Life, Knitting and the Pursuit of Roller Coasters

I’m feeling scatterbrained and fragmented again, so I’m just going to let this post wander with that. I had a bit of a pre-birthday shopping spree on Monday and placed orders with both Woolgirl and The Loopy Ewe. I am one order away from being a loopy groupie, and I’ve placed that order this weekend so I can get into the “club” as a little added birthday treat.

Oh yeah, my birthday. It’s one of those obnoxious milestones this year. I’ll be 30 on Monday. I thought I’d be ok with it, the passing of time, the leaving my 20’s behind. And for the most part I had been ok with it until about a week ago. For some reason the realization just decided to wander up and smack me upside the head and say irrational things like “Hey, you need to get some of this childishness out of your system before you hit that actual adult age next week”. I know I can still be kiddish after I turn 30, and I certainly don’t intend to become a morning person or anything responsibly harsh like that. But, I’ve just sort of been unsettled by urges of irresponsibility and haven’t come up with any good ways to channel that energy.

So, that energy is kinda scattered too. And scattered energy has lead to an interesting week. I gave my hairstylist free-reign on Wednesday, so I’m a little more red than usual (although I still think she could have gone with even more red and I’d have loved it too, but if we keep with the heavy lowlights, it’ll eventually become my base color anyway) and we brought the length up several inches to my chin. I’ve also made a few purchases in addition to the yarn above, I took a little trip up to Threadbear this afternoon for some additional yarny retail therapy and I ordered a new PC last week to replace my dead desktop. Lots of goodies to spoil myself with.

More random stuff… I had someone contact me out of the blue last weekend who knit my dishcloth pattern! That made me all giddy and warm and fuzzy and stuff. Go check it out, I like how hers came out and how she played with the crocheted edging. I understand why people share patterns now. It’s so much fun to see them grow and cultivate in other people’s hands.

In the last few nights, partly because of the scattered brain, I had a fit of startitis. In the orders I placed early in the week, I bought more sock needles, and cast on for another pair of Jaywalkers in Apple Laine Carnival. So soft and knitting up beautifully. These will become my traveling socks once the purple stockinette socks are finished.

In addition, that defiant rainbowy Puyallup-inspired yarn I’ve been fighting with for at least a year finally told me what it wanted to be. Apparently it’s happy now in Monkey form as it’s doing the thin stripey good thing again like it did the first time when I tried the too-tight jaywalkers with it. I suppose it’s a testament to letting the yarn talk to you and tell you what it wants to be. Either that or Monkey is simply such a great pattern that it tames even the most disobedient handpainted yarns into submission. It doesn’t really matter how it works, I’m just happy that I finally made a sock match for the yarn. Plus I don’t know what it is with the Monkey pattern, they just knit up insanely fast. I cast this one on Thursday night and it’ll be done Sunday and ready for a mate no problem.

I finished a couple first socks this week too. The first pomotomous is done, and the first purple stockinette sock is done. Plus I was able to put in some extra knitting while my parents were here Tuesday night and during the hair appointment on Wednesday, so the second purple stockinette sock is on to the heel flap already. The Mad Weave sock and chevron scarf are still chugging along slowly too.

Aside from that, it’s really been pretty quiet around here. I’m still catching up on Bloglines from vacation, Ravelry is still sucking up my online time like crazy as now that all my projects are in there, I’m slowly working on documenting the stash and trying to figure out the best way to physically organize it as well as keep it all straight in the Ravelry world.