Jo Knits!

Blue yarn,

Finally after a few days of stressful startitis, I found a pattern to work on, Chickami with wide straps. Yes, I am the girl that doesn't wear tank tops that will knit one. That's just sad but oh well, I even chose blue to go with my mood.

Yesterday we went to the video place to rent a movie, since we don't have a microwave we were hoping to find a jiffy pop gizmo to amuse the kids. (If you don't know what this is, it's basically just popping popcorn on the stove, the popcorn is in this contraption/sealed pan which expands as the corn pops.) Well after a dude from the video guy calls me Sir... and then not finding any jiffy I was ready to bolt. I am NOT a guy, ok? I am tired of people coming up to me and saying Sir (more so, when the guy bursted laughing when he realised his mistake). I better start liking pink or something, it aggravates me to no end. Anyway, we got Shark Tale for the kids, was a nice one to watch, had some laughs when we watched it in french, might switch to english tonight. Oh and we have a hot air popcorn maker so don't worry too much about us. ;)

Then I made this huge swatch, (if you know me, anything more than 2 X 2" is huge, I made one that was 5 X 6"). I casted on for my project, then promptly ripped it out. Started again, went to bed late to at least finish the ribbing part, sadly I takes about 10 minutes to knit a round. This morning I knit a few hours only to then decide to check the gauge, you know where this is headed right? I am off 1 stitch per inch!!! Why? Simply because silly me did my swatch in stockinette in flat (knit row, purl row) but the pattern is in the round so it's all knit. ARGH! So I rip, rip, rip, rip. I'm almost in tears seeing that this is the 3rd time I will cast on this $*%$^* project. I'm going to start yet again another swatch but wait, the needles I need for them are on another project. ARGH! Can anything just go my way for once?

Well at least, Zoe's report card is a glowing one, as usual her teacher loves her and that's about it. At home though we seem to have more trouble with her though. Perhaps it's because we started being home more so she's testing us.

If I weren't taking the pic I'd be squeezing Carl too. Daddy's home!!!

Last thursday (after a very hectic work week and at 10pm in the evening) Carl was told that his presence would not be required anymore for the Walmart tour starting in the maritimes this week. Our boss hasn't even had the balls to call me and tell me to my face uh... ear. So basically they just left us high and dry to work locally in Montreal. Sadly there is not much work to be done here, so we are out of work just like that. This is really hard as we have been planning for almost a year our next few weeks. At least I hadn't bought new luggage but still we had stuff we had already gotten for 10 weeks on the road. Now everything is screwed up of course. I had promised the kids new beds, well they'll have to wait, Zoe's feet are starting to peak over her mattress though. This boss is leaving the country in a few weeks for a great promotion, he doesn't care about us. It hurts so badly though, it just isn't fair, we were finally being happy for once. It's just too hard.

Off to swatch.... or not, I don't know anymore.

Posted by Jo at May 1, 2005 03:34 PM