the good life

All shopping, all laundry.
No knitting...well, not much anyway.

Mimi has been sick for three days. I thought that she was feeling better, but she had another episode this afternoon. With out turning stomachs, I'll just say that we have been going through a lot of towels and sheets and changes of clothing. Plus I am getting a better arm work out than I do in my Pilates class since she won't allow me to put her down.

Having a sick baby has been slowing down my knitting a bit, that and driving all over the city trying to get my husband dressed properly for a "business-casual" job. What the spank is business casual, you ask. Dockers, Polo shirts, more Dockers, a few button-down shirts, under- shirts, the works. Seeing how he was working with a bunch of scientists at a national lab, you can imagine how high up on the list fashion was. Who has time to dress up when we they are busy saving the world through the miracle of cold-fusion? Never mind dressing up, who has time to match their socks in that environment? So now poor J has to re-wardrobe himself, no easy feat. We have spent two days in and out of stores while he tries on tons of clothes. For me, shopping is a dream come true. For him, it is living a nightmare. But he has been a sport, even buying a very cool pair of corduroy pants, because I insisted that they were sexy. They are, too. Now, normally, I would be knitting all the while that I am in the car, but the other day at the knitting shop one of the ladies said that she heard that if you knit in the car, you really should sit in the back seat, because of the danger of the air-bag deploying and causing you to impale yourself with one of your needles. Yikes. So, until I decide to throw caution to the wind or I am knitting with rubber needles, I may stop knitting in the car, because I can't very well sit in the back with out getting serious car-sickness.

I will be done with the right front of the jacket (barring some unforeseen tragedy) by this afternoon, and my hope is to finish the other side by Sunday afternoon. Then the sleeves (which are only about 10 inches long) and the collar will be done by Tuesday (God willing) and then blocking Tuesday night, sewing on Wednesday at the free-stitch at the knitting shop. Anyone want to wager that I won't be done? I hate to plan ahead too much seeing how things are going. I am not going to be too disappointed if it isn't finished because I am ahead of where I thought I would be by now. It helps to read or listen to books on CD, but I have also picked a very mindless repeating stitch that knits up pretty quickly. There is also another project that I may have to put the sweater down to work on. It simply MUST be done for her birthday, it won't do for any other time. But I'm not going to tell you what it is just yet. You'll have to tune in next week to find out.