Blanket burnout

I'm now on the 4th side of the ruffle finally. I am bound and determined to get it done by tomorrow, as boring as it is. Today, instead of knitting like I should have been, I spent most of the day on Ravelry.
I've become a volunteer editor for several yarn companies and it's turned out to be quite a venture. I'm enjoying it but there's a lot of work to be done to get stuff in the database correctly. Right now I'm working on the Trendsetter/Lane Borgosesia yarns. Luckily I've made a good contact at the Trendsetter company who is feeding me information as I need it. It's amazing that on Ravelry you can enter as much or as little information about a yarn as you choose. Which means that the person editing it has either a very little, or a lot of work to do. Plus the editors have more leeway in what they can enter than the average user. Then there's the problem between yarn manufacturers and distributors. Then Lane Borgosesia names some of their higher end lines which adds in even more confusion. Now I just added a new pattern line to my already over gluttonous job. I may never get to knit again!
I made a cute little Hello Kitty for Hennessy. It was a test, if it turned out cute I was going to make some more. Unfortunately, it's a little lopsided and ugly and so I think I'm done making Hello Kitties. She seems to like it, but she has the taste of a two year old remember.
I'm trying to finish the Baglove's too, but I'm need to make I-cord and I just hate doing it. I bought a little machine to do it but it doesn't work well with the yarn I chose. So I'll have to do it the old fahioned way which means BOOOOOOOOOOORING. Wow, I'm not knitting on anything fun right now.

My sock blockers came

My sock blockers showed up today. I didn't expect them for a few more days so it was a nice surprise. I immediately washed the Saucy socks and put them on the blockers to dry. They are still sitting there drying so hopefully tomorrow I can get a good picture.
I didn't get a lot of knitting done. First thing this AM Nana (who turns 7 tomorrow) was goofing around and fell and hit his mouth on his desk. He was screaming his head off, so I went running. Blood was just pouring from his mouth and when he saw that he freaked out even more. After we had a little freak out time, he settled down and I could see he had a pretty nasty cut on his lip, as well as a scrape across his face. I was lucky that I had 1 use left in my Band-Aid glue (or Elmer's People Glue as we like to call it) and I glued it back together, saving us a trip to the Emergency Room. I don't know that our little clinic could handle sutures.
Then Cee-Cee only took a very short nap, so consequently was crabby. The two of then got all riled up this afternoon and Nana's lip got busted open again. Well, our crappy little store didn't have any, so we made the 45 minute trek into town to have dinner and get more. We ran into our friends at the grocery store and even though we can see them anytime (they live right here in our town) we chatted for a long time. We got our Elmer's People Glue (along with about $50 worth of other stuff we didn't need that bad) and got on our way home.
Cee-Cee managed to stay dry the entire trip, but I'd put her in a pull-up because I wasn't confident that she would. She had a bad potty morning, peed her panties several times. We're making good progress and so I'm not too upset. It just drives me crazy that every time she goes potty she wants to change her panties. We only have so many pairs, and if she changes them when she's dry we don't have enough for when she's wet. And we have a pretty darn good supply!
Here's a picture of my sweet Nana (boo boo and all) who will be 7 tomorrow. Nana is what little Miss Cee-Cee used to call him, and my favorite nickname for him, along with Poodle. He'll always be my little Poodle boy.

Fun with blogger

I played around with the template on blogger and put a picture on my header. The yarn is Lime & Violet's Sasquatch Superwash in Jump Swing. It's one of my new favorites. I had to turn down the opacity of the picture so you can read the text (Thank You Photoshop!)
I' working on the ruffle on the 3rd side of the Eyelet Baby Blanket. I keep intending to start a new project too, but I really want to get this dumb blanket done. The ruffle is the worst part.
My biggest baby (#1, the 10 year old) is off at Scout camp all week. He's not really an outdoorsy kid so this will be a challenge for him. I hope he sticks it out and has a lot of fun. #2 is upset he didn't get to do overnight camp (he has 2 more years until he can do that) and is now sleeping in a tent in our family room. I had a nice day at home alone with #3 while DH took the oldest up to camp and #2 tagged along.
I can't get motivated to do much more because I'm too tired. I'll get to the pictures tomorrow, or maybe when my sock blockers come.

