Since my blog is worth over $1000, I decided I could afford to get enough lace yarn to knit Mim’s Adamas Shawl. I bought three hanks of Shadow in Lost Lake. I think this shawl will be for me!
I’m looking forward to doing a whole lotta nothing this weekend. I am almost done with the first of two socks for Jered. They are a little wide, but he does have man legs, so… we’ll see.
My blog is worth $1,129.08.
How much is your blog worth?
Right now both Jered and I are camped out on our sofas. I promised pictures earlier, and I figured out why blogger wasn’t working (it wasn’t actually blogger, it’s the new browser I use, Flock).
Today was long and cold, and I’m glad that the day is officially over. Tomorrow is Jered’s birthday and I’m taking the evening off, no families, no class, just us and dinner over at my parents’ place. They are making steaks and got a cake from Coldstone. I’m quite excited, it should be a good time. I also can’t wait for Jered to open his present tomorrow, I think I might even wake him up early so that I don’t have to wait any longer to give it to him. He has recently been blogging about my interpretive dancing tendencies. Check out his blog. I was thinking of interpretive dancing to “Happy Birthday” tomorrow. Maybe I’ll practice a little tonight 
I wish I could stay home all day just like Floyd. He gets to spend his Mondays doing what he does every other day of the week. Hang out on our new furniture, sleep, eat, poop, sleep. What a life!
I had supervision this morning, but no meeting with my bosses. It was rainy all day and I just wanted to be at home. Tonight I had three families, and they all showed up, and I could tell it was a rainy day. Everyone was a little wet and tired and ready to go home (including me). But overall it wasn’t too late of a night and I was able to come home and make dinner at 3:30 so that it was ready when I got home (smart move). Jered’s birthday is on Wednesday. I am going crazy keeping his present a secret. He is taking Wednesday off, and won’t let me skip class that night. Something about me needing an education… hmmm.
Anyhow, Here’s Floyd, my picture for the day until I can get blogger working again!
Now that I’ve figured out how to post pictures through blogger/flickr I can post many more pictures. I spent yesterday making homemade marshmallows from a recipe I found while perusing Cooking Light at Barnes and Nobles yesterday. This morning they were done “setting,” and I cut them and rolled them in powdered sugar. How weird is it that you can make your own marshmallows? And they really taste and feel like marshmallows too (squishy, foamy, soft, marshmallowy). Take a look.
I will post more pictures as soon as blogger’s picture function starts working again. For now, today will just be a marshmallow picture day. Ahhh. Lovely.
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So here she is! Hopefully my picture posting will work. I haven’t tried it without flickr since we moved and our connection went all funky, so cross your fingers that this works!
Madli is my first real lace project. I made a few little mistakes, but I was not brave enough to rip back and fix them. I think it turned out great despite the little glitches. This is a picture of Madli before blocking.
It’s amazing what a little blocking can do. I pinned Madli out and misted her with cold water. Once the shawl was nice and wet it stretched much easier. My points aren’t super symmetrical, but I think they look just find. Here is Madli during blocking. 
Once I finished blocking I took a few more pictures of the end border (which is my favorite, it looks much harder than it actually is).
And here is a picture of me actually wearing Madli, shortly before I gave her to my mom, who didn’t believe I had actually knit anything that could be considered lace.
Specs for the project:
Interweave Knits Summer 2004
Pattern by Nancy Bush
Yarn: Shadow from Knitpicks
Content: 100% Merino Wool
Amount: 2- 440 yard/50 gram hanks
The pattern calls for just over 1000 yards, but I was able to finish the shawl with just two hanks of Shadow in “Sunset.”
It is wonderful being married to a graphic designer. What do you all think about the new look? I love it! I am going to post a few pictures tomorrow of my recently finished Madli as well as our new sofa and love seat. Check back soon, and let me know what you think of the new look!
