Man Down! Man Down!

Is it possible to pull a muscle in your stomach from golfing? Because I did it. Last night. Tournament tommorow. Now I can't sit without massive pain (don't believe me? I am sitting on my knees in front of my desk right now). Of course, this is rational Delia speaking; what I REALLY thought this morning when I woke up with pain in my torso was that my appendix was going to explode and my parents were going to find me passed on out the side of the road in my car. Lovely, eh?

Tomorrow will probably require nipping the whiskey before teeing off to get through this.

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After playing with those swatches last night, I realized HELLO... Cotton Fleece has wool in it. HELLO... it's 95+ degrees in Fresno right now. Cotton, Cotton, and MORE COTTON in the future. So say hello to tht Prarie Tunic from the newest Interweave.

She's being knit up in recycled Rowan 4Ply from the ill-fated Lucky Clover Cardigan, than the Arabella Tank. 3rd times a charm, I hope.

The Good, the Bad, and the $%#$^* Ugly

The Good

FINALLY!

Jaywalkers
Claudia Handpaints, Color Stormy
size 1 dpns

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The Bad
Well, Bad is all relative I guess. Here, "Bad" means that I can't believe I actually bought all this at once. Damn that Webs sale.


My inner monolouge is thinking 'hello tax return? How are you today???" Obviously this is not my WHOLE tax return, but if you would have told me 4 years ago this was where part of my bonus was going, I'd have called you nuts (of course at that time I was still in college, so it probably would have been spent on booze anyway...)

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The $%#$^* Ugly


Last night, I stayed up late seaming all the body pieces of this thing together before deciding on the yoke. I wish I hadn't. I almost cried in the bathroom when I realized the back was sagging to my ass. This yarn (which I previously thought so highly of) is really heavy, so it is not holding shape and stretching like a mo-fo. Bastard.

I'm not sure if this is fixable. At 11pm, after all that work, I just threw it into a big heap on the groud and stomped away - I can't think about frogging this right now. I once had such high hopes for this sweater... now I am resisting the urge to chuck it off the balcony onto the annoying crow that has moved in out there.

After hiding this thing away for the time being, I decided to start fresh today (I did finish those socks, finally) so I spent my lunch hour swatching away with the Cotton Fleece for the Rosebud Tank and buying another set of size 4 needles for Aline. My dad was not amused with the swatching during sushi today for some reason. Maybe it was the two huge yarn cakes on the table? I must have really grown immune to the weird stares.

So anyway, here they are:


Sorry for the fuzzies, my camera sucks you know what. I was playing around with some options for the bottom hem - on the right is a picot edge and the left has a garter stitch row. What do you think?

1:15... time to punch in.

Back.

First off, I've been on the road for a week at hotels where the internet SUCKED. Let me tell you, I am SO GLAD I was hauling my laptop all over the place only to get a connection that rivaled AOL about 10 years ago.

However, I couldn't complain about one particular hotel from the week. I usually get stuck in crappy Best Westerns or Travelodges, so this was a nice treat.
Bonus 1: It was in wine country. Bonus 2: the BEST DAMN MAC AND CHEESE I've ever had. With Guyere cheese and bread crumbs. Oh my god, I'd drive back just for that. Moving on...

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Weekend...
...came and went in blurry haze. It was my sisters 24th b-day, for which we threw a big ol' surprise party. It was perfect: she was totally surprised, patron was abundant, and I didn't even get a sunburn.


(I had to include that photo of my mom, because 1) she's drinking Tecate out of a red keg cup and 2) she's playing flip-cup with a bunch of ex-frat dudes. It was amazing.)

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Knitting

Straight-Laced Socks
Plymouth Sockotta, Color #3
Size 3 dpns


These things took forfreakingEVER to finish. Not sure why, I sat down one evening and had them done in an hour. Go figure.

Despite being on the road for a week, I didn't do much knitting (too much wine tasting was going on in between fairs. Did I mention I LOVE my job?)

However, I had to frog almost the entire right front of the Karabella cardi last night because I screwed up a cable. Aline is on hold because I lost one of my size 4 needles during the trip. Lets see, what else. Oh yes. I still can't finish the Jaywalker. Soon, me hopes.