Well, I’ll be home all weekend, so I won’t have a chance to blog. Just figured I’d wish you all a great weekend!
BTW, did you know it’s only six days to Christmas morn? HAhahahah!!! There doesn’t seem much chance of my knitting getting done in that time frame, but I am so close I’m gonna give one last great push and see what happens! I’ll let you know!
I’m posting away from home today. The computer started acting a little funny and then just stopped. We let a computer geek friend of ours take a look and the motherboard is shot, so there’s another $300 out the window. It’s a real letdown because K-hubby has decided to go back to school, and we need to save up about a grand before summer session so we can pay for at least 2 semesters, using that time to save up for the next 2. It’s all doable, like I said in my last post we are coming onto much better times than before, it just feels like something is always getting thrown at us! Anyway, no picture for awhile because I can only do that at home, but I’ll still be posting as time permits, and as soon as everything is repaired I’ll just do a picture only post to get you all caught up on holiday decorations and the remarkable growth of K-baby.
Did I mention the last time he went to the doctor he was 3 feet tall and weighed 27 pounds? That puts him in the 90th percentile for weight of other babies his age and puts him at the height of a 27-month-old. A week later, the outfit he wore to the doctor didn’t fit him, so he had another growth spurt after that. It really is phenomenal, and I’m not trying to be a stage mother, but it seems like the kid was built for athletics, so it will be really exciting to see what kinds of sports he enjoys as he gets older.
Christmas is almost here, and I am proud to say that all I have left is two and a half socks and two hats. I actually mailed out Christmas cards this year and I plan on making peppermint bark and homemade jelly for the family. I have been away from home for about 12 years now if you count college and I just felt like an adult this year when I put stamps on the Christmas cards and mailed them out. When did you finally feel like a grown-up, or are you still waiting for that moment?
Unless you get a virus.
And I don’t mean in the belly.
While I was away for the weekend visiting my brother (more on that later), Knithubby was playing around on the internets and wham! Windows started flying open, nothing would stay, just flicker on and off…my quick thinking hubby grabbed the main power cord and off it went, but the damage was done. The virus got into our Windows program, so the start bar would bounce on and off, icons would randomly disappear, and I couldn’t make it better. I called Gateway, who informed me that my one-year limited warranty was expired, but they could help me for the low, low price of $59.95 for 30 minutes. Are you freaking kidding me? I don’t think so. Monday night I tried to manually find and extract the virus, getting only 2 hours of sleep and having no success. Last night I updated my anti-virus program, ran a sweep, found FOUR virus threads with 174 traces throughout, put the offenders in quarantine, and did a little google-fu to find a way to get rid of the interloper. I found that MS Windows OneCare offers a 90 day free trial, so I installed the program (with broadband it only takes about 15-20 minutes), and let it do its thang. In 5 minutes I was virus-free. No lie. I was so happy, I celebrated by going straight to bed. I didn’t even correct the awful, awful Kitchener job I did on a pair of Christmas socks while at knit night on Monday. That can be taken care of tonight. Also, no spinning, but I have a new spindle on its way to me, so I imagine I will be spending a disproportionate amount of time this weekend making sweet spindley love to it. (TMI? Not to my spinning friends, it’s not!)
I have been working diligently on my Christmas knitting, but I must confess that my list is ever-changing and developing in response to my psychological needs. For instance, Baby K was supposed to get a new sweater, but he will likely get a hat now. My mother was going to get the February Lady sweater, which was downgraded to the Friday scarf, but will now likely be a pair of mittens, but in fair-isle, to give it that added value we all so desperately crave in our Christmas gifts. I don’t know why we as knitters worry so much about the added value, most of our recipients’ don’t know the difference either way. I mean, will my 6 year old niece understand the difference between a fair-isle or cabled tam versus a bulky weight wool cap? Not likely, she is a good egg and will love it and wear it either way, but I know. I know I didn’t do the absolute most of my knitting ability on this cap. So what? I still took the time to knit her a gift, right? It’s just not the same, and don’t ask me why, because I don’t know.
R had his open-heart surgery on Tuesday last week. Everything went so well, even the doctors were amazed. They said the aneurysm in the valve they replaced was so swollen that the valve was paper-thin. It was a flat out miracle that he hadn’t already dropped dead. That is the sort of medical anomaly that amazes me, I mean, somehow his heart held on long enough to get a replacement. And the replacement valve itself! It’s artificial, so it’s supposed to live for, like, 40 or 50 years! Amazing! He was sitting in his recliner on Sunday and I could hear it ticking (sounds like a wristwatch). Amazing! One of my buddies on Ravelry sent me a pattern for a knitted heart, and if I have time I am going to make it for him for Christmas…scratch that. I AM making him one for Christmas. Top of my list. If anyone deserves added value this year, it’s him.
Did you know it’s less than 2 months till Christmas? Did you know I’m a knitter, and subsequently feel this overwhelming need to knit everyone gifts? Last weekend I put together a comprehensive list of everyone I’m knitting for, and this is my knitting list to date, without recipient’s names because some of them may be reading.
Monkey socks-done!
Monkey socks-one sock done!
Marigold socks-one sock done!
Footies-done!
Juneau earflap hat
Man’s hat
Two boys’ hats
Tam
Girl’s hat and mitts
Baby sweater
February Lady Sweater downgraded to Friday scarf. I may be ambitious, but I’m not nuts.
Sweater for knitbaby
Homespun scarf
So, not so bad! Socks are very time consuming for me, and I only have two socks to knit! Hopefully will have pictures as I progress. Also, I did finish the baby sweater mentioned last week, but I still need to sew on the buttons and block it. The baby arrived first, so it will be going in the mail Saturday to the happy Mom and Dad!
