I had a partially written blog post a while ago, but I scrapped it. It was supposed to be a funny post detailing the suckiness of my life lately. My fridge was broken, then all my electricity stopped working and I couldn’t even plug in my fan in the middle of a heat wave, then once everything else was fixed the stove didn’t work, because the wiring in that outlet had been causing the electricity problems. This was all happening while I was trying to clean my apartment before my parents visited, which felt kind of pointless considering people were making holes in the wall to get at the wiring, so there was plaster dust around and I had to move my desk right into the middle of the living room, where it very much does not fit, to get it away from the wall/holes/wiring. Oh, and then my vacation plans were complicated by a hurricane. You know, that sort of thing. Unfortunately, one gets to a point where one’s life sucks so much that it isn’t funny anymore, and I reached that critical mass recently. Therefore, I shall not be making with the funny today.

I also happen to be feeling nauseous today, which is not at all surprising in light of everything sucking. Given my luck lately, it would be more surprising if I were not sick. At the moment, I’m hungry and am trying to figure out what I can eat that won’t make me barf.

Speaking of barfing, Kaytlyn is pregnant,¹ and Mare and I are totally excited, because we know that if we wanted to knit something insane like the Chicken Viking Hat for the baby, Kaytlyn and Addison are much more likely to approve of it than anyone else we know who has kids.

And speaking of Mare, I promised her that someday I would post photos of the beaver statue adorned with her scarf, so I am keeping my promise.

The large stone rodent is ready for his (her?) close-up!

The scarf probably only remained on the beaver for a couple of hours before it was liberated by someone who (presumably) wanted a pretty scarf, but the lamppost cozy is still on the lamppost after two-and-a-half months.

No, the Margaret socks are still not finished, on account of I have a tendency to get distracted by shiny things. My current shiny thing is restarting the pink Orangina (AKA Rosina) tank top I abandoned last year. So far I’ve knit about three inches of tank top.

Oh, well. You gotta start somewhere.

¹By “speaking of barfing,” I was referring to the all-day morning sickness Kaytlyn detailed in her blog. I didn’t mean, “Ew, babies, gross.” Although babies are gross. They leak. Constantly.

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