Blood, Sweat and Tears

What a day, and it's only half over! I've been working on Simon's little hoodie and I have done nothing but frog, frog, and frog! All that's left to do is the finishing. But everytime I seam parts of the sweater together, it looks like crap and I have to frog it! I'm never following knitting instructions again. I have the shoulders seamed together but they look terrible, so I am going to re-do them and use the three needle bind off technique. I am going to undo the bound off stitches on the hood and put them back on needles, and then seam the hood using the Kitchener stitch. Darn! I should have finished it that way to begin with. I don't know why I've had so much trouble with this cute little sweater.

But then everything has gone wrong today that I have touched. I was on the treadmill walking at a good clip, heart rate at 141, and a shoe lace came untied. Then I got going again with the heart rate back up into the high 140's, and the batteries went dead in the cassette player as I was listening to a book on tape. It was the workout from hell.

I had to take a breather from Simon's hoodie, so I worked on a bag that I'm going to felt. I thought easy-peasy, but NO, I had to spill my glass of lemonade on it.

I attribute my bad day to my underwear being on inside-out. Yep, right before I wrote this post I went to the bathroom and noticed my underwear is on inside-out. So whoever sorted and put away the laundry did a terrible job - by the way, that was me.

On a good note, the camera was found in DH's rolltop desk. Hmmm.... I thought he flat out denied having anything to do with the missing camera. Also, he told me he had checked his desk and it wasn't there. That's okay, paybacks are hell! He has no idea what's in store for him in a couple of weeks!

I promise....

I promise the next post will have knitting content (I'm still looking for the fricken camera).

After reading Liz's blog entry of August 29th, I decided I needed to do something too.

I'm starting the Liz diet. Yep, gonna lose some honkin' fat! I've already started a walking program (and I don't mean walking to the refrigerator either). I'm talking serious walking! I currently walk four times a week for 30 minutes on my treadmill, keeping my heart rate at 60% of it's maximum capacity (I know that sounds like greek shit) and I go to Syracuse University once a week so they know whether or not I'm keeping my commitment. Yep, I'm specimen #116 in a medical study regarding the effects of walking on the autonomic system (more greek shit). So if you've felt the earth move under your feet (love Carol King), then you know when I'm walking!

So the Liz diet sounds like something I could live with. Beer is on the menu but only on hump days and weekends, and martinis are fair game. No more raspberry coladas; I'll just be drinking Cosmopolitans. Although she joined a gym, I refuse to. I have so much money invested in treadmills, gazelle-thingy, total gym set, free weights, etc.... that I don't want to pay more bucks to see skinny girls with perky tits. I hope I don't offend any thin girls out there, I'm just jealous of you guys. I'd take your skinny ass any day.

All joking aside, it is time to take action. I've been on a Cheez It binge lately, and I'm going to stop that. I am going to eat a nutritional breakfast every day and drink lots of H2O as setforth in Liz's diet plan. Any other tips, Liz, bloggers? Anyone want to join me on this adventure? Believe me, it will be an adventure! I'll be putting the padlock on the refrigerator any minute now.

Oh Where, Oh Where .....

Geez, I've been looking for the digital camera for over two weeks now, and no one knows where it is, or no one will own up to removing it from my sacred computer desk and misplacing it. I asked Scott before he left for college, and he said he had been looking for it too. DH flat out denied having anything to do with the missing camera.

The last time I took a picture for the blog was August 9th. So where is the camera? One can only assume that the Oddball IT and Technical Support Division is giving my DH lessons on hiding things. This will definitely cost DH in yarn dollars. Susan are you up for serious S.E.X.?