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.