Otters!

I don't know, really they are just cute.
<--- See. Cute. Go ahead, disagree with me. I dare ya! that's Emmet & Purl Otter



Anywho, I have a question for ya'll...February is the month of L.O.V.E. and what better way to celebrate than with knit hearts! So I think that, for February ya'll should knit some YheartsY and put them in a pretty jar like over at a Friend to Knit With (a blog I stalk). And like she says (and I concur) it's a great way to use up leftover yarn bits.

Nat King Cole is playing in the background and what with all this talk about YheartsY and love, I'm swooning I tell ya! Swoon-ning!

I want to cast on for something, I'm thinking my Francis Revisited sweater. I know, I'm suppose to be knitting a scarf for February, but I'm just not feeling it. I don't need another scarf, i barely wear the scarf I have. Plus, I want to knit something BIG! Maybe I'll switch out my scarf for the sweater, I mean the goal to 12 in 2011 is to have 12 completed items in the year 2011 right?

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered

Am I... Sorry, I adore that song and am listening to it as I type this.
What the world needs now, is a new Frank Sinatra, so I can get you in bed. Gotta love Cracker!
Wow! Thanks for listening to Radio A.D.D. all your favorites, all the time. jeeze! Moving right along... (come on, did you not see that coming? really?)

It smells like cinnamon in here. Does that mean I'm going to die? You know, like when you smell burnt toast or some wacky like that. Don't ask, ok, just don't. :p

Thimbles, that what I really want to talk about, not really. Stornoway socks, however, a completely different story! Dumb dumb that I can be, totally decided not to actually read the instructions from the heel on, so I totally didn't do the increases that I was suppose to do. Which would explain why the sock was tighterish than the first one, so I decided to frog it and start it over.

Still chugging away on the log cabin blanket. Almost done with the second side. Me thinks I may end up needing more yarn for the remaining 2 sides. So be it!

Is it naptime yet?

hmmmm

Wormholes.

discuss.

Like a Lost Angel

I was listening to Candy by my man Marty, the lyric, "Like a lost angel not longed for this world" struck a chord with me.

More often than not I feel lost in my own life. It seems like everyone else knows what they want, how to get it and how to keep it. Everyone else has a plan, and then there's me.

A friend told me once 'Problems are impossible to solve if you just focus on the problem. Solutions are possible if you accept they can be done and you are capable of doing it. ' (betcha didn't know I was friends with Tony Robbins*)

I try to live by that theory. Sometimes it's a struggle, you feel so weighed down by whatever the problem is, no matter how large or small, you think that you'll never be able to get up, but you do, and your stronger because of it, eventually.

*I'm not really friends with Tony Robbins, but seriously, how cool would it be if I was?

For the Record

I did not start the second Stornoway sock over.

I finished it.

purty huh?

Happy Blizzard of 2011

It's SNOWING!!!

And in honor of the snow, a little song.

I have been blessed with a snow day today. My intentions are to stay in bed, knit, watch season 5 of Dexter, drink tea and relax. I may go out every so often to catch a snowflake or 2 on my tongue and de-snow my car.

I am starting my Stornoway sock over, I think I added an extra cable repeat on the foot and for some reson, it's really bugging me.

This post is boring, I apologize for that.

A Story

Once upon a time there was a princess. She was unlike any other princess, this princess knit, and she knit everywhere around her kingdom. While the court jesters performed various things, comedies, tragedies & nonsense. Others thought the princess was odd for her knitting, feeling it was something that only old women did, but our princess dismissed these thoughts as foolish and laughed at these poor misguided fools.
The princess knit all sorts of things, a sweater, a few hats, a blanket and socks. Oh did our princess love to knit socks! She had a favorite pair that she wore whenever her royal tootsies got a chill.
One chilly, snowy day, our princess pulled out her favorite linen heeled socks, to put onto her royal tooties, when what did she discover? A HOLE! Yes, you read that correctly a hole at the bottom of the heel of her sock. The princess took a closer look, apparently our princess dropped a stitch.
So now our princess, has to learn how to darn a sock.