My knitting story of the week... So, I was at the doc (short story is that I'm not actually anemic, blood worrk was gloriously perfect, and this latest round wasn't allergies, whatever it was it's now pneumonia) and I got there a little early, and I was looking forward to settling in to do a little knitting whle I waited. The second Leaf Lace sock is going very fast.

I didn't realize how serious the docs office was about not waiting. They are serious. I was six stitches into a new row and the girl came to get me to go back. She saw the knitting, and asked about it, so I showed her the completed sock.

She complitmented me on how nice they felt, I tried to tell her they were merino wool (koigu) but she kept going... "those are really nice, that's nice fabric, those are like socks someone would pay FIVE DOLLARS for!" I looked at her in stunned silence. She continued "I heard that there are actually FIVE DOLLAR socks at WalMart! Can you imagine paying FIVE DOLLARS for socks?"

I muttered something as I put the knitting away. Not even knowing where to start. Most of my socks are minimum five bucks? Had I not got the Koigu on sale the socks I was knitting would have been 20 some odd dollars in yarn? I has taken me a couple of months to get these done, so that work would work out to about a penny or two an hour? Not to mention that WALMART IS SATAN and I wouldn't go there if everything was free?

If I've learned anything, it's to just shut up sometimes. She meant it as a huge compliement, and I'll just take it that way.