Fixed Links

I re-troubleshot the previous post and found my two errors! I'm stoked.

More Progress

I'm now about 1/3 of the way up the thumb gusset increase for the mitt and after several false starts where I had to frog out a few rounds, I think I've gotten the reverse correct. I'm knitting way above my technical ability on this one, which is usually fine if I go exactly by the pattern, but this is a 5 page pattern for the left mitten, then at the end it says, "reverse pattern for right mitten." Which is harder than you think. I've been looking at the completed left mitten in the mirror, and that seems to help figure out how my dislexic self is supposed to spontaneously generate an exact opposite mitten.
On another note, I always try to check any link in my posts or sidebar, and I noticed this morning that the link for the mitt in my previous post doesn't work, and when I tried to troubleshoot, I found that not only is the code (as far as I can tell) okay, when you click on the link it doesn't even go to the right place, so I'm doing something really wrong. Hopefully the link in this one works, or it's in the archive on Knitty, link in sidebar (I checked and that one does work).

10 things about me

1. I love my bike an unreasonable amount.
2. My favorite friend in the world is named Kathey, and we get along exactly twice as well as we shouldn't.
3. I want to be a pirate when I grow up. Not like a downloading music pirate, like a pillaging and burning argggh argggh pirate.
4. I absolutely love to read.
5. I'm currently obsessed with Steve Burns in a harmless and non-threatening way.
6. I really like oranges
7. I have no idea why my friends love me, and that makes me love them more
8. I always think I'm exactly as gorgeous as I always have, but how much I think I deserve to think it changes from day to day.
9. I like to draw, and sometimes I'm good at it.
10. My car needs a brake job.

Progress Report

I've only finished a meager half of the ribbing for the second Broad Street mitt, which is kind of dissapointing. But, Persistence will pay off, I'm sure. The next thing I'm casting on is the Official Kitty 62 hat, for me this time. Which of course means that I will knit it exactly to the pattern, not alter it on the fly, and not think I know better than the pattern writer, who is more experienced and brilliant than I am. And who, after all, alrealdy has a workable hat in this pattern, unlike some people I could mention. Even though her head is probably not as massive as theirs.
The only alteration I am going to make is to use black Lion Brand Fun Fur in it. I was thinking of doing it like the devil hat, but I am not so sure now. I'll have to swatch and see.

Dinner's Ready!

I made dinner tonite, a small roast with onions and potatoes, side of broccoli and rolls. This is kind of exciting because I never cook, although I know how, partially because when I was a kid I was expected to take over making dinner from about age 12. Nobody ever really took the time to teach me what to do or how to do it, so I just putter along and ruin about every 4th endeavor. No, really. Not slightly burned cookies or too many onions in the soup. An hour worth of cooking and a dinner's worth of food, inedible and nicely plated for the garbage. But anyway, since I've been home with my folks I've started cooking again, as my mom is often confined to bed and my dad is like me and would rather eat out or have microwaved something, but mom can't stand the idea of not having some semblance of a June Cleaver experience. Really. She'll spend several hours, most days, fretting about what we're going to eat, just as though it matters. "Oh, I didn't thaw anything, we'll have to go to the store." "Mom, nobody cares. Reheat something. Or don't, we're grownups, we probably will find the will to eat standing up from the fridge before we starve to death." "Well, I just like things to be NICE."
Sorry. This was just supposed to be about the nice little roast I cooked and almost didn't ruin.

Blogging seems to be addictive

So here I am, drunkish and mawkish and who-knows-what else, wishing my shout-out (jeez, am I showing my age?) to my friends had gone heeded, but as it hasn't, my sweet, sweet blog will absorb my garrulousness. So, I've been thinking again. As though that hadn't been proved so, so wrong in the past.
Mostly I've been thinking about knitting, as I've just finished Kitty62's Adults Only Devil Hat after having made some ill-advised novice alter-on-the-fly alterations. The only part that turned out awesome is that I joined some Bernat Boa in Pheonix on after the seed stich border and knitted the stockinette portion all in it, so the band, earflaps, ties and horns are regular red worsted weight, and the main part of the hat is flame-colored fur. I always think my head is smaller than it is. Anyway, as I was making this particular hat to give away, I only have to downsize the head I was thinking of it for...although now I'll have to find a recipient before beginning some matching mitts, (...and since I live in Texas, and it is March, I'll have to think about who it will fit above Oklahoma, or next winter...my life is tedious, yet so engaging to me.)
Anyway, as soon as I have pictures, I'll arrange to post them (involves upgrading the blog, harder than you would think, considering blogspot arguably must make a little money off it) and of the Broad Street Mittens, from Knitty I'm knitting. So far have one done, (in Lion Brand Magic Stripes in Sea Blue, now must figure reversing it to knit other....until now, I thought knitting above my skill was helping build skills, now I wonder if it's helping or hurting...

10 Things about Me

1. I'm not as happy as I seem most of the time.
2. I'm not as sad as I seem sometimes, either.
3. I have just a few friends, but I cherish them desperately.
4. I have horrible communication skills.
5. I own and refer regularly to actual print copies of The Elements of Style and a rather large Dictionary and smaller Thesarus. Yes, my computer will do those things for me, I just like to do it myself.
6. My best friend in the world is named Jessica, and I love her exactly twice as much as the most that I've ever hated her.
7. I love beer. It isn't a requited love, but it is a real love.
8. People don't like me as much as I think they do.
9. Charm isn't everything. Somebody has to clean up the puke.
10. I like telling my blog things about me, and there will be more of these lists.

A Semi-Grand Journey Begins!

Aha!, first post. I suppose if I thought anyone but me would read this, I'd try to make a good impression, but my grandstanding is largely lost on me. So, blogging is for the blogger, seize the blog, you have nothing to blog but blog itself: here I go. The purpose and mission of this...thing is to give me a sort of record and reference for the next little bit of my life. I'm slowly changing directions in my aspirations (or lack thereof) and plan (see previous parenthesis) for the next up-to-sixty-years.
More to the point, I'm going from having little or no aspirations above earning enough money to subsist on diner food and beer, and not leaving my house very much.
To this end, I've lost my job (in May 2003), moved back in with my folks, taken a long vacation from being a grownup and a shorter vacation in my mom's truck over most of the southwest, and learned to knit. Here will be where I update myself to my progress toward my goals (as soon as I get some) and possibly begin to feel a little connected to this big thing they call the "internet."