Wednesday Whys

I'm still worn out, but feeling better. On the other hand, yesterday I woke feeling unrested because of some unknown factor that affected my moods; today, I woke unrested because electricians were in the apartment above ours installing a new hook-up for an electric dryer, and they were hammering before 9 a.m.

Gryphon works second shift (3:15 to midnight), and we don't normally wake up before 10 a.m.

Which leads to this first Wednesday Why...

Why, after living here for over two years, with a landlord who, while not a friend, is certainly a friendly acquaintance and a rental office within a block of us that we are on good terms with....

Why, after all this time, does the office still never remember to let us know ahead of time when something like this is going to happen?

It's not like we'd tell them "you can't have work done when we might be sleeping." But it would have worked a lot better today if we'd known ahead so we could have taken steps to make the day smoother. If we'd been told there would be workers making noise this morning, we could have turned in for bed earlier last night, and set our clocks for an earlier hour so we could wake up on our own terms.

We could have avoided being jolted out of bed by the sounds of ongoing hammering in the room above ours.

We'll be stopping in to the office again to let them know and to reiterate our request for advance notification. They'll tell us once again, no doubt, that they're awfully sorry and they'll try to remember for next time.

Anyone want to take bets on how well that will work?

Knitting Knews News

(Yeah, that was too cutesy for me the instant I typed it.)

In spite of feeling so off yesterday, I did eventually relax enough to work on several knitting projects. The Sock Project saw some attention first, and I managed to knit a couple of inches of the foot on a new pair. I then picked up Wearable Hug #14 and worked for a while on that.

Today, I've put in some time on The Pirate Project and the Ladder-yarn Shawl. Both happened in the same 99:99 segment, though, and the I don't feel like the shawl has had a fair amount of attention yet. So it's going to get an extra 99:99 before I move on to another knitting project.

As you can imagine, hardly anything picture-worthy among those items. I mean, do we really need to see photos where you'd need a measuring tape to tell the difference from the last picture?

I didn't think so. So, considering that I'm so frequently hopping from project to project these days (while still feeling very satisfied by my knitting overall), I'll be saving pictures for noteworthy status changes and Finished Objects.

Just Too Cute

Just on a whim, I Google'd "knitting rat", and look what I came up with:

http://knitting.livejournal.com/500242.html

A rat in a handknit sweater! There's even a button to hold it closed. Isn't that just adorable?

You can see it now, can't you? Here are Gryphon and I rapidly moving towards having a pair of rats, and I thought all I'd be knitting was accessories for their cage - a hammock, snuggle pockets, and the like. But now, I need to think about all these leftover bits of sock yarn and the like and knitting sweaters.....HMMMMMMMM.

And while we're at it, here's a blog called knittingrat that I discovered when I first searched for knitters with rats...check out these pictures of Vincent in a Booga Bag.

Can you see now why we're going for rats as our pets of choice?

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