I'm not really sure what is happening with me these days. I've been so down right busy that I don't know my head from my a-- ... well, you get the idea. I finally finished the third pair of Glomitts and got them parceled up and sent off for Christmas along with three other parcels. I'm now finished with getting everything ready to go in the mail... most of it will be late, I have been informed at the post office, so once again I did not beat the clock. I blame it on the fundraiser that called for donations two weeks ago, which took one of my very first pair of Glomitts. (It certainly wasn't my fault when I decided to knit a scarf with not enough silk was it?!)
Speaking of silk... I have decided that everyone on my Christmas list is getting silk socks for Christmas next year. I began knitting on my Cat Bourdhi socks today and I managed to get the toe done with out buggering anything up.... I'm still a long way from being finished but I think they will be ok. This is the inaugural pair of knitted socks using the Cat Bourdhi method and if the rest goes as well as the toe did then the knitting gods are on my side. (Cat Bourdhi... you rock!) My socks are going to be for me! Now there's a miracle in the making!
My socks are being knit with a space dyed Rideau Arcott (that's wool for you non-spinner types) 2 ply yarn that I spun back in level 1 and have been waiting for the right opportunity to use. This is it. The only thing that I am not so pleased with is the fact that I should be using a set of 3.5 mm dpns (double pointed needles for you non-knitters), and I am using a 2.75 mm set... the knitting is coming out very tight. It will make for a very warm pair of socks, with very little stretch. But I'm ok with that since it might add a little durability to them.
While I feel very relieved that my Glomitt marathon is over I still have two pairs to knit before the 27th. I have a little lee way since the couple that I am knitting them for have gone for a short vacation to the states to visit relatives and won't be back until the 27th.
Christmas is turning out to be the normal fiasco... I thought I had Christmas covered this year with the right gifts gotten or ordered in plenty of time for the big day. But once again the Christmas gods (I wonder if they have anything to do with you know who... I think they are all related to Murphy) have gotten together to play their nasty little Christmas tricks on me... I had decided to order nice gifts from a store that both Teapot and I love in the United States.... and I did so on the 30th of November... I just got notification today that they had shipped my order.....!? " Oh thanks for sending it 10 days before Christmas so that I get it in plenty of time for the big day..." (are you hearing sarcasm in my voice.....?) Yup, even if there are no more snow falls and the weather doesn't hold anything up, even if some ruddy customs officer who hasn't had enough eggnog gets his hands on it, even if it traveled day and night IT WILL BE A MIRACLE IF I GET IT IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS. This means that I have one ruddy little gift for Teapot to put under the tree. While everyone else will have tons. (Well maybe not tons.....)Whaaaah! I want to give Teapot nice things for Christmas! It also means that I will have to find the time and the inclination for another long and arduous trip over the snow covered roads to get to the nearest store to find something equally nice to give him so that I don't feel bad for him on Christmas morning opening cards with pictures of the things that he will receive sometime in the future. (It's all about me you know.....) : )
Teapot really is part saint.... (don't laugh mother-in-law). This same kind of Murphy-finger-in-the-pie fiasco happened a few years ago when I stupidly put all my eggs into one basket and ordered a bunch of stuff from Cabelas and they never called to say that half of the stuff I ordered was on back order.... we were receiving Christmas gifts every few months in the mail until June... (I kid you not!)
Teapot bore it all really well and when I told him today, that I had just received an email saying in effect that his Christmas gifts wouldn't be here until likely a few days after Christmas he just grinned and said, "Christmas in June again?!" What bugs me most is that I ordered from this crowd (L.L. Bean) because I've never had trouble before with them and this order contains stuff for my parents as well. Argh! Meanwhile I have a bunch of teenagers coming over on Friday night for a sleep over and the Christmas decorations have not made it to the places that they are supposed to be. (As a matter of a fact they are strewn from the Christmas closet to the living room.) 10 days from now this whole thing will be over and once again I'm down to the wire.
No wonder I can't get my head around blogging..... I think I'll go lie down!
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