Well-written and entertaining blogs: Everybody Loves Saturday Night and At the Still Point of a Turning World. They talk about knitting too, but it's the stuff around the knitting that I like best.


My first full work day in quite a while yesterday, and it was not a leisurely re-entry. I was vividly reminded of everything I don't like about my job, now we'll see whether the things I do like will also come back to me.


No knitting was done last night, my ability to concentrate was seriously compromised by the brain-frying I'd endured all day and the really bad insomnia the night before. I spent a good chunk of Monday afternoon working on the white Sitcom Chic, because August is nearly upon us and I want it done. I'm past the eyelet rows, heading on the home stretch into the neckline, and I'm very pleased with it. I had some second thoughts about the gauge on my red SC and re-checked it carefully in several spots. It's actually on gauge overall, the textured yarn somehow creates the illusion that it's over gauge, as the poofier parts of the yarn make some spots fluff into 4 stitches per inch. It'll be fine, so I will plug on with it - I'm only past the second body increase on that one.


Happy news - my son got the rental house he wanted, only a few miles from here. It'll be nice to have him back in town. The next few weeks will be a moving nightmare, as he has to move out of the townhouse at school, help his sister move out of the townhouse and put her stuff in storage, she has to find a place to crash with friends for the week or so between the "get out" date on the one rental and the "get in" date on the house she and her friends are renting. The plan as I last heard it is for Grad Student Boy to rent one truck, move her stuff to the storage unit, load his own stuff and drive down here, move it into the house, return truck. Then he will go back up there and rent another truck to help his sister make the move into the house a few days later. I think. I'm leaving that coordination to him, he seems to have a plan. I'll be going up there that weekend to help on the move-in to the house, too. Then on the 18th we will all be hospitalized with heatstroke and exhaustion and finally get some rest.