mugs

I am beginning to realize that I actually might just be a bit of a bad blogger. Oops.

In other news, I am slightly very bored at work today. I've officially started my full contract position and almost officially over my cold if I could ever get this phlegm to leave my body.

I've learned that my favourite mugs at work are the collection we seem to have of ones with faces on them with noses that stick out and make wonderful finger rests and pseudo-handle grips. The one I am rocking today is the sick one that has a thermometer sticking out of it's mouth. I would have used it earlier this week and last week but I only discovered it today in the back of the cabinet.

I've also mastered stranding knitting in the last little while. Okay, maybe mastered is a little too strong a word. However, saying that I have gotten good enough at it to make people ooh and aah and not notice the little occasional puckers from still learning how to balance out floats across double-pointed needles is definitely true.

Yes, I made that. Unfortunately after reading multiple comments on ravelry about how the mittens are mostly too long for people in the fingers, and worrying about what I was going to do to make them fit my slightly un-naturally small hands, I ended up misreading/assuming I knew how the pattern went from the thumb up and forgot a repeat of the pattern which made the mittens a tad bit too small. Which is why I'm blocking them, which will hopefully stretch them enough to allow my fingers at least to be able to wiggle straightened rather than curved at a 45 degree angle.

Otherwise I am set for a good old Canadian winter. Well, at least my hands will be.

[note: mittens are made from the Tiffany pattern on Knitty.]

life of a graduate.

My life has become exceedingly boring, busy and stressful all at the same time.

Has anyone ever seen the movie The Graduate? No, neither have I which is why I'm downloading it.

Anyways.

Between job searching and redecorating my room in my parent's house [a task that is actually slightly tedious when it comes to the repainting and taking down wallpaper part. I wish it was all just new bed sheets, curtains and candle holders] I have been trying to fill in the time I have with little things [mostly granny-like things such as crocheting and knitting], reading [Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None was the first book to ever frighten me so much I didn't want to roll over on the couch because I didn't want my back exposed to creeping murderers], and watching old movies [and, slightly shamefully, What Not to Wear and Say Yes to the Dress].

It is tough work being a graduate.

However, the good thing is that I found my camera I thought was lost forever and ever [it was in a overnight bag that had been under my bed. Go figure].

Another good thing is I learned I can knit a slipper in a couple hours. Go me!