I was wrong

[susandennis]

kjaz called this one perfectly even when I told him he was wrong. I just ordered 2 more afghans worth of yarn from my favorite yarn place. I was doing fine. I was resisting. I was going to make it and then... they sent an email that my favorite yarn was nearly half off. Now how stupid would it have been to blow off free shipping and sale yarn???? So now I have yarn to keep me working on afghans through about May of 2004. Geesh.

I started a new one this week. It's a pattern that I have made a million times. When I was just out of college and all my friends were getting married, they each got one - ivory yarn. It's been fun, over the years, to visit them all over the country and see my afghans still doing hard work.

So somehow this particular pattern has become, in my mind, a weddng afghan and the one I'm knitting now is for my friend, Scott and his bride who are getting married in April. I don't know her at all. But, even though they are in their 40s, this is the first marriage for both and I think probably wedding presents will be kind of a big deal for them. Since they live in New Zealand and I don't want to pay to air freight this baby so I need to get it into the 'slow boat' mail by at least the end of the year. I will have it done well before then.

And in other news...

Mom is now back online. When I hadn't heard from her and still could ping her, I finally called. She said 'well, I sent you a note saying that I thought it was a Comcast problem.' I almost couldn't tell she was kidding until she started giggling. We recycled the modem and rebooted and all was again right with the world. I'm always so grateful when she gets back on line and she's always so sanguine. "But you can always fix it."

And while we were waiting for the thing to come back on line she said that for the past week all she has heard from everyone is how well she looks. "I'm beginning to think that I truely must have looked like shit for months!"

Comments

[1forward2back.livejournal.com]

What a lady!

You gave out some info on ad aware awhile back that I downloaded but w/my new computer I can't seem to get to the correct website and I get warnings about downloading it. You who know all about 'puters, please advice. Thx

[susandennis]

You should be able to download it from here:

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/support/download/

[victory-rose.livejournal.com]

I love hearing about your mom. :-)

I've never knitted an afghan, but lately I've been getting the knitting/crochetting urge - I need sweaters and vests. I really should start hunting for yarn - in fact I've just ordered a yarn catalogue and I'll see what comes of that.