Sicklies and Cleaning Up Mess

Our dog has bronchitis! WTF! She’s been hacking up slime almost all week all over the kitchen/dining room floor. It’s the grossest thing ever. I can handle the poop and the pee, but this stuff is plain gross. I cleaned up a lot this morning when I first got up, then less than 2 hours later, I had to clean up a bunch more before we headed out the door. GROSS!

Then to top it off, Amelia leaked through her diaper last night so she smelled like urine. I had to bathe her, so I stripped her down and set her on the floor on a towel in the bathroom while I got her bath water ready. We have a tiny bathroom, and yet somehow, she managed to crawl off the towel onto the only 2 sq inches of actual floor space and proceeded to pee. I picked her up off the floor to put her in the bath and she was sitting in it. No protests or anything either. UGH! Poor thing.

I think she’s got some allergies too, because her eyes have been gunky and she’s all congested. I’ve got to go get some Benadryl and see if that helps.

Afghan Almost Done

The Autumn Afghan is almost done. I’ve finished the strips. It’s all put together. One more step…the 2 round border of single crochet. Then it will officially be completed. I’m so excited. I will begin the border this evening. Pictures to follow as soon as it’s done.

More Pinwheel Progress

I’m almost to my last color change on the Pinwheel Sweater. Progress is coming along well. Once I finished the last 11 rounds, I have to do the edging and the sleeves. But I’m so happy with how it’s coming out. I love it and I hope Amelia loves it too. I’ll definitely try to get a picture of her wearing it once it’s finished, even though it’s almost 100 degrees outside right now and the sweater is made of 100% wool.

So, what’s next after I finish the sweater? I have 4 socks in my ravelry queue that I want to start. Plus I’m trying to finish up the Autumn Afghan. So I think my main focus will be getting the afghan finished, then I’ll start on my sister’s pedicure socks.

Testing Flock

Ok, so I’m testing out Flock. I use Flickr a lot and I like the integration with del.icio.us and the ability to easily do blog posts. It seems to work a lot like Firefox and a lot of the FF extensions are available for Flock, so it may become a new thing for me. Yes, I recently switched over to Camino but I’m trying out all solutions to see which is best for me. Got to give them all a try.

If this works out well, I will be moving my quicklinks back over to del.icio.us. Heck I may do that anyway, just so they are in a central repository.

Knit Picks Needles

I just received my order of 2 circular needles from “Knit Picks”:http://www.knitpicks.com. Awesome is all I can say. The flexibility is great and after being so coiled up, I pulled them out of the bag and they flipped right open. No need to heat them over the stove to straighten the cable. I haven’t even cast on yet with these and I’m already liking them. I may have to eventually replace all my circulars with ones from Knit Picks.