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Well I’ve been busy knitting socks, even though my personal life (funerals, babysitting grandchildren and my granddog, Easter, and my continued dialog with AETNA trying to get reinstated with health insurance) have been intruding.  I made a twin set of the MaryJane Socks as shown in the May issue of Creative knitting.  Aren’t they cute????

I have been lost in Ravelry again and someone in my “A Year In Socks” group wrote about a sock book, “2-at-a-Time Socks” which I immediately went to Amazon and bought.  Amazon was nice enough to suggest that I also buy “Knitting in Circles Around Socks” which I also bought.

I increased my sock non-stash items and have cast on the “Nutkin” sock (a free pattern from Knitzi). 

It was suggested in the sock group that we try knitting two socks at a time from each end of the skein.  So far, I’m tangle free, but it’s a struggle.

 I feel so organized with my Rivalry!  I just have to get my stash listed.

 I’ve applied for a couple of jobs (the insurance issue), sadly.  Sadly because it’s now golf season and I was hoping to join an 18 hole group that plays at Blue Fox Ridge and become a memeber of SNUGA.  The best laid plans of mice and men . . .

 Until later . . .

I read in the paper today that Dick Cheney is in Iraq in furtive meetings for how the war will end.  This meeting will not be binding through the USA because it hasn’t gone through the senate.  That said, I must rant and say what a sneaky SOB he is. 

IMHO, I think that he did so much “work” for the RCN that they “owed him”.  Mr. Cheney, IMHO, is a person of such character that he was probably deemed “unelectable”.  So to fulfill the promise, the RNC made him Bush’s vice president so he could rule from behind the scenes.  Now tell me what business does he have making deals unofficially on behalf of the USA?

On the knitting scene over the weekend, I was going to continue gung-ho on my sock industry but when I cast on with the painted sheep stash I thought it was too pretty for socks and would make a better sweater.  So I started a generic child’s sweater, altering the pattern so I could knit in the round until the armholes.  Then when I went to pick up stitches for the arms the pattern changed, and not for the good. 

So I cast on 54 stitches and am knitting them length-wise.  I don’t know it this will work but its fun trying (and remembering to write down what I’m doing so I can do it on the other side).  I couldn’t figure out how make ribbing on the cuffs this way so I just knit the cuffs with a garter stitch for the first ten stitches on one end.  On the other end I increased 1 stitch.  We’ll see how it goes.  Or maybe I’ll buy some primary color wool and do the arms in a solid color. 

Note:  Tuesday I hit Sit N Knit Too and Judy helped me find a Crayola blue for the sleeves.  .

I also made a baby hat with my 1824 Mission Falls Wool Lavender stash yarn.  It’s from the One Skein book by Leigh Radford.    I’m making a white one with the other skein of stash yarn.  My daughter’s friend had twins in November so I thought I’d give them to her to send on.

  Those hats completed, I think the baby had should match the booties and I’ll make a couple out of the new Dreambaby.  I think the booties will count as “socks” for my Year In Socks Group, don’t you?

It’s fun sorting through the stash.  That’s my on-the-back-burner project to get my stash organized and on Ravelry.

I grabbed a ball of the Wool-ease Autumn print to knit up another pair of socks last night while watching DVR’d stuff I saved.  There was not a lot of stuff there as I don’t record *reruns* and there was a writers strike. 

We have 4 more discs left to play of the Steven King audio book Duma Key.  Paint me wanting more.  I can’t listen alone, so I have to wait for hubby to sit with me as we’ve both invested all that time listening together.  I can think of some things I’d like to paint.  I suppose you have to be careful of what you might paint as one event causes a ripple effect.  If I paint Aetna out of the picture, then my son-in-law will be out of a job and a lot of people will be insurance-less like me.  If I paint my webkinz pet, Chico, as a real dog then I’d have to take him out to p and poo.  If I painted my passbook with a lot of extra zeros before the decimal point, then the IRS would invistigate me.  I guess I’ll just let HIM do what he has in mind.  I wonder if I should paint new grandchildren?

I’ve done mail, made a bank deposit, and all the stuff in the folder maked ‘needs attention’ from the mail that met me on return from florida.  Now it’s called filing.  I can’t win, the paper never seems to go away. 

Did you see the plane that tried to land during the head wins in Germany?  Here is a video of it on Stationstops.