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knitalong day

I've joined yet another knitalong...check out the new button on the RH side...yes indeedy, it's Another Weasley Along!  I figured this would help to keep me motivated and on track to finishing my nephew's hppoa scarf that I started last month (and um, that I haven't worked on for quite some time...).  Yes, knitalongs are a fun thing.

before I was side-tracked by the hourglass & the burger!

it's knitalong (and workout) day

I was telling Christine that I seriously wondered how I get anything done due to the frogging.  I frog here, I frog there...I frog b/c some miniscule thing isn't quite right...and since this scarf is from Harry Potter 3 it does seem right that I've frogged this three times.  The first time because the gauge was too tight from the too-small-of-needles and though I thought about blocking it, I would have had to block the life out of it.  The second time I frogged it the bottom was a good inch tighter than the upper portion.  Remember, I'm using my newly learned continental knitting skills (or lack thereof) for this project and it did take some getting used to.  (I ended up going way up in needle size:  US7)  The last and third time I frogged it, b/c I realized that I only put 5 rows for the trapped bar instead of 6 (6 looks better even though it's different from the pattern) and I swear I counted 6 in the movie and yes, I was up to the 2nd trapped bar before I decided to do this.  Oh, and the jogless jog could have been better.  Now it's great.

Would my 6 yr old nephew notice?  Would he even care??  Probably not, but I would and it would get me every time I'd see him wearing it.  I need help.

no more frogging...really.

how to (not) work out

It's 8:30PM and still 74 degrees outside.  wowsers.  Today I decided that I should finally go and pick up my gym membership card.  I've been meaning to do this since (gasp) January...I drove over after work, took a left towards the parking garage and lo and behold were these huge *gold* gleaming letters exclaiming "entrance" and "exit."  Me finks this club has too much money (especially after last year's renovations). 

Anyway, I get a little nervous about even going to such swanky, over-the-top places, but hey, it's free thru work, so why not.  I park, get out and I'm already getting uncomfortable...I've never been one of those matching outfits kind of girls.  I go to workout dammit.  I'm not there to show off my latest outfit.  I digress.  After walking up the stairs from the garage, which resemble Macchu Picchu (seriously!) I got to the lobby there are two towel boys there at the front desk...

me:  Hi, I need to get a membership card...
him:  Will you need towels?
me:  Um...no I'm here to get my membership card

(as if I didn't feel guilty enough for not actually working out.  The last time I went to the club, I think it was for a massage...ha!)

him:  *blink, blink*  no towel?
me:  no...ah, um, so where do I get a membership card?
him:  over at the concierge's desk

at the concierge desk:
me:  hi...I'm here to get my membership card
him:  will you be working out or are you leaving?
me:  I just climbed macchu picchu, I'll be leaving after I pick up my card...thanks
him:  *blink, blink*

I have my card, it's been activated to charge against and I'm good to go...or am I?

I went home to work on this:

83 degrees and I work on this!

But oh yes, before descending the great stairs of Macchu Picchu once again, I made a quick stop in the Spa and made an appointment for a massage.  A girl has to treat herself, doesn't she?  ^_~

and then there were two...

Double, double, toil and trouble -- fire burn and cauldron bubble...something wicked this way comes!  I can't seem to get this out of my head after watching Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which seems to be on every 30 seconds these days.  I also can't get the darn scarf out of my head either.  I promised my nephew I'd make it for him (um, before I realized it's seven feet long!  I still can't resist, you wouldn't be able to either if you saw his face.) and I have the yarn.  So I did it, I cast on...I probably should have finished my NBaT instead, but no.

Besides, I'm using the hppoa scarf as a way to improve my recently learned continental knitting skills.  Too bad it doesn't have purl, but that will have to be another day and another project.

I did get something productive done though...I narrowed the playing field down for my Sockapal2za person...heather grey was out b/c that's just too normal and sane.  Multi-colors were kind of out only b/c I want the pattern that I'm going to use to stand out.  I'm now thinking of one of the following...

for mild mannered pals

Or perhaps this...

for more of a punch!

I figured they wouldn't want brown, bright orange, pea green, mint green or heck, a crazy conglomeration of all colors (except yellow) like I might.  I wish I could remember where I got the hot pink skeins, b/c I really would like to make myself a pair.  Where o where did I buy this darn it!