20% Off!

Thank you everyone for the emails/texts/posts for Tiki. Torch is still adjusting to being the only dog in the house but he is coming along.

So I was promised a trip to the big knitting store by my fiance and I was extremely excited to go. I decided I had to sort through all of WIP's and items in my queue to figure out what I really needed to buy; so I sorted everything and separated the projects that were all ready to go. Approximately an hour later I was finished. And then I was dismayed:

I had 6 projects all ready to go, not requiring a single thing from the yarn store! Six projects will keep me knitting for awhile, however I went to the yarn store anyway and lo and behold they were having a 20% off warehouse sale! Just for fun, here is another picture of the knitting corner after little Tiki crawled into it:

I'm not really sure why this looked like a comfy place to nap, but she slept there for a long time

Purchasing yarn is just so much fun that I bought some sock yarn, and then of course had to buy the "2 at a Time Socks" book by Melissa Morgan-Oakes so I can increase my efficiency. Reading the 71 page Guideline for Primary Care Management of Headaches in Adults has given me a headache this morning, so I'm going to go take a knitting break and maybe dip into the new bag of fun stuff. Hopefully the next post will have some actual knitting progress to post!

Sad Day

This week was a sad, sad week. One of our little Pekingese dogs, Tiki, got very sick and had to be put down, late Thursday night. I've cancelled my trip to Toronto to see family/friends because I was too tired to drive and thought I'd be sad all weekend and that's no fun to put on everyone else. So instead I will just stay here and maybe get some distracting work done. I didn't pay great attention in teaching yesterday so I might review those topics, knit and clean, and do other distracting things. Most of the friends I have told have a similar story of losing a pet, often a childhood friend, and commiserating yesterday certainly helped.

No knitting pictures today, just Tiki and her best friend Torch.

On their way home from the shelter, Torch (left) and Tiki (right)

Tiki with her new sweater on

They liked snuggling

Always wear grey pants to an interview, no one can be offended

Two very exciting things happened yesterday. One, I finished the monkey socks. Also, I finished the monkey socks way ahead of schedule! The second exciting thing was that I met with someone to talk about jobs. Gah!

It was kind of like a job interview, in a weird way though. We talked about contracts and remuneration and work hours and the like, but it doesn't feel right because there are lots of family doctor jobs out there and it's more about me making a decision then them. The whole situation did take me back to age 14 when I was interviewing for my first real job, I remember putting on the only dress pants I owned, a pair of light grey pants. My mother drove me there and waited in the parking lot of the dry cleaner warehouse so I could interview with the three large Italian owners (I was a bit intimidated). All went well and I ended up working there throughout high school. When I arrived at Second Cup for my current interview I realized I was wearing similar pants and I felt 14 years old again, pretending that I was all grown up.

Well enough of that boring stuff, here are the socks! And they are the same size as each other!

The Monkey Socks turned out to be a well written pattern. I think the choice of yarn worked fairly well, Indigodragonfly, which is a Merino cashmere sock yarn. A lighter colour would have shown the pattern a bit nicer but overall I'm still happy with it. Now if only I could figure out how to make all the pictures show up in the same row.