It does make me wonder again how much is scripted (even though they don't have a script).  I am sad that they keep calling Gary ugly. He doesn't look like a flower boy but he's not ugly.  It made me sad to find out that he's called Gary because his nickname in school was dog (gae).  I don't think it's one of those miscommunication things like how in English calling someone "pumpkin" is cute but in Korean it means ugly.  It makes me want to root for him more.  I was going to play WOW but it was down this morning so I'll listen to podcasts.  

I have been working on the sweater and the scarf but that's about it.  The sweater last measured 10".  It's coming along but still a ways to go.  I have nothing new going on so noting to say.  

I have a bit of a rant. It's first world I know but it irritates me.  Last year the kids school got a new principal.  He's fine but he stated using the notification system for reminders not just school closings.  I don't like that.  I don't care about your fundraiser, if I wanted to go I would go. I feel like the system should only be used for school closings and emergencies. The other thing is the music teacher.  She is taking the fourth grade to the symphony and sent home a not about it.  Here is a quote:

   "As you are fully aware, a symphony is no football game.  The expectation of behavior  

    and etiquette are a must.  This will be discussed in detail the every child. It would be 

    greatly appreciated if you  could reinforce the expectations at home as well. I would 

    also like to ask that the children dress a little nicer for the day to authenticate the

    experience of attending the symphony." (bold is hers)

This makes me want to smack her and I'm sure I'm over reacting.  Obviously behavior on a field trip is important but you need to control your class. I could say things till I'm blue in the face but I'm not there.  Do you think I encourage my kids to act up? Yes the kids can dress up but it's still cold so I would be more concerned with warmth first.  It just seems so snooty especially with her bold.  To be fair there was more to the note but this felt insulting. O.k. fussing over.

It's been so warm a lot of snow has melted.  There is a ditch behind the apartment on the way to the bus that I always walk around but the kids go through especially if the snow is deep because that's fun. I did not walk the kids to but bus today, told them to go on their own.  A few minutes after I sent them Mooky came back kind of hopping.  He lost his boot in the muck of melted snow that had now accumulated at the bottom of the ditch and he said something was wrong with Amey.  I thought she had abandoned him and was going to tell her off when I went out there to get the boot.   The water was almost to the top of the boot and she was standing a little father on crying because she was stuck.  I got her to come to me a bring the boot.  We came in and changed socks and into shoes and I drove them since this made them miss the bus (luckily my husband was home). This was not an adventure I was looking for. I also might get a ticket because in the parking lot I passed a bus.  It was in the process of putting out it's stop sign and it wasn't all the way out yet but that is a technicality. I wouldn't have done that on the road and if I do get a ticket I deserve it.  

O.k. that's it.  I hope you weren't board and don't think I'm an idiot. lol

It's getting longer.  I'm  a little confused because the other one was 37 stitches and this is 39 but it seems thinner and it's the same needles.  I wonder if it's just how the yarn was spun since it's a single and there are some thin spots.

Nothing exciting happened over the weekend.  I listened to podcasts which was fun.  I am about up to November of 2012 for Knitting in Circles.   Nothing stood out to me as especially interesting or funny.  Yesterday I watched Running Man.  It was funny in spots but I can see why people aren't as amused by 2013.  There was one episode (the 2012 Christmas special) where they had some big guys on from another show.  All through the episode there were a lot of "you're fat" comments.  It made me sad.  Today is a WOW day.

I worked really hard on my husband's  sweater.  The new cable needle helps.  I still feel behind but not as behind as I did.  I hope I don't have as much trouble with the ribbing on the front.  I added the red scoop to my son's ice cream cone and today I'll work on the second orange one.  If I finish that it's back to my husband's sweater so I can catch up.  I figure caught up is about an inch a day.  I wanted to enter My daughter's  pillow in NerdWars for the flexible schedule category but you need to have done two hours on it and I don't think the cone took me two hours.  

Today is Presidents day so all the banks are closed and there is no mail delivery.  Schools in general are off as well.  One of the school districts around here was planning to have school to make up for all the days off we've had this year for weather.  It turns out with the snow today it turned into a snow day anyway.  That figures right?  I think that's it for today.  I never know how to end these things. :)

This is what I plan to work on tomorrow.  I bought a bright red for the bottom scoop.  I thought I would get a primary red but I saw one that was a Kool-aid red (for lack of a better term) and I think he will like it better.  

Yesterday's WOW was not really that productive.  I got spoiled because the areas I need to do in Eastern Kingdoms had 10-40 quests.  Where I am now has 60 and the next area had 90.  This is going to take a wile.  Today I'm going to listen to podcasts and it looks like quite a few people updated since I checked last.  

I worked on my Age of Brass and Steam yesterday.  It's driving me nuts.  I got off counting some where and trying to fix it is making me crazy.  I will count a row  three times and it will be one stitch off.  I'll do the next row and with out fixing any thing the count will be exact.  Then the next row is off two stitches.  I think I just can't count.  I think when I finish this repeat and I'm back on track it will be better. I'm working on my husband's sweater today. 