Still up

And feeling really crappy. Whatever I just ate didn't stay down. My face is all puffy from barfing and I'm tired but my stomach hurts.
So instead I found this quiz and took it

You Are An ISFP

The Artist You are a gifted artist or musician (though your talents may be dormant right now). You enjoy spending your free time in nature, and you are good with animals and children. Simply put, you enjoy beauty in all its forms and live for the simple pleasures in life. Gentle, sensitive, and compassionate - you are good at recognizing people's unspoken needs. In love, you are quiet and sweet yet very passionate. You love easily. You have an underlying love for all living things, and it's easy for you to accept someone into your heart. At work, you do best in an unconventional position. You express yourself well and can work with almost anyone. You would make a good veterinarian, pediatrician, or composer. How you see yourself: Sympathetic, kind, and communicative When other people don't get you, they see you as: Incompetent, insecure, and overly sensitive

What's Your Personality Type?

Very weird day

It started off with me throwing up. Then I spent the day trying to regulate my blood sugar. I'm not diabetic, and I've never been diagnosed with hypoglycemia, but I do know I have bouts of low blood sugar. Well today was just awful. I am needing to eat every few hours today just to not get sick. I'm exhausted because I only got a few hours sleep last night. I couldn't sleep this afternoon (when I should have) because of the blood sugar problems. I ended up going to the store to get a bunch of easy sugar sources in case it keeps happening. If I feel yucky again tomorrow I'm going to make a doctor's appointment Monday.
I finished the body of the Eyelet Baby Blanket today. I am now working on the ruffle. I got one of the four sides done. The ruffle really sucks, because you get up to over 200 stitches. It took forever to cast that many off. When I was done with the first side, I put down the blankie for a while and finished my second Baglove bag. I need to get into town to try to find some yarn for the handle. I'm thinking some cashmere would be nice. I don't need very much.
I was going to take pictures today but I didn't get around to it. Besides, I have some sock blockers coming from The Loopy Ewe and the socks will look much better photographed on them.
I tried bleaching the Ugly Campfire socks today and while a lot of color bled out of them, they still are ugly as sin. I'm kind of in a quandry at this point. I might just dye them brown and give them to DH (if they fit). I can whip up a pair of short socks for my swap pal. I might make the Horcrux socks since they are short.
I want to make 1 or more knit amigurumi dolls for my friend's daughter. Her daughter was due the same month as mine was, only she came at about 34 weeks. T has had a very rough life which has included meningitis and a basically dismal prognosis, major recovery that the doctors said she'd never have, seizures, and now Glycogen Storage disease. My friend S gets up with her at night like she would a newborn to get her to drink glucerna to stabilize her blood sugar. Anyway, T is going to have a hospital admission next month for tests and I want to make something for her to take along. I asked S what her favorite animal is and so she showed her an animal book. She said T kept pointing to the camels, but she likes frogs too. Well, those are basically the only two I can't find a pattern for. So I IM'ed her with a bunch of other choices and I want to get that started ASAP. If I don't I'll never get them done because of my disdain for seaming.
I need to start the Presto Chango too. But I think I want to finish the Eyelet Baby Blanket first.
I am a volunteer editor on Ravelry for Katsara Yarns, Skacel Yarns, King Tut Yarns, and The Garter Belt patterns. I spend a lot of time today doing my editing job on those. It's kind of fun to research the different yarns and patterns. Plus I like feeling needed.

Late night

I haven't been sleeping well which bodes well for my knitting time. But I spend most of my daytime hours exhausted. And today my friend and her two girls came over. They stayed until 3, about 2 hours past Cee-Cee's normal nap time. I'm glad they were here and I love it when they come over, but she was so exhausted by the time they left. I had to wake her at 4:45 to go over to the Scout daycamp for their last "campfire" and dinner. I took myself a little catnap too and neither of us wanted to get up to go. I drug myself in though.
I finished the Saucy sock tonight. I had about 40 rows to finish (the toe) and then I Kitchenered up the toe. While I was at it I Kitchenered up the toe of the Ugly Campfire socks just to be done with them. Tomorrow will be an experiment in bleaching/dyeing to see if I can come up with a more tolerable and less frightening color. I hope it all works out. I'll post pictures tomorrow.
There is quite a split in this town over our pot smoking principal. It seems most are supportive of him keeping his job but fortunately I've discovered several other parents who have likeminds and don't want this man in charge of our children. One friend even plans to pull her child our of our grade school if he's still there in September. Twenty or so emails go through a day between PTA members. Whenever there's a voice of dissent, a fight starts. I usually hold my tongue but I've been speaking my mind. The supporters don't like this. They think we should accept the decision, what's done is done" and move on. I don't believe that this is the end if we don't let it be.

yuck

Feel to crappy to post. Besides, I have nothing interesting to say.