July 4 of 30

This is my boy, he's a ladies' man. Whenever we go out, he always flirts with the ladies. I'm going to have to watch out in about 16-18 years from now, most probably!

A box arrived this morning from Blue Moon. I had ordered about a month ago some yarn in mediumweight for the Chevron Scarf. I was not pleased to have to pay duty on this order. Whenever I receive my sock club kit, the value is always low, and I never have to pay duty. I could swear, that the last time I ordered STR from there, I didn't have to pay duty on the 6 skeins I ordered. This time, another story. 24$ and change in duty taxes. (Apparently people at the knitting meetup tonight found the word duty to be funny. I think they heard me say "doody" and as in "Sean made a doody" doody...

I was also not pleased to see this knot in my yarn when I wound it into a cake. Luckily, it's at the end of the skein, when wound, so maybe I won't get to it.

Tonight at the knitting meetup, I cast on and worked on my Chevron Scarf. However, I'm not liking this color combination. I think I had something else pictured in my mind, and well, I do not like this at all. It'll be getting frogged, and I'm not sure what I'm going to try out instead. I do have other color combinations to try, so we'll see. I'll let you know what I come up with.

I'm just not really impressed with the black onyx with this. The fire on the mountain is fun and vibrant, and I thought the "black" onyx would make it jump, but the black onyx is just really dull grey tones, and I don't like it. Looks like Jamie may be getting a pair of grey socks.

Modern 2nd Wedding anniversary gifts are cotton. I'm wondering if I knit him a pair of cotton socks that will be good? I'll try to find some cotton yarn that I like for him, (from my stash though!) (I definitely have!) STR is not cotton, so that won't work, but his birthday is in 5 months, so maybe I'll make him the black onyx socks for his birthday?? He doesn't read my blog, so I don't mind talking about his future gifts here. He loved the last pair of knitted socks I made him, and asked when will I be starting his next pair!

Tonight at the knitting meetup, Kadi & I swapped balls of Berroco love it. Remember I had bought 2 balls for Calorimetry? Well, it only needed one, so we swapped colors, and I'm going to make a 2nd Calorimetry, but this time in this fun "watermelon" colorway, as I call it.

This girl at 2nd Cup tonight walked by us, and was like "Oh my - you guys are soo cute" (Talking to us knitters). And because I was holding someone's copy of Fitted Knits (which I so have to get!) and the girls turns to me and says "Oh, you must be the teacher". It was funny. I told her it wasn't a class, and I wasn't the teacher. After she left, I turned to everyone and was like "Alright class, for your homework tonight..."... and got a good laugh.

It was nice to have Jenn & Jakob at knitting tonight. Sean was totally curious about his little cousin. I think he was confused about what the little baby was.... he kept wanting to play with either Jakob's bib, or grab his arm, etc. It was cute though. I hope as they grow older they are friends as well as cousins.

Tomorrow I have a list of things to accomplish, and today I got a bunch of things done. I'm happy that I spent an hour (two days ago) cleaning up Sean's room (was shocked that it only took me 1 hour and not more than that) and now things are easily accessible, put away, and you can see his floor. Before, there was things everywhere, unfolded clean laundry in baskets on his floor, and we were digging in piles of laundry when we needed a clean bib, etc... because the weather had been to hot to do anything, and I didn't feel like folding laundry & putting things away!

Maybe one of these days the rain will stop and I will be able to sit outside and knit & actually enjoy my backyard. The rain just ruins those plans!

Right now, I'm currently loving the song "Sweet Ones" by Sarah Slean.

Happy July the 4th to all my American friends. What did you do to celebrate?