My Ode to Bfffl's

I have been a bad bad blogger. You all should throw yarn at me, or maybe summon tornadoes in my general direction. But enough depressing apologizing, let's get to the yarn! and knitting! and best friends!

This is my best friend Bekky and I.

She is literally the coolest person I know. Back in the golden days of olde, we used to stay in Friday and knit all night. Then on Monday we would drink a pitcher of beer and knit. Plus every day that ends in y we knit.

So the point is, without her, I have lost my knitting mojo. I've started tons of projects in the past couple months, but only finished three. Want to see some of the pictures?

The two pictures above are a cardigan that I am literally dead in the water on. I have no idea how to do that intense of colorwork. So I'm probably going to take a knitting class to get my cardigan on.

 That lovely cardigan I knit on the greatest road trip of all time. I went with my sweet friend Elliot to South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, Utah, and Colorado for two weeks. We camped, made an obscene amount of inside jokes about bears, and I knit a beautiful cotton cardigan. Now all I need is a shawl pin.

 These socks are an ode to Bekky. Without her help, I wouldn't have been able to finish an intense red cabled pair of socks (I'm talking so intense that if you look at them your eyeballs explode into crocodiles). As a reward for rocking the sock cabana, she gave me this skein of Lorna's Laces. Which I turned into another pair of beautiful socks. Also, I'd like to note that this is probably the greatest colorway of all time.

So in conclusion, be sad that you don't have a Bekky.

PS. Bfffl means best friends forever for life.

No I didn't die, I switched jobs, moved, and knit a bunch.

At the moment, my camera is not wanting to download pictures. Which is unfortunate for you, because I got the most amazing yarn in the universe the past week.

Big changes have abounded since my last post millenia ago. The main one is that I am no longer a Barista. (GASP SOB) It was hard leaving my Starbucks because my coworkers were beyond awesome. I still feel a pang of loss in my heart even though it was a few months ago. I'm raising my glass to them.

I also moved to Gunnison where I am now fulfilling my life-long goal of selling high end outdoor fashion retail.

In all seriousness, it's a sweet job and I am now an expert on shoes. Also, Gunnison is so freaking beautiful.

I wish my camera was working. I literally have finished three pairs of socks and started two cardigans.

More big news! I'm going to be knitting for pay! Not just me charging $20 to knit a hat for a friend. Nosiree. My work is going to be in a book.

So that is a quick update. Maybe tomorrow my camera will decide to work. Cheerio.

It was the best of times, it was a busy time.

Much has been happening. A more eloquent post will come shortly.

In other more general news, spring is totally here. So I started a lace shawl. There is logic in that statement, don't worry.

The Hat Saga: now with more dogs

Here is a story that illustrates why I hate knitting hats (it includes my dog Bailey).

Once upon a time there was a fabulous knitter named Jen. She decided to make her lovely co-worker a hat. It took weeks to complete because her hands had forgotten how to hold DPNs. THEN. She finished it and tried it on...

Her dog. It didn't really fit. But it makes sense because he has a dog sized head. So she put it on her head.

It was huge. But how huge? (that's what she said)

Her dog didn't have any answers. He never does.

IT WAS TWICE THE SIZE OF HER HEAD!!!!

The moral of this story is that I'm terrible at making hats. I might be able to salvage it. Or I might have to frog it. Only time will tell.

I guess watching the Food Network compulsively pays off.

When I was growing up, it was the family joke that I couldn't cook. I may have burned bacon a few times, and burned chocolate, and made some really terribly tasteless jambalaya... but I have always been able to make the most delicious grilled cheese in the universe.

That being said, ever since moving home I've been cooking dinner a lot more. The main thing I hate about cooking is that you have to buy certain ingredients to make things. If you don't have something, most likely you need to get it (that I learned from the jambalaya. Apparently leaving all the spices out of a spicy dish is not a good idea).

So without further ado, here is the PRETTIEST thing I have ever cooked.

It was also delicious. I am such a suzy homemaker.

Trifecta (a blog post that includes KNITTING! STARBUCKS! WEATHER!)

Bad news patrons of the interwebs: I may soon be out of a job before I even had that job.

The people at MIT have developed a toothpaste that will tell you what the weather is like. It doesn't speak to you, instead it changes its' taste based on what the forecast will be.

I think it's awesome. Here is the link that will tickle your taste-buds!

I am so hilarious. I guess I will always have a job because even though your mouth will know what the weather is like, your funny bone will not be tickled.

I have a penchant for bad puns. Do you think it shows?

In knitting news (because I know you are all DYING to know what I have been knitting), I have finished two socks that I have been knitting for literally two months. Let me give you an example of how long it usually takes me to finish a pair of socks. Two weeks. That means I was 4X slower. I blame the lack of my best knitting friend Bekky. I also blame Starbucks.

Speaking of the bucks. I have a new favorite drink that makes absolutely no sense. I loathe soy milk. It looks like baby throw up, it smells like paper, and it foams like a beast. I also loathe matcha powder (used in green tea lattes). It smells even worse than soy and tastes like cardboard. But I've recently discovered that I love soy green tea lattes with raspberry.

So that math equation looks like:
paper + cardboard + raspberry = DELICIOUS

I don't understand it.

But here are supurb pictures of the socks I finished.

Truth on a frigid day.

Know why I haven't been posting much lately? Because I've been working on these.

The first is a hat that needed to be done two days ago. The second is my very first pair of colorwork socks.

Ok I lied. The reason I haven't posted lately is because I am Lazy with a capital L. But as of today, all of that is going to change. That sock will be completed before I have to go to work. That will happen because of this.

The temperature may be -10 outside today, but MY SOUL IS WARM.

Also my house is warm. But that is for an entirely un-heartwarming reason. It's because of heat.