Her Royal Highness, Princess Maddy

Back from trick-or-treating, having to carry Maddy halfway home due to ouchy Cinderella shoes, which she then refused to take off when she got in the house. Does our irrational love of cute shoes that hurt start so young??

Behold the Empress!

My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is: Empress Mairwen the Verdant of Londinium-le-Thames Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title

That one's sticking, I can tell you.

But....

..it's not easy being green.

Austermann Step

Austermann Step, originally uploaded by iron knitter.

In other news, I have once again been seduced by really awesome sock yarn. It joins its brethren in The Stash, to age until I get to it. I think I want to use this to knit the Tibetan socks in New Pathways in Sock Knitting by Cat Bordhi. The yarn is held doubled without matching the colors. She used Zitron Trekking XXL, and this has the exact same yardage (as does Lang Jawoll Aktion).

I wonder what year I will finally get organized enough to knit anyone a Christmas gift? Well...to be honest, I did give 2 pairs of socks last year. I'd like to knit my daughter a Christmas stocking, but I may not do it in time (I'm thinking of Teva Durham's stocking in Handknit Holidays)...I want to knit some ornaments too. And a tree skirt. I think you start to see the problem, especially since I work 50-60 hours per week, and then have household chores, exercise, and family time on top of that. At least I'm never bored.

Fastest admit in the (mid)west

Wow, thank heavens for competent nurse practitioners and babies who behave. Paged at 0122, patient admitted, examined, and note dictated, back home to bed at 0300. My husband didn't know I was ever gone (raises possibilities, hmm? Nah, nothing I want to do more at 2 am than sleep). Needless to say, the munchkin was up at about 5:30, just to plague me. Where do kids get that sixth sense, that Mommy needs sleep, so let's get up early today? Then the day she needs to get out the door early, do your hibernating bear impression.

Knit tattoo

Knit tattoo, originally uploaded by iron knitter.

So here it is, in all its glory: my knitting tattoo. Drawn freehand by the artist based on my description. Until I found the tattooed group on Ravelry, I didn't know anyone else was as crazy as I was.

I can't believe I started a blog.

Well. In a case of, "Everyone else is doing it, so why can't I?" I've started a blog. Never mind that I have no time, and I'm typing this at work (shh!). Never mind that I've already been burning time on Ravelry, that I haven't started any holiday knitting, that I have umpteen projects on the needles and a stack of medical journals that's down to 4 inches or so. Gotta have a blog, or there's a blank in my profile everywhere. I still refuse to IM.