Settling In...

I went to knit nite last night at Borealis, and had a great time. I made some nice progress on the FIL scarf, which is a +1 toward my ability to successfully knit while listening to/participating in conversations with groups of people. I'll get a photo of it in the next couple of days to show its progress.

I'm hopeful that the FIL scarf will move quickly, so that I can move on to the next project. I'm not sure what that next project will be. I'd like to use up some of the yarn in my stash, which likely means another scarf, probably with my lovely Malabrigo. I'd like to branch out, and then I remember that I'll be taking a sock knitting class starting next week and crohet classes later in March, which will provide me with my RDA of new things to be learning.

Managed to (again) fail to put my camera in my bag this morning, which is unfortunate, as I could have had a couple of great shots from the parking garage this morning. Should be extra incentive for me to remember it tomorrow.

I'm thinking about setting up a little bit of a photography space in my cozy corner at home. It would be nice to be able to photograph stuff without having to disrupt whatever Sean has going on in his office/studio/shop. It's a thought. I definitely need to make sure we get up earlier this Saturday, so that we can go poke around at Accent Store Fixtures. I'd like to get a jewelry display, and maybe something else to use for photos.

My main project this weekend, however, is going to be clearing off my desk and filing paperwork. I'm bad about filing, and I can sit and sort through papers while watching tv or something. Once my desk is cleared off, I can work on projects on the desk, which is why I have that desk in my space.

I also need to find transparency film. I want to work on my scrapbook for the wedding/honeymoon, and I saved the flowers from my bouquet and dried them. They'll fall apart in the scrapbook by themselves, but I read on the internets that transparency paper/film works well for them. I'd like to get the scrapbook project completed and off my other table, so I just need to figure out where to go. There's a scrapbook store in Bloomington... maybe I can swing by there this weekend too.

I ended up getting a couple of extra nights with Sean this week... he was originally going to Chicago Tuesday, but now he's on an early flight Friday and back Friday night. That's full of awesome and win. Well, except for the 4 am wake-up on Friday. Still, any extra time I get with He Who Is Quite Awesome is appreciated.


I'm looking forward to joining the Knittin' Kitten group tonight. I haven't been to the Spyhouse yet, but I figure a nice cup of tea and some knitting is a nice combination.

Progress!

I knit a few rows on the FIL scarf today. Tonight, Sean helped me learn how/what to set up to be able to do some nice studio photos. I'm still editing, and I'm not quite feeling like throwing the photos up tonight, but I have some photos of my stash, and photos of my 2 FOs, and a photo of my WIP (the scarf). I figure I'll take photos of the rest of my stash tomorrow, and then I'll have that project done (to photograph my related knitting stuff).

We had a good day today, even if we slept past all of the morning. I'm usually up by 8 am on the weekends, and Sean's usually up by 9 or so. We slept past noon today. I guess we both needed some sleep. Sean had a lot of long nights at work this week, and I've been exhausted all week.

We made breakfast and headed out to run some errands. We were intending to stop @ Accent Store Fixtures, but they closed at 1 pm, so we continued on to grab some videos in Uptown, and then went to Kohl's and the grocery store. Nothing terribly spectacular, but it was good to get out. And it was amusing to watch Sean try to park and unpark the car in the snowy parking spots in Uptown. He does a good job at it though.

Also, Marquette played Georgetown today and won! This makes me quite happy. I spent two very happy years getting my MBA at Marquette, and I adore being able to watch games on tv now that we have DirecTV and get ESPN/ESPN2.

I'm looking forward to spending some good time working on the scarf tomorrow. I'll post a photo of it in progress!