knitting day 2

yesterday was a fun night: girls, knitting, wine and some indian food.

with my newly learned skills, on my wonderful nine hour shift today, i have completed a roughly tea doily sized swatch of knitting. i am actually really really proud of myself. because, although there is one hole, oops, there is only one. and i did not notice it until i was rows beyond it, and i decided, well, it gives it some character. Tasha quite kindly, after teaching me, donated some of her older wool (that she had spun herself a few years ago). i planned on making the whole scarf from this green-y wool, however, i am now thinking that it will not be enough. so, the scarf might have to be striped. we shall see. i am sure that jarrod will love it, either way. (i promise not to make you wear in it public!)

crap, now it has two holes.

i am debating taking it out and starting again. i don't really want to! but for some reason, i cannot figure out what i am doing that causes the holes. if i could, then i would, well, stop doing it. mom? any help here?

i have to admit, i love a busy schedule. if i don't have a million things to do, i get nothing done. and so, this past week has been no exception. jarrod visited after work on thursday, and we had just enough time to cook dinner before our out of town guests arrived. ryan (an old old friend from high school) was in town with his boyfriend, also ryan, visiting their perspective schools for next fall. ryan m. is, if he can get his nerve up, accepting york's faculty of environmental science and ryan n. is only waiting on the official okay from ryerson to sign himself up. it was nice to have a full house again, always people coming and going.

weekend in brief:

times out for breakfast: 2
movies walked out of: 1
book stores with no terry prachett books: 3
green beers: 0
doppio espressos: 1
thai dishes with seafood: 3
couches moved: 1
high school friends visited: 3
unsuccessful knitting attempts: 5
sucessful knitting attempts: 1/2
glasses of wine: 1
good conversations: 102938449238201

a great success, any way you look at it.