Bleah...

[ianuk]

So, yesterday's comic I posted couldn't be more apropos, more on that later. Got off of work yesterday after a crisis was kind of averted. I managed to get the hardware to work but it will require my ladies to re-tap all of the hole in a connector since our vendor seems to either have 1)a worn tap or 2)tapped it from the wrong side making our screws bind up. I'll call them today and discuss with them. But there is a work around, though not to pretty.

I headed out and got my sewing machines picked up at Cathy's and then I headed off to bookmans and picked up Plum Lucky, and 2 JD Robb books I hadn't yet read (the 2 before the book I bought at costco yesterday) and then I trundled off to Joann's to pick out the yarn I needed for my first afghan. Now, you'd think this would be easy...yeah, not so much. I wanted something that represented me and since I'm making it for me I wanted something pretty, and cozy and comfy and snuggly. scribe_ari and I discussed wooleze and that is what I went with but the color choices were hard.
I finally got the following:
Rose Heather

Dark Rose Heather

Grey Heather

Oxford Grey


Its gonna be pretty...not what mel was thinking for colors I would pick but honestly...the color selection wasn't as broad as I wanted but I'm coping. Its gonna be nice. Though I'm gonna do a little bag first since that will be more transportable but still good and a bit easier but eh. Got home and mel was awesome and had dinner ready. I ate and then worked on my plarn bag. I'm a bit confused about when I need to start decreasing the stitches to start making the bag go "up"...anybody who does circular crochet please

Basically I've been spiraling around and putting in a double stitch into the spiral kinda randomly to make a big circle...I'm at 10" diameter. I want to make a nice round bag for mel's lunches about 10" to 12" tall...so the base is probably right but I'm not sure how to grow things...any suggestions?

Got ready for the hall and had an interesting time dealing with bugs and thinking to much. Not sure how I stop that...its always been my problem and I never know what to do when someone tells me that. My hands and knee and back were all screaming at me which was not helping. My muscle memory doesn't seem to work like everyone else and none of the movements are linked to what they should be...and I don't remember the nomenclature and I get lost pretty easily. I need more drills and outside practice to get through this but I'm very slow at learning. I think the allergy head is not helping. Ended the night with my contact being slidey around my eyeball and then by the time we got home both of my eyes were starting to swell shut. I took some benedryl and put cold packs on my eyes and I think I fell asleep that way cause mel woke me up to tell me to go to sleep. So I rolled over, took the packs off of my eyes and was out some more.

Pretty bleary-eyed this morning. Things are just not happy in the eyeballs...but the swelling is down, especially after I got the gunk out of them. Which I had an ice pack now though. My morning meetings keep expanding and that is annoying...and I have a meeting this afternoon, after I leave that I have to stay for. Sighs. I'll be getting to grandma's late but I will also be asking the above crochet question there too.

I teach tomorrow and will need to get things packed up before I go to bed tonight. Course checking the schedule..I teach both classes tomorrow..oops..rats, will need to pack everything. Course if I'm feeling like I am now, I'm not going to drive by myself up on sunday...course looking at the class list...I think I will stay home. There is nothing that I want to take that I can't ask some one for their handout later..which will be nice. I want a sunday at home with my hubby. Course that means my basket o' doom will be very heavy tomorrow eh. Got a lot to remember too. Course since I don't teach until 11am it might be nice to get there latish. We shall see.

So, time to stop babbling and get on with the engineering. Bleah. I think everyone I'm trying to get a hold of is gone. That sucks.

Comments

[scribe-ari.livejournal.com]

when does the stuff at grandma's start?

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

1pm I think...I'm not gonna get there until about 330 or so.

[scribe-ari.livejournal.com]

I would not be able to go until mark gets home
so I may not make it
I pout

[public-shaylan.livejournal.com]

You are lubbed. I look forward to snatching hugs tomorrow. The colors are rather pretty! *hugehugs*

[scribe-ari.livejournal.com]

Oh and with the circular crochet I usually stop increasing at the # of stitches where I want to start the tube part and continue the rows at that number.

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

how do you know when that is?...when your base is the size you want?

[scribe-ari.livejournal.com]

does the base adequately hold the items that will be sitting on it?
as in if it were to stay flat, which it wont, but if it did. would the items to be put in it sit together neatly as if on a plate. If so, it is big enough.
I would imagine a lunch sack would need to hold the footprint for a sandwich or bento box, a small thermos, and an apple.
The depth of the sack should allow for the height of the tallest expected item, prolly the thermos, plus whatever overlap is required for the expected closure.

[ecogryff.livejournal.com]

nice color combination! i can't wait to see how the afghan turns out. : )

[fibergeek.livejournal.com]

Love the colors. Ari covered what I do for the round stuff, so I'm no extra help there. Oh, and good for you for making the first one for you! I'm finally getting around to making one for me, and I made my first afghan at 16 or so.....

[raventhourne.livejournal.com]

hey, are you ever gonna send mel his afghan and my ugly afghan?