Friday, June 22, 2007

A fertile woman's worst nightmare

At least I wasn't wearing white pants.
So last night we went to a Mariners game in Seattle. We drove up yesterday after my PT appointment. We checked into the hotel, then headed to the stadium. When we got there we discovered we (ok, it was me) forgot the tickets and had to drive back to the hotel. Fortunately it wasn't that far away and we made it back in time.
Of course, any time we travel AF decides it's time to make a visit. During the game (right near the end) I felt a huge gush and knew that we had a problem. After the game I went up to the bathroom (with my supplies in tow) to discover that the big gush had left a huge stain on the back of my pants. And I had walked all the way to the bathroom like that. How freaking embarrassing. Fortunately I had my sweatshirt to tie around my waist, which left my arms uncovered and cold. At least I didn't look like a freak. But of course it was the only pair of pants I had brought so I was shopping for new pants last night at Walmart at 11:00 pm. It figures.
So today I got to check out a few LYS's here in the Renton area where we are staying. The first was Knittery, which was a nice little shop with a lot of easy to get yarns, and some really nice han dyed stuff. They had a skein of Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Hawaii, the color I'm dying for, but since I would need 2 to make a pair of socks, I passed. I did get a size 2 40" Addi turbo to work on my socks, and some size 3 DPN's since it says to use a bigger size for the cuff. I had been doing them on 4's but I think they're going to be too big so I'm going to pull it out. They had some Della Q bags there, and in the color that I adore. But since I just bought the Haiku I couldn't see how I could convince DH that I needed 2 bags. We'll see once I get my grubby little paws on the Haiku though.
We then went to another shop, I think it was called Nancy's Knit shop. I wasn't impressed at all. They had Susan Bates needles, and yarn I could get anywhere. The fanciest yarn they had was Noro Kureyon.
There are 2 more shops I want to check out tomorrow. DH had to go do some work at the district office up here so I'm now sitting in the hotel with the kids and planning to knit on my socks.
So no new yarn porn yet, although I do have 2 skeins of Socks That Rock on the way. Oh, and my Haiku bag is waiting for me at the REI in Hillsboro. We may have to come home the longer way just so I can stop and get it.

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