Oops

So my first resolution is shot to you know what... The problem with posting everyday is that my notebook isn´t with me right now. I lent it to my mom, who is in rehab after a bad knee injury. Since she´s self-employed and needs it more than I do, it was the right decision. So now I have to use her computer in her office which really isn´t that far away, but still it´s more work than just blogging from wherever I feel like it!
She´ll be back in three weeks and on Sunday the man and I are going to Ireland for ten days so it´s actually not that long.

Went to the gym yesterday and it felt good. The Points counting is going very well, too. It´s pretty easy and I think this is the only way I´m ever going to lose weight because I can eat what I want, when I want it. All I have to do is count and make my portions smaller. But I´m not hungry, which just shows me that I have been eating too much. OK, I know, tell me something I didn´t know...

Guess what? I got myself a new tellie for my office. I know you´re thinking: What? For the office??? Well this room is actually everything. Office, second living room and fiber room. When the man and I moved in together we had 3 TVs, 2 stereos and 2 couches (among other things). So I put my stereo, couch and TV in the office. It´s for when either me or the man needs some peace and quiet, but don´t want to go to bed. The old TV in this room was 20 years old and had no remote and I used it solely for watching DVDs. Well the sockets where you connect the DVD-Player? Right, broken.
So this is my new baby:


It´s a Sony Bravia. Me likey!! Sorry, I´ve been watching too much Sex and the City!

The Mandarin collar cardie is finished except for the collar. Will finish it today, because we´re going to see the little guy it´s for!



My Starsky is coming along. I´ve got 3 pattern repeats on the back done. And I need 12... This will be my Ireland project. I´m also taking my Sockus Studiosus.
OK, gotta go so I can be there when the gym opens!

I hate parties...

Well, not all parties but definitely teen parties that are held right above my bedroom windows on a sunday night.
I´m just glad I didn´t HAVE to get up this morning as my man did. Haven´t talked to him yet, but I bet his day at work is going to be hell!

Today is my brothers 17th birthday and the party yesterday seemed to have been a blast. I dumped my schedule today and slept in since I fell asleep at about 4 a.m., I think.

No gym for me today but I´m going to get started on my studying as soon as I finish this post.

I lost my first pound over the weekend and I´m hoping lots more will follow. I´ve adjusted pretty well to the WW points system and with going to the gym at least 4 times a week I think the first 15-20 lbs. should be quite easy.

Knitting? Yeah, done that:


This is the Mandarin Collar Cardigan for a friend´s baby boy born on July 22nd. Originally I was knitting him a blanket out of mitre squares but somewhere along the way I lost the love and once I found this cute pattern I never turned back!! I need to graft the two pieces together at the back, knit the collar and the border and I´m done and once the mama and baby come home, we´ll go see them!

Ok, gotta go study....

Damn it!

I had a nice post about my day yesterday and how I´m off to the gym (which I really should be) and about sewing and and and...


Well, Blogger ate it!
I´ll try and get it together again tomorrow!

Here is some Eye Candy instead:

Wow

This is my first day of about 9 weeks off work. I start my new job October 1st and had my last day at the old one yesterday. It was very weird to be cleaning out my desk and saying goodbye to everyone. My co-workers from my department even gave me a farewell gift: a Samsonite trolley and matching carry-on bag, since they knew, that in the job I will be traveling about 4 days a week! I was totally overwhelmed.


So now I´m home with a whole lotta stuff to do. I have to take 3 exams in September, so there will be tons of studying at Casa de Ribb-it! There will definitely be knitting and possibly sewing since that bug has rebitten me a couple of days ago. I desperately want to take up spinning and weaving, but I´m making myself wait... I promised myself, if I stick to my schedule of studying and getting things done around the house, I would be allowed to buy a weaving loom (thinking of an Ashford rigid heddle loom) in September. The spinning wheel will have to wait until I´m done with my economics diploma (which will be March 2009, if all goes as planned).

I really want to get blogging into my routine from now on, so I hereby resolve to blog every day until the end of September with the exception of August 3rd to August 14th, as we will be driving and wandering around Ireland during that time! Another resolution: no stash enhancement until I get to Ireland. There I will possibly fall for some wool, we´ll see!

On to my knitting:









This is my Interlocking cables or to be more precise, a sleeve and the body on stitch holders until the second sleeve is done so I can join it all and knit the huge collar. The second sleeve is cast on, but on the wrong size needle. This is just sitting on the couch in my office/fiber room waiting for attention but I´ve got other sirens calling louder...






This is Starsky or better two fronts and to sleeves plus a little tiny bit of the back. I also started the belt which is so boring that I can only work on it about ten minutes at a time... here´s a close up of the banana leaf pattern:










The yarn is Mmmmmalabrigo in frost grey bought here (excellent service and very nice: the owner sent me 8 skeins for the price of seven because he said each skein weighs a little less than 100gr.) I really like the yarn it´s soft but will probably pill like hell, but so far, it´s lookin´ good!



For the sensitive, please look away because here I show you the gory details of a fiber related accident I had at Blue Moon Fiber Arts:






These are (in order of appearance): Socks That Rock lightweight in the Knitters without Borders colorway, STR mediumweight in Chapman Springs, Firebird, Jade and Tanzanite (already half of this). I think I may have found my favourite sock yarn! I´m in love!!!

Oops, I´m late for my monthly allergies shot!

C ya tomorrow!