Failure (Day 55 KEDfaY)

I knew it was going to happen eventually. I knew at some point I would fail and I wouldn't get a post up. I figured it would be sometime while we were traveling or while I was home for Christmas. I didn't expect it to be a day when I literally spent 4 hours knitting with 6 other women. 

I even had a post planned yesterday. The project I'm currently working on is a sweater that has been needed to be fixed for two years now. It's just been moved from laundry to winter storage to knitting pile and back and never been fixed. The edging didn't lay right and even though hundreds of others online said the same thing, I ignored them all and didn't pay attention. So I failed there too. Yesterday though, I picked it up and went to work on it. I ripped out the old border and I'm within 4 rows and a bindoff of finishing this sweater and having it, hopefully, be wearable. 

But yesterday, after getting home, I was so distracted by food and cleaning and reading that I completely spaced writing a post. 100% didn't even cross my mind. 

Today is going to be a day full of Gettin' Shit Done. I have laundry to fold. Dishes to wash. Kitchen to clean. Bathrooms to clean. Office to finish organizing. Book to finish reading and an email to write about it. And of course knitting to do and write about. Today is going to be one of my busier days around the house but it's a good thing. I not only have something I need to do today, which is rare, but it's because that by this time tomorrow, my family will either be here or be within a few hours of here and that is really exciting.

But right now, I need coffee. 

Kitty! (Day 54 KEDfaY)

There's a picture of a scared looking cat and my finished washcloth. That's the cat that is trying to murder me so don't let her terrified face fool you. She is an evil mastermind and is trying to off me at any chance she gets. (I don't have proof, just lots of scrapes on my feet from where she's attacked me as I've had to walk by her. She's a bitch, dude.)

But I finished my washcloth today. I was hoping to get other things done too but waking up late and then getting the great news that my family is in fact coming to visit and giving directions to them and advice to the driver (who isn't technically family but she's there at all of the family gatherings so she might as well be) on how to deal with my mom and brother. I love my family to death but my mom and my brother, when cooped up in a car and when traveling, tend to get snippy with anything and everything. Being a third party isn't fun especially if you're not related and haven't gone on a 14 hour car drive with them before. I've been there and it isn't that much fun. 

They're showing up Friday morning and going to stay the weekend. It makes me happy because, while it isn't my birthday, it's darn close enough that I won't get all weepy about it. I hope to have a great weekend with them but in the meantime I have to organize our apartment so that three more people can be here. It's not dirty so it's not really cleaning but more organizing everything. Our apartment is definitely less than organized right now. 

But I'm fighting the urge to go to sleep right now. I made a delicious meal of gluten free fried chicken and potatoes and corn and gravy and now I'm fat and sleepy. A nap sounds awesome right now. Mmm nap.

One of those days (Day 53 KEDfaY)

You know?

Aaahhh! (Day 52 KEDfaY)

Aaahhhhh! Almost completely forgot about this but then I didn't! Quick started a washcloth. Nothing fancy.

Whiney (Day 51 KEDfaY)

I feel like all that I do lately is whine and complain. It's too hot. I'm too bored. I'm too jobless. My ear hurts. I've found that when there isn't anything exciting going on in my life, this is what happens, I complain. A lot and about everything.

Today is no different. Woke up on the wrong side of the bed and then spent all day dealing with my ear that I can't hear out of. It's no longer a once in awhile thing but a daily thing. I can't hear out of my left ear hardly at all. I've done everything the interbuttz has told me to do and told me a doctor would tell me to do in a situation like this and it's still not better. It hurts and makes things difficult.

But I knit today. I caught up on the two whole podcasts I'm watching right now and knit a few rows. I need to sit down and make another magic ball for this blanket. I've gone through a lot of them already but they've all been pretty small. I just don't have much black yarn right now. I know I just have to wait because black yarn reproduces on its own. I'm sure I'll find a new ball soon. 

I've lost my mojo, guys. I blame the fact that I have to make the sweater I want to make... but September is close and then I can start it. I am excited about that. 

Surprise! (Day 50 KEDfaY)

Honestly when I started this little "knit every day and document it" thing, I didn't think it'd go very far. I figured I'd get bored and then just not do it or I'd get a job (HA!) and not have time but here I am, 50 days in and I'm still jobless and only a little bored. Tonight was just one of those nights when I didn't want to knit but I pulled out this bad boy and decided to do a couple of rows. Slowly but surely, right?

So yes, this was an honest surprise. I'm constantly afraid that I missed a day or that I skipped a number or something and that next year I'll be off by a few days or something. Call it paranoia or perfectionism or what you will. 

In which I wish I could say I did something productive...(Day 49 KEDfaY)

But in all honesty, I didn't. Sorry.

There's some knitting for ya!

EDIT: I just finished a section of that blanket only to find out I need to redo it. Whoo.