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Hello, February. I do not understand how you can blink, and thereby miss an entire month. What did I even do in January? Let’s see… I… worked? Got sick? Whined about working? Whined about getting sick?<\/p>\n

Yeah, that about sums it up.<\/p>\n

The other day\u00a0I got an email from my webhosting company that I had been billed for the next two years. And I was like, wait, what? I’ve had my website for 2 years and I STILL haven’t put it up? And also that was $190 I wasn’t mentally prepared to pay quite yet? Aaaaah.<\/p>\n

SO ANYWAY<\/p>\n

I am randomly updating the blog so as to GET MY MONEY’S WORTH, holy moly.<\/p>\n

Sunday\u00a0I finished my Gathered Pullover that I mentioned in my previous post. It is awesome and fits great. I blocked it this week and since it’s been raining it took forever to dry, even though I put the fan on it to help. So: pictures of that soon!<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the year I hit the 50% all the buttons at JoAnn’s sale, and I scored a bunch of buttons, and these are my favorites:<\/p>\n

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Extremely patriotic, heh. They might be for another Liesl. I haven’t really decided what I am going to do with my Ultra Alpaca that I got at Christmas. I might just do a short sleeved pullover though. I am feeling a strange urge to knit nothing but sweaters! I have to roll with this desire while it lasts because dudes, it has never happened before, and I do expect to go crazy with socks again. Buuut, not right now. :\/<\/p>\n

Here’s what I’m working on now:<\/p>\n

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Vaila from Twist Collective<\/a>, in Berroco Vintage (blueberry colorway, I think), which I like a lot so far. We’ll see about how it holds up. It’s like 40% wool, 50% acrylic and 10% nylon. It seems like it will be a good hard wearing easy-care blend. I hope so. I like Wool-Ease, and this is a lot softer than that and comes in a lot of great colors. I’m actually about halfway down the body with six motifs completed. I want there to be at least eight before I start the ribbing, and there might be nine depending on how long the eight measure out to be. There will be about 4 inches of ribbing at the bottom, so I have to take that into account. Incidentally, the sweater is supposed to be knit from the bottom up, but I don’t like that way so I am knitting it top down with no turtleneck. I want this sweater to be finished before Stitches West. At least I already finished the Gathered Pullover.<\/p>\n

It is now three months till I leave for the Chicago\/Milwaukee trip. I am getting excited! It will be here before we know it! I think it’s pretty amazing that my grandparents will have been married for 65 years and also amazing that we are all heading out to the Milwaukee area to celebrate it. I think almost all the family is going to be there for it. (It helps that several of my cousins live out in the Midwest these days.)<\/p>\n

(Incidentally, it is also exactly 5 months till I turn 30. Not that I am counting or anything. *ahem*)<\/p>\n

Well, I think that is pretty much IT on this end. I have been really poor this week due to even more teeth appointments (phooey on braces and genetics, etc.!) and so I have literally been to two places besides work this week: the Lafayette Reservoir, which I have a yearly pre-paid card for, and Jason’s house, where I ate\/mooched dinner. My aunt actually brought over the dinner and she made a delicious stew. This week I must be needing protein because I have just been CRAVING the delicious flesh of beasts. I ate an entire rotisserie chicken. And the stew meat was soooo goooood (like pot roast, but more stew-ish if that makes sense.)<\/p>\n

I am sleepy, the end.<\/p>\n