Have I mentioned that I'm mexican?

One of the reasons that I started making the cow onesie is because when I decide to knit something for a baby the baby is born before I finish whatever it is so I decided to make a baby thing for Lily's sister who was trying to get pregnant. Now I'm, I'm going to say 3/4 done with the onesie and her sister isn't due till October so I am stopping. Yes I am that superstitious. I'd rather be safe than sorry. Conveniently enough something else came up right about now that has fully taken my attention anyway and that is the West Knits Mystery KAL. Lily was all signed up and when she told me that she was going to make a shawl from a pattern that she would get in parts and that she didn't know what looked like I figured I'd better make it too. After last night when we both cast on I'm glad I did.  It actually started last Friday but I had ordered needles and yarn from Knit Picks and they just arrived yesterday so we started together. I am finally back on track after having a ball fall out of my purse while I was walking and not noticing for like 12 blocks. It took like 3 hours to untangle the chaos but it's done and now I can continue to knit. I am not looking at pictures and I am not even going to look at the second part of the clue until I'm done with the first one but now that I'm doing it it's kind of exciting and interesting, I think I've been converted.

Now back to our regularly scheduled Mooing...

I have divided for the arm holes! I did it Saturday and have not had a chance to do much else on it, or have been too lazy, you decide.  It's coming along though, now to do 4" of straight knitting on the front right, back, and front left before shaping the shoulders and the neck.  The back will be straight brown while the fronts will still be two color rows but I think since the hood will be brown I should slowly transition into brown towards the shoulder so I have less sudden color changes when I do the hood and making up.  4" is about 32 rows so I have some time to figure it out.  It's really cute.  Also MASSIVE.  I guess my panic about whether it would be big enough has caused me to knit a onesie meant for a small child instead of a baby but that's fine, I'd rather it be too big than too small any day.  The parents are a bit on the tall side so I just didn't want to end up with a super cute thing that took a lot of work that the kid was able to wear for approximately two hours before growing out of it.  I will try to update more regularly as progress will likely speed up now that I'm only using two strands going down to one strand at a time but I've been working nonstop.  I am having a knitting BBQ on the 4th so maybe I'll make some progress then although I also just bought a gel manicure kit that I am obsessed with and have offered manis to my party guests so maybe not anyway I'll keep you posted :)

WARNING! This post contains no knitting and is TMI

Ok so I went to the bathroom today, no I'm not going there this is just the start of the story, and there is a radiator in my bathroom right in front of the toilet so I put my feet up on it, it's what I do if there's something close enough, I read somewhere when I was a kid that that's better so I've just always done it anyway if you've read this far then keep going the point is coming up... So I was kind of in leg press position and I put my hand on the side of my leg and felt muscle definition.  This is a big fucking deal.
I have been fat since I was about 7, or at least that is when the weight gradually started to pile on, I wasn't fat fat until after high school but back then I didn't know that and I felt like a hideous blob and was constantly dieting and failing and just getting bigger.  About 2 or 3 years ago I bought P90 and tried doing that and it lasted about a month and not much happened and then I bought P90X because I'm crazy and started that but sort of fell of the wagon, I've started up again and am also on vitamins and suppliments from GNC and have just decided to add in a fat burner to help push me along and I've seen some changes from what I've been doing so far but today just punched me in the face.
So there I sat now feeling my legs because I could feel and see the line defining my hamstring and then when I looked I could see the line on my calf, for the first time in I don't know how long I could see my muscles.  They weren't hidden and buried in fat, naturally I started sobbing uncontrollably.  Despite everything I've done there has never been this much of a difference made before and I have not had in any way this kind of a light at the end of the tunnel and that is why I needed to share this with someone.  I suppose I could have made up some other circumstanses for how I discovered this but really, that's my life, sitting on the toilet with my pants around my ankles and my feet up on a radiator sobbing tears of joy because I have muscles in my legs.  It wouldn't happen any other way and that's fine with me, I take what I can get.

There seems to be a sea creature trying to escape my bag.

