Discombobulated Thoughts — January 16, 2007

• Wow, halfway through January already?
• I’m feeling slightly better, just some residual pain in my back and right side but not feeling like I’m splitting in half anymore.
• Pugly is acting very odd lately. I’ve been having to carry him to the car every morning to go to doggy daycare and sometimes I have to catch him to put the leash on him to go outside. Then there’s the weird matter of him not wanting to jump down from the car when we get home. Very strange little dog.
• I’ve been watching HBO’s Rome and I just love love love
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One Scarf Finished

I finally finished that scarf I started knitting back in October. Yay!

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Getting Ready For 2007

So, thinking about my “Things I’d like to do in 2007,” I decided to get a head start.

• I took the To Do lists — daily, 2x a week, weekly, biweekly, monthly, quarterly, 2x a year, annually, etc. — and assigned the items dates or days of the weeks. I put them all into my Palm Z22; the to do program has a repeating functionality which allowed me to do all sorts of neat things. I am giving myself permission to go
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The Scarf So Far

O.K. This is like 40 rows…it’s taken me all week to get this far. I’m still not real happy but I’ve taken it out and redone it about fifty times. I’m doing something wrong on the ends. They’re always too loose. I end up going back and picking at the stitches trying to even things out. I just don’t like the fact that things don’t look all that consistant. I don’t know if I’m doing it right. But everywhere I’ve been where I’ve been knitting, I’ve got lots of compliments on it, mostly
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Beginning Knitting…Take 2

*sigh* O.K. I took it all out and started over because I just didn’t like how it looked. This looks like a better beginning, but I still have to stop at the end of every row and kind of “tighten up” the stitches.

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Beginning Knitting

While I was watching Memoirs of a Geisha this afternoon, which, by the way, is a must see, I started work on one of those Suss Learn-to-Knit kits. It’s a “Level 0″ where you get to make a multi-color scarf and it comes with a DVD that actually shows close-ups of hands actually doing the stitches you’re going to do in the project. Even though I’d already had a live leason and been practicing on swatches and looking at lots of pictures of instructions, I found the DVD very helpful.

Anyway, there was much pulling out and starting over so it doesn’t look like I did much. I’m having problems with the flipping to the next row…particularly at the end of the first row. Actually my problem has to do with that slip knot at the end of the first row. It always ends up way loose and funky looking for some reason. Any tips on that are muy welcome.
My first few rows look a little too tight but as you can see in the below photo, once I got past the casting and the first few rows, I got a good groove on and started doing some consistant-sized stitches…I think.

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