And just fyi, I belong in London 
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Over the weekend Jered and I did some spontaneous furniture shopping. We have been using a futon as a sofa for the past year and a half, and while it has been perfecty functional, we started to get a little annoyed with the feeling of wooden slats beneath our butts. We went to a discount furniture store and found a sofa and a loveseat for right around 10 benjamins. I will post pictures later this week of our lovely new leather furniture. It’s a nice neutral green color and it is so amazingly comfortable that I briefly considered quitting school and my job to permanently sit at home.
In knitting news, I finished Madli! It’s been my first “real” lace project and I can’t wait to post the pictures I took earlier this week. I decided to give Madli to my mom, but not for Christmas or her birthday (which is coming up the first week of November). No, I just couldn’t wait another couple of weeks. Once I blocked her out on Sunday and had her all ready to be worn I was itching to give her away. I think my mom really liked it, but didn’t think I made it. She asked, “Did you….knit…this?” As though it wasn’t normal knitting and maybe I found it at a yard sale and was regifting. Or maybe she was just impressed. I’d like to think she was impressed She usually “out-crafts” me in pretty much every arena, but I don’t think she can anymore with the whole knitting thing. My mom is a jack of all trades master of some. She does a few things really well and lots of things as hobbies. She knows how to knit, but she doesn’t, so I think I’m safe to say that for once in my life I am craftier than my mom in at least one way. How childish of me. But really, I don’t care, it feels good
I’ve also just started a pair of socks for Jered which I hope to have done by next Wednesday (his annual party happens then). I’m also getting ready to knit a few robots for the guy. He came upon this website: http://www.jesshutch.com/robotmain.html and has requested a few of the little guys. They are adorable and would make great pillows for the cats. I have much knitting to do.
I’ve got class and clients today and lots of studying for my ethics midterm tomorrow. It’s strange to have multiple choice and short answer exams, I got so used to essays that its been a bit of a shock for me getting into undergrad mode again. I think that maybe this is their sneaky way of preparing us for the certification exams in the spring. Ugh. I had a psych testing and measurement exam last night that I think went fairly well, and I should be getting back my substance abuse exam tonight. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks, and this weekend I am looking forward to not studying for anything.
Today was day two of the two most dreaded days of my entire year. Day one was back in April, today was day two. In April I switched dentists to a really nice and gentle guy who doesn’t like to see my gums bleed all over his office. I had a cavity, but I didn’t mind much because at that point I was still on my parents super good military insurance (ah the perks of staying in school forever, you get forever id card priviledges, or until you turn 23, which didn’t happen until May). Sure it hurt when they put the needle in my gum to numb me up, but it wasn’t too traumatic. The power went out in the middle of my filling, which was really scary because they were halfway through and said they might have to give me a temporary and try again at a later date. Well I lucked out, the power came back on.
So today was day two of the most dreaded days of my year. I become a wreck the day I have to go to the dentist. I don’t know what it is, but I can’t handle it. I didn’t eat lunch today because I was afraid I might give myself a cavity in the last minute. I take good care of my teeth, brushing daily and flossing at least a few times a week, but still, the thought of a cavity, and the copay. Ugh. So all morning as I wrote up my midterm paper and studied for my substance abuse midterm (which is tomorrow, ah!) I had this nagging sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. Like, I absolutely just KNEW that I had a cavity. I could feel it. All of my teeth felt a little “off,” like they knew it too, and were just waiting, sitting quietly and patiently in my mouth waiting for their drilling doom.
So I left half an hour early. I do this when I’m nervous. I got to the dentists at 1:20, my appointment was at 1:45. I had to get some insurance paperwork done since I have a new name, new husband, etc. etc. But that only took about 4 minutes. So I was sitting in the lobby, reading Readers Digest, which I used to love when I was about 12. The little jokes didn’t seem so funny. I felt like laughing might make me more suceptible to cavities in the last moment, so I sat with my mouth shut, just waiting. My stomach was pretty rumbly, from hunger and fear, and it started to make noises. Really obnoxious noises. To the point where the receptionist asked if I was hungry. It was bad.
