Last night I dreamt @loreleif.bsky.social took me to a cupcake bar for my birthday. You could pick your cupcake base, frosting, sprinkles, injected creme or caramel, etc. I don't know what my brain was trying to tell me, but I am listening. Also, @loreleif.bsky.social is clearly my favorite now.

Did you know - desserts consumed on vacation have half the calories as when consumed at home! This is because of all the fucking walking, because it's easier to walk than drive in an unfamiliar city. Lord, I have walked so much. But also I consumed chocolate muffins and gansitos and pastries.

Home from Vacay. Had a wonderful time, grateful to know once again that 3 days 2 nights is the right length. Long enough to feel gone, not so long I need to Go Home Right Now before it's scheduled to be over.

I am so tired why can't I sleep. (It is 2 hours before my usual bedtime.)

Vacation Day Two, also a success. More softball, found a lovely bakery and got too many pastries to eat in one day. Portland Cascade won again, yay. So tired.

Being in Hillsboro reminds me that holy fuck I do not want to live in a city this size. You cannot walk, you have to drive because everything is so spread out. Suburban "city."

We have successfully completed Vacation Day 1: drive to Hillsboro and see a Portland Cascade softball game.

A short and easy survey about nonbinary names: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Closing date: 19th July 2026 #nonbinary #survey

Picked up some laundry detergent sheets to take with us on vacay so we can do laundry at the hotel. The package says the detergent sheets are gluten-free. I do not understand why I need to know that.

GDI I am almost finished with a hat for charity, top down 2x2 ribbing and I look at it still on the needle and almost done and it looks like a penis. Imma pretend it looks like a mountain peak and play innocent if anyone asks.

Could your Sunday use more emus in it? Enjoy the utter chaos of giant birds playing in a shark sprinkler, come join our livestream! 🪶 twitch.tv/thefoxloft

Yarn inventory done! I have enough project bags of yarn for 39 projects, which is a lot less than I feared! (This does not include the yarn that is not going into the storage closet.) Even if I assume I have enough yarn for 50 projects, that is only about 2-3 years' worth of knitting. \o/

Whoohoo! Someone finally picked up my Monday shift (tomorrow) so I don't have to go back to work until July 13th!!! WHOOOO! (I had taken vacation Wed-Sun, then decided wtf and offered up my Mon and Tues shifts and someone snatched the Tues shift immediately.)

I have two of these 27gallon bins. One is full of sweater project bags. This is the 'everything else project' bin.

The best part about getting all my yarn into project baggies (or most of it) is I can more easily do what I've been trying to do and failing: select yarn THEN pick a pattern. When I pick pattern first I always end up needing to buy "just one or two" balls of yarn. Hoping to cut down on that.

First bin sorted. The problem I am now having is I want to knit everything right now. But some of it has to go into storage! There is no room! But! Yarn! Shiny!

I am beginning the Great Yarn Inventory Event of 2026. I am attempting to catalog & put into storage bags (inside storage bins) all of the yarn I've acquired. Bags of "this yarn will make a project" sorted by type/brand & color. I feel like I should have wine, but also that I should NOT have wine.

Anxiety tax means I bought blue yarn for a knit tee for myself that was much brighter in person than appeared on screen. As I work through the dark grey yarn and dark blue I keep thinking 'I will never wear that bright blue, do I want to waste my time knitting a tee with it.'

Oh, I forgot to mention! We are starting to get Halloween merch at my store!! It isn't on the shelves yet, but it is IN THE BUILDING. We are going to survive. There is a light in the distance - it is an eerie orange light.

Hey there Delilah I can meet you at the station You can be there by 4:30 cause I've made your reservation Yes you do Times Square can't shine as bright as you

Trying to decide what to do with a package of gnocchi, given that I want roasted gnocchi but don't want to turn the oven on. (We do not have a grill or an air fryer.)

