Still Kickin'

I have a cold and it sucks and I took a half day at work to come home and sleep. That was nice. I have discovered that I am a knitter. I like to knit, I find it relaxing and fulfilling to make something that I could just as easily buy. I have just started on a shawl to wear around the house when I am cold (which is often when I am healthy, not so much this week). I a making it out of the prodigious amount of yarn that I have leftover from the afghan that I finished last year. Very exciting stuff, first project on circulars and all. I'm kinda sad that being sick usually means being dizzy or easily made dizzy, which does not lend itself to knitting. So I only got three or four rows done yesterday, and nothin' today. Hopefully tomorrow will be better on the head functioning properly front.
I have also found that making my own knit goods can cost quite a bit more than buying them. Which boils down to...I will purchase some sweaters from LLBean and save the knitting money for the baby and two weddings that other people are having next year and that I would like to knit gifts for. And I will take a class on how to knit socks. I am really looking forward to this, it sounds like a lot of fun. I have been reading knitting blogs lately, and there are lots of folks who knit socks because they are small, a nice break between larger projects and easy to take with.

Work has been busy with State Fair prep. If you go the the Fair, look for the MN Bound log cabin, thems my peeps. I'll be working there the 3-9 shifts of AUG 29 & 30, and the morning (9-3) of labor day if you want to say hi.

The River Challenge was fun, Tiring, and hippies should not necessarily be allowed to make the menu (Not a fan of Sunday's lunch), but fun. I got blisters in places (the palm of my right hand) that have never been blistered before. And REALLY big boats that don't slow down when they see 200 canoes and kayaks are jerks. But they were really only prevelant in the last stage. Good times, and I know that I can steer a canoe at least as well as James, if not better. We are both looking forward to the BWCA trip in a couple of weeks, It'll be nice to be in the woods rather than at work.