The Race Is On

I feel bad that I haven't posted since Wednesday, but it has been a little psycho around Chez Knitasha.  My girls started back to school on Thursday, requiring everyone to make some major body clock adjustments.  Unlike last year, they start at the same time and we all have to get up about 6:15.  Nobody in this joint is what you'd call an early bird, so there has been a fair bit of sighing and snarling, but the bus was made both days, so we're calling that a victory.

Having lived through the odd, abbreviated school week, we moved on to an eventful weekend.  Saturday morning, my youngest had an appointment at the "real" beauty salon.  We had done some at-home highlights at the start of the summer that had grown out to create a serious roots situation.   I decided we needed a professional to get her back to her original hair color.


"I can't believe Mom is taking my picture in the beauty salon!!"



"I love my new hair!"

With any luck at all, we are now close enough to her real color that touch-ups will not be required.  Between the cost for the color, the cut, and the tip, I had serious sticker shock!  Of course, the beauty queen announced that she's only getting her hair cut at the fancy salon from now on.  We'll see about that.

Saturday night we went downtown to a group of riverside restaurants known collectively as "The Docks".  We chose the Italian restaurant and I had the best spaghetti marinara I've had in a very long time.  Yum!  After a very good meal, we took a nice walk along the river and did some impromptu dancing to the music spilling out of the nightclub.  I actually took my camera with me (shocking!), here's the happy group with full bellies. (The extra kid is a friend of my daughters - I didn't just add random passers-by to the photo.)



For extra bonus points, find the knitting needles in the picture.  (It should get bigger if you click on it)

The hot and humid weather we'd been stuck in seems to have temporarily broken, so yesterday was absolutely beautiful.  Once I had slogged through the grocery shopping, I just couldn't waste the afternoon indoors, so I went to play nine holes of golf with my husband and my youngest.  "Play" is a bit of a misnomer - he plays and she and I just hack around.  But the weather was perfect, the sky was blue, and the kid got to drive the cart, so a good time was had by all.  And I finished the Spiraling Socks!  (What?  You don't knit on the golf course?  Jeez, I'm really starting to think there's something wrong with you people.)



I took many pictures this morning to try to convey their loveliness, but it is so hard to take pictures of your own feet!



It was so soothing to knit with a multicolored yarn and not have to worry about matching the colors on the second sock.  It's a good thing, too, because I used up almost the entire skein!



I haven't started my next project, because it isn't here yet!  There are actually two pending projects - I have ordered the pattern for this and the yarn for this and it's a race to see what gets here first.  Kate  is going to knit the skirt too, so we can commiserate and help each other along.  Donna is making Fifi, which is how I found the pattern in the first place.  Luckily, I also found pattern corrections on the web for it, so I avoided some serious frustration there.   So, whatever arrives first is what I'm starting next.  Can you stand the tension?!

In the meantime...

 

Comments

[Donna]

I won't be knitting Fifi for long! I'm almost done. If I actually got my lazy butt off the 'puter and back to knitting, I'd be done! ;)
You are in for it with the beauty salon now - you'll never get her back to the budget place!! Love the socks :)

[The OTHER Karen]

The hair looks great! The Docks looks like y'all had a great time! The knitting needles are stickin' out of the black bag....is that your purse, maybe? Love that skirt. Never had the opportunity to knit on a golf course, but I may have to scope one out just to try it!