The Boatneck Bluebell is underway...pretty much uninterrupted. Now that M's sweater is done my attention has been dedicated to my next sweater. The color actually turned out pretty accurate...it's sort of a brick red.
Here is my progress far. It's my first top down seamless sweater. So far the instructions have not confused me at all yet, but I wait in fear that they soon will. There's always something....
In other news, Friday night I went out after work with a friend visiting from South Africa and some former and current co-workers including my knitting friend S. I woke up the next day with no voice! I still don't really have one...which is why I haven't called you Mom! M has been sick, really we've been passing it back and forth a few times now. On Thursday night I started getting a sore throat and then we went to several loud bars so it's probably a combination of being sick and screaming.
We are still putting together the invites...I ordered wedding stamps from the post office so we are waiting for those to arrive. I think M has some more things to size and cut before we attempt to tie the ribbon around the invitation. I've addressed the big envelopes and the response card envelopes. I finally found wood candle trays that I'm thinking of using for centerpieces if I can't choose the color of tulips I want. I have searched high and low, in reality and virtually and couldn't find these anywhere. We went to Pier 1 yesterday (who has revised their website and made it totally useless...you can only look at select products and you can no longer buy from them...stupid) and found them right when we walked in. They are actually wood chargers for the table but I'm going to use them for pillar candles. If we don't end up using them at the tables I'm sure there are other places at the venue we could put them.
Classes start tomorrow....I almost wish we weren't given 6 weeks off in between because I'm really dreading going back tomorrow. Partially for the time committment and partially because I know one of the classes has group work and lots of presentations, both I abhor. The other class is online and actually one of my coworkers is in it so that should be fun. I had to buy 2 of the 3 books because I wasn't able to get them from the library. Interesting note: Amazon jacks up the prices of textbooks the closer it gets to the semester....went from $45 to over $70!
It's funny that I should have chosen now to look at your blog. I was just going to call you and chat and I have the snow all shoveled and the kitchen cleaned back up from making food for the Too Much Trivia in the Pants group. What you have is exactly what happened to me in December. It sucks because it will take about 4-5 days to get an even normal voice back. I love you and will check with you perhaps on Wednesday. Trying not to bother you because I know you are spending lots of time on wedding things. I love you both, Mom.
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