It may seem like progress on the Road Potato Sock has been very slow (because it has), but this is as fast as I can knit it while also working a 55-hour week. I finished the heel a while ago and am now working on the foot.

Sunday is my only day off all week, and on Saturday night, when I noticed that I had left one of my needles at work, I freaked. I only had one set of DPNs that size, and if I didn’t get more, I wouldn’t be able to work on the sock at all on my only day off. Since 2.25-mm aluminum DPNs are not easy to find in this city, Sunday’s expedition involved taking three buses. Oy vey. It wouldn’t have been quite so arduous if the one place I knew for sure sold needles in that size hadn’t happened to be out of stock on Sunday. Oh, they had every other size of needle that they carry. It was just the 2.25-mm rack that was empty. Aaaarrghhh. But then I went to the complete opposite side of town and found the right needles.

Obsessed? What, me?

I said in my last post that I would provide more details of my recent-ish Michaels haul, so I shall. There were family and friends discount days where you could get 25% off your entire order, by which I mean that you would get a discount on your purchases at Michaels that day with one of these coupons, not that you could purchase family members and friends somewhere and save 25% on them. I am very grateful that a Michaels employee gave me a coupon for this event, but since she hasn’t mentioned her job anywhere in her blog, I’m not going to link to her, in case she would prefer to keep all of her work-related life out of the blogosphere. Since KJ mentions on her blog that she works at Michaels, though, I will say that she also offered me one of the coupons, but I already had one at that point. Thanks, both of you guys!

Okay, purchases. I bought a bunch of Bernat Alpaca in Tundra, some balls of Patons Grace in Rose (I swear I do have long-range plans for these things), several magazines, three T-shirts and iron-on transfer paper, a copy of Weekend Knitting by Melanie Falick, and a few Disney vacation dimensional stickers by Jolee’s Boutique. No, I don’t scrapbook, but my boyfriend and I are planning to go to Disney World someday, and I think that trip will be a fun thing to make a scrapbook for.

Something I am bad at in writing: subject transitions between paragraphs. Domestic-ish art I am really, really, bad at: gardening. (I once had a cactus that died because I did not water it enough. I am not making this up. I did learn something from the experience, though; my next cactus died from overwatering.) I’ve got an African violet named Sparkly Fairy Princess. She is not currently in bloom. I would like to get her to bloom again sometime. I’m going to repot her, which apparently I should have done a zillion years ago, ’cause she’s still in her soil that she came in at the grocery store. My boyfriend picked up some African violet soil mix and African violet liquid fertilizer, and I’ll see if any of this helps.

Another complete lack of subject transition: I spent a day in Fredericton a couple of weeks ago. This was another good opportunity for me to buy magazines, because lately I am a magazine whore. Which, I suppose, was an unfortunate phrase to use, in case people are Googling for Playmate pics and all they find is someone who buys a lot of magazines. I brought the sock, but did not take any sock pictures. I do, however, have photographic evidence that people in Fredericton are nuts.

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