{"id":85,"date":"2008-10-14T16:22:22","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T23:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/?p=85"},"modified":"2010-06-24T15:20:18","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T22:20:18","slug":"what-goes-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/melissaruth.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/what-goes-around\/","title":{"rendered":"What Goes Around"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, that anticlimactic sound you hear is me paying off my credit cards.<\/p>\n

Two years and $9000 later, I am free of credit card debt! Woo hoo! Honestly, I am not even sure what I bought, other than some furniture for the apartment, which amounted to about $1000. What I bought with the rest? Anybody’s guess.<\/p>\n

I definitely learned my lesson, too. Never buy what you can’t afford to pay back. Don’t live outside your means. Just because you want it, doesn’t mean you need it.<\/p>\n

And so on and so forth.<\/p>\n

I’m knitting on socks:<\/p>\n

\"Lizzy<\/a><\/p>\n

These are Lizzy socks by Stephanie van der Linden (rav link<\/a>). I am knitting them out of Socks That Rock lightweight in the Sapphire colorway. Even though STR is not my favorite yarn as it felts\/fuzzes up like a mofo, it certainly comes in awesome colors, and I had this in my stash, already wound and ready to go. The second sock is actually a lot farther along – I’ve turned the heel and have completed the first motif on the instep.<\/p>\n

The next socks in the queue will be for my sister.\u00a0 She finished my quilt that she’s been working on for 1.5 years, and I owe her! She decided on her own to make me the quilt when I said, jokingly, that I would love a handmade quilt in “all the colors of the ocean” and the next thing I knew, she had bought fabric and was going at it gangbusters. I didn’t think that was extremely fair for me to get a free, awesome quilt, so I said I’d make her some socks\/small items in exchange. She wants some leaf socks, so I’ll make her a pair of those, and I also want to make her some fun fair isle mittens.<\/p>\n