Tonight was the first home basketball game, so I took my knitting. (I took it to the away game last week too, but after working and then driving 1.5 hours on the beltway in rush hour, I was too exhausted to knit.) I didn't have anything good (meaning...

Sorry, I didn't mean to keep you in suspense.... It literally took me a couple more hours to take the sweater out of the washer to find... not much difference. I laid it on the bed under the fan to dry, and then remember that machine that sits next...

If I don't get the sweater out of the washer, I can't do another load. But, it's scary. Maybe I'll just shut down my productive day and go knit in the corner. It'll still be there tomorrow.

It's a wonderful thing: I have a day off today. I'm not going anywhere, not even the grocery store. (Hey, we have milk and bread and coffee and chocolate. What else do we need?) I do have to go out twice to pick up the kids, but I'm not going anywhere...

Last night I attempted some Christmas shopping. I added 8 items to my cart, one for each person on my list. Then I got to the shipping. The cheapest was $15, which was 3/5 of my order's cost so I said forget it and deleted the whole thing. Tonight I...