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Yesterday and today I’ve been feeling a bit under the weather. No one particular symptom stands out, it’s not a cold and not the flu. It’s like something wants to attack and my body keeps saying, “No way are you winning sickness.” I’m just taking it easy and trying to keep my stress level as low as possible at work to keep whatever is trying to attack at bay.
This weekend was a busy one for us. Friday evening we had a co-worker of mine and her husband over for dinner. We made pizza and garlic bread with our own crush and fresh baked bread and they brought salad and an amazing apple tart, which I want the recipe for. All last week we made an extra effort to get our place in order. So far our apartment is holding up quite nicely. We had so much stuff that just needed to be dealt with and we weren’t taking the time to do anything about it until last week. It’s amazing what you can get done when you give yourself a few tasks a day and devote no more than an hour and a half a day to getting your place in order. We’re trying to stay on top of things from now on. With all of the cleaning, I still managed to get a lot of knitting done and finished plying the candy pink yarn. Saturday, we went over to one of Bryan’s classmate’s houses for a night of board games.
All of my knitting in the last week was on Bryan’s Cider House Rules vest. I love the yarn I’m knitting the vest with and for some unknown reason I’ve decided that I’m determined to finish it by Christmas. I was expecting it to take me a year to finish this vest but I’m more than 3/4 finished in just one month’s time. As soon as I finished the back the other day, I grafted the shoulders together. I figure it will make the neckband fit nicer. The part of this vest that I love the most is the hem, it gives the vest such a lovely finished look. I know what will take me the longest to do is not the knitting of the major three pieces but the knitted and sewn on edging around the buttonband/neck and armholes.
We’re heading to Kansas for Thanksgiving. For those of you in the U.S. have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Those in the rest of the world, have a great week and a lovely weekend.
megan said,
November 22, 2006 @ 2:29 pm
happy thanksgiving, e!
Erin said,
November 26, 2006 @ 5:47 am
Happy Thanksgiving to you! Bryan’s vest is turning out nicely. Don’t stress yourself out if you can’t finish it by Christmas. I don’t know why we put these deadlines on ourselves when it should just be fun to knit these things.