I joined a fitness program at work and our first day got us pedometers. We're supposed to get 10K steps a day. Twice a week a woman with negative body fat comes in to torture us with medieval exercises like squats and lunges. This pedometer owns me. Tonight is the first night I haven't hit my goal steps - I'm exhausted! Add to this the guilt factor of being in competition with another team of co-workers for a prize. I don't know if I've lost any weight, but I do know I'm too weak to get the brownie to my mouth.
Work has been busy. Apparently everything hits the fan in Winter quarter. I'm just feeling like I'm starting to get a handle on things. There's a lot of plates in the air again and that always makes me uncomfortable.
Also got the new Sims 2 expansion pack - Free Time. I was all excited because now they have hobbies like sewing and sports and gaming - heard scoop that knitting was one of the activities. Alas, I don't believe it is so. Or at least I haven't discovered it in my 30 minutes of play.
Somewhere along the line I managed to finish a pair of socks.
Kew in Plymouth Happy Feet Yarn. Easy pattern and a fun little knit. There's a huge mistake on one of the legs, but I can't find it. I dropped about six stitches and swore I picked them up correctly, but a few rows later and the pattern looked .... odd. Oh well. Still like em.
A couple of weeks ago I went to the farmer's market. Check out the fresh produce I got there:
Why didn't anyone tell me I could get YARN at the Farmer's Market! I'd have been there years ago! I love this silk sari yarn. I bought some on eBay a couple of years ago and every time you touch it it falls apart. This stuff is hardier stock. It was on sale for 8 bucks. I think I got a deal.
I love the purple-y pinks in here. At the booth where I bought this they had a really cute bucket hat knit up with it. I think that's what this will be - my funky bucket hat. Or a slouchy beret. Or a ....
That's a sinister pedometer. And women with negative body fat...well you know the saying about if you don't have anything nice to say. I bet we have way more yarn than she'll ever have!
Posted by: Michelle | 26 March 2008 at 07:46 AM
YARN! At a farmer's market? I'm move to S.D. :D
Well, if I could afford to I would. (how do you all do it down there?)
Posted by: Stacey | 26 March 2008 at 06:53 AM