Saturday

I've come to dislike Saturdays. I spend the weekends by myself since I am off and my husband works. This is a new development since his son got out of school for the summer. I'm sure I'll get used to it though. I used to have every weekend to myself and loved it. This is my second Saturday alone and I'm very lonely. My LYS opens in an hour and I plan on going there to knit since I haven't been able to do that in ages. We have an open house tomorrow, but I can get ready for that later.

I finally finished my moms felted slippers. Today I'm going to do the puffy paint on the soles for some traction. Here are some pictures. The colors of the slippers are periwinkle and khaki.

We are going to my parents' house for dinner tonight, so I'll be taking her slippers as well as the socks I made for my niece. I don't think I've posted pictures of the finished product! Well, here they are!

I found this new great blog with some super cute knitting patterns. I'll be adding her blog to my list of blogs to read. She has some really cute ice cream cone patterns. Check her out here.

Well, I should put some real clothes on so I can go spend some time knitting with my friends!

felting

Right now I am felting for the first time without adult supervision. I have done this before with supervision. These are my mother's day slippers that I have finally finished. With everything else that's been going on in my life I haven't had as much time to knit as I'd like to. I also haven't been to my favorite hangout, Nanytutu's, in ages! So, as I sit here, my washer runs and the slippers are on their second cycle. I'm sure I can't do it wrong. Right? Pictures will be posted when they are done.

the end of the week

It's finally over! My first week on the new job. That always sucks. It's a great job, don't get me wrong, but the first week at any new job is stressful. It's been over 10 years since I have worked for this doctor's office, but I have worked there before so that gives me a great advantage over the other couple of medical staff who started a few weeks ago. By then end of my first day I was doing things on my own because it was all coming back to me, but I do still have a lot of questions. And we are pretty spoiled by the doctors at this job! It's pretty great. The downside: the drive. 35 miles each way; a 45 minute drive. I know a lot of people do this everyday, but when you are not used to it, it sucks!

We listed our house and we are having an open house next Saturday. We started looking at houses this week. We may need to change our minds about where we move to because moving where my hubby wants to move to still leaves me with a 25 mile each way commute. But he will have no commute, and he has had to commute about 25 miles each way every day for the last 4 years, so it is a better option. Moving even closer to my job than he has been willing to look will only be about 15 miles for him to drive to work and about 5 miles for me. The houses are also less expensive. With gas at $4 a gallon now, we're going to have to choose the lesser of 2 evils I guess. And I honestly don't know what that is.

Yesterday I worked in a satellite clinic, so I rode with the doctor, another nurse and front desk staff to the clinic 2 hours each way. I am almost done with Isabel's socks. I decided to make them anklets; I think they will be very cute that way. That's the nice thing about working toe-up -- you can stop when you want!

socks

I'm thinking about making a pair of Jaywalkers. I have so much sock yarn that I want to use and I'd love to try that pattern. I have a few sock projects going right now that I need to finish first. I wanted my niece's socks to be done for her birthday (June 1). No such luck. I'm at the heel now.

My sister's birthday was yesterday and I wanted to make her a pair of felted slippers....not even started. Heck, I haven't started the second slipper of the pair I made my mom for mother's day.

I'm working on socks for my husband and myself. Another pair for my other sister. I need a few days away from this house stuff and time to just knit!


By the way, today is my last day of work and I start my new job on June 9. The realtor came by last night and we signed paperwork and everything is ready to get the house on the market on Monday! Yikes! The carpets are getting cleaned tomorrow, the woman is coming to stage the house Friday and they are coming to take pictures for the listing on Saturday. Monday, the sign goes up!