It’s HOT today, so I invited Jen over for some knitting. She’s got no AC and I’ve got plenty to go around. Couldn’t leave her sitting at home sweating on her wool. I’ve got my new favorite treat to share too!
Nothing else new to report. I did more on the second sock and it’s progressing nicely – I’m about to start the heel and the stripes are still matching up to sock no. 1. Today I SWEAR I am casting on the first sleeve of short rows if it KILLS me! I want to get back to this sweater!
Wendy has declared this the Summer of Lace, but I think this is the summer of the knitblogger! I’ve already heard from a few fun gals that may be popping in for a visit! YAY! I’m particularly happy about the knitorious one, since she lives so far out of my way. (CA may be farther, but I generally get there once a year. Wisconsin? Not so much!) Fun times in the BIG CITY! And my little sis is doing an internship in Baltimore so look for me (and the other sis AND all of the kids) sometime maybe in July!
Katy had a lovely spa day yesterday which reminded me of a conversation I had with my sister this last visit. In the past year or so I’ve put on about 15-20 pounds. I don’t look awful, but I don’t feel great, and if I lost even ten pounds I’d be a whole lot happier. We, my sister and I, have decided that the reason I haven’t put on 30 or 40 or 50 pounds is because I visit Spa Chez Crazie at least once a month. What? You’ve never heard of Spa Chez Crazie? Their diet plan is WONDERFUL! You run around like a maniac holding a sixteen pound sleeping baby while two toddlers jump on you like you’re a trampoline. They feed you pretty much nothing – but only because they’re so busy they forget! You get like no sleep because you stay up too late at night reading about knitting while the chillens are asleep and then they scare the bejeezus out of you by throwing open your bedroom door at 3AM – because they couldn’t find you when they opened their eyes! You were there when they fell asleep! Or they come in at 7AM and wake you saying downstairs, downstairs, downstairs until your ears bleed. Throw in an inevitable bout of the runs – and you’ve got Spa Chez Crazie!
I always get the deluxe package. I come home bruised, battered, exhausted, an ounce or two lighter and LOVED!
With all those big lakes to the east of Wisconsin, we’re “on the way” to or from very few places! I can’t tell you how excited I am and how happy for all your help. It’s such a relief.
Love that photo — photos of “old friends”! I have an old cabinet photo with two elderly ladies sitting on chairs in a garden. It took me a very long time to realize that one of them is actually in a large, old wheelchair with her big skirt spread wide to hide the wheels. It’s one of my favorites.
Spa Chez Crazie…sounds pretty good. I could stand to lose a few…
You’re right! I thought you were taking a break and hadn’t been updating. Bloglines is the pits when not working.
My trainer sounds easier than Spa Chez Crazie! It actually sounds fun once in awhile.
I’m afraid I’m getting sucked into the Summer of Lace…I lived through the Summer of Love so may as well go for it again;-)
Ugh! You’ve just described an average day at my place.
I LOVE Spa Chez Crazie!!! And um… did I hear BALTIMORE? HUH?!?! WHA? YAAAY!!!!