It's Wednesday slash Thursday!

I know that it's Wednesday. But it FEELS like Thursday. And not in that, "yay it's Thursday-no wait it's Wednesday, crap there goes my good mood sort of way." In the "I have Friday off and Monday is a holiday so tomorrow is my 'Friday' with 4 days before I have to return to real life!" kind of way. In case you haven't noticed, I don't have a whole lot of respect for "real life" as they call it. I think it's pretty completely overrated in every way and I'm about ready to be done with it, thankyouverymuch. Is it really bad that I've been looking forward to retirement since the minute I graduated college? I'm not looking forward to being all aged and everything (not that there's anything wrong with being aged, I'm just saying I don't want to skip all the in between parts), I'm just done with being a productive member of society, working the daily grind, paying bills, paying taxes, not getting to stay up late during the work week, waking up early every day, etc. It doesn't really hold much interest for me. And while not all of that will go away with retirement, the pieces that will hang around will be ok I think.

I digress.

With no small amount of time in the car last weekend, more in the car this weekend, and some flights and such when I go to Michigan for Thanksgiving in a week and a half (!!) I'm getting lots of knitting time in (plus during the week I'm basically a hermit because I'm afraid that my tv will be lonely without me). I'm working on the Lorna's Laces socks right now, but they might be on their way to time out again because I don't like the second pattern I've chosen for the cuff. I mean, I could just knit a straight sock and I'm sure it would be fine and Andrea wouldn't disown me as her friend or anything. But I mean, come ON. Normal, man that's so boring (that was me gratuitously stealing lines from Encino Man). Anyway, I figure if push comes to shove they can sit on the back burner for a minute while I work on some other things (like, oh, seaming a baby blanket? What? What baby blanket that still isn't seemed two and a half weeks later? I don't know what you're talking about), start some new things (2-3 other pairs of socks), etc. And you know what? I will be seeing Andrea in just two short weeks, so wouldn't it be totally worthwhile to make her try on the socks (sock) up to the point they (it) are (is) now to make sure they (it) even fit(s) before I go any further? Yes, that's very sensible. Stop it. I know you're talking to yourself about my serious lack of attention span right now (well, maybe you don't actually talk to yourself. I do). But I ask you, is it really fair to knit this lovely yarn into something for my lovely friend if I'm not terribly thrilled with how it's coming out? No, no it's not. It's not fair to the friend, the yarn, the lovely people who made the yarn, the needles, the...... ok. I get it. I'm rationalizing like it's my job. I'm just waiting for inspiration to strike.

Here are my dilemmas in no particular order. One, as you can see from these pictures is the pattern on the cuff. I'm just not crazy about it. However, I know that Andrea reads this blog so if she happens to like it, I don't have a problem with continuing on. But the question I find myself asking is, if she's going to hate it and thank me awkwardly when I give them to her and proceed to never wear them because they're scary and hideous, why would I want to waste my time? She should get some input, don't you agree??

Second, there are all the other projects that still need finishing or are waiting in the wings.

Third, look what just came today:

Another bunch of sock yarn and another set of needles with which to knit sock yarn. What is a girl to do? Also, FYI packing for Michigan just became a nightmare as far as deciding what to take and what (if anything) to leave behind knitting wise. I am out of control. You'd never guess that before September I didn't even pick up a pair of needles for pretty close to 8 months, would you?