Only YOU Can Prevent Creeping Old Farthood.

The bombs were bursting in air and the rockets were glaring redly over my neighborhood last night - it was pretty obvious that lots of the neighbors have been through the Carolinas lately, and came back loaded with some really cool but highly illegal fireworks. Murphy isn't afraid of fireworks (or much of anything else, except that bottle of ear cleaner) and so we stood outside with some other neighbors, enjoying the show, until he got bored and started to fall asleep in the street. Not a bad display, and far better than dealing with the traffic for the city show.


So today I was in the supermarket, and at the next register is a man in his 50s, bitching long and loud to everybody around him about the fireworks - "No consideration! Don't they know some people have to get up in the morning! It was AWFUL...." the rant just kept going, and finally trailed off behind him in a sort of Doppler effect as he left the store.


And I'm standing there thinking "God help me if I ever get that old." I mean, I just turned 45, so I AM almost his age, but God forbid I ever get that kind of OLD. It was the Fourth of July, for heaven's sake! It's a national holiday, fireworks are traditional, we've had plenty of rain lately so the fire danger was practically nil, and this is what people DO on the 4th! Yeah, it was a little loud and it went on until almost midnight, but I managed to fall asleep anyway and was up at 5:30 this morning, and I feel just FINE. I suspect what kept him up all night wasn't the fireworks, but the big head of Righteous Indignation he'd built up. It's hard to sleep when you're pissed at the world.


So he was a reminder to me - if I ever feel Creeping Old Farthood sneaking into my thought processes, I need to slap myself hard, because it sure does sound whiny and obnoxious and foolish.


On a knitting note - I'm halfway up sleeve 2 of the Xanax Sweater, and I've swatched the Cotton-ease for the Sitcom Chic for Sorority Girl - I'm not sure whether I should go down a needle size. I'm just a wee, wee bit above gauge on a size 8 needle, and also not that thrilled with the resulting fabric - I think I'd be better off going to a 7, even if that then puts me a wee bit under gauge.

And that Austermann Saba is allegedly a DK weight yarn? It looks way finer than DK weight to me! It's gorgeous and I love the color and the feel of it, but it's much finer than Elann's description led me to believe. I'll have to swatch it later so I can figure out what I'll do with it.