(actually being posted on Feb 21 ‘cus I was too busy/lazy to post on time)
I worked on the 2nd Mock Cable sweater through lunch again. I knew I wouldn’t have a chance to knit tonight.

After work Yannick and I went out for a bit, then stopped at Jack Astor’s for supper. I had really wanted to go to the knitting meet-up that was going on near my work tonight, but something came up that I just couldn’t miss. In any case, it was late and we were feeling nibbly, so what did we have? C’mon, guess! Nachos! We shared a plate of fajita beef nachos and a plate of calamari. Yum! Ok, I know I have to fit into a dress this summer for his cousin’s wedding, and then a bridesmaid’s dress this September for my cousin’s wedding, but still…so yummy.

(actually being posted on Feb 21 ‘cus I was too busy/lazy to post on time)

I brought my knitting with me to work and worked on the 2nd Mock Cable sweater all through my lunch hour. That way once I got home I had a “head start”. I worked on it all evening too, until around midnight when I went to bed.

That’s really all I have to post for Tuesday, ‘cus that’s all that happened. I got home, I knit, I went to bed.

(actually being posted on Feb 21 ‘cus I was too busy/lazy to post on time)

I went to my knitting class in the morning and learned a new heel technique. The one I’d done on Yannick’s socks was a rectangular “flap” heel, and this one comes to more of a triangle at the top, so it makes more of a smooth transition from body to foot of the sock.

When I got home I immediately cast on for the 2nd Mock Cable sweater. I feel so bad, it’s been about 3 weeks since these were requested of me. I’ve been working on them as fast as I can, but being sick for 2 weeks really knocked me out! I’m hoping to bring these to the store no later than Friday because I feel really awful it’s taking so long. I managed to do the ribbing and a really good chunk of the body before I had to stop.

In the evening Yannick came home to spend Valentine’s Day with me. He brought sushi for supper (another one of my absolute favorites) and we made a fire and ate on the floor in front of it. We had a really wonderful time, just talking and relaxing. He said some things to me, about me and about us, that he has never said to me before. Ever. And we’ve been together over 6 years. It really was a wonderful night. Finally we went up to bed and I read for a bit from our next book.

Ok, don’t laugh but Yannick and I read to each other. Usually me to him, but we occassionaly take turns. It started with a book I’d read that I knew he’d love but I wanted to read it again too, and we’ve done a couple since. It’s nice because we both get to share the story at the same time, and we have similar senses of humor so we really enjoy it. We started a new book tonight, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. I LOVE science fiction. I also love warped humor. My favorite authors are Isaac Asimov, Phillip K. Dick, Piers Anthony and Douglas Adams. I have a big book, the 5 books of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy all in 1 volume. Yannick and I started it at least 4 years ago. I’d already read it, but I knew he’d enjoy it too, so I started over at the beginning. We’re somewhere in the 4th book, I believe. Because of how much he liked that one, I knew he’d enjoy the Dirk Gently books. I think I prefer The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul but I wanted to start at the beginning.

And no, I didn’t leave tonight.

Sighting 1: The Dallas Hand Knitter’s Guild January 2005 newsletter

Sighting 2: The Montreal Knitting Guild January 2005 newsletter

Sighting 3: A few weeks ago my knitting teacher at my LYS told me that people had come in to buy yarn just for making the Vegas scarf.

Sighting 4: The Montreal Knitting Guild February 2005 newsletter announces that Saturday February 19th will be the Vegas Valentine Pizza Party, a day of pizza and knitting so bring your 6 skeins, a die and a coin!

Sighting 5: My knitting teacher at my LYS tells me someone came in for yarn for a scarf, and when she (the teacher) mentioned using a coin and die for randomness, the customer said “Oh yeah, that’s Jennifer’s Vegas scarf game!”

Sighting 6: I get an email today from Garnet with pictures of her Vegas scarf and the story behind it! I will be putting up a gallery this weekend for the pictures.

:] this is so cool!

