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Tuesday was tough at work...things were just weird. I worked late and then headed to Costco and made it to the dojo to pick up Benton. He was awesome and helped unload and put things away. I then made beef chorizo street tacos and we had a nice dinner and then I was just DONE. I sat down and played on my phone while Benton was in the shower and then I got showered and into bed pretty early. I barely woke up when mel came home late.

I've worn nice dresses all week to kinda help the brain. I wore one of my Karina ones Wednesday in a very bright robins egg blue and folks really like that one. My response was usually "thanks! it has pockets!". Let work after, due to the good work of one of my engineers, found we had been given the wrong hardware for a retrofit and yeah...I just left after I dropped that grenade into email. PMO left to go drink. But I got a nice sammie at jimmie johns and then went to knitting. I wasn't sure my brain was at a spot to knit on the shawl but I tried and succeeded. Just took it slow and got in a good rhythm. Was also talking gage and sweater math and while I've not knit an adult sweater, I can do the math cause its proportions. But we all agreed looking at the sizing etc to have the gal reswatch up a needle on the same swatch, then wash and block just to make sure but she may just need to knit the next size up for the yoke and then the body is all just dimensional (i.e. knit to your personal dimensions for length etc. This got me thinking that I may not need a full size sweater right now but a little nice shrug would be good. I went through my saved patterns on ravelry. I had a lot of ballet shrugs from back when I was thinner and I may still make some of those eventually like (Urban Bellerina, Sidhe Shrug, and Malfoy Manor.)

I ended up thinking that Sulka, Pip, and pashmineh. Though I probably won't have the third one be as form fitting. Then this week Romi Hill just release Wildspring which is super pretty and might be nice with summer dresses...not sure I have stash for that though. I'm trying not to buy any more yarn but that one is pretty.

Anyhoo its thoughts I've had and I've printed patterns up to keep me thinking about it and I can go stash dive to see if I have quantities etc. But it was nice to knit on the shawl and not be confused or too tired for a bit and make progress. I think I'm a few rows until I have to start putting the beads into the lace.

Thursday I again dressed nice in a sundress with a shrug and I did my hair up in this mess bun I got from IG. I felt cute which helped but as the day went on I had a head ache I could not shake and my ME lead went home with a migraine I think we are all stressed and allergy ridden and in the middle of next quarter financial planning which gives me a headache generally. Sighs. I got home and took a nap and did not wake refreshed. grump. So I made a small dinner of a sandwich and a large gin and juice and watched Buffy. The boys got home quarter past 8 and got food and we watched a quick episode of Mumbo Jumbo on YT. He was actually in the Minecraft movie as a cameo along with a few others and he helped design some of the small single builds for the movie. Looks like a few other Hermitcraft folks were also in the movie too. Which was super nice.

Mel and I sat chatting and I had a few more drinks and then it was late..oops. today has been fire after fire at work and I have a big case of I don't wannas.

Oh well.