LYS and other good things

So we had our monthly Commu-knit-y Day this past Thursday. It's always a wonderful time. My sister is almost finished her second pair of socks, my mom is almost finished her vest (for the second time). Our other 2 knitters were working on socks too. I just finished up a pair of socks for a Sock-down challenge. They turned out lovely :) I'm sending them out to Denver. I wanted to make them a birthday present, but I simply cannot wait til April to mail them!

Anyways, while they were here I was giving lessons on what else to do with Ravelry. One only uses it for the groups and forums (which I struggle with) and the other doesn't use it at all. I was trying to show them how I look up projects by yarn. Hopefully some of it stuck for them. In my rambling around I discovered that the new yarn shop in Ellicot City had opened and was hosting movie night. Erin and I quickly rushed over to check it out and were completely delighted. It's a very welcoming atmosphere. We've already decided we want to start making this our LYS. Once we found out the first movie they were showing was "The Princess Bride" we couldn't stay away. I got to meet so many wonderful fiber people. I truly haven't had that much fun in a very long time. And I definitely have not eaten such amazing brownies- possibly EVER!

Now I'm working on using up the yarn my cousin bought for me to knit a hat for her s/o. I spent a long time looking for a pattern and just kinda gave up. Right now I've got about an inch of something of my own imagination that just may work. If it does I'll be sure to write down the pattern. I'm not sure I like the feel of it though- it's fairly loose. I'm knitting with size 8s at the moment- I may go down to 7s- especially since my 8s are metal and 7s are bamboo :P

More pix of that as it happens. Now I must catch up on Grey's and Private Practice while it's still quiet here!

Lapse

So I haven't posted much this past month. I don't think a lot has happened.

I made a few more pairs of socks. That's always a good thing. I had bought enough of a particular yarn to make 3 pairs, 2 are presents for people. I only bought for me because I saw that this yarn is supposed to be hand-wash only. Well forget that! I'm not hand-washing socks- more importantly- I'm not gifting hand-wash socks. So we'll see what happens to them, I just wore them yesterday and laundry will happen later this week.

Nothing new on the job front. I'm becoming a bit more proactive and at the same time a bit more discouraged. I'm looking for anything that will give me benefits right now. Even things as far from what I love as being a banking teller. But whatever pays the bills right?

Nothing new on the boy front either. I must be super-hormonal because last night I was just so mad at him. I mean really, truly angry. For absolutely no reason. He was teasing a bit, but not in a mean way or anything. Then I got mad at myself and just ignored him as much as possible. I hate it when I get in moods like that. The best thing I can do is just keep my mouth shut. I'm not sure I even managed that so well... I have a tendency to get loud when I'm upset or needing attention (like last night). We went to play trivia with a few friends I haven't seen in a while. I'm sure that was part of it too, I hadn't seen them in what feels like a month and was hungry for their attention.

Anyways, I'm not sure what to get into today. I know I need to work on the wrap that's still on the loom almost a month later... Maybe that'll be the agenda for today. I managed to get about 12" done yesterday before I lost the light- today's brighter... I think that's what I'll do :)