Officially

Fall season is officially over. Volleyball lost a heartbreaker yesterday in 5. Last Saturday (can't believe I didn't blog this week), football lost - they were winning the entire game, until the last 1:22. Ugg. And then boys soccer went on to lose as well - no one really expected them to beat that team - they were just too good, and they moved down from DII this year. So it's now officially winter. Boys basketball and hockey (varsity level) started on Friday.

I'm officially trying to fight off some kind of cold like bug. Lots of nasty icky tasting things to combat it. Lots of sleep. But so far, it seems to be working. If I can just hold it off so it can't take hold of my entire system, I think I'll be okay.

I'm officially annoyed with my fantasy football team. I'm currently in 4th place. My sister is still in 1st. And there isn't a flippin tight end worth anything available to add to my lineup. Several of the kids at work have offered to try to help me. I try to tell them that I'm doing what I need to do, I've got the best I can get. They say no, and then they look at my league and what's available and then they agree - I've got the best that I can have.

I'm officially out $15-$20 on the Amazing Race pool. It's been long enough that it shouldn't be a spoiler any more. 45 minutes. You can't force yourself down a water slide in 45 minutes!?! That's all I'm going to say, or I'll get annoyed, again.

I'm officially a bit crazy. When the "classes" came out this month on Ravelry, I came up with something to do for all of them. Again. And I somehow think that I'm going to get all of them done, and maintain sanity. hahahaha.

I'm officially 72% done with my slogging cowl:
Yeah, it's that bad that I'm figuring out the exact percentage based on number of rows I've done. But it's really pretty. And I may not do the whole pattern, it's getting kinda long. I'll work a bit more and try it on and ask for opinions then decide. Here's the inside:
Still so cool that it's reversible. I officially still love it. And can't wait to have it done.

Here's where the crazy starts. I decided that for the one class that's a WIP (work in progress) assignment, I would finally finish this:
Officially Crazy. With a capital C. The long languishing Mystic Waters shawl. Yeah, looked it up on my pattern page, started this bad boy in February 2008. Yikes. And I'm not really that far from being done. These pics were taken as the before.
Can you believe it? 28 inches from top to bottom, and I'm not done yet. And it's not blocked. Imagine if I were doing the large size. It would be longer than I am tall. Not hard to do, but still. So officially, I'm about 80% done with this one. Since the photos, I finished a few rows, which puts me at having completed 250. The last row I have to work before bind off for the small size is 289. See not that bad? Still crazy though.

I am officially in love with this next project. Officially. Don't want to work on anything else. Actually want to cast on another one, in different yarn and rework the edge I couldn't get to work the night I started this, but since have had a brain wave about. May be the first pattern I ever design and release. Crazy talk right?
How could you not love it? It's handspun! It's entrelac! It's gorgeous! It's soft! It's not for me. However, if mom leaves the house without wearing it, I may snag it every now and then (but don't tell her that).
Yes, this is part of her Christmas present. And yes she reads the blog. But she already knew about this. And the other part that I finished but haven't photo'd to feature here (note to self). And she knows about the other part, that will probably be used before Christmas. But hey, it's all good, she doesn't mind (at least I don't think she minds, she hasn't said she does). I can probably say that I'm officially at the 30% mark with this one. Not entirely sure, we'll see how long it ends up. First attempt at this kind of thing, and it's not so easy to stretch out in mock blocking.

Here is the official pic with orange in it. To continue the trend started in October.
I'm at the heel flap which means I'm almost officially 50% done with this sock. Yay. Still digging the orange. Which is weird for me. I think it might be the Wollmeise fumes. They get to you.

I also have 7, yes I said seven, hats to make this month. Haha. That's the other part that makes me crazy. 3 of them are color work, 2 of which I still need to work charts out for. 3 of them are kiddo sized, 2 of which I need to decide on a pattern for, 1 is going to be tricky just because of the materials (ooh, the mystery!). And one will be for me. Maybe - that's up for debate. Christmas is coming after all. Officially only 46 days left. Maybe I should go knit....