my postman must hate me. or maybe he’s a knitter and is stealing the lovely yarn i ordered for the poncho-a-long. or perhaps he is psychic and knows that i am not set on the pattern yet anyway, so what does it matter if i have the yarn or not? but then again, he could just hate me. but, on the off-hand that it is the psychic thing, i have done a rough sketch of what i think i want the poncho to look like:

the main color is a dark purple and the contrast color is a pistachio green. the colors are based on a house i saw while walking harley. the texture is based on a zip-sweater that my dad’s mom made for him long ago. it is mostly purls, with 4 knits (on top of each other) every so often. boy, what a description, aren’t i good with words? anyway. i want the knit columns to go up and down, so i will need to cast on a few stitches and keep increasing from there, and then decrease after the halfway point. the pistachio color will come in for some of the knits. anyway, maybe i should do a test strip first, just to let the postman know that i am really serious…

i spent the long weekend working for the ski resort selling pre-season passes. it’s the same resort i worked at while finishing my degree and i really enjoy the people. it is so different from my regular job, that it doesn’t feel like i am working on my 9th day straight of working, but i am. and by this time next week, i will be working on my 16th day straight. sigh. and so i am debating whether i should work there again this winter or not. last year, i definitely needed it, with R having just died and just needing to be kept busy all the time by outside forces, but this year, i am not sure. this year i think i can motivate myself without having a place that i NEED to be at X hour, etc. well, i have until october to decide, so there’s no super rush.