I haven’t been feeling the blogginess lately. I don’t know what it is. I’m not interested in writing, not in reading, etc. It could be any number of things. Busy end of the quarter, followed by fiance having surgery (he’s fine now!), panicking about caring for the fiance after surgery and spending every waking moment with him to the point that it’s driving him insane … You know, these are big time commitments. But on a more serious note, I never really understood what it was like to care for someone who got sick until now. And trust me, we went through nothing even close to the magnitude of what many people go through. Peto’s surgery was simple, and it was to treat a very early, very treatable stage of cancer. It still seems like the surgery was enough and that he won’t have to undergo any chemo or radiation, but I’m still knocking on wood every chance I get. But I got a glimpse of what it is like to really care for someone with cancer and it was just nowhere near what a lot of people have to go through. And the impact on me from just that little glimpse of that world was more than enough.

Definitely one way to cope with long hours in the hospital waiting for news from doctors was to knit. Ohhh boy did I knit. It’s the best thing for me to do when I have too much nervous energy to concentrate on reading. One thing that came out of this is these socks:


pattern: first-time tube socks by Ann Budd, in the winter 07/spring08 Knitscene
size: long
needles: US6 denises
yarn: Sublime Yarns Extra Fine Merino Wool DK, 3 skeins

The only real mod I made was to use a smaller needle than the pattern called for. The combination of this stitch pattern and that cable-spun merino is just so squishy and wonderful. And the pattern is so incredibly stretchy that it’s not at all weird that there’s not a heel. These are for Peto. I finished them up last night, and he could have worn them on his first day back at work today had I gotten up at a decent hour. See, I’m on spring break. I still have a paper to write and all, but I’m sleeping IN.