Reset

It was -10 degrees outside. Apparently my internal thermostat has reset itself after the week of -30 to -40 and now -10 feels so warm outside I had to have an Iced Coffee to cool myself down. Baffling what us Canadians think is reasonable, isn't it?

Someone who knows me very well pointed out several more ways in which I am like a 90 year old, much to my chagrin. I left that party when it was bedtime for me, which was around 10pm...I think that is a completely reasonable time to leave a party. My sister, while planning an event, mentioned starting at 7pm. Since I thought the plan was to include dinner I said if we started at 5:30 or 6 we could have dinner too....yeah she meant 7pm was to start dinner at 7:30. How could I eat dinner so late?! That's right before bedtime!

I was quite focused this week with the podcasts and knitting so the first of two mittens is about half way done (first of two does actually need to be emphasized because the last time I made these mittens one was lost immediately so it became first of 3 mittens). Hopefully the intended owner of these mittens will be more careful.

Mittens continued....made from Lion Brand Fishermen's Wool and the WW2 pattern. Pretty soon I will start the finger part and you will be able to see how they are rifle mittens. I think it's cool.

One of my friends just had a baby girl! So she will get the little purple and pink girl sweater from List minus four projects. That was a perfect baby sweater to knit, super fast and easy and only one button to sew on. You can find the pattern on Ravelry at May Baby Sweater.

Hmm....I'm not sure how I feel about this pattern. I followed the measurements but the hood part came out pretty big. Babies have big heads and all but adult size big, not quite....unfortunately the hood part fits me. It's going to make the baby look like yoda.

I am starting to worry a little bit about my upcoming graduation, namely whenever I learn something and think, "hmm shouldn't I already have known that? It seems important..." This week I learned that smokers need a special formulation of Vitalux (if they are using such drops) without beta carotene because the beta carotene puts them at higher risk of lung cancer. Lung cancer is about as serious as it comes...so then I stop and think, have I ever put someone on Vitalux? No, thankfully, because I would not have known that since I just learned it. I think the bombshells will just keep coming, that's what the upper years told me anyway. Avoidance is probably not going to be the best strategy for this. Back to studying.

Oh to be young again

I came to a very disturbing conclusion last night while counting sheep (which clearly doesn't work or I would have been sleeping instead of having the following conversation with myself).

How I am unlike a 90 year old woman:
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How I am like a 90 year old woman:
1. I knit
2. I don't understand pop culture
3. I drink fiber every day and the only thing I want to talk to my family doctor about are my poops
4. My vitamin D tabs are soft chocolate chews
5. I say things like "When I was young... (we used warfarin instead of dabigatran and squirmed in our seats when being pimped rather than surreptitiously consulting an app)"
6. I went to a party on the weekend and I was one of the first to leave because it was bedtime (I was one of the chronologically youngest people there)


So 6 to 1....it's not looking so good.


On the more hilarious side, here is a picture of a knitted object from my women's health elective:

It's a vulva

I haven't progressed much on my own projects except for the baby wrap, it's almost done. Too bad it's -30 out and all the babies are concealed in snowsuits all the time right now...no babies for playing with!

Time to try and think of a youthful thing to do.

When all else fails...verbal diarrhea

I guess I never got around to putting up the pictures of my cast-on frenzy. Here are a few:

Using some random cotton yarn I found in my stash this will magically transform into A Hooded Baby Wrap which is a nice free pattern from Lion Brand Yarn 

Another Lion Brand Yarn project, although the patter is for Rifle Mittens for he who shall not be named (I've been watching the Harry Potter movies for study breaks) and I cannot post a link because it is from a World War II pattern book a very good friend gave me. They might be a present for the 2013 holiday season so their actual destined recipient will remain in the dark.

Nice King Cole Bamboo Cotton yarn will be made into a cardigan for a little one with this free Ravelry pattern Silver Cardigan

The knitting has taken a back seat to a few marginally more important projects, such as studying for the licensing exam, so the projects are not much further along. Also more important is the first day of a new block; despite going through this every 4 weeks, I still get a bit nervous before rotations where I don't know what to expect. Rotations I have gone through before don't have an effect, not surprisingly it is only the new ones. I study the weekend before so I at least have some random facts I can verbal diarrhea when all else fails, but I still get nervous. There is no real point trying to work on this issue since I only have 2 more new rotations, and after today just 1. Yea!

On a side note, I love and hate the new $20 bills. They frequently stick to each other, which is bad for counting them and looking in my wallet and thinking I only have $40, but great when I feel through them and discover I have $60! Then I go buy potato chips.

The Post Holiday Hangover

So my sister does read this. Apparently I must thin of another way to hide future ink stains.

Cast over hangover, that is what I have today. I went on a casting on binge and now I have way too many WIP's. Rather than headache and emesis though I feel tense and edgy. It's quite tempting to stay up late knitting but I have an out. The project I most want to work on, the monkey socks, are at the perfect point (heel flap) for brainless knitting and I have a friend coming over to knit on Sunday. Thus I am saving them for that.

Monkey Socks made with Indigodragonfly merino sock yarn

(No one knows the monkey socks were supposed to be a Christmas present for someone...they are now magically morphed into a birthday present. This gives me until March. It'll be our secret).
I found a new way to embarrass myself at work the other day, that's always fun. Turns out when they say hand wash only on your favourite front clasp bra they mean if you repeatedly wash it in a machine it will weaken the clasp. This will cause said clasp to give way while you are bent over examining a 4 month old. And of course, this was the only baby I've seen brought in by the father, I feel like it would have been much less awkward if it was just the mom. Running out the door while mumbling something about drawing up the vaccines was also not the graceful exit this situation required. The bra has been retired. I am considering writing a letter to the bra manufacturer.