Yentala's house suffers from piles, while mine needs extensive electrolysis. It's very hairy, in a circus-sideshow way. I was sitting on the couch this morning, drinking coffee and working away on Bardot (more on that in a bit) and suddenly became aware that the furniture has grown a cat hair coating, in a big, bad way. Tomorrow's activity will be major cat-hair removal, carpet cleaning, and Febreezing. I may invite my friend L over for margaritas tomorrow night - does anybody else ever invite a really good housekeeper over for a visit to motivate yourself to clean? Not that L would ever comment on my cat hair, she's too sweet, but, damn, her living room is all immaculate white and glass and you could do a heart transplant on her kitchen floor, despite her being a single mom with a demanding full-time job, energetic five-year-old, and three cats. I feel like such a slacker whenever I visit her house. Mine won't look that clean until I move out. Oh, and she's also a size 7. If I didn't like her I'd have to hate her.

Bardot - after much holding up to my body, measuring with tape measure, muttering and crossing fingers (very hard to knit that way) I decided to go with the original pattern dimensions rather than add length. I think it will be okay this way -I'm at 12 inches before starting the raglan decreases, and of course the neckline is very wide - I think I'll end up on target at about 21 inches long. It's not meant to be a big sweater, it's supposed to be small and fitted, and I think I'd rather err on the side of skimpy than make it too big, because no hot 20-year-old girl wants to wear a sexy sweater that fits sloppy. My goal is that it will just barely meet her belt and not hang over it at all - if it's an inch above her belt that's okay. If it's three inches above, I'm toast. I hope I'm doing the right thing.

No exercise today, last night was an Insomnia Night. Tonight will be early to bed, then tomorrow I'll get up, walk the hairy little tyrant, do Pilates, and break out the cleaning products. Whole House Electrolysis must commence.

Happy Friday!