On another note. I pulled a muscle or something on my right side at my shoulder but in the front by the collarbone. It hurts. And it pulls at the oddest of movements. Now I need to get a massage. And I know that it will hurt.

I am test knitting a pattern and instead of using a bulky yarn I have been using stash dk yarn doubled. It is luscious. But, I am short one ball. I usually never buy yarn in odd numbers so I don’t know what i was thinking. Since I am on the hunt for more I will get two balls just to be safe.

Nuff said.

Well it is Thursday and I haven’t updated for almost a week. I had posted about the first day of the Mystery Wedding and then nothing afterwards. It was busy, great but also tiring. I almost need a vacation from the vacation! We arrived in Jasper on Friday night as I had mentioned earlier. And, as you can see, our family really is close and loves each other a lot.

The rooms were great. Some were cabins others were houses with multiple rooms. My mom stayed in the house where the Queen stayed! Saturday was the wedding, Emily and Padraig were already married, it was more of a celebration ceremony. We had thought that we would all go back to our rooms and relax, how wrong I was. The family (my aunts and a few cousins) stayed in the bar until 6 pm. Yes, 4 hours of merry drinking with the whole dinner to follow. I left the dinner at 11 pm and some were still going very hard at the partying. Sunday most of the guests left and the family stuck around. We had a great fire out by one of the little lakes on the property - roasting marshmallows, making smores and drinking bailey’s and hot chocolate. Monday was the ride home and I was exhausted.

On the knitting front, I had started the Mystery Drops Sweater on Friday, adapting this Drops pattern to be knit from the neck down. While I didn’t finish it by Monday, I only had 1.5 sleeves left to do. I finished it last night. It is now blocking. The yarn is Rowanspun Chunky in Fern. The only thing about this yarn is that it takes FOREVER to dry.

Then of course there is the need for the next project. I picked Bloom from Rowan 36. Part of my Rowan project and am doing some stashbusting at the same time by using Rowan Felted Tweed DK in Crush. That is TWO projects on a month that I am using stash yarn. I feel rather proud of myself in a weird way.

1) I am allergic to sulpher based drugs. Nothing like taking the cheap generic first discovered antibiotics to figure this out. Hives. Itches. And not being able to eat anything with sulpha in it along with red wine, for years. Now I can. But it took getting pregnant to change my body.

2) I am a hopeless romantic but try to deny it in all aspects of my life.

3) I would love to go back to school. Learning is where its all at. Hellooooo sugar daddy, lottery anything!! To be able to go back and get the degree I really want would be grossly expensive (at least for my budget) so I will probably take a few classes as money allows, perhaps a certificate? who knows.

4) I am seriously addicted to diet pepsi. Not diet coke. I can’t stand the taste of diet cock err coke (I had to keep that in because that is what my fingers initially typed). It has a more peppery taste or something. I can’t quite pinpoint it.

5) When I knit from my stash, I have mild (sometimes not so mild) panic attacks. I can give yarn away. But I have a hard time using it myself. I am working on using it though as not buying will help me pay for some classes (see #3) as I can take the classes and pay monthly (I love schools that are logical like that).

6) I am rude and often crude, but it is a total sham (mostly). If you can’t handle it then you probably wouldn’t be able to be my friend. If you can deal with it then I fully embrace you as a person (figuratively speaking) if you can’t then it means that my lifestyle and life in general may not be something that you will want to be around.

So, kinda useless things. Karen didn’t state that I had to be brilliant in what I wrote about.

In other news, I was up at 4:45am on a freaking Saturday when I didn’t have the kidlet. I had a bad sleep last night too. In my head I came up with two sweater pattern ideas, rearranged the living room and cameron’s bedroom along with figuring out what I would like to do with his room in the next year or so to set it up more “big boy” for school and homework. So I rolled out of bed at 5am, went to Tim’s for a coffee (there was a line up at that hour too!) and then came home and organized the knitting room in the basement. I did go back to bed and slept again for about 1.5 hours. Not enough, but something.

The boy and I also made a quick run to Gina Browns to get some buttons for the Drops sweater. I didn’t make button holes so the buttons I got are wooden and can slip through the holes of the panel pattern. Pictures tomorrow probably.

Arriving at the hotel and settling in, it was time to head off to the bbq. Its late and I finally left with a bottle of wine in hand. I will post more with pictures but right now I want to curl up and relax. Even though I didn’t do much of anything today, its very tiring!

Friday Cameron and Whitley were doing some poses in the backyard. Whitley had a fresh haircut and the boy was extremely happy. They are so cute together. The only thing about Whitley being cut like this is that she tends to get cold at night and has gotten into a bit of a habit of sleeping under the covers at times!

I am also working on the blanket. Deadlines are fast approaching and with work being insane the knitting time isn’t as much as I wish it would be. But I am making progress. I think I have 11 squares so far. And today we are heading to see the horses and enjoy a turkey dinner and camp fire at a friends place. It is about a 1.5 - 2 hour drive south of me. With David driving I am hoping to get some knitting done.