Talking About This and That

Even with an extra hour, this weekend has flown by. I've gotten things done (lots of laundry, ran the dishwasher, made brownies to take to a party [and only ate one], had a headlight replaced on the car before the time change has me driving home in the dark, returned library books, a little shopping), but still, where did my weekend go?

Sigh. The regular Sunday night lament. At least this week looks to be fairly normal, knock wood. It will be good to get on a sort of schedule again.

Knit Talk
The double-knit hat, Take Two is going well. It isn't flawless (I saw at least one mistake, a few rows after I made it, that I decided I could live with), but it's far better than Take One was (what a difference a stitch marker makes), and more likely to fit my head when it's done. For the several hours today when I was being a cat lap (Carlos is a limpet this weekend), I got more done, including switching the colors so blue is inside and yellow outside. The next step will be changing the yellow to green: stay tuned!

The sock news isn't quite so positive. I was working on the toe decrease for the first of the raspberry socks yesterday at the auto shop (oil change etc), but I saw a mistake and decided that I could drop down the offending two stitches and fix them without tinking back half a dozen rounds. Unfortunately, the yarn did not cooperate, so I had to rip back anyway, and getting the stitches back on the needles was a nightmare. It's kind of a mess right now, and while it's totally fixable, I need to be less annoyed before I pick the project up again. I don't think it will be in time out for long, but it needs to cool off for a while. Or I do. One of the two.

Health Talk
It definitely could be that hormones contributed to my irritation with the knitting. I've got my period this weekend, and this cycle has been ultra-heavy on the emotional swings. I like to joke about things like "needing" chocolate around my period, but on Wednesday the PMS hit me like a freight train, where the feeling was less hmm, I could go for some chocolate, and more what chocolate and how much will I be getting? I mean, trust me, every month I am not buying two pints of ice cream and some chocolates* on the way home.

*I did at least go for the good stuff. If you like caramel, run don't walk to get Lake Champlain's caramel chocolate leaves, which are To Die For (try Whole Foods, around here they carry them). Not only is the chocolate high quality, but the caramel is fantastic. I would give up many pleasing chocolate things forever, to eat these. Not cheap, but utterly worth every penny.

I've also had several bouts of absolute fury over things that even I could recognize were nothing--and I don't mean after I calmed down, but even while I was spitting mad, I knew it was for no good reason. And last night, I got sniffly sentimental over nothing much, before bed. (Or bedtime, anyway; I ended up staying up late, cat on my lap, watching Ten Little Indians on TCM. Hilarious after recently re-watching Murder by Death! I chose not to switch channels and watch Atom Age Vampire, though. No sense of adventure, I guess.) Generally, if the Bruins lose, it doesn't make me happy, but this was more than that. Stupid hormones, I blame you.

Hockey Talk
Based on the last two games* the Bruins have turned in, it's a good thing I tempered my early-season enthusiasm, saying things like, "It's fun to watch, while it lasts." It's not that I think losing two in a row means only bad things going forward, it's just taken the edge of the feeling of They Will Find a Way that came with their performance early on. Ah, well. Wednesday is another day.

*As goalie Tuukka Rask said after one of the losses, they played a really good 20-minute game that night.

Then there was a story I read online about a rather unattractive hockey jersey (not just my opinion), where the kid who bought it is defending himself, and I liked the way the writer indicated disagreement:

we were pleasantly surprised when Ben wrote the following:

In this article you begged the question how much I would pay for this jersey. Well good sir, I have an answer for you: $355 plus $8 shipping. I have been eyeing this Wild Wing jersey for a while, and when a Selanne one came up (signed too), I knew it had to be mine. As a life-long Ducks fan (one of the few), I can say I am proud of this jersey, and I fully embrace its awesomeness.

He spelled "awfulness" wrong.

Nicely.

One of the Bruins players, not a tough guy, got pulled into a fight in a recent game, for which he got a penalty. Watch the video, and you have to agree with Puck Daddy:

I don't know how anyone could call that "fighting."

Exactly. Five for fighting, no. Two for being fought?

In the same post, they gave props to Tim Thomas, Bruins goalie, who kicked off the season on a ridiculous high.


Credit where it's deserved.

Time for me to have some dinner. I hope your weekends were good. Do anything fun?