As you can see, my orange arrived. CD for scale. So now I have plenty of yellow and orange to last through Christmas.
You know what I don’t have?
RED.
You’re killing me, Brown Sheep, you’re killing me.
Mo’ Jaynes and Jayne kits. Today I’m knitting yours,
I ripped out the Pomatomus and started up Vinnland. Turtlegirl76 recommended a pattern from Knitting Vintage Socks, and it did have a stitch pattern very similar to Pomatomus, but it had the disadvantage of being in a book which cost $21.95. I put it on my Amazon Wish List since Christmas isn’t that far off, and went with a free pattern instead. I actually really like the way this looks in this yarn!
While figuring out the math for my father’s Charlie Brown sweater stripe, I realized I’d lost the swatch I’d made several months ago. D’oh! So the next non-Jayne project will be a 4×4″ yellow rectangle. Hold me back.
ponk is using wearwithstyle in a design project for university. I really like what he’s done. The color schemes match my personal preferences more closely than the admittedly kicky and fun but very bright tones that
On an unrelated note, if anyone hears of a product which can be used to zap sleep directly into your brain, please let me know.
Moments ago, my dad sent me a link to a trailer for the new Futurama feature. Thanks, Dad!
Emily has said for the last few days that the girl at school with whom she’s been having trouble is “not my enemy anymore. She’s not quite my friend yet.” But that’s good, both because relations have improved, and because it shows progress from the black/white view that Emily often has of things.
My husband/geek genius has been helping investigate setting up an actual storefront with a checkout cart, etc. It’s an interesting process. My basic html skills aren’t cutting it with this setup, so I may have to learn more about php and forms. Of course, with eight weeks of orders in line, it’s not that crucial to get it up and running, but it would still be nice to have available for already-made goods.
Orders are down to 28 from 32. I know it doesn’t sound like much, but bear in mind they keep coming in while I’m knitting, so any little bit I can whittle the line down helps! Tonight, more Jayne hat knitting while I watch Casablanca. I swear, I’m starting to see Jayne hats everywhere…
Talk of Serenity 2? Wash wouldn’t steer us wrong, would he? Since I can’t bear to have my hopes dashed, I’m going to file this under “I’ll believe it when I see it.” Of course, while playing it cool, I’ll still be thinking of Big Damn Sequels when I pull the Thanksgiving wishbone. (Vegetarians, I’ll serve a tofurkey when it comes with a tempeh wishbone. I’m not giving up my wishbone!)
I was finally confirmed as Regional Manager of Dunder Mifflin Infinity, Wilmington branch! The folks running the site apparently didn’t expect the participation levels that they got, so they’re still working out some glitches. Wilmington has about 270 employees so far. I believe that tonight’s episode of The Office will feature DMI as a plot point, so we’ll see if the numbers swell. Meanwhile, I’m asking all of my employees to report to the shore for some mandatory beach fun.
Last night
DMI Wilmington is up and running – and I’m the regional manager!
There seem to be a few glitches with a few pending employees not showing up as hired, and I’m still listed as a temp in my old branch even though I have RM privileges in Wilmington, but at least we’re finally open!
DMI-Wilmington. Where every day is Beach Day! z0tm9uu7go
As you can see, the couch to 5k continues. When I exercise vigorously, I turn red. Really, really red. Like so red that people are concerned for me. I haven’t had a heart attack yet, it’s just that my super-fair skin needs little provocation to make me look like a cooked lobster. If you see me jogging down the street, please do not call 911. It’s perfectly normal.
I need to work out a new route. I’m doing okay up until that last leg of the run. It takes me up Mt. Doom, and it’s brutal. Maybe if I walk a little farther before starting the program, it won’t hit in the same place.
illiane turned me on to this really cool feature on the internet. Maybe you already knew about it, but I didn’t. http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/ will let you plot out a route and tell you how far it is. It’s not entirely accurate, because I’ve driven my route and it’s just about exactly two miles, but it comes up as slightly less on that site. The site doesn’t take elevation into account, though, so maybe going up and down the slopes of Mt. Doom is adding some distance.
Jayne orders are picking up speed. Unfortunately, it’s because Halloween is upon us – and I’ve already got an eight week wait. I feel bad for these Browncoats, but it is what it is. Two kits went out yesterday, another two kits and two hats are going out today, and I’m devoting the rest of the morning to Jayne activities. I can also usually knit an entire hat at my weekly stitch session, so that’ll be another one down.
I do love my Browncoats. Check out the sweet art that came along with an order over the weekend. Too neat! The hat she drew is similar to a picture I made for something I’m planning on introducing fairly soon. “Fairly soon” being “whenever I can eke out the time for it” so actually, who knows when it’ll be?
Because all work and no play makes Tvini go crazy, I did pull out the Fleece Artist that I got as part of a sock kit swap from
Unfortunately, it turns out that I don’t love the way they knit. I tried to put in a lifeline before I started the pattern, but it was so tight that I gave it up. Twelve rows in and I’ve already lost a stitch. The twisted knits make tinking back a giant pain in the keister. I’m knitting it on size 1s instead of the recommended 2s because I’m a loose knitter, but even so, these stitches are pretty darned tight. I think I may abandon this and use the yarn for something else, maybe Embossed Leaves.
All right, back to the Jayne mines!
Emily’s home sick from school today. She’s not contagious, but was right on the cusp of “too tired” so we let her stay home. This posed a little problem, since I needed to go downtown and pay for the expired tag I got a while back. I knew I needed to take care of it soon, but I had it in my head that it was around Oct 10th that it had to be done by. Nope. I checked over the weekend, and lucky that I did – the court date was Oct 1st. This meant I couldn’t just go down and pay for it, I had to actually go and sit around and wait for them to call my name.
I wasn’t aware of this but while you wait for them to call your name, YOU CAN’T KNIT. Or read. Or talk. As far as I’m concerned, after “no knitting and no reading” they might as well add “no breathing” to the list. I found this rule out when a bailiff approached me after I’d been waiting and knitting for 45 minutes, Boo beside me, all of us being very quiet and well-mannered. I asked if I could still talk to my daughter (as I’d occasionally been doing, quietly). The bailiff said no, and added that Emily really wasn’t allowed in the courtroom. D’oh!
This was a room with a bunch of people sitting quietly, not a courtroom where people were deciding custody or something. The worst that happened was that she found a wad of pre-chewed gum under the bench and I had to throw it away. Regardless, I’m not going to argue with the bailiff, since that’s a fight even I can’t win. I had to take her upstairs to a daycare with about four toddlers, all of whom were screaming their heads off. Greaaaaaat. Fortunately, it only took them about another 15 minutes to call my name, so I was able to get her out of there and back home pretty quickly. Up side: since I had my current auto registration, they dismissed the charges and I didn’t have to pay the $145. Still, it was definitely not the way I would have chosen to spend my morning – or my child’s morning.
Emily seems to be feeling somewhat better. She says her nose is still a little sniffly. She wants to go to Borders and get a new fairy book. I told her if she was too sick to go to school, she was too sick to go to Borders. Now she’s trying, “You know where I’m not too sick to go to? I’m not too sick to go to Starbucks. I feel much better!”
I’ll bet, kiddo, I’ll bet.
I couldn’t go running this morning since I was watching Emily, but I should have a post about how the couch to 5k is going this evening.