Blink. Blink. Oh look, there’s a whole world out here. How pleasant. Maybe I should try taking part in it again. What an idea.

I just need to get some things out there, and then I can talk about knitting. First of all, migraines that last more than three weeks suck ass. I am so tired of fighting with my body. Secondly, keeping a house in condition to show to buyers on a moment’s notice is miserable. It is, I think, more miserable if you have a three year old and a dog who sheds tremedously than if you didn’t. I’m about to drive myself crazy over here, and I’m getting nothing productive done. (I don’t consider keeping my home pristine productive. I do just fine with clean enough.) And finally, trying to find a new home when you absolutely love the home you have is just miserably exhausting and depressing. I would give anything to be able to just pick up our house and move it closer to my husband’s job and into a decent school district. Instead, I’m stuck trying to find a house that I’ll love anywhere close to as much as I love mine, and that’s not an easy task. Ugh. I so very much want this all to be done and over with.

Okay. Now that I’m done whining, let’s see what kind of knitting (and other crafting; don’t want to forget about my delightful sewing experiences!) there is to write about.

Rogue? Umm . . . still sitting in pieces, just like she was last time I wrote. I feel so bad about this. It’s not like it would take long for me to do the seaming — the zipper, on the other hand, I’m still terrified of.

My bag for sew? i knit! is still at the exact same point in construction as the last time I posted. I do have a plan for how to finish it that will not (I hope) require me to throw the sewing machine into a wall, but I’m still a little gunshy. Not to mention, I’m afraid of getting into a groove (ha!) working on and then having the realtor call to tell me someone’s going to be here to look at the house in five minutes. My sewing has so far been a very messy endeavor, and there’s that whole “pristine house” business. I’m just going to have to bite the bullet one evening and finish it.

Mother’s bag? My Kiri shawl? They call to me. I want to work on Kiri so badly it makes my finger tingle. But I must. finish. hubby’s. socks.

Which brings me to absolutely the only knitting progress I’ve made at all in weeks. I finished the first of those socks:

The color is not spot on here; in real life, the colors are much richer, but my head was not cooperating with taking photos enough to work hard at it.

A closeup of the toe, because it’s the only closeup I took that came out. You can see I’m having some trouble with laddering, which I haven’t had in a while — don’t know where that came from.

The best news of all? Hubby tried it on and he LOVES it, and it FITS. It fits beautifully. Like it was (forgive me, I have to say it) made for him.

The second sock is coming along nicely. I hope to have it finished soon, and then I want to start a pair for my friend in Canada — if she’ll ever send me the measurements I asked her for!

Hopefully I will have more progress — on something, anything! — to share soon.

Okay, I’ve now edited this post four times, I think, to fix stupid stuff. I hope I’m done now. I’m starting to feel like an idiot.