JessaLu Knits (and Spins!)

<p>Knitting, as you all know,&#160;takes planning.&#160; First, you find the pattern.&#160; Possibly you stumble across it, it finds you or your best friend throws a magazine at you in Barnes &amp; Noble while informing you that you Must. Knit. This.&#160; Either way, you have a pattern.&#160; Then you find the yarn and the right size needles.&#160; Or, you find the yarn first and wait ’til it ’speaks’ to you.&#160; Perhaps you find a lot of different kinds of yarn and wait ’til it ’speaks’ to you.&#160; Perhaps your family thinks your crazy and wants to put you away because you think wool can talk.</p>
<p>…which is kinda my situation.&#160; (Except, I suspect the teenager wants to put me away so she can run amok.)</p>
<p>I&#160;*might* have a stash issue.&#160; But that’s not what this post is about.</p>
<p>This post is about planning.&#160; Or…forgetting to plan.</p>
<p><a href="uploads/Photos/7-26-2006018.jpg"><img width="175" height="131" src="uploads/Photos/7-26-2006018.serendipityThumb.jpg" style="border: 0px none ; padding-right: 5px; padding-left: 5px; float: left;" alt="" /></a>Sometimes you need to put the same amount of planning into un-knitting that you put into knitting.&#160;&#160;Sometimes you need to clear your schedule for a minimum of an hour if you’re going to rip out a short-row heel all willy-nilly&#160;and have a pile of yarn in your lap.</p>
<p>…and if you forget to clear your schedule…or if you’re too pissed off at your knitting and must. rip. now.&#160; …make sure you pee before ripping ‘cuz once you have that lapful of yarn, there’s no going back.&#160; Moving it just isn’t an option.&#160; At least, not an easy one.</p>
<p>…don’t ask how I have this knowledge…just take my word for it, m’kay?</p>

<p>…my mojo, that is.&#160; But alas, like Peter Pan and his shadow, I’m having trouble keeping it ‘with’ me ;o)&#160; Maybe some of you who can sew will help a girl out? </p>
<p>Thank you everyone for your kind words and good wishes.&#160; My Dad also thanks everyone :o) &#160;As soon as I hear anything about the scan I will post it…</p>
<p>I don’t have a whole lot of progress to report on the knitting front, although I’m sure some of you regular readers have noticed my Wyvern sock meter creeping towards the 100% mark ;o)&#160; No pictures today since I’m blogging from work (sssshhhh - although it *is* my lunch break…) but I promise you a ‘real’ post on the ‘morrow.</p>
<p>There are two things going on today in the blogosphere.&#160; One is…did you know that the company who makes Addi Turbos is&#160;thinking about&#160;making a pointier version but they haven’t gotten enough of a response from the knitting community to seriously consider it?&#160; Yeah, me neither.&#160; You can read about it and get info on where to email them <a href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1762&amp;entry_id=242" title="http://www.grumperina.com/knitblog/archives/2006/07/little_birdie.htm" onmouseover="window.status=’http://www.grumperina.com/knitblog/archives/2006/07/little_birdie.htm’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>The second is, <a href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1763&amp;entry_id=242" title="http://criminyjickets.blogspot.com/2006/07/smak-july-done.html" onmouseover="window.status=’http://criminyjickets.blogspot.com/2006/07/smak-july-done.html’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;" target="_blank">Dave</a> (aka Criminy Jickets) is a finalist in the Amazing Lace Challenge #4!!&#160; If you’re in a voting mood…go <a href="http://jessaluknits.yarncourtesans.com/exit.php?url_id=1764&amp;entry_id=242" title="http://amazinglace.licketyknit.com/?p=67" onmouseover="window.status=’http://amazinglace.licketyknit.com/?p=67′;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;" target="_blank">vote for him here</a> (he’s the one with the awesome ab shot *g*)&#160; Go Dave!&#160; </p>
<p>Gotta run - my mojo just ducked behind the filing cabinet…I might be able to get it this time…</p>

<p>…I seem to have lost my mojo.</p>
<p>And I think I’ve been the victim of some bad juju, too.&#160; </p>
<p>Actually, technically, it’s not *me* that’s the victim of the juju - it’s my Dad.</p>
<p>I wasn’t going to blog about this, I was going to keep it off the blog and try to deal with it quietly.&#160; However, I’m finding it hard to think about anything else.&#160; I’m hoping by getting it ‘out there’ that I might be able to get my head wrapped around this enough to think about something else for five minutes.&#160; </p>
<p><em>This past Thursday my Dad was diagnosed with prostate cancer.</em></p>
<p>There, I said it, it’s in print and yeah, it didn’t make me feel much better.</p>
<p>He is having a bone scan done today to find out…I can’t say it.</p>
<p>So, I guess what I’m asking is for some positive energy.&#160; A little hope from each of you that this scan comes back okay and all we have to deal with is the prostate thing.</p>
<p>btw,&#160;Dad does read this blog so he’ll see any comments left for him.&#160; :o)</p>