*that's a little joke.

the other day, when heading to the toy store for The Duke of Pork's first birthday gift, we saw a loom on the side of the road. a pretty big one, relatively speaking. i agonized over picking it up, as i didn't really want to start weaving *myself*, but i know enough fiber freaks that i could have at least got a nice pint out of a trade. and some eternal happiness if handed off to the right person. But I hesitated. And it was gone by the time we came out of the toy store. So, my fiber friends, I'm sorry. But someone out there is probably happy for finding that thing.

why can't i start weaving right now? i think i have an unhealthy obsession with ravelry, which eats up any spare minutes, to the exclusion of actually knitting or creativity. i always have SO many projects rolling around in my head, and ravelry is like, like, um, maybe like a room full of knobs and switches for someone with severe OCD. there is always something else to look at. OH WAIT there's more! i'll get over it soon, but so much to look at, so much to feed the knitting polyamory.

on that front, i'm severely bored with my projects (also probably why ravelry looks so good) because i feel like i'm not allowed to work on what i really WANT to work on, which is finishing the damned pomotomi. instead there are a couple pairs of plain socks that need to be done, and it's slowwwwwww going. i'm sort of itching to do kate gilbert's bird in hand mittens. but really, the siren right now is the sunrise circle jacket. probably made worse by yarnharlot's version looking so nice. and i forgot that is by kate gilbert too. haha. one other item high on my list is ALSO by her - the marina piccolo socks. but they are very similar to pomotomus, so i might have to do something else in between with the sock yarn.

i should seriously be sleeping right now. himself was up at 6:30 and is now back to sleep for morning nap. i could use that too. which means y'all are spared additional pointless stories for the moment.

i will say, little man is just growing and growing. he's got a whole bunch of teeth all coming in at once, is totally not happy unless he can be let loose to wander the house, and i'm fully expecting him to be driving by thursday. i think we've passed the cusp of the crazy 9 month stuff a little early. the last few weeks have been super weird, but it seems to be dying down.