It rained! Thundered even!

Got out of the house. Bought a cute bed for Mina for cheap.

But everything else was bad. Felt crappy cause I feel  well again except for heavy congestion so the constant feeling of “holding my breath” or trying not to be a loud breather just got to me.

Was supposed to go to a masquerade ball with friends but that fell through. And it was suggested that I go with the one other person that I’m friendly with but haven’t spent much time with yet and I just got too nervous on top of the literal head game my sinuses were playing to overcome the panic. So I felt crappy over that too.

Didn’t even get shit together to at least go over and hang out with Dad and watch There Will Be Blood with him. More shit to feel crappy about.

Instead I watched The Promotion which perhaps I had it pegged completely wrong but I thought it was supposed to be a comedy? It isn’t… AT ALL. I wouldn’t say it doesn’t have a point at all but it doesn’t really have much of a pay off to spend 2 hours of my life watching 2 guys struggle to keep theirs together and somewhat against each other but nothing ever really happens. I kept waiting for the punchline or the big finish. So realizing that I wasted 2 hours watching that instead of at least doing the former… that really opened the depression spigot.

Visit with Angela and then Angus for a bit and felt better, resolved to at least watch something good and then go to bed and have it be a new day. Put in Hellboy 2 which was decent. I think the storyline wasn’t polished enough but it was fun visually.

Except….

That partway through the movie, I realize that I’d done a mobieus on my Silken Scabbard. It’s my National Sweater Knitting Month project and it was slow going during the Promotion to redo the cast on from last night and get through the beginning rows of 200+ stitches each.  I was on row 9 (almost 2,000 stitches!) when I realized that when I’d joined to knit in the round, my careful attempts to make sure it wasn’t twisted… had failed. No way to salvage it so I had to frog all that careful knitting.

I say careful because I was trying to be gentle with this soft lightweight yarn that’s slightly stretchy. I can sometimes be hamfisted and knit with a lot of tension.

So more annoyance because now I have to start over again… for the 3rd time. I went ahead and did it right then cause I knew if I left it to do when I was ready to start again, it’d put a damper on the next attempt.

Today was definitely a frustrating day for any yarn work. Kept thinking of one thing after the next that I wanted to work on and ended up just sitting and surfing idly instead of doing any of it. But I did do several hexagons in Maxine’s Memory afghan. Now that I’ve realized that I was wrong about how the “flowers” join together, that it’s only a single row of motifs instead of a row of assembled flower motifs in green, it should go a lot faster for the green part but I had to see if the TLC Essentials yarn was thin enough for it. The Bernat Berella turned out to be too thick to be used with a hook small enough to get gauge.

First one I did in H hook was definitely too big but the G hook worked and so I have a total of 2 green ones worked and already joined together. Next I need to count the “flowers” and work out how many more are needed and how to lay them out. Thinking about doing a double row of green pieces to make the afghan bigger without making more flowers.