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Been out of town due to a death in the family.  But I have so much to post so I'll have to get it together soon before I forget everything.

New Hat for the Head

There's a whole lotta family stuff going on right now. Won't bore (or depress) you with the details but between that and work which has been crazy busy the last couple of weeks, I've not had a whole lotta free time.

Haven't even done any knitting for about 2 weeks (egads!) 

I did finish a hat and I'm wearing it just about every weekend.

Trying to get a good picture of  yourself in a hat is difficult.  This one is blurry, but at least my head is in the frame.

I forgot what yarn this is.  I underestimated yardage and ran out and then couldn't find more so I topped it out with some Lamb's Pride I had. I think it looks nice in a your-target's-right-here kind of way.

Better shot of the colors and the "target".  I just looked the yarn up on Ravelry - Berocco Foliage is the name.  Looks like crayons in a box, doesn't it?

I started off with a pattern my friend Anna sent me from the LA Times style section that featured A Mano Yarn Center. I realized shortly after casting on that the hat was going to be not slouchy enough for me, so I made some modifications I can't remember now for the life of me.  I supposed I should look into that since I will very soon need a summer version of this chapeau.

Surplus

Things need to simmer down 'round here.

Crazy weekend that I won't bore you with all the details.  Suffice it to say, I worked late on Friday and worked Saturday.  I'm still tired.  Good thing is that pedometer was click-clack-clicking with all the running around I did.

Today I helped Lori move into her new store that is about 50 feet from the old one.  It's a nice little house with a front porch and backyard where we anticipate sipping a bit of wine and frogging a lot of knitting this summer.  I should have taken pictures, but I was much too busy.  You know, you think there can never be such a thing as too much yarn until you have to pack and move it.  Luckily plenty of people turned up to help out.

I hope I'm making sense.  I'm so tired that every word takes 2 or 3 tries to get it typed correctly.  Probably a sign I should turn in for the night, no?

Another reason for the exhaustion is that my friend Johanna called me last night to see if I wanted some of her now-too-large clothes.  I was on it like an Olsen twin on a Starbucks no foam half caf skinny soy latte, I tell ya.  She told me 2.5 bags.  Well, it's the big, garden size Hefty bags she was talking about. Plus two bags of shoes.  All of it barely worn.  My closet overfloweth. It's sooo much! I'm absolutely overwhelmed with the trying on and the hanging up.

I'm looking forward to a restful weekend at work....

Order Restored

I spent the day in court.  Aside from calling my friend Cathy and telling her that I needed to pay $500 in cash by 5pm or I had to spend the night in the pokey (April Fools!) the day sucked.  I am bone-dry poor.  No yarn yumminess for me for....a decade?  At least.

As I was sitting in the "waiting room" with the other delinquents, I had a fit of the snobbies.  As my fellow law-breakers were discussing their dui arrests, first and second strikes and prison tattoos, I kept thinking to myself, "I don't belong here!  I'm not one of you! I'm not a lawbreaker!  I'm just forgetful and not that bright!"  Luckily I was among the first called.

Well, maybe next year I won't be so stupid. 

Thanks to Wendy and Nick for the reassurance!  I've straightened up and will be flying right from now on!