little bit of crazy leaking out

. . . in which we have a very full day.

Feb 18 - 1 repeat - 10 rows knit 1, rip 6, knit 10 (110)(-30)
Feb 17 - 1 repeat - 10 rows (105)(-25)
Feb 16 - 1 repeat - 10 rows knit 1/2, rip 6.5, knit 5 (95)(-25)
Feb 15 - 1 repeat - 10 rows  knit 3 (96)(-14)
Feb 14 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 11 (93) (-7)
Feb 13 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 9, rip 7, knit 2 (82) (-8)
Feb 12 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 15 rows (78)(-2)
Feb 11 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 37 rows (63)(+3)
Feb 10 - Opening Ceremonies - 40 rows - 26 rows (-14)

I am not going to comment on the way the knitting is going, I’m just not gonna.  grrr . . . stupid YOs.  On the plus side I was looking over the pattern and I have knitted enough rows to complete the small shawl. I had always planned on making the large shawl, but at this point I will settle for the small shawl and any more repeats added to it will be a bonus. I will start the edging on the 21st as planned with whatever I have at that point.  I mean, do I really need a 90″ shawl? 

Yesterday was a very full day.  My folks came over to watch the kids while we went to sign the refi papers again (better interest rate, so I can’t complain too much).  On the way home from that we stopped and picked up a drain snake so hubby could fix the bathroom sink.  Back home, then out again to take whole family, with folks, to lunch.  My order from Elann.com was waiting on the doorstep when we got home, horray! 

(pic to come, couldn’t gat a good one)

Kids helped hubby fix the bathroom sink. I helped too and broke a nail doing so, out the the nail salon to get it repaired and get a fill. This is the one really girley thing I do.  I have horrible nails, thin and brittle, so I started going last summer to get gels.  I love them, they ususally don’t break. 

While I was out I decided to drive down to Acorn Street in Seattle to pick up a 40″ circ for my shawl, but they didn’t have it.  I am currently working on a 29″ clover bamboo and I feel switching to an addi turbo at this time would be a baaaaaad idea, and they didn’t have any bamboo addis.  oh, well the 29″ is ok for now, I just think it might get to be too much in another couple of repeats.  While I was at Acorn Street I looked thru the books and patterns, came home with EAC’s Butterfly Shawl and EZ’s Knitters Almanac. 

After the kids were in bed, I spent the evening knitting while hubby and I watched Lost in Oblivion.  It is an amusing movie about the making of an indy film. We also watched some Battlestar Galacitca, good stuff.  Did I mention my wrist is starting to bother me, too much knitting I think, need to take some Tylenol.  I bet a lot of Olympic knitters are experiencing this, especially those of us who don’t usually knit like this.  Here’s hoping I don’t get Kwan-ed.

. . . in which we signed a lot of autographs.

Feb 17 - 1 repeat - 10 rows (105)(-25)
Feb 16 - 1 repeat - 10 rows knit 1/2, rip 6.5, knit 5 (95)(-25)
Feb 15 - 1 repeat - 10 rows  knit 3 (96)(-14)
Feb 14 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 11 (93) (-7)
Feb 13 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 9, rip 7, knit 2 (82) (-8)
Feb 12 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 15 rows (78)(-2)
Feb 11 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 37 rows (63)(+3)
Feb 10 - Opening Ceremonies - 40 rows - 26 rows (-14)

While watching some movies yesterday evening (Madagasgar with the kids) and last night (Fantastic 4) I was able to knit my 10 rows, while I have not caught up I seem to have stopped the free fall. 

Have I mentioned how much I love Netflix lately?  I love Netflix! It has all but stopped our purchase of movies, and saved us from some really bad ones we were sure we would like.

Yesterday morning after putting Daughter on the bus, Hubby and I went and signed the papers on our refinance.  Man, there is a lot to read and sign, and guess what, we get to do it again today.  There was an issue with the payment amount so some things have been reworked and we get to do it agan.  

Progress has not been good, here, at the Olympic Village Couch.

 Feb 16 - 1 repeat - 10 rows knit 1/2, rip 6.5, knit 5 (95)(-25)
Feb 15 - 1 repeat - 10 rows  knit 3 (96)(-14)
Feb 14 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 11 (93) (-7)
Feb 13 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 9, rip 7, knit 2 (82) (-8)
Feb 12 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 15 rows (78)(-2)
Feb 11 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 37 rows (63)(+3)
Feb 10 - Opening Ceremonies - 40 rows - 26 rows (-14)

The trend does not look promising, but in my defense there have been some troubling things going on behind the scenes.  Daughter’s trip to the ER, we are in the middle of refinancing out home and getting bids for some improvements (roof, gutters, windows), and Hubby has been working huge amounts of overtime.  So, I will continue to plod along and with the weekend comming up I will attempt to at least catch up.

I just realized I didn’t do my update for yesterday, so here it is.

 Feb 14 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 11 (-7)
Feb 13 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 9, rip 7, knit 10 knit 2 (-8)
Feb 12 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 15 rows (-2)
Feb 11 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 37 rows (+3)
Feb 10 - Opening Ceremonies - 40 rows - 26 rows (-14)

The first thing you may notice is that there was a change made to the knitting numbers for the 13th.  Well, I wrote the update after I had ripped the 7 rows, but before I had knitted the 10.  I planned on knitting the 10 rows, I really did. 

