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Aight lady, you're making me look bad. You're like, ten times the friend I'll ever think I am. The end.

Apparently the SnB is having a movie night at a member's house, and the theme is "food from your childhood". Would you think juice boxes count?

Now I want grilled cheese sandwiches for dinner.

As Stephen says, moving on.

There’s a meme I’ve been seeing. It involves a list of ten. Gods help me, I could not resist.

Be warned, I am a relatively new knitter. My plan is to write down these “Ten Knitterly Things About Me” now and come back in a year and see how far I’ve come. Hey, I’m a fan of time capsules and you can’t take that away from me. Anyway.
1. What is up with Continental Knitting? Seriously. I really wanted to try this out but I can’t grasp this concept to save my life. It literally hurts my brain when I try to make it work. Perhaps it’s because it’s a left-handed thing and my brain seeks to reject southpaw tendencies. I’m not sure. I know it’s the fastest way to knit. I’m just not sure if it’s worth the aneurysm to make it work.
2. At any given moment in time, I am about 15 projects ahead of what I’m currently working on. I search through online places, buy books, read the magazines. I see something new nearly everyday I’d like to knit and make a mental note or set aside the pattern. I have begun a yarn stash with yarn that I eventually plan to use for such projects. We have yet to see how that works out for me.
3. I have never bought a yarn “just to have it”. I usually make a purchase with a project in mind. I’ve been limited to the few stores around my location as I haven’t traveled much recently and I’m sketchy on purchasing yarn online (place of i/p excluded) if I don’t already know what it’s going to look like. I have a feeling this may change when I go to the fiber fest this fall.
4. I am a bigger fan of circular needles than straights. I like that I don’t have to support all the weight at once. I like that I can put a project down and not worry about the needles falling out. I like that you can’t lose the other needle when it’s not being used. Trust me, I can lose a straight within five seconds of sitting down somewhere. They just evaporate from my hands.
5. I am a bigger fan of knitting socks on circulars than with DPN’s. Using DPN’s is like walking into a room of flying scorpions. You know it’s a bad idea, yet you can’t resist the dangeresque of it all. I hope to conquer the use of these small pointy sticks.
6. I knit while watching television, riding in the car, flying, and walking around stores. I knit at concerts where I know I’ll be sitting and not in other’s way. I knit in restaurants while waiting to order/get food. I knit (simple things) in the movie theater. I don’t feel like I have to knit all the time. I just like the soothing repetitiveness of the task. It keeps me from getting anxious around other people and makes a great conversation starter (one of the best parts of getting older is intentionally freaking out the younger generations-I can’t wait to make teens twitch with out of date slang).
7. Knitting is a hobby for me. It’s escape from pressure to do things and make others happy. When people call me up and say “So and So needs this, make one” or “So and So wants to pay you to make such and such for her” I get turned off. I like to knit things for others. I have several projects for such events and people. I just don’t like the pressure of having to do something for someone. It then becomes a job, or a task. Not fun.
8. Conversely, when someone says they like something I’m making or they’d like one of their own, I make a mental note. They’ve probably just found their Christmas present.
9. I can’t use charts. I don’t understand how they apply. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to read to figure out how to use them. I don’t know why they only chart one side when there are repeats on the ws and use symbols that make no sense like > or \ or ^ to denote a stitch. It’s like Braille. Why not just use the English alphabet with raised bumps instead of creating your own crazy alphabet with six dots that people have to learn to write anything down for a blind person? Why not just stick K or P in the box if you gotta knit or purl?
10. I don't trust my own skill. I read a pattern and write down in great detail what I need to do. I make notes of repeats and such so I don’t lose my place. I’m still sort of waiting for someone to come along and say it’s okay for me to attempt fair isle or something else of the sort. I feel like there are skills the “advanced” knitter has that one can only achieve after years of knitting, even though it is all just “knit” and “purl”. However, I do not hesitate to encourage others that like myself might be unsure about tackling a project. I mean, what’s the worst thing that could happen? You unravel and start over? We’re knitting for fun, no longer for survival. Congratulations, you’ve just created more hobby time for yourself.

Someday, I’ll learn to always take my own advice. Until then, I continue to knit.