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Here’s hoping…

I’ve been beta testing the new MT4 in another directory for a few weeks, but was too chicken to try and upgrade my real blog. Seems like it worked though – if this posts I’ll know for sure if I broke something.
Well, posting worked but commenting doesn’t work yet. I’ll work on that tomorrow, I guess.
Ok, now the comments are being posted, but you don’t get any sort of acknowledgment that they posted. I’ll work on that tomorrow, really.

No Foolin’

So. Today was supposed to be the day. I was going to show the picture of the positive pregnancy test, and it would be just past 3 months and safe to announce my pregnancy, something we have been wanting for so long, but had been so elusive. But. I can’t do that, because I lost the pregnancy back at the end of February, so now I’m 0/2. Haven’t felt much like blogging. Haven’t felt much like knitting, or taking pictures of knitting, or even reading other’s blogs. In fact, if Bloglines hadn’t had a reset last week, you would see that I haven’t read anything in over a month. Just kinda checked out, I guess.
At work, it’s easy. I work off a queue that’s prepared for me, and I just work on the defects or enhancements as they come into the queue. I have plenty to keep me busy and my mind full.
At home, not so much. My mind is just empty. If you know me, that’s not normal. In a normal minute, my mind is like this: “That banana I had for breakfast was tasty.” “Monkeys are funny.” “My hand is cold.” “Was Leoben lying when he told Roslin that Adama was a Cylon? What if he was talking about Lee? Is Starbuck an angel? She had that “be not afraid” air about her.” (Sometimes I get stuck on a thought). But lately, it’s been “__”.
I haven’t felt much like cooking, or eating even, so my poor husband has been left to fend for himself most nights.
But I think I’m coming back. I had a bit of a house purge after the body purge. Bought a new bed. Put all the baby books away for later. Vacuumed under and behind stuff that hasn’t been touched in a while. Cleaned up the craft room. Kept going to every weekly Stitch n’ Bitch meeting just to have something to do, somewhere to be, even though I haven’t participated that much. At least I was there. At least I knit a bit while I am there, so I made a little progress on a huge project.
I think I’m back because I knitted a bit on Friday night, and last night I started a pair of socks too. I’m not just a lump, flying through books so there is something in my head instead of nothing. I’m starting to get that busy in the head feeling, so that must mean something, right? I’m making what looks to be an excellent new recipe for dinner, which I’ll post about over here later, and let you know how it turns out.
I think I’m back because I can write about it, even if no one can tell me what’s wrong, that it happens to 40% of pregnancies over age 35, that there’s nothing I could have done. Maybe writing it down will make it easier to believe it…again.

SP6 Questionaire

I am working on a “100 Things” list too, so I should have something more up later in the week.
1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
A bit of a snob, I prefer wools and natural stuff over artificial stuff. I avoid RH but Lion does have some wools and I loved Cotton-Ease.
2. Do you spin? Crochet?
I can crochet, but I don’t do it very well and would never make a garment for myself out of crochet, unless it was a very fine yarn, in which case I might get too bored to finish the project.
3. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, pets, fibers, perfume, etc.)
Smoke, Cats, Rabbits, Birds, animals in general. I hate patchouli, it bothers my asthma. So does incence.
4. How long have you been knitting?
Since 2001.

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Testing from the palm again

We have finally moved into the house, over Thanksgiving weekend actually, so I haven’t been doing much knitting OR blogging since then. Haven’t even set up the computer yet.
But, I will have my own room for being crafty for a while, until we are in need of a nursery, hopefully some time in 2005.

McGuyvered me a swift!

IKEA has this magnet board thingy that I originally bought to use with lace charts to make it easier to follow what I am working on. I have found another use for it though… I have attached my ball winder to it, and have wrapped the yarn around two of the corners and it’s just enough tension to hold the yarn as I slip off a few rounds at a time and wind it up into a nice cake. Here’s a sketch, til I take a picture, for those of you playing along at home: sketch.gif
This is my solution to not having a swift to wind the lovely yarn I bought from Shelridge Farms back in March.
I finally have half of it wound and will be using it for the KBTH Bear sweater, whichever one I choose to make. I’m thinking the greens and purples, but haven’t quite got that figured out yet.

Housecleaning

I cleaned up my blogrolling links to cull the dead blogs (of which I was one for a while there) and fixed dead URI’s that moved or whatever. And got rid of the ones that I don’t really read anymore.

Like a car crash, ya gotta look…

It’s the Celebrity Scarves auction!
Um. It’s for charity, ok. But most of this stuff looks like they couldn’t be bothered! 2.5″ wide? what’s that, like 3 stiches with the chunky yarns they are using? If your time is so precious, maybe try learning to purl, the scarf will get longer faster! The only one that I liked was Lauren Ambrose’s, and thats just because she looks like she thought about it a bit. But 2.5″ wide? ah well. Who am I to judge, I haven’t seen many FO’s around here either.