A scarf for a boy, worn by a girl

Done done diddly. I'd like to thank Yarns on Collie, American Express, The Freo knitters, ABC TV and iView and most of all the lovely Mister for whom all this labour was for. Quite frankly I am so relived it is over and I don't have to do endless rows of seed/single moss any more. What peeves me slightly is that he hasn't worn it yet and thus I am yet to get a photo of the finished product on its intended recipient. So here I am.

Behind me you will see the other fruit of my procrastinating labour, the new upstairs bookshelf. Built by my very clever father, assisted by Mister. For years we have had teetering stacks of books scattered around the house, next to peoples' beds, on the stairs, on the tables and side tables, on top of other books on bookshelves etc. Thanks to the new bookshelf, we have real estate for approximately 600 novel sized books. Four and a half of the ten shelves have been filled by me in an attempt to justify not studying for my looming exams. This shelf filling means our bigger books have places to go on various other bigger bookshelves. Yay! I could spend my whole exam period happily re-arranging our family library. But I shan't. I shall be good and get back to studies now. After I have a spot of lunch.

Bad blog keeper!

I know, I know, a bit of self-flagellation is in order. I have been naughtily slack. We all knew I was never going to be the best of blog keepers, but a month is a little inexcusable. Exciting things that happened in said month:

* The boy is back! Thank you K Ruddy and your stimulation package. In a nod to the Aussie economy, I made sure that I purchased a Qantas flight for him, even though it was far from the cheapest. I figured if someone else was footing the bill, I might as well do the right thing by my country. (How uncharacteristically patriotic of me.)

* I finished first semester of Uni. I am yet to sit exams (see point 3), but I feel pretty good about it all.

* I have had a mystery viral disease, which I was marginally worried was H1N1. My worries were unfounded, it wasn't even regular old influenza A. It definitely hit me for six though. As a result, my exams have been deferred for a month.

* My knitting funk is all gone. I am excited to knit again. I went to the World Wide Knit in Public Day last Saturday and got to meet a whole bunch of other Perth knitters who were all super cool. I also woke up at 4 am this morning and was unable to get back to sleep. I spent the majority of the time thinking about knitting. Projects I am working on, projects I'd like to start, techniques I'd like to use.... all those good things. I am pretty excited I must say.

and zat is zat. No pictures or anything cool, we are just working with baby steps here. I am sick after all!

Catchya