Busy Day=WNBP

Thank heavens for the Wednesday Night Bullet Posts! You guys were just so awesome (and then some) to request that they continue after I finished that Wednesday night, blog-interfering class I was taking. Yeesh! I'm just not up for all this gadding about! Out late last night...out all day today...I don't even recognize myself anymore. Here's your weekly dose of Sheepie thoughts that come in no particular order:

*Mommy Sheep and I headed out to tend to The Sheep Family Fortune today. Being as we are pretty much a family of educators, you can imagine that a trip to the bank to fiddle with the finances isn't something that requires an armed guard or anything.

*It does, however, require that we bring everyone associated with the account. Apparently the arrival of the vixeny, vampy Sheep ladies is enough to make bank officials refuse them the right to make any changes to existing accounts. Daddy Sheep should probably be there, too. You never know...the aforementioned vixens might be up to nefarious deeds involving arsenic and usually seen on daytime soap operas.

*For the record, there's no harm/no foul on this one, in my opinion. Nothing sexist about it. I mean really...would you like anyone (especially someone vixeny and vampy) to be able to cobble together some form of identification and add themselves to your account? Wouldn't you want to be there to say something like, "What did you say your name was again?" or "I honestly didn't know that I had such vixeny cousins!"

*Have I mentioned how much I love my new yogurt maker? Seriously. It is the best thing ever! It makes yogurt! And it's not like the yogurt I tried to make without it that I either couldn't maintain at the correct temperature or put in a dark, out of the way place to assist with temperature maintenance and forgot about.

*With The Sheep Family Finances out of our grasp (mine anyway...Mommy Sheep can still get at 'em) there was little to do with the rest of the day but shop. Mommy Sheep can't quite keep up the shopping pace that she did back in the day. But she can still leave me in the dust. I almost had to nap in the car.

*I got a new full spectrum Ott Lamp while we were at Bed, Bath And Beyond. (they keep them in the "beyond" part) We had a 20% off coupon and The Sheep can now knit in eyeball comfort. I'm not saying that the eyes are getting aged or anything. But, I'm thinking that a little of the full spectrum light might help with the seeing of the sock yarn.

*I am reasonably sure that I can now knit lace. I'm convinced that the only barrier between me and fancy-schmancy knitting has been poor lighting. I'll just be cranking out flouncy things by the yard from this day forward. I probably should finish that sock from yesterday, though.

*OK, here's the plan: Knit plain sock just for the sake of finishing the poor humble thing. Then immediately begin cranking out yards of flouncy stuff. I should probably invent a few complicated flouncy patterns and write a book on the subject while I'm at it. The world should not be denied my new found lace skills that were unavailable to them because I couldn't see and not because I am sort of a pathetic knitter. Maybe the working title could be something like: Laced In Denial: A Sheep, Her Needles And Other Flights Of Fancy.

*We had a very nice lunch here. This is something of a summer tradition with us. I had the lobster roll. Mmmmm...

*Oh, how cool! My friend Leslie just called! (that's why you heard that long pause in the rambling, random blog post) I haven't talked to her in months.

*After lunch, we did a little book shopping and I picked up "Charmed Knits." I also got a copy of "Folk Shawls" since I am now able to knit lace and all... I think it is good to invest your hard earned dollars in your new found, if untested, skills.

*I've already put a sticky note on the page with the most complicated shawl in there. You know the one. It has all those yarnovers and weird castings on...yeah, that one. Not a problem with the new full-spectrum lamp. I'm sure of it!


Well, there you go! A big day out for The Sheep! Tomorrow will have to be a day of rest. And, perhaps grocery shopping since I don't want to fight with the influx of new weekend tourists on a Friday. After that, the remainder of the day will be mine.

I'll probably knit up a shawl or something...pictures tomorrow night. How hard can it be?

SA