Dots and Loops

My life is becoming a bulleted list.

• Said to me by Darling Mollie in reference to a chore she's been dreading and putting off: "Holy crap, I want to do this as much as I want to go to a vomitorium for a free enema!". Want to know why I knit her socks? Because she never fails to amuse me with lines like this!
• Project for the week: Take my vast collection of Christmas CDs, rip them and then sort through the Christmas mp3s I already have to remove duplicates and get them loaded on Bixente the iPod. Come Friday he's going to be an all Christmas, all the time carol playing machine.
• My new mission in shopping is to find a curling iron with a large barrel. So far I've been SOL. Is stringy and limp straight hair still in?
  
• My mother called around 10:45pm and scared me to death. She very seldom calls so late and when she did I assumed there was some sort of problem. So I could pay for the call I told her to hang up and called her back. She answered and I blurted out "Mama! What's wrong? Who's sick?". "Oh! No one's sick," she replied. "I just wanted to know if you want a fruitcake for Christmas!". You know I'd like to blame this on her Alzheimer's disease but she did the same sort of thing twenty years ago.
• I flirted briefly with the idea of making twenty bulleted points since this is day twenty of NaBloPoMo - being as I'm such a showoff - and then I pulled my head out of my rear and remembered how it made my brain hurt to do fourteen.
• Six seems to be my dot limit so let's switch to loops. Knitting is merely making interconnecting loops with string and a couple sticks. Here's my latest batch of loops still on sticks:

These socks are going to be so adorable! They're for Darling Mollie knitted from Regia Silk - 55% merino wool, 20% silk, 25% polyacrylic. I had started to make her Snicket Socks but this yarn's bad for splitting so I switched to this basketweave ribbing pattern. Fun pattern to knit and would you just look at the cuteness of these socks? I could just cry over how precious this pattern is with this yarn! Look!



Darling Mollie's gonna have to come up with some seriously hilarious lines to pay for these babies.