(actually being posted on Feb 21 ‘cus I was too busy/lazy to post on time)

I got a whole bunch of knitting done! My Sunday was spent lying around on my parents’ bed with my mom, watching her tapes of Joey, Will & Grace and The Apprentice from Thursday night. She read the paper and ate a bagel with butter and candy sprinkles on it (Yes, the sprinkles you put on ice cream. I know. I don’t try to understand it any more) and I knitted. The 1st Mock Cable sweater should have been finished had I been strictly following the pattern, but besides making it to a custom fit, the client also wanted sleeves. So I picked up 36 sts around each opening and did 5 rows in 1×1 rib for each sleeve. Then I was free to work on my sock!

By the time The Apprentice finished I had finished 1 full repeat of the lace pattern (48 rows) after my 2 cm of ribbing. The pattern calls for 2 repeats before turning the heel, but I accidentally made my cast on too tight and was afraid it wouldn’t fit over my calf, so I’m making shorty socks. That meant I was done!

I would have started my fair isle headband since we learned the 2-handed fair isle technique in class last Monday, but the bag I threw into my overnight bag, which I thought contained my yarn for the headband, actually contained my Vegas Scarf. So I was out of knitting.

It didn’t matter though, ‘cus Yannick came by around 4:00pm anyways to pick me up and spend the afternoon/evening with me. He’d wanted to take me to see Neverland but it wasn’t playing anywhere local any more, so we went to see Hitch. My dilemma: go for dinner then see the late show but risk not being hungry for popcorn, or go to the movie first and have popcorn and risk not being hungry for a real dinner. Choice #2 won. Popcorn is my comfort food. I will gladly give up chocolate for the rest of my life, but popcorn and potato chips will be my true loves forever.

The movie was much better than the reviews I read gave it credit for. Then again, we could have been biased ‘cus a feel-good, make-you-smile, everything-works-out-in-the-end, true-love-works-and-relationships-are-worth-working-on kinda movie was exactly what we needed that night. But it was good. And I got my popcorn with lots of butter on it, so I was very happy. Plus, after the movie we went to Chenoy’s for supper and I had a plate of nachos so I was really happy. I think the way to my heart really is through my stomach.

Yannick still really wanted me to come home but I still thought it was best to stay at my parents’ so I went back, but knew it would probably be the last night.

(actually being posted on Feb 21 ‘cus I was too busy/lazy to post on time)

Yannick called during the day and really wanted me to come home tonight. This is the first time I’ve ever left. I wasn’t sure if I could stay, but I told him I’d come home for supper.

I had about an hour and a half to kill after work before the time supper was called for, so I went to another coffee shop (Java U this time) to sit and knit for a bit. I was able to finish the underpanel, and seam it to the back/neck piece.

I don’t want to get into the whole Yannick thing too much at this point, because by now (over a week later in reality) things are fixed and working and solid. I’ll leave it by saying that when I got home he had a really great supper made special, and we did a lot of talking (and crying) and a lot of things were set forth to change. I didn’t know at the time if those changes would actually happen (they since have) but I had faith.

After supper Yannick wanted to work on his knitting swatch because he needed to finish practicing the knit stitch and then learn the purl stitch before he could begin my anniversary gift, so we went downstairs and watched about 3 hours of The Food Network (my favorite channel) while each knitting. I worked on my lace sock because I needed to be ready to turn the heel by Monday’s class, and he worked on his swatch. He did 10 knit rows then started on 10 purl rows. He’s done about 6 so far. After that I’m going to have him do 10 rows in 1×1 rib then 10 rows in seed stitch, then he’ll have practiced all the stitch combinations he’ll be using in the little blankie he’s making for me.

I ultimately decided it was better for us if I went back to my parents’ house to sleep, so I left again, but it was already almost 2:00am so it’s not like we didn’t spend time together.

Oh, and to Orris from the comments:
Thanks for the Michael’s offer. I might take you up on it one day! It’s not so bad for my friend to go for me though, ‘cus she and her husband drive in to Montreal every Friday night and we see them almost every weekend, so it’s not like she’s running to the post office to ship things off to me. I get things hand-delivered LOL!