Getting Caught Up

As you can see, I survived Two-a-Days. And so did all my athletes. Again. So, yay for me. It's been quite a while since I've gotten everyone updated on life though. So this may be a bit of a long post. Let's see, where to start...

It's been a very busy week. Football at 8am every day, and there were evening scrimmages every night except Monday - Tuesday and Thursday was boys soccer, Wednesday girls soccer, and Friday was an away football game. Drama in the land of girls soccer - the coach resigned after the game on Wednesday, after the parents and girls called him out on a few of his "methods". We'll see how it all plays out. And then Saturday both the boys and girls soccer teams had scrimmages.

That takes care of work for the week. So in real life, Tuesday was SnB night, and even though I didn't knit a stitch, it was good just to hang out with everyone. Wednesday night Mom flew in from her NJ trip. Thursday night was Tini night with Ellie and friends. For some fun pics, go to her blog. It was an unofficial birthday celebration for me. Lots of fun, wish my martinis had been better. Friday was my birthday - didn't do anything special - due to the afore mentioned football scrimmage. But here's a picture of my presents:From bottom left clockwise: a shawl pin that was my gift to myself from KotS, "A Fine Fleece", a bottle of wine, "Selbuvotter", giftcard for Half Priced Books and KotS, "Barbara Walker's Third Treasury of Charted Patterns", the new Gaelic Storm cd, and two "Amalfi Coast" scented candles. And up top on the right is the hand-made card from my nephew Charlie.

Saturday after work, Dad and I went to the Indians game. They lost, and it was "Turn back the Clock" day. Boo. The scoreboard was set to be like it was back in 1948 - no graphics, no stats, no nothing. The out of town scoreboard and the smaller side video screens were off. The music - all organ music of WWII era hits. Yikes. Not the best game I've ever been to. But still not a bad way to spend a Saturday afternoon. Spent Saturday night watching the Olympics, of course. Good stuff, although, my viewing will most likely stop now that they've moved onto all the track events. And, the LLWS is on.

Yesterday, we hosted a little get together for me. The Daleys, Aunt Ginny and Uncle Richard came over for burgers and brats, followed by cake and ice cream. I requested a marble cake with homemade chocolate frosting and cookies'n'cream ice cream this year. A nice change after a decade of DQ cakes. This is what I actually got:
It's not marbled, it's a checkerboard! Ellie outdid herself. It's so big, it won't fit in the cake-tainer. But it was excellent. So a big THANK YOU to everyone for my gifts and cookout and well wishes.

Alright, onto the knitting stuff. I cast on for the February Lady sweater. And am mired in the Land of Endless Garter - please someone rescue me!
This is a cardigan that gets knit all in one piece, from the top down. So what you're looking at is the front of the cardigan, with the neck line being in the middle. I know it doesn't look like much, but it will soon.

That's about all the knitting I've gotten done. I did manage to finish spinning up that Corriedale that I started forever ago.
Even started plying it last night during the Olympics. A pic of it plied tomorrow or Wednesday maybe. And because I finished a spinning project, and couldn't start plying immediately (I've learned that you're supposed to let the singles "rest" before you ply them, maybe that's why I've had so many issues plying in the past...) I started a new spinning project.
I pulled out my "Terminus" roving from Theytoldmesew on Etsy. It's 3.8 oz of Blue Faced Leicester - a new fiber for me, but I'm loving it. And I pulled out my Golding spindle. It's a .55 oz Purpleheart spindle. And oh man, looky.
I amaze myself at how thin I'm able to get this. Crazy thin. This will definitely take a while to finish. But wow. That's all I can say.

Alright, I think that's enough for now. Pics of the recent scrapbooking to come.