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have i mentioned that i'm working on some secret projects?

Could Summer Be Here?

i'm really old, so it's been decades since i've had a summer off.  you know what i'm talking about.  days of no job, getting up whenever i want, reading books, hanging with friends, the beach. DECADES.  and yet, i'm still cranky about having to get up and go to work every day.  i mean, really.  if i can't have at least 1 month of loafing over the summer, then what is the point of having a summer?  do you hear what i'm saying? 

j and i do have a two week vacation planned for august -- we're going to visit the 'rents in france -- and i'm glad it's planned for august because at least i have something to look forward to, but still... 2 weeks?  WTF is that?  bah!  and then before you know it, it'll be christmas!

aren't you glad i blogged today?

heh.

i'm still busy working on secret projects.  if i weren't on a deadline, i'd be perfectly happy working on them.  but because i have a deadline, my ravelry queue is getting longer and longer because i keep adding things that i want to DO RIGHT THIS SECOND!!!  i want to do some embroidery for christ's sake!  i'm spinning again!

i spun this worsted (i think) and very thinly.  intentionally.  ha!  it wasn't just an accident.  the fiber is a mix of scraps from poppy flower fiber and it reminded me that i should really stop saving all of the good stuff for when i get better.  because dudes, i'm better when i spin the good stuff.  who knew?  i'd like to leave this as singles and make something simple with it.  i was thinking of making a Lavalette (it's free but kirsten asks that you make a donation to Alzheimer's and dementia research -- she's got a little button in her left hand sidebar so it's super easy) but i don't think i'll have enough.  before i decide, i'll have to see how balanced the whole mess is. 

that's all i've got for today.  happy friday.

Hi!

i have a work "to do" list, a home "to do" list and now a blog "to do" list.

1. award prizes to those who played along in my contest  almost 3 MONTHS AGO!
2. make my potholder pattern available (it's been tested.  now i just need to clean it up a bit).
3. post about the socks i finished a month ago.

let me at least get item 3 taken off of the list.  it's the least interesting of course, but it's all i can manage for now.  see, my day job has been kind of sucking the life out of me, so when i get home, i end doing crazy things like going to bed at 8:30.  or maybe it's just the incessant rain that we've been having that makes me want to cozy up in my bed with my cats and read a trashy novel (i'm on book 4 of the sookie stackhouse series.)

i've also been working on a secret project.  i would tell you about it except that then it wouldn't be a secret.  now would it.

so, enough with the blah blah.

i call these my troubadour socks because that's the name off the colorway.  i love these colors.  the yarn is sundara sock which i bought before sundara became super crazy famous and when she was still dyeing varigated yarns.  how i love varigated yarns like this. 

the pattern is my basic 2x2 rib pattern, top-down, heel-flapped.  i love the 2x2 rib.

i've raveled the details here.

have a good weekend everyone.  happy  and healthy july 4th.