Welcome to a disorganized and largely useless recap of the past month.

This is my boyfriend. He is buying me yarn. Nice, huh? It’s part of my birthday present. He is standing in Cricket Cove’s area of the Saint John City Market. There are four Cricket Cove stores in New Brunswick, and I’m assuming that this one isn’t the biggest, but it packs a lot of stuff into a small space. A lot of the stuff he’s standing in front of is Fleece Artist. It’s a lot of Fleece Artist to be all in one place. This is good. He’s holding some Briggs & Little Regal in, of course, turquoise, and some Fleece Artist roving. Why do I need roving? Well, I don’t, really, but you know how sometimes people order beginner’s spinning kits from Susan’s Spinning Bunny even though they can’t possibly rationalize it?

And you know how then they wind up with a sprained wrist and the spindle and roving just have to sit there for a while? Yeah, that happens sometimes.

Cricket Cove was lovely, my boyfriend was, as always, lovely, and Saint John was, um, rainy. Other birthday gifts he gave me included books, clear plastic knitting needles WITH GLITTER IN THEM! from Wal-Mart, and My Little Ponies (Royal Rose and Summer Bloom).

My mom stayed at my apartment for about a week and a half recently, which, along with the schoolishness and the sprained wrist, contributed to my lack of blogging, for two reasons:

1. My mom is wary of anybody putting any information about themselves online in case it might make a serial killer somehow want to and be able to kill them.
2. Sometimes people don’t necessarily want their moms to know that they have a blog (or multiple blogs), even if there is nothing in said blog that their mom wouldn’t approve of. For instance, I had no content here that my mother would disapprove of until I ruined it in Reason #1 by mentioning her worry about the serial killers. No, actually she would have disapproved of buying the spinning kit online, so I ruined it even before that.

While she was in town, she bought a Knifty Knitter at the new Michael’s in Bayer’s Lake and managed to knit seven hats with it before heading back home. She assured me that you really need two working hands to use it, so I didn’t try. She did buy me some yarn, though. She left today, hence my ability to post today, and also the reason why my previous post says “April 30” on it but was not finished or available until today. It’s hard to hide your blogging from people when they are very interested in your life and the two of you are staying in an apartment with four rooms.

Remember that blue-and-white striped scarf I started eons ago? There’s been progress on it since I took this picture, but I see no need to take another photo of it at the moment, because it’s a garter stitch scarf and it looks the same, only longer. I’ll take another picture when I finish it — that will happen whenever the wrist allows it to happen.

Since I have so little “knit” content in this KnitKitten blog at the moment (although, for once, it’s not due to laziness), how about some “kitten” content?

Damn, she’s cute.

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