Football Injuries and a Rant

So the Husband and I went to a 49er's preseason game against Denver. Denver won after the 49er's failed three separate times to follow through on excellent setups that should have resulted in touchdowns. For a preseason game it was pretty exciting. Clearly there were some guys actually fighting to impress the coaches so get some play time during the season. They didn't just sit down anytime they had the ball like most preseason games. While we were there the sun was setting in front of us, beaming straight into our eyes, so I took the Husband's blue Notre Dame hat. To replace his now stolen hat, I bought him a red 49er's hat to match his red 49er's sweatshirt, which he was wearing. Other than for our wedding, I don't think he's ever been so well coordinated! He proudly wore his 49er's gear, while I proudly wore my Notre Dame ensemble. Now I ask you, who was the sharper dresser? (Although, I do look chubby in that photo! boooooo!)

The only hiccup in our outing was when I overstretched the ligaments in my abdomen (ask me how it was a ligament) while trying to let someone by me on the bus back to the BART station. I can tell you that the round ligament pain I've been having is nothing to whatever the hell it was I did to the ligament. I thought maybe I'd torn it, but today it feels okay, if somewhat more sore than normal. Damn changing body.

I love Baby J and am thrilled to be having a baby, but this whole pregnancy thing is very inconvenient and uncomfortable at times. All those women who loudly proclaim how much they loved being pregnant and how much they miss it must not remember what it was like. I don't hate it, mind you, but it's annoying far too regularly. And seriously, morning sickness is just awful! Thank God I'm done with that! One friend of mine was only a little nauseous in the mornings, but me... well, it was bad. Projectile bad. All day. Yuck. Anyway. I really have been healthy, so I shouldn't complain, but I'm human, so I will occasionally. ;)

Finally, Some Progress is Made!

I finished the first strip. It looks rather bluish in the photos, but it really is white. The edges are rolling somewhat even after stretching it due to the stockinette on the sides. I'll block it to check the length when I get home. It's still in the range of average sized baby blankets, so it should be fine, but it is 250 rows. Now I'm doing the next color, because I got tired of looking at the white. I need variety! I also decided to do a purl cast on. It looks better and will be easier to pick up stitches from for the edging. And the edging... I can't decide if I want to do it all in white, a color, or cycle through the colors. Okay, so Baby J will be a boy, but that doesn't mean the edging has to be in blue. I'm leaning toward cycling through the colors, starting and ending in white.

So I got all this done, despite the home front drama. Not with Husband. Him, I can talk to and come to compromises with, and he won't take advantage of me. Not so with this person. I think my blood pressure has gone up at least 10 points. Baby J is still moving normally, so it doesn't seem to have put any real stress on him.

Ravelry Wait (Part 3) and Baby Afghan

I'm under 7000 now in waiting for Ravelry!

The baby registry is set up now. We didn't really put in a whole lot of stuff, mostly just necessities. I didn't get the afghan strip done the other night. I ended up needing to make it longer than I thought for length. I should finish it tonight and start the next one. I'll take a photo of it before I block it.

Ravelry Wait (Part 2)

There are now only 7271 people ahead of me on the Ravelry waiting list! And there are more people behind me in the list than ahead of me! Yay for progress.

I've been working so hard on research lately that I haven't had much time for knitting. And I really want to be knitting pretty much all the time to work on my baby afghan for my own baby. :) Today however, I was able to spend a whole hour just knitting. Ahh.... Luxury! I'm going to finish the first strip of my afghan tonight come hell or high water. Then I'll take a photo and post it. :) Life is good.

It's a boy!

The image is a little fuzzy but that's his little face. We also have lots of images from various directions (in 2D and 3D) that show absolutely that this is a boy. We've told the grandparents, now we're going to make up announcements to send to people. He seems very healthy and is VERY active. He was moving a lot during the whole ultrasound. I thought I had been feeling him moving all the time, but it seemed too much, so I was beginning to get a little paranoid. But after the ultrasound, it's proven. He's just an active little scamp. :)

The End of Dogs

The dogs are going to die. I am going to kill them. He got at my stash of yarn. And they played with it. And ripped it to shreds. Yarn was strewn from one end of the living room to the other. In bits. They never, repeat NEVER, go after my yarn. When I'm home. But I'm not home. I'm in California for the summer. And so they go for my yarn. And so they must die.

Stash on the Brain

Okay, I've made a decision about my stash. (My stash may be thousands of miles away, but it's still cluttering up my mind.) I am using it up, even if I have to make a large number of ugly scarves that I can give as gifts. Big Needles, here I come! I thought about selling some of it, but I bought this stuff with hopes of finished projects, and darn it I want some finished projects. (Where's my fairy godmother?) After that, I will only buy yarn for specific projects. I can have 100 projects going at once, right?