Eat.Knit.Sleep

Carlos' little sister is having her sweet sixteen party today. I asked her on her birthday how she felt being sixteen and she said, "Old, but not." I laughed because if she is anything like me she will be feeling that for a long, long time.

I have some housekeeping to share . . . I've joined a couple of knitalongs as you can see on my sidebar. (No, I'm not an Olympian). I've also joined up with Concateknit in her fighting her weight down once and for all.  I'll post my number is 135 . . . .30 lbs more  than my weight at 16 (and I haven't grown an inch). Only perk I've found (or more like C's found) is that over the last 10 lbs. I've gained, I've gone up a full cup size. I signed up for eDiets but so far I'm not impressed. . .  it's not practical for me to follow a specific meal plan and I think I am going to cancel and pony up the extra money for Weight Watcher's online. Anyone have any experience with either?

I've also just realized that I need to learn some HTML as I just had to download Firefox since Safari doesn't support WYSIWYG editing in Typepad!

I've been knitting as well, and it was finally nice enough to take some photos today. Here is a long time finished object . . .my multidirectional scarf:

I wear this pretty much every day . ..  although its been like 50 degrees this January so not as much as I would like.

Also some final pictures of the Marilyn . I got many compliments on the sweater when I wore it to work and  the only modifications I made was to omit the r uffles. It's made of Knitpicks Merino Style in Hollyberry and I used most of 6 skeins.

I'll try to take a picture of me wearing it one day when I'm actually showered and all that jazz.

Here's a closeup (I'm too lazy to link it to the above photo right now)
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And lastly here are the red socks I'm working on . .. they are my first toe up.