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Oh, my. Tonight I started knitting this pattern by Fiber Trends, a little felted sheep. (See "A Felted Flock" way down at the bottom of the page. Man, I likes the bunnies... maybe I'll pick that pattern up someday.) It's for Tom's mom, and I've had the yarn sitting around for like 18 months. It has some crazy short-row knitting in it, such that most rows are actually like six rows that wrap and turn near the end. It's completely annoying because each "row" is hundreds of stitches, though there are rarely more than 55 on the needle... not hard to follow, but there aren't too many natural stopping points. At the moment I have a convincing little sheep butt. More to come.

Tomorrow: fun with ebay. I need to sell a few semi-luxury items so as to have Xmas money, since it has occurred to me that I won't get paychecks in time to buy anything. I have a few really nice dresses, sz L and XL, that would be totally great for office xmas parties and for New Year's Eve.

Also major note-to-self: when next at library, check out book called The Work-At-Home Sourcebook; this lists legit work-at-home opportunities. I just want to make like $10-12/hr, I'm a relatively skilled worker, it shouldn't be THAT hard to find.

Sinead O'Connor is on Leno right now. She's a little off-key. She looks good, though. Still no hair. Reggae?

Sick House developments: nausea on my part, which the mom has been experiencing since this morning. I don't feel nauseated enough to throw up, but I almost have a few times anyway, which was surprising and alarming when it happened. (I think this will distress at least one of the well-wishers replying to my last post.) My stomach just hurts very vaguely. I slept a lot today. I also started Jonathan Carroll's new book, Glass Soup.

Tom is over in Tomland - his apartment - and seems to be doing OK.

And I worked on the pattern from Knitty that I started almost 18 months ago, Sueet - it's a little bag made in Berroco Suede. And you know what? It sucks. It hasn't been the least amount of "fun" to knit, and the construction isn't really intuitive (it's one of those projects where circular needles or double-pointeds would have been best and would have saved some finishing, but it's written to be made on straight needles because circs and DPNs scare some people). That's why it took me 18 months to do a tiny project... obviously, I hadn't worked on it a lot in the last year. I still have to line it, which I may put off for a while. But I want to finish all my unfinished projects before I start anything new, with the exception of some hats for the putative in-laws, which I'd like to make before Thanksgiving. That's mainly my sweater in Colinette Tagliatelli and this bag, as I finished my Koigu socks in the spring (and can wear them soon! yay!). And then that's it for me and multiple projects - I will work on one thing at a time until it's finished.