Monthly Archives: October 2010

Painting and knitting

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Late Monday posting…

I disconnected my computer Friday and just got it back up and running this afternoon.  I painted the living room (where my computer lives) and finally got things put back together…almost.

Friday and Saturday nights I knitted on a seamless slipper (see pattern over there to the right) and got one finished.  I started the second one last night.  The previous ones I knit were purple.  These are orange.  Free yarn.

My knitting mojo seems to be on vacation.  Ms Ida is giving me fits.  (Sorry, Jude.)

The new chandelier is up in the dining room.  I didn’t exactly do it but I helped.

I’m not 100% in love with the paint color in the living room.  (You were right, Leah, I should have gone with the darker color.)  It’s blue and I’m a green person.  What was I thinking?  For the next couple of months I’m going to see if the color will work and if it doesn’t, I’ll repaint.

We plan to get crown molding in the dining and living rooms by next March so I have until that happens to decide on repainting the room.

List part too

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I forgot to title yesterday’s post.

What I accomplished from yesterday’s list:

  1. Dinner √
  2. Clean up dinner mess √
  3. Clean computer armoire in living room. 
  4. Clean, empty and move small desk in living room.  2/3 of a √  Cleaned and emptied.  Moving it yesterday would have just gotten in the way.
  5. Find a place for the three boxes of music to live that currently reside beside the piano.  This has been something I’ve needed to do since we moved into this house.  I don’t have the right piece of furniture for this but I don’t know what is the right piece.
  6. Relocate bagpipes that also reside next to the piano.
  7. Take art down in the living room and spackle nail holes.   1/2 √  Art down, spackle today?
  8. Run a clean swiffer over the walls to get rid of any dust before painting this weekend.
  9. Finish Ms Ida mittens.
  10. Work on soaker.
  11. Knit myself a pair of seamless slippers. √ Started.

I also changed the water filter in the refrigerator.   Mr. Aitch wasn’t home and I thought it would be easy.   You wouldn’t think it would take 20 minutes.  Evidently I have no strength in my hands anymore and could not get a good grip to turn it a quarter turn and pull it down.  I almost broke the shelf.   Plus the angle was all wrong.  This filter is in the back on the top right side.  See it?  I’m only 5 foot 5 inches so I had to stand on my tippy toes to even reach the darn thing.

My refrigerator

Fortunately we only have to change it twice a year.

I was beat by 9:30 and had about an hour before bedtime.  So I took Wool and Chocolate’s advice and started on #11.

Today’s goals: # 3, 5, 6, 7 and 11.

After all, tomorrow is another day and another list…

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Painting the living room is on my radar this weekend.  Monday is a holiday so I plan to use it for some decluttering and redecorating.  I bought a new chandelier for the freshly painted dining room and it’s waiting to be installed.

In order to paint I need to get the room emptied or at least the furniture away from the walls far enough to get the ladder in there to reach the ceiling.  What did I do last night?  Sat in front of the TV or computer.  Did I at least have some knitting in my hands?  No.

Instead of sitting doing SOMETHING, I sat doing nothing.  I would have felt guilty knitting when I should have been decluttering.  Make sense?  No, not to me either.  But that’s how I do things.

Can I change that about myself at my age?  I don’t know.

I have such lofty plans to do ABC when I get home from work.  Sometimes I do one of the things on my list but lately I don’t do anything I planned.  This morning I actually woke up refreshed.  Maybe tonight I’ll do something constructive.

My To-Do list for tonight:

  1. Dinner – I don’t have a choice.  It has to happen.
  2. Clean up dinner mess – Can do.
  3. Clean computer armoire in living room.
  4. Clean, empty and move small desk in living room.
  5. Find a place for the three boxes of music to live that currently reside beside the piano.  This has been something I’ve needed to do since we moved into this house.  I don’t have the right piece of furniture for this but I don’t know what is the right piece.
  6. Relocate bagpipes that also reside next to the piano.
  7. Take art down in the living room and spackle nail holes.
  8. Run a clean swiffer over the walls to get rid of any dust before painting this weekend.
  9. Finish Ms Ida mittens.
  10. Work on soaker.
  11. Knit myself a pair of seamless slippers.

And I’ll probably have three hours to do this tonight.  If I can do #1-4 and #9 tonight, I will be happy. 

Tomorrow is another day…

Is it me or errata?

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I decided to finish Ms Ida.  The thumb seemed a bit too tight so I moved up from a size 4 dpn to a size 8.  With the color changes I must be tightening my grip and needed to go up a few needle sizes.   Plus my other dpns were in other projects.

I’m having some confusion with the thumb decreases while following the chart so I contacted the designer. 

I’m wishing I didn’t try to make them flip top mittens but as soon as I finish the thumbs, I’ll see if I can make it all work out.