 I went to knit night at one of the local yarn stores.  I was excited to go in the morning but as the day went on I got more and more nervous.  I was coming up with excuses not to go.  I did finally go and it was pretty good.  The ladies all knew each other so they were talking about things and people I don't really know about. I would like to go back and give it another try but I sometime I drive my neighbor around on Fridays and she wouldn't want to go.   Going did make me think that maybe I'm not as bad a knitter as I thought I was, maybe I'm just arrogant.  The woman on the left of me was struggling with a mitten.  I don't think I would struggle.  Maybe because I have made them in crochet, the concept seems clear to me.  A lady a couple of people on the right said she thought the garter tab start of the Age of Brass and Steam was complicated.  This didn't make sense to me as she was wearing a nice hand made sweater.  I thought if she could make that a garter tab start, wile weird, isn't hard if I can do it.  Do I just pick up on concepts easily?  I did buy a new cable needle. Yeah! I also got a ball of Crazy Zauberball. I want to make socks for me two at at time.  Not two at a time on the same needle but on separate needles.  Like toe, toe, foot, foot ect.  I bought the Fish Lips Kiss heel (I think that's the name) and I want to try it.  My needles came so I can do it but I'm trying really hard not to cast something new on.  

O.k. that's it for today.  Time to got clean with the kids.  Not as much fun as crafting. :)

O.k. so it's Valentine's Day and this is sweet so it counts right?  I just have to go get some stuffing and sew it together.

Happy Valentine's Day if you celebrate that kind of thing.  My husband and I are very laid back about it. Usually I'll  buy something kind of expensive (for me) around Valentine's Day and call it my present.  I know my husband's coworkers have given him a hard time in the past for not getting me something but really what would he get me that I want?  Flowers die, I don't need more sugar and do you know how much yarn you can get for the price of  some jewelry?  I did get a little stuffed toy with some candy for the kids.

I got the first repeat done on my husband's sweater.  I still feel really behind.  I was worried that it would be small till I realized that the style of the sweater was close fitting and not puffy like a sweat shirt.  I didn't even think of that when I was picking patterns I was looking at the cables.  I should have gone up a size so he could have that bulky feel but I am not ripping it out again.  I hate the cable needle I bought.  I almost made a Knit Picks order but I stopped myself.  I tried some things I have around the house and what worked best (for me) was a small crochet hook about a size 2.  I could slip the stitches with the hook end and knit off the blunt handle.  It was a little long but way less cumbersome than the fat hook shaped one I have (it looks like a fishing hook for an alligator or something).  I'll have to keep an eye out for a better cable needle like the crochet hook.  People suggest double point needles but I don't own any.  I may go to the yarn store for their knit night so maybe they have something better than what I have.  I'm taking  break from my husband's sweater today and working on my shawl. I'm stuck on the ice cream pillows right now.

Yesterday I did watch Running Man.  The episodes were funny but nothing stood out to me a note worthy. Gary is my favorite right now. Today I plan to play WOW so I don't know how much knitting I'll get done.  

I'm so much better.  Just a little drippy nose left.  My husband is rarely sick so even though it's not hitting him as hard he's paranoid about how sick he is.  He was asking if I thought he had mono.  He cracks me up sometimes.  My daughter is sick now but she really wanted to go to school for the Valentine's party.  She'll be o.k. I just hope she isn't too miserable.  

This doesn't look like much right now scrunched up on the needles, but it's going to be nice when it's done.  I'm making another "Age of Brass and Stream" with some handspun.  I have another ball and the yarn overs really show now that I know what I'm doing.  This hasn't been getting much work lately.

I think the only podcast that had updated was Wolfe Farms so I listened to a bunch of old episodes of Knitting in Circles.  It's interesting to hear them talk about preparing for a hurricane since we don't have those here.  Today is a kdrma day.  I really need to watch Let's Eat but I don't feel like it, I just need the laugh from Running Man.  I'll get back to Let's Eat eventually.

I finally got through the ribbing on my husband's sweater!  I put in a stitch marker after every repeat.  I don't think I'll need them forever but for now I think it will help.  If I have three months to do this sweater I should finished the back this month and by the date I should be about half way done and I am barely started. I think the cabling will be easier but slower.  I may have the wrong cable needle for me as well.  I'll work with it for now but we'll see, I might do better with just a extra tip from my interchangeable set.  I am going to finish the cone on my daughter's pillow but then I'll stop because I don't have enough stuffing.  I also need to get red for my son's fire ice cream.  

I'm feeling so much better today but feel bad for my husband as he has caught it now, at least he has a long weekend to recover.   Amey is sneezing now too.   Other than that nothing new around here.  I feel like there was something else to say but I can't remember.  If I do remember I'll write it down and talk about it next time.  See you later!

Wow look at all the progress I made on my husband's sweater (that was sarcasm).  I'll get back to working on it eventually but right now it just feels like it takes so long.  I think it will go faster once I get past the ribbing.  

I watched some Running Man.  There was an episode with TVXQ! that I watched with my daughter. She liked it and if there are other groups she likes that come on we'll watch those together too.  I didn't realize that in Korea they are called DBSK!  I also saw the Running Man Hunter episode.  It was interesting but I liked the grasshopper hunting episode better.  Today is a WOW day. 

I worked on my son's ice cream pillow a little but it's just not fun to work on.  I'll work on that today again.  Being a WOW day I won't get much done but if I finish this scoop I'll work on my husband's sweater again.

Mooky has a very stuffy runny nose so he woke up sometime after 3:00 a.m. and I gave him some medicine.  Since I was up I was on Facebook for a wile,  When I wen back to bed he was in my spot and sleeping so soundly I didn't want to move him.  I ended up not being able to fall asleep till I went to the couch at 5.  I'm so tired now.  Our latest adventure involves Mooky too.  A little wile ago he came up to me and said: "you'll have to talk in this ear because I have a Lego in this one."  Yeah, removing a Lego from a seven year old's ear was not in my plans today.  It was a hand so it wasn't to hard to pull out with tweezers.  I was just glad it wasn't too far in and we would have to go to the ER.  I'm so tired I think I'll go take a nap.