apparently i am of the sub-conscious impression that my left hand is a good 2 inches longer than my right hand. if you can’t quite make it out in the above pic, it may be more noticible in black and white.

what to do? well, i am going to see if i can eek out another mitten from the yarn. if so, i may take up SOP’s recommendation of using the ultra-large mitt as a sock, with a little pocket poking out for a key or something (no idea how this could possibly be useful in an indoor item of clothing, but hey, it’s an idea). or it will be my christmas decoration. hmm… any ideas on what to do with a lone mitten?

what i planned on doing:
work
make mittens
finish surprise beanie
have soup with family
work on SOP’s socks
work on my socks
start felted slippers

what i did:
work
make mitten
frog surprise beanie
have soup with family
go to birthday party
go to wedding (FUN!!)
sleep in on my day off

notes on editing:
as i was walking to work this morning it occurred to me that the lines through the items in the “what i did” list could make it appear as if i had done them; i did not. the line-throughs were to indicate that i did not do them, but as this could be confusing, i changed it to simply get rid of the many things i did not do this past weekend.

i’m in germany. in saarbruecken, as usual. but of course it is different than in real life. this is the saarbruecken i visit in my dreams. today i am visiting yarn stores, looking to see if i can get some neat opal uni or something like that, i guess. i have a shopping basket with me: one of those narrow deals that you can wheel to the store with you. i’m with a friend and we go upstairs in this small antique/fabric/?? store and look at the couple bins of yarn they have stashed in the back behind a large, drafting-style table. i’m not finding anything that interests me. a lady comes up and is looking at the self-patterning yarns. she asks me about them, ‘was sind sie?’ ‘nun, die verschiedene Farben bilden einen Muster, man braucht selbst ausser stricken nichts zu tun.” i explain that the patterns form by themselves, you don’t have to do anything but knit, i try to explain that you need to keep gauge and that if the garment is too different of a size, the colors will pool, but i do not know the term for pooling colors in german, so i draw it for her, “und hier, wann die maschen zu eng sind, kommen die farben durcheinanderund den Muster wird nicht richtig gemacht, man muss eine Maschenprobe machen und sollte vorsichtig sein, das Garn fuer den beabsichtigten Zweck zu verbrauchen.” but i don’t use patterning yarns myself, they don’t appeal to me much, and i may have misled her.

as i leave the store i think that this trip will be relaxing. my family is going to join me here and i know that i have a flight home. i am not sure when, but it won’t be like in my other dream trips to germany where i am trying to get to the airport from Pirmasens and am not sure when my flight is or if i have my passport. plus, i will not have to worry about getting the Ueberraschungseier all myself, everyone can pick out their own favorite treats to bring home with them. yes, this dream trip will be much better than the usual ones, i am sure of it.

i want this and this and i sure as heck wouldn’t mind this and as long as i am getting the kilt, i might as well get this so i can board through this town while knitting and really turn some heads.

but really, i want less. i am still going through things, getting rid of them. if you would like and german books, take a look at this. and then i’d like some time, and a clue as to what i want to do in life, oh and peace of mind (not piece of mind, i get enough of that, thank you).