Random Sunday afternoon post

[mousme]

It is pouring rain out. Good thing I didn't water the garden when I came in, eh?

The Parental Units dropped by yesterday afternoon to help me put up some pictures on the wall. They enjoy being helpful that way, and now I have several frames up where before there were bare walls. Shiny.

I spent a good part of the two and a half hours they were here trying to keep tabs on my mother, who, while my father and I were fussing with frames, decided to re-organize my broom closet. No, I didn't ask her to. So she rummaged, fussed, and got really annoyed with me every time I tried to intervene. She decided she didn't like the way the paint cans were still in the basement (despite the fact that my place isn't finished yet), and schlepped them up the stairs and put them in the back of the closet. I practically had to hold her down so she wouldn't throw away the paint pans, which don't belong to me.

"But you don't have room for all this!"

"Mother, I cannot throw away something that doesn't belong to me."

"Why don't you put them in the shed, then?"

"Because we're going to be using them soon, and I don't want ashforestwalker to have to go on a treasure hunt for his own stuff."

My mother hasn't glared at me this much in the last year combined. I'm not sure what frustrated her so much about that broom closet, but she re-organized it to within an inch of its life, complete with loud banging and clattering as she dropped/shoved/tipped over various large things. I think I aged a year.

Overall, though, things are progressing. I still have things to hang, including one frame that I want to put over the staircase, except that I don't have a ladder that will reach that high.

I got another repeat done on the baby blanket, which is really starting to take shape now. I think it will be very pretty indeed once it's done. I'm going to take another photo and put it on Ravelry when I'm 50% done. Right now I'm about 30% done, 25% if you don't count the border.

I am a little appalled at how fast this week went by. I am never going to get everything done in time, so I guess it's time to start prioritizing. Oy. I am very excited at the prospect of WorldCon, but I think I may well be a wreck by the time it's over. I haven't had nearly enough sleep this past week, and I don't foresee that changing at all in the next seven to ten days or so. :P

Comments

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Holy CRAP, woman! You are a MACHINE! It took me a whole weekend to finish one repeat on that blanket, and you've done two, not to mention the ripping back?

(I also crave pictures before the 50% mark, but that is me being greedy.)

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Is that the blanket you were knitting last weekend?

Also, the knitting went much faster after the ripping back, once I figured out how I was supposed to do it. Not to mention there's not much else to do on night shift here. :P

[toughlovemuse.livejournal.com]

Nope, this is the same blanket you're making. The one I was making last week has been re-designated a shawl/lap blanket for my grandmother, and I've started on the new pattern for the baby blanket. I cast it on Saturday morning, and I'm a little past the first repeat.

I would call this 'dueling blankets', but who the heck needs that kind of pressure on knitting? (also, that would imply I have a hope in heck of catching up.)