How to Waste a Sunday

Have you ever had one of those Sundays where you bounce out of bed, cook yourself a great breakfast than happily tackle a giant list of to-do items and end the day feeling all productive and stuff?

Yesterday was not one of those days.

After a fantastic dinner of Stuffed Mushrooms, Chicken Cordon Blue, and good wine on Saturday night:



M & I feel asleep early and got a great night's sleep. He was up bright and early to head down to LA Lakers game, and with the house to myself all day I had all sorts of big plans: Clean out the pantry, sew some napkins, plant some herbs, knit for a bit.

Instead, at 8:30am I sat down with my cup of coffee & the back of my dad's vest, flipped on the TV, and got caught up in a marathon of Dr. G: Medical Examiner. The only time I got up was to pour more coffee, and to swap my knitting to the Pintuck-T when I finished the vest. The next thing I knew, it was 1pm and I was still in my PJ's and starving for something to eat.

After some leftover Cordon Blue, I was back on the couch with another marathon of Life After People. Before I knew it, it was 5pm and I FINALLY changed out of my nightgown to head over to my sister's house for dinner.



Not bad, considering this was only about 2 inches in when I started. I'm fairly certain that knitting 200 yards of linen yarn in one sitting did a number on my wrists, but thus is life.

So yes, it was a day of sloth. But it was just what I needed to get on track for this week.

4.16.09

As Tammany summed it up in the comments of my last post: "My dogs would think it was Christmas and their birthday all rolled into one."

Our Katy would be so excited if she could go into a restaurant she wouldn't know what to do with herself. Seriously. This is the dog that prefers hanging out in the car for HOURS rather than the back yard when we go out. However, our dog has such ADD she would probably pace around the table, lick other patrons, and then get us kicked out.


My cute little mutt-dog, who likes to sleep with her beloved tennis ball in her mouth.

So speaking of Katy, we've had big breakthroughs in our house over the battle of the bed. When I last spoke of it, the dog and car were sharing the space but not happy about it (well, VIVA was not happy about it).


All is well in the kingdom. No cuddling yet, but this is definite progress.

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I've been working exclusively on Diamonds for Dad...



... and I'm fairly certain that it's been contributing to this nasty pain I've got in my left neck/shoulder/upper arm. It's this odd pain that I can turn my head the right, but hurts like a MOTHEREFFER when I turn it to the left. I think it's a lot of things - I sleep on my left side, I carry my purse on the left side - but the times that it flares I seem to be working on some knitting project with cables (in this case, it's cabling without a needle). The Swish Superwash doesn't have a lot of give, and that paired with my tendency to knit tight hasn't been fairing well.

Anyway, enough whining. It's Friday, there's a fun craft/food/fun fair at the U., and we have a leisurely weekend including a Murder Mystery Party and Greek Easter - Christos Anesti!

Diamonds for Dad

Not bad for one day's worth of work! That's what you get with a whole lot of driving between our respective family house's on Easter.

This is my first time using Swish from Knit Picks and I'm really liking it. However, is it just me or does it take on that squeaky acrylic feeling every now and then?

Ravelry: Diamonds for Dad

Saturday Morning Live

Here's how my Saturday morning started out:

My husband just stuck his head inside after talking to our neighbor (J) with the super-well maintained yard and said "I shouldn't have talked to J, now I'm super-motivated and am going to replace our entire sprinkler system!"

So this means, I've got an entire day to myself. So on to the knitting!

I finished Pucker yesterday - What do you think?



I'm on the fence about it.



Raveled over here.

And with that off the plate I started doing some prep on a LONG-overdue sweater (vest) for my Old Man.



I'm using the pattern Diamonds for Him from Knitty, and Knit Picks Swish Superwash (because I seriously don't trust him to NOT throw it in the washing machine someday).

There's also been some progress made on Laurent.

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Now I'm off to make about 10 pounds of Chocolate Swirled Rice Crispy Treats for tomorrow. I LOVE to cook, but manage to screw up almost everything I bake, so I had to choose something that is almost fool proof. And for extra insurance, I'm using this recipe from Cooking for Engineers to guide me. Have you ever seen that blog? It is one of the most unintentionally entertaining websites I've ever found.

"Honey, How Much Yarn Did You Buy This Month?"

That's always a good question to be greeted with when you walk through the front door.

In my defense, I needed to order from two different sources, Knit Picks and Webs. It's pure coincidence they showed up on the same day.


9 balls Swish Superwash in Truffle, for a Vest for my dad


8 hanks Berroco Seduce in Vintage White, for Pucker.

And I'm not going to lie, I am little bit concerned that 8 balls that are this size:

are actually going to create a garment that will cover my D's. I guess I've gotta trust Norah on this one.

And by the way, I LOVE Norah Gaughan Vol 4. Love it. I've got about 4 of the other designs floating around in my head.