It's been a long, long time.
I've written some great blog posts...in my mind..., but they never quite got from there to here.
What's up? What's new? What's happening? Nothing. Everything.
Michael got his cast off last week. Finally! I don't know who was happier, him or me, about that first bath. Even without his cast, his arm smelled like a cross between moldy socks and cat urine. Yum, yum. He now sports a brace that he'll have to wear for four more weeks and then we'll be done.
A lot of knitting has been happening. I made Michael a pair of green socks
to match the green cast.
He doesn't know that he is one of the few five-year-olds who have handmade socks. He is also the only other person I've ever made socks for! I guess I'm just way too selfish with all those little stitches to give them to just anyone.
I have also been working on a pair of Jaywalker socks using Trekking XXL yarn. These were to have been my trekking socks. The socks that I would be photographed knitting throughout my trek in Nepal. It seemed like kismet...Trekking XXL, JayWALKER, trekking through Nepal.
Alas, but it was not meant to be. While I started these socks on New Year's Eve morning in the lobby of The Hotel Tibet in Kathmandu, I was unable to knit anymore due to the fact that I couldn't and wouldn't take my gloves off! It was just too damn cold!
While I didn't have my picture taken knitting in Kathmandu, this is the lobby where I began the project.
Since then, my little sock, which had such exotic and auspiscious beginnings, has become my doctor's office sock.
According to my knitting journal, it has been worked on twice at the gyn's office, once at the hospital, four times at the orthopaedic doctor's office and once in the emergency room.
The orthopaedic office and the emergency room have been my most productive times with this sock.
My darling husband came home with some horrible stomach something that required a trip to the emergency room. Between waiting with him curled up on the floor around his teal green bucket filled with yellow-green bile in a room with seafoam green walls and baby-poop brown couches, and then later in the actual room with a bed, I knit the heel flap, turned the heel and completed the gusset on my sock.
Needless to say, the doctor knew that I was not wife of the year when I wouldn't let him turn the lights off in the room so I could keep knitting.
My epic project, the Candleflame shawl, is nearing the end of the second of three hanks of yarn. I really love working on this lace and can't wait for it to be done so I can start another lace project.
Well, this has been much ado about nothing, but I'm glad I'm back in the game. Speaking of games, I'm looking forward to updating my other blog tomorrow with the new game prompt that have been posted!
