remember that battery issue? yeah, still not a happy camper. only this time I don’t have brownies to drown my sorrow. bugger. that Vicki guy, the one who was so bloody aggrevating and yet slightly less helpful than he ought to have been, did he call me back? NO! a resounding pissy NO.

on top of all of this, I have ^#$%ed up so much knitting that I am almost tempted to pick up my cross stitch again. (it’s been about 6 years since I touched it) Let’s go through the list of things that turned to $#!+ the nanosecond I touched them.

  • Grannie Smith Sweater Swatch - four tries to swatch the dagged thing. SWATCH. That’s it. I just want the gauge. Why is that so wrong??
  • Pink Baby Sweater - I knit the back. I knit a sleeve. I knit both front pieces. Laid them out to see how they’d fit together. Scratched my head for about five minutes wondering why I had a funny feeling about the sweater. Then the lightbulb that says "::poink poink:: you idiot, you knit both the fronts 3 inches too short."
  • Koigu Sock - Just a plain koigu sock. Trying to de-stash. Making a good will effort towards the yarn kiddies hanging around the house grumbling about neglect. I knit the toe of the sock. I got pretty excited about the idea of this sock. Had to start the whole thing over when  Igot a little too excited and knit a toe that would have been more at home on the foot of the Jolly Green Giant. Redo toe and think to myself, "Self, this sock would look mighty fine with a handful of small cables running up the front." Well, note to self. "Self, screw the cables. I’m sorry I mentioned them." I have frogged the mighty fine handful of small cables oh, about twice now and reknit probably 4 inches of sock once to discover not just one, but multiple dropped stitches from undoing the cables and missing a stitch and then there’s not enough leeway in the yarn to ladder them back up.
  • Warshrag from MDK - I need to just throw in the towel on this one. If I had a dishtowel to throw in! Why else would I be trying to knit one? I keep putting it down mid-row to answer the phone, take the pizza out of the oven, etc only to pick it back up and proceed to do something wrong.

Am I just cursed?? What can I do to break this streak????