A busy, busy month ahead!

Well, the time has come to finally move. Good news is, I have found a really nice apartment. It's a 2 bedroom townhouse about 2 blocks from where I currently live. So, thankfully, not far to move. The packing and planning has begun. I get the keys on the 15th, and plan to move all the furniture on the 22nd. It'll be a good change for all of us. The girls will still share a room, it'll just be a bigger room, with a closet for each. And, thank goodness it has a bath and a half, a much larger kitchen, a patio off the kitchen and a walk in laundry room. So, the stress begins. And my infrequent blogging may keep up until I get settled in. But, who knows, may I'll find time for more blogging in the next 2 weeks.

But, I do have an FO. I finished the pair of socks that I cast on a few weeks ago. I call them my Ugly Trekking socks, because, as much as I love Trekking XXL, this color way knitted up sorta ugly. So, with no further ado, here they are:



The Specs:
Pattern: My own plain vanilla sock pattern
Yarn: Trekking XXL
Color way: 105
Started: 1/21/08
Finished: 2/4/08

Today while I was packing, my cats presented me with some cute photo ops. Here is Mr. Vinny, indulging in the Red Blanket Treatment:


And, Miss Moonie took advantage of the fact that I packed almost all the dvd's and video games, and took the video door off the entertainment center. She finds the oddest places to lay:

Well, let's see how much knitting and blogging I can get in during the next few weeks. Later.

So, on Friday I was inspired while reading my blog list. On Babycocktails and Knitting, I noticed her finished Josephine top from the Summer '07 Interweave Knits, and remembered seeing it when I bought my copy of the issue. The more I thought about it, the more excited I got. At lunch I ran and bought some Paton's Grace, in the taupe color. Well, after 2 false starts ( I was apparently too tired to add correctly) I got the count right on Saturday morning. I worked a couple of rounds and then took the girls to the mall, since Katie's BFF stayed the night. I worked on it some more when we got home, and few rounds on Sunday. It was on Monday that I made lots of head way. See, I had to take Katie in for a physical for school volley ball. In the , almost 4 to 5 hours of sitting in the doctor's office, I got a lot done. Granted, my thumb is hurting and just a little swollen. But, here is how much I have done:

I am loving this pattern! As you can see, I've decided to knit it in the round, just because I don't want to have to seam.

While I was pulling this pic off of the camera, I found a few more that I haven't posted. So, to begin with, I'll start with someone who decided to hide from the house for a while, and that would be Miss Moonie:


Then, I forgot to post the great socks that Anne made for me for the Summer Sock Party '07:

They fit me perfectly! And the colors are great.

Up next, is a pic of when Moonie decided to rejoin the rest of the world, and tried to share Butter's bed, and as you can see, Butter wasn't too thrilled about that.


Then, I found the one of where we were vacuuming the living room, and the cats hate that dreaded machine. This is were I found them, hiding behind the couch.


Then, the highlight of the weekend before. The new Harry Potter book! I stalked the mail man until he showed up.


And, as I said in my post on Friday, I met Beth. And she brought me her pizzell iron.


And, of course, I had to try it right away!


And here are the yummy almond flavored pizzells that I made:

Despite the fact that everyone said they didn't like almond flavored, they sure disappeared very quickly.