Now, if you go back and look at the time on that post you will see that is was just after midnight, what the heck was I thinking?  Ten rows of lace after midnight, I think not, at least not that night, I got thru two. 

Yesterday was the ‘Free Day’ for the Stashalong.  I did give in and buy yarn.  I have been wanting to start a sweater for myself, I had the pattern, but not the yarn.  Now the yarn is on order. 

Yesterday was also Valentine’s Day and I hope you all had a great day.  We woke up to snow here.  The kids spent quite a bit of time outside playing in the snow, until it melted off about noon.  School was delayed 2hrs and that meant there was no morning kindergarden, so I didn’t have to worry about her at school with the Holter, at 2pm we took it off and Daughter looked like she had been attacked by an octopus.  She was so funny I took off the leads but she wouldn’t let me take off the ’stickers’, she had to do that.  She just pulled them all off, if I had done it she would have hollered like I was killing her, she does it, not a peep.

Son wanted a sticker so I took one of the extras and put it on him, her was so proud of it and kept pulling up his shirt and saying, “See, see!”  What a silly boy.

. . . in which we are thankful we didn’t get cocky and think we didn’t need to put in lifelines.

 Feb 13 - 1 repeat - 10 rows - knit 9, rip 7, knit 10 (0)
Feb 12 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 15 rows (-2)
Feb 11 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 37 rows (+3)
Feb 10 - Opening Ceremonies - 40 rows - 26 rows (-14)

I kept daughter home from school today since we were out so late last night, and because I needed to get her into see the cardiologist and I really didn’t want to disrupt her class by pulling her out in the middle if I was able to get and appt.

I was able to get an appointment and things went, basically, the way I thought they would.  She had another ECG, she has been put on a Holter Monitor for 24hrs, and other than that we are going to take the wait and see approach.  She has been off her medication for almost 2 years and this is the first major episode she has had, neither of us feel it would be a good idea to put her back on the medication, at least at this time, the results of the Holter may change things.

Quite the fashion statement isn’t it.  There are 6 leads, hmm, might be more but I’m not going to wake her up to count, that go to a small recording device, about the size of a pager, that she wears in a small pouch on a belt.  The mesh shirt is to keep the wires from getting tangled or caught on something.  She will wear it until about 2pm tomorrow and when she was getting ready for bed tonight she asked me if the kids at school would laugh at her.  I told her no, I hope I wasn’t lieing, I think the kids will be more curious than anything.  I will take her to school in the morning so I can have a quick chat with her teacher. 

After dinner we sat down and made Valentines for her classmates, she was in heaven, doileys, glue, and stickers. What could be better.

. . . in which we go to the ER.

Things are not going according to plan, but are not as far off as they could be.

Feb 12 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 15 rows (-2)
Feb 11 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 37 rows (+3)
Feb 10 - Opening Ceremonies - 40 rows - 26 rows (-14)

Yesterday’s plan was to do family things during the day then knit in the evening after the kids and Hubby went to bed.  Hubby has to be at work at 4am on Mondays so he goes to bed shorly after the kids on Sunday nights.  Well, the day went according to plan; shopping at Costco, working the yard, watch the neighbor pull down a tree, dinner, bathe the kids & put them to bed, kiss Hubby goodnight and sit down to knit. 

10 minutes later . . .
“Mom, I have something to tell you.”
“Daughter, why are you out of bed?”
“No, really I have something to tell you. My heart is beating really really fast.”

Crap!  Yep, in the 190s.  Shit!  Call the ped, take her to the ER.  At least they weren’t really busy, and when you say things like SVT they move you right on back to a bed.  The SVT had resolved it’s self by the time we got there, but she had an ECG and they talked to one of the cardiologist at Children’s Hospital.  They let us go home with instructions to watch her and make an appt at the Heart Center today.  She goes in at 1pm.  Looks like the WPW didn’t go away like everyone thought.

I did take my knitting with me to the ER, but didn’t do any knitting, just read Horton Hears a Who to daughter.  I am convinced that if I hadn’t brought my knitting we would still be there, but since I was ready for the long haul you we got to go home.

After we got home I did actually do some knitting, nervous energy, but I finally had to head to bed at about 1am.  Just couldn’t keep my eyes open any more. 

I did manage to catch up and ever get a bit ahead after I put the kids to bed. 

Feb 11 - 2 repeats - 20 rows - 37 rows (+3)
Feb 10 - Opening Ceremonies - 40 rows - 26 rows (-14)

Knitted, watched some Veronica Mars (oh, btw, who was the guy singing Veronica in last weeks episode? it’s been bugging me all week), watched some Harry Potter: PoA, had a beer (Weinhard’s Blue Boar Pale Ale, my current favorite), ate some pretzels; not necessarily in that order.

I am finding that my knitting is getting faster; part of this is because I am now using the chart, also with the rows getting longer it is easier to get into the rhythm of the pattern without having to look back at the chart as often.  Right now my eyes are getting tired and it’s getting late so I’m calling it a day.