Life, Knitting and the Pursuit of Roller Coasters

I’ts been a crazy week around here. I came down with the nasty cold/sinus infection that’s been going around and that knocked me out for several days. I somehow still managed to attend my cousin’s wedding reception last weekend despite that fact that I looked like death warmed over. Then while still quite sick but grocery shopping with my parents, I stumbled upon 3 Wii Fits on a shelf and quickly snatched up two of them (one went in the mail to my brother and his wife who have also been on the look out). Now that I’m feeling better, I’ve been playing with it quite a bit and enjoying the forced activity.

And then at work on Tuesday they held a raffle and I came home with another new toy…

It’s  a Panasonic  Toughbook CF-19 tablet PC. Still not sure what all I’m going to use it for, but it’ll be nice to have a working personal laptop again.

I’ve been working on a bunch of knitting projects, I’ve had a bit of a fit of startitis and I’ll have a few more projects to show off soon, but for right now I have a sneak peek at another stranded mitten pattern I’ve been working on.

Mom wanted monkeys and the purple is a dead on match to her winter coat. There will be a hat to match as well. If anyone is game to test knit one or both patterns before November, leave a comment and let me know.