My back finally stopped hurting so much, although I had to take a few weeks off from knitting while it healed. Then my boyfriend and I went on vacation to Québec for a few days during Carnaval. We ate a lot of good food, went on a tour of the ice hotel, and did much shopping (okay, I did much shopping). We took many pictures, and almost all of them look horrible, as I am a poor photographer and I am also not photogenic.

My boyfriend is finally allowing me to knit him a pair of fingerless mitts. Our past conversation on the subject went like this:

Me: You know, I could knit you a pair of fingerless gloves and then you wouldn’t have to wear those cut-up socks on your hands.
Him: (genuinely puzzled) But why would you do that when I have these cut-up socks?
Me: *bangs head against the wall*

I’m knitting Dashing and have completed one mitt so far. Sadly, he has stipulated that they must be made from black acrylic, because he sucks all the joy out of life. I am using Vanna’s Choice. It is adequate. You could be stuck working with much worse.

My back has been bothering me again this week because I was in an accident when a car crashed into the bus I was on, which I have talked about enough lately and therefore don’t want to talk about here. None of us on the bus were seriously injured, just bruised and stuff, and my back isn’t even as sore as it was when I first hurt it. If you want to send condolences to the family of Contable Jason Porter and his two children, Hannah and Jack, who were killed in the accident, there is an online card on the RCMP New Brunswick site.

I’m taking an evening course in blanket weaving at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design. That’s the one thing I’ve been doing that’s hard on my back, since I’m trying to give it a bit of a rest. Weaving is currently taking precedence over knitting and blogging (my poor boyfriend and his one lonely mitt!), and Jackie is saving my life. Or attempting to. (When she says, “others are still behind,” she means me. Well, and one other person. And when she says, “We will see how it all turns out,” I’m not sure I want to know what she means.) I don’t know for sure if I’ll finish my blanket, but I do know that I wouldn’t if I didn’t have help from Jackie. And if I didn’t run over to the fibre arts studio every time I have a free moment…

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