Peeing on sticks!

I really regret cutting my bangs. My hair grows so slowly that I have to live with my regret for the next 6 months, until they get to a place where they are tolerable or can be pinned off to the side.

-In Knitting:
I've made good progress on Harvest. I suppose it's easy to do when one knits somewhat monogamously. I've got the sleeves on waste yarn and I will NOT knit them before the body on this cardigan. I've certainly learned my lesson.

I'm knitting the sweater with Julie Asselin Sevilla (a worsted weight merino) in the colour Azul. I can't get over the colour of this yarn, it's so rich and beautiful. Can a sweater be your favourite before it's even been finished??  Maybe i'll change my mind after I'm done knitting the cardy, but I already want to make it in different colours and different yarns (still dreaming about a sweater in Arco Iris).
Could I possibly be setting myself up for disappointment here? What if the cardigan looks awful when it's finished? Ack!


-Have not yet started Age of Brass and Steam, but I love petting, and fondling the yarn.

Manos silk blend is absolutely lovely to the touch, I've draped a skein over my shoulders and just walked around the house with it. I think that knitting a simple pattern is a better idea with this wool because it's a single ply and I suspect it may be difficult to tink and frog.
I caked up a skein so I could have it ready for knitting if I needed a break from Harvest, and due to some of the comments from the yarn page on Rav, I was expecting difficulties, but it went very smoothly, hopefully my other two skeins go as well.


-Scowl is coming along nicely.

Perfect travel knitting, just going to keep it going until I run out of yarn.  I'm three quarters of the way there, at 24 inches in length and the ball of Charivari is shrinking rapidly (there's been quite a bit of travel knitting lately) I think the scowl is a perfect sock stash buster, being knit on big needles, barely have to pay attention to it, just knit until no more yarn-perfect! Maybe a few solid colour scowls might be in order somewhere down the line. I wonder if my daughters would wear a scowl should there ever be gifted scowls in the future.

-Have not worked on Smash. At all. Don't care.

-My greenfield cardy grew in length but not width.  I love it! The sleeves are a tad long, but since I have long arms and cold hands, it works! I am pretty happy with my cardy (though of course I can point out every single flaw), and I've been wearing it a ton. I've gotten quite a few compliments on it already.  Also, one of the women who works at  the lys asked me if I knit my sweater and then congratulated me. I think that means she liked it? I've not noticed her being particularly effusive with other peoples knits, so I'm going to take it as a compliment

Mah knitta had a birthday last week, and with all that was going on I didn't get a chance to see her until this week. For her birthday, I gave her some T-pins for blocking, a copy of Stash Bot by Hannah Fettig (I love my copy-but I really should remember to keep it in my bag at all times) and I made her a t-shirt:

Which is pretty awesome if I say so myself!

In random yarn:
The mother of one of B's classmates gave me a couple skeins of yarn.

Actually I don't know if they can be called skeins because they are on spools. There is no information on the wool, and they seem pretty old so I'm keeping the whole lot quarantined from mah squishies, just in case (buggies of the wool eating variety) The wool seems pretty scratchy so I'm guessing it's Peruvian Highland, or something similarly rustic. The colours are interesting,  I do like an earthy palette. I think they are all worsted weight.  I'll have to swatch at some point, see the resulting fabric and see if it softens with a wash.  I hope it softens, otherwise I'll be making lots of slippers.


In health:

My cat Libby has a UTI (again) I also have a UTI (again). We're both on meds (different meds tho')
Coincidentally,I discovered that a local dollarama sells dipstick UTI kits.

How random and wacky and wonderful! So, of course I bought a box (there's 2 tests per box in case that isn't clear) and while I already pretty much knew I had a UTI (peeing blood is a vry good indication) it was fun to pee on a stick and get confirmation. Now if only it was legal to buy UTI meds over the counter, life would be so much easier! Luckily for me the last time I had a UTI, my Dr wrote me a prescription with two refills, so the next time I had that stabby pee pain I wouldn't have to go to the clinic, possibly picking up alllll kinds of flu germies and I could just go to my pharmacist and get them to fill the prescription.
I love peeing on sticks! While trying to get pregnant with B, I found a website that sold cheap pregnancy tests. I ordered 30$ worth of these pregnancy tests. I would take them just for fun, hand them out to friends, take them even after I had gotten pregnant and passed the first trimester.  During my pregnancies with both boys, when I was being followed by the midwives at the Maison de Naissance, I got to check my urine at every appointment.  The bathroom was quite large and you were to go in and weigh yourself, then take a plastic dipstick from the jar, test your urine and compare your dipstick to the chart on the jar and report back to your midwife.

It was the highlight of the appointments! (well, after hearing the heartbeat of course). It all felt very science-y, which I love. I sometimes think that if I was better at math I could totally be a science-y type person. But I'm crap at math-so I'll just pee on sticks.