Ok. I think I have whatever power you get when you read The Secret or watch The Secret or whatever you’re supposed to do with that. Isn’t it about how if you think something, you can make it happen? Let’s go with that since otherwise I’ll make no sense. But seriously, I have powers. Last Thursday, I was going to have a date with a new boy and I woke up and DID NOT want to have to go on a first date. I’d gone to Vegas the weekend before (holler!!) and that whole week I wasn’t home before 8:30pm and by the time Thursday rolled around I just wanted a night off. So I thought, man I hope he cancels. And he did!!! He got sick and we rescheduled to today.
Today, I’m exhausted. My asshole cat Harold thought it would be hilarious to play with something under my headboard while I tried to sleep. I sleep with earplugs because Harold is always an asshole but usually he’s a somewhat quiet one. But earplugs do nothing when he’s rattling something under the headboard. Then, at 3am he knocked over my glass of water and I had to clean it all up. Speaking of, go to www.mycatisadick.com. Cracks me up.
Anyway, so again, I was thinking maaan I hope he cancels. And he text me at 5:30 saying traffic was terrible on Hwy 26 and he didn’t think he’d be able to make it into town until 6:30 (our date was at 6). I of course investigated and A. he wasn’t lying and B. ODOT said the delay would be over 2 hours!! So I said turn around and let’s pick another day.
On one hand, maybe we’re cursed. On the other hand, YAY FREE DAY!!! I don’t even have to do any work for my part-time job so I really have a truly free evening and it’s marvelous. I’m going to work on the never-ending Thermal sleeve and catch up on TV. My sweater project is not looking good but I’m not giving up!! I will have 12 sweaters come December 2012 or else!!
I’ll post a progress post on Thermal later since I haven’t taken any photos yet and I have a sweet Franklin cat on my lap (she would never ever wake me up in the middle of the night unless it was to politely ask me to cuddle, which is why she’s my pretty girl princess and Harold is a dick) (Also I should stop talking about my cats if I’d like to get married and have babies before I’m 40)
ANYWAY, on Sunday I was discouraged by how looooong Thermal is taking, and it started snowing outside so I decided I needed a quick pick-me-up project. Enter the Irish Hiking Hat.

During the Rose City Yarn Crawl, my mom bought me my first skein of madelinetosh and it had been calling my name ever since. This is tosh chunky in the Fawn colorway. OMG I LOVED THIS YARN. Every single part of knitting this was fabulous. The yarn was so smushy, the pattern was exactly what I’d wanted, it was so fun. Here it is on my head this morning:
Do you see the snow on my window? It’s SPRING, PORTLAND. Also, I was almost late to work because it’s very hard to take a picture of yourself from the side using a touch screen phone. But I persevered. You’re welcome, internet.
I changed the pattern from how it was written and, if that at all interests you, I put the notes on my project page.