Crankiness

So it's been a week since I last blogged. Sorry, but my life hasn't been all that interesting. I got my Harry Potter and finished it before the weekend was out (wonderful by the way, but now what do I have to look forward to?). Spent all day Saturday at the Irish fest. Cleaned my room and the craft room on Sunday. Started a pair of Jaywalker socks. Decided that I need to frog the Baby Jersey blanket and find a new pattern (cheap solution) or a new yarn (expensive solution). Realized last night when I started to knit on the Peapod, for the first time in over a week, that I needed to rip out the 2 30-row repeats that I had completed. Crankiness ensued. Crankiness over the fact that I wouldn't have had to rip it out if the authors of the book that the pattern is in had not been lazy and not written out the directions for the left front panel rather than just say "do as for the right front but reverse shaping"!!!!!!!! Very angry at Tracy Ullman and Mel Clark for their pattern writing at the moment. VERY CRANKY! It's not like it's that hard to write out the pattern if you came up with it yourself. Some of us are not all that good at the pattern making - in fact some of us have never made our own pattern - so how the heck should we know exactly where the added purls go? Like I said, I've been a bit cranky. Rant is now over.