So often I see a pattern and think 'ooh I love that' and I have to step back and realise I love the colors. And sometimes I see a pattern and am not moved to love it, until I see someone's version of it in colors that grab me. All of this is me talking myself out of buying yarn.

So far this morning the world has not shaped up. Still tired of it all.

Everything about the world is making me tired, today.

TIL that the acronym 'TIL' stands for Today I Learned.

I either need someone to make circular knitting needles in size 1.75mm out of wood or bamboo (anything but metal) OR I need to stop wanting to make socks with fingering weight yarn. Place your bets now. (Can't use dpns anymore, hands hurt. I have dpns in 000 and 0000 for lovely dense fabric socks.)

And the ruling is... painless migraine! Yay? I didn't need my brain for anything today, it's fine.

Currently enjoying the "is it low blood sugar, painless migraine, menopause, death plague, or a collection of all four?" game. 0/10 do not recommend.

Finished a hst using leftover yarn from the skull cowl. Pattern is Cosma by Ambah O'Brien. #knitting

For #ShowMeYourKnits blue week, I am digging up some old stuff. #knitting 1. Gansey socks from Wendy Johnson's sock from the top up book from 2013. 2. A blue and black Kranium Kowl from 2012. 3. Fingerless mitts from 2008, no pattern.

My problematic opinion is that someday my team going to be good again.

Pear cider loves me and wants me to be happy.

Once again, let's play "Is that garment really cute or is the model just skinny?"

Final photo, blocked and outside in the cloudy, rainy daylight. #knitting

The insidious colorwork in question.

The insidious thing about colorwork is you think "Ok I'm going to stop and take a break as soon as I finish this section- oh I just blew past that spot and now I'm halfway into the next, ok I'm going to stop after this next- oh I finished the round but NOW I'm going to- crap I did another round."

One full repeat of the chart. #knitting

Starting a new colorwork cowl! Made this pattern before, fifteen years ago. #knitting Pattern is Kranium Kowl by Jennifer Thompson.

When I put books on hold at the library I try to forward date them so they don't all come in at once. So they all come in at once a month later. Help.

My Monster is home! 🎉I would share a pic, but he's under the bed. I hate to do this, but...the bills are excessive. (But what can you do?) gofund.me/5ec65cadf

Still unclear how, after buying new knitting patterns, I have not gotten more knitting done. Am I doing something wrong. Oh - should I also be buying more yarn. If I buy yarn AND patterns, will the knitting complete itself while I sleep?

One nice thing about getting older is that I know I could dispense (unasked for) wisdom to young strangers on the internet, but I don't give a fuck. And thus I do not.

Currently at war with myself over: do I buy sweater quantity yarn that is affordable, or get the yarn I really really want to make myself a wool shirt. Obviously "wait until its on sale" is an option. Not an option that means I get to buy yarn Right Now. But it's an option.

I have now purchased three knitting patterns for lightweight tshirts FOR MYSELF and this is just so exciting. I even have yarn for one of them! I have not cast on for any, but so exciting! I haven't knit for myself in years, other than a new hat a couple of times.

Turns out four of my meds make me sensitive to heat, which makes me feel a lot better about having to come home from work the last two days. I think it got to 100ºF/37.7ºC today.

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

A couple days ago I was Very Close to Finishing a Project (tm) and so I set it aside and cast on for a hat, and now I am VCtFaP (tm) and now I want to set it aside and cast on a different hat. I am fairly sure my ability to focus is not the problem, here.

They are replacing some broken pipes in the complex' laundry room. Which is right next to our flat. (In other units they have a second bedroom.) While I am grateful they began at 8:30 and not 8am, and that I received warning a few days ago, I am not grateful to be awake 2 hours before my usual.

I've never knitted myself a sweater because Idon't wear them, they're too hot for me. At age 55, 30+ years of knitting, it occured to me that I could knit myself a short sleeved tshirt out of thinner-than-worsted yarn. So now I'm shopping a whole new realm of knitting patterns.