Phew...

Did you know that if you don't eat and instead of dinner you have a significant share of two bottles of pretty good red zinfandel you will be unable to knit? Well, you will pretty much be unable to do much of anything, including knitting. (well, I've heard that that's the case, anyway.....)

I did manage to get much of the sweater I'm knitting from the summer issue of Knitters completed (before the aforementioned lack of dinner). All that I have left is to block the pieces, and then you join the shoulders and then knit the cowl neck, then finish joining and do a quick armhole edging. This has been a really fast knit, and since I have only done two other sweaters, one being a baby sweater, this has set my field on fire for knitting sweaters.

We had a really good service in church this morning. We received our first female minister recently, and she has been exceptionally good. She set up the worship area in the round and we had a hymn sing and dramatic reading of the scripture and all and all I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Well, dh is in need of the computer and I am working a cabled scarf for a Christmas gift at the moment.

a day well spent?

Okay, so I didn't get up first thing this morning and start knitting. So there. Although that might be construed as a good thing, I'm not sure. Of course knitting is always a Good Thing -- it's just that knitting sometimes leads one to the not-getting-all-your-other-stuff-done--stage, and well, that's not always a good thing.

So, did I get all any of those other things done (including the aforementioned Advent team planning)? Well, duh, of course not. What I did manage to do was to spend several hours attempting to learn how to edit my blog template -- to learn what the heck Html formatting is all about.

Well, I did change a couple of things, but I have a l-l0000-ng way to go before I know what the dickens I am doing.

So, I'm thinking that I might just go knit now.

The day that was

Well, I've joined the multitudes of others who are in cyberspace, gleefully sharing their joys and sorrows with who knows who all else. I don't know how consistent I will be in posting, but journaling is something that I have done (sporacically) most of my life, so....

So, today was a fairly uneventful one. Didn't go to work, didn't do much housework, didn't do the Advent Team planning that I needed to do, didn't finish the grout work on the tile. I did do two loads of laundry (well, if you consider that two loads of laundry got washed, that is. I'm not saying I washed, dried, folded and put up two loads of laundry).

But, I did finish the hat that I started knitting on Wednesday for my daughter's friend's birthday (which was yesterday, btw). It was going great, until I started the decreasing and somehow I dropped a stitch. No big deal, right? Well, this was the first time I had knitted anything in Plymouth's Royal Bamboo -- it feels fabulous-- both in the skein and in a completed object. But, it is somewhat of a *itch to knit with. It shreds/splits if you look at it wrong, and is slipperly as a greased eel. So, a dropped stitch ran like a snagged pantyhose. So, I frogged it nearly halfway back and started over. But I finished it!!!

Tomorrow the grandson is coming over, so I don't know how much I will get done tomorrow. I simply have to get my Advent team stuff done -- I will not start knitting first thing in the a.m., I will not start knitting first thing in the a.m., I will not start.....

sigh. I probably will.