My teeth were cleaned by a dental hygienist I had not met before. She was very nice to my teeth, I didn’t bleed at all. But it was a long cleaning, almost 25 minutes. And I had X-rays done today. I hate x-rays. They mean that the dentist can catch what my teeth try to hide. The deep dark secret cavities that lurk below. I tried doing progressive relaxation. I tried doing that thing where you are supposed to imagine yourself walking through various rooms of a house that you are familiar with, and mentally become calmer as you walk into each room. It did not work. I ran away from home. So after my x-rays, and during my cleaning I was waiting, waiting, waiting for the doctor to come and examine my teeth and tell me the dreaded news: all of my teeth were rotting from the inside and I would have to have them all drilled, filled and then pulled without novacaine because our insurance doesn’t cover it. I just knew it was coming.
No cavities. It happens every time. I should have known.
I think I should knit now. Four more repeats till Madli’s center panel is done.
Oh, and the photo is totally unrelated. Just thought I would give you something nice to look at.
This last sleeve is crawling along, but it will be done by Christmas. I plan on finally finishing Leo for Jered by the time it starts getting really chilly here. Which, the way things are going now, might be never. It is 78 degrees and muggy today. It’s raining, which is a nice change, but it feels more like August than October. Seriously, will it ever get cool? October is supposed to be at least a little chilly, right? Give me snow sleet and hail any day over this muggy mess.
Yesterday I had the day off, and I’ve got Monday and Tuesday off too for our fall break. I’m getting three new clients next week, all three of them on Monday, so I’m excited about that. It is a little overwhelming though. Next week I have one midterm, and the following week I have two more. It’s hard to believe that the semester is almost half over. Hard to believe, but a relief at the same time.
We got a wedding present yesterday from my Uncle who is stationed in Korea. He sent us a gorgeous Korean jewelry box, that has a mirror that pops out of the top of the box. It reminds me a little of the box in Jumanji. I’ll have to post some pictures.
I worked two repeats on Madli this week which is pathetic, I know. I hope to get a few more done this weekend and then finish her up before my mom’s birthday in November. Then, hopefully I’ll be able to start another one for Jered’s mom and have it done by Christmas.
I went shopping yesterday because I ran out of shampoo, and I spent about 20 minutes trying to find a moisturizing shampoo that wouldn’t break the bank and didn’t smell like feces. I finally found an Awapuhi shampoo by Suave that I picked up and all was well. Until I took my shower this morning. Yeah, in all my searching, I accidentally picked up conditioner. I ALWAYS do this. I swear. I tell myself, check the label, check the label, and I always check. And I had checked with the other shampoos that I had held in my hand and considered buying, but somehow I slipped up. So now I have yet another bottle of conditioner and no shampoo.
I should start a collection.
That’s because I’m too busy knitting to take them. So here’s a picture of the cat, the fat, sweet one. He loves our curtains. More than he should, actually. He sleeps in them, plays in them, hides in them (although that doesn’t work out too well!) and begs for dinner in them.
I went to Knitting Sisters on Friday and found some great closeout sales! They had berroco Denim Silk 75% off, so it was like, $2 a skein! I got three and have started a diagonally ribbed scarf. I needed a quick project. So many shawls and sweaters, I need something I can finish in a weekend or two!
I also bought two balls of CashCotton for 50% off ($4.50 a ball!) which I plan to use to make Jered a decent dressy scarf that he can wear to work. It’s black so it will go with anything.
I love fall, I just wish I had more time to enjoy it and less things to think/worry about. With school/work/internship to think about it just drives me nuts. It’s hard to relax when I have all of it on my mind. I wish I could mentally dump it all somewhere and not have to deal with it. But then that wouldn’t be healthy, and I’m going to grow up to be a real live counselor, got to lead by example. Whatever
