Good morning ladies! Another early morning for me I am afraid. I was busy yesterday and didn't get a nap, then wanted to watch Ace of Cakes last night to see the cake they did for the Harry Potter Premiere last year and it didn't come on until 9:30 so I didn't get to sleep until around 10:30 by the time I got upstairs and got arranged. I will be so glad when I can once again sleep on my side or better yet on my tummy.
I have to take the dog to the vet today for his yearly shots and try and get out to Wally's to get carpet shampoo so we can get the downstairs carpets done. Jack's sister and bil are supposed to be here next weekend and I want to rearrange the living room and get that carpet cleaned, which hasn't been done in a year and again tackle the dining room. The dining room is a walk in the park but moving all the living room furniture is a pain so we don't do it as often and I have big area rugs that cover a lot of the old carpet so it doesn't get dirty all that much.
Susan: Glad to hear Stan is coming along. I was so mad at myself last night. I had over half of one of the sleeves done and counted my stitches and discovered I must have made a mistake with the decreases somewhere because I had too many and ended up ripping it back to where the bind off was and starting back over, which was at least 20-25 rows. Well, I had redone about 14 rows or so and counted my stitches to make sure I was corrct when I realized that when I counted before, I was thinking about the proper stitch count for the yellow sweater I had just finished, which is one size smaller so the one I was doing had been correct!
I could have shot myself!! I can't keep stuff in my head so I make a list and cross off row by row, for ex if it says p1, k2, skpo knit to last 5 st, k2 tog k2 p1 and do this row every 4th row until you have 35 stitches, I make a list on paper like 1- dec (53 st), 2 pattern, 3 pattern, 4 dec (51 st) etc. I cross each row off as I do it so I don't get lost. I did two things wrong when I started it the first time, I wrote down the remaining stitch count wrong on the list, having made it dec 3 each dec row instead of just 2, ie 52 st, next dec 49 st. So I think that is where I flubbed and on top of that, looked at the wrong end count for the size medium instead of large
even though I have all the appropriate numbers circled on the pattern! I think I was probably too tired to fool with it last night, but did anyway.
Jean: You have to be getting excited about finally going on vacation and into the nice warm sun too! What kind of things do you guys usually do? They have the most beautiful resort in Honolulu that is owned by the military for our use and the prices are wonderful. It is called the Hale Koa. From what I saw on the website information, it is right on the beach at Waikiki there. For Jack's retired pay grade, he would pay $92 for the cheapest room (farthest from the beach it looks like) up to $182 for a deluxe ocean front room, which I imagine means you can walk out of your room to the beach, which would be cool. The rooms are as nice as any hotel we have stayed in in Vegas. On top of that they have restaurants, dinner shows, all kinds of events and then offer cheaper tickets to things like the boat tours and such. We don't seem to get much advantage being retired military anymore, but there are some things. I know they have a really nice resort in Orlando too. Have a good inservice day and enjoy your weekend!
Mary: I wouldn't be a pizza delivery person in this town if you paid me $100 an hour. I would be scared to death to deliver pizza here. Are people pretty good with tips? I would have thought they were chintzy. I usually tip about 15% or so of the bill like restaurants. I know Jean knows, but what is your first job??? I am a stay at homer and as you can tell am an avid knitter.
Well guys, Jack will be up in about 20 minutes so I guess I should go. No going back to bed for me as I have to take him to work today so I can take Fortune in. Have to come home and brush his teeth and clean his tear stains before we go.
Have a great weekend everyone!
Faye