So I have made some more progress on Moo but since I am making a Jersey cow with an udder that I am knitting flat I have five strands of yarn coming off of my needles. Yes you read that right, five. two of which are attached to the same ball of yarn which yes, I know is stupid but I don't have a freakin' clue how much yarn I need for the pink part and I'll already have enough ends to work in thank you very much. It's super cute though. I also think it's pretty obvious to anyone watching me knit on the train what it is going to be so maybe less people will talk to me. Unless you're a knitter then feel free to talk to me I just hate discussing my projects with non-knitters, yes things take hours, no I don't know exactly how long, yes I've been knitting for years, no no one in my family knits... I hate all that crap. Anyway, here's a few pics... I think... or not. I can't seem to get anything uploaded.... I'm changing it on to circulars because it's gotten too heavy to keep going on straights, my hands are getting fatigued, but the only circular 3s I can find are 16" that I only used once because I hate 16" needles. I'm a magic loop girl all the way. As soon as it's transferred I'm off to bed. I got my salads ready to throw in a bag for work and tomorrow after I get out is knitting so I'm sure I'll get a bunch done there. My goal is to finish the pink so that I can go down to three strands of yarn for a bit until I get to the shoulders when I'll go straight brown for the head, the little edging will be white so it will look like the cow's face and the very top of the sleeves will be brown as well.  Ok that's all I got.  I desperately need sleep.  Go to my Ravelry if you want to see the pics, apparently I have no problem putting them up there.  Night.

Yes I'm aware I am delusional...

Ok so I managed to work and since the train was stuck at Lechmere for approx. 5 years I got some work done in the Moo cow duckie which is good, but now sadly I plan on abandoning it for the rest of the night in a futile attempt to clean up the tragedy that is my bedroom.  I know, I've lost it.  I had made some serious progress in the past and then I started working 7 days a week and it all fell to pieces and now it is time to start again.  A brief list of the reasons running through my head as I traveled home are as follows...
1. The guy I've been hanging out with in a dating type capacity who does not yet hold a formal title henceforth to be known simply as "the boy" laughed openly at my room yesterday when he saw it.  He actually opened my door with no real intention of going inside just to see if it was cleaner than the last time he saw it.  It wasn't.
2. I have fallen off the work out wagon yet again and I think that this time it's because I really hate sweating and jumping around in the kitchen where my roommates all wander through periodically.  If my room was clean I would have the space to do my P90Xing in the comfort of my own bedroom and not have to bother with putting on a shirt if I didn't feel the need to.
3. It seriously looks like a girly girl with lots of dresses and makeup got into a fight with a hippie chick who knits a lot.
4. I have no clean work clothes and when I say that I mean that everything work appropriate and even slightly not work appropriate has been worn at least three times already.
5. I can't find anything and I am constantly knocking things over.
6. I found a fantastic sewing table and chair in the trash last week and have yet to bring it into my room and set it up since I have no where to actually put it at the moment.
Now for why it needs to be done right now, I start another 7 day work week tomorrow and Tuesday start my new second job at GNC so not only will I not have time for laundry later in the week but I will also feel extra fat and lazy if I am selling fat burners while not doing a damn thing about my own spare tire. Also tonight is the night we put out the trash so once I gather up what is going it can actually go. This is key to my cleaning strategy.
So even though I only have four more rows before I finish the increases on the first leg, a thought that will taint my whole cleaning time with distraction, I must refrain and not knit again until it is at least reasonably tidy up in this bitch.
Wish me luck.
Maybe some whiskey will help...

So much for rushing

Yeah I got no knitting done today. As in nothing. The tiny bit of work I had left to do on my project this morning and the million customers took all day so I got none done there, then both going and coming from work it was rush hour which means standing on the train surrounded by people clinging to a pole for dear life, (I have no balancing capabilities,) Then when I was done with work a friend called and after some food shopping I made dinner while we watched a movie so here I am at 11:30pm having gotten no work done on the onesie. That's a good enough excuse to stay up too late watching White Collar and knitting right?

Yarn has been procured!

Well it took about 4 hours and I nearly blew my top but I have managed to buy the yarn I need for the baby cow suit! I ended up having to go with Bernat Satin for the white since someone bought all they had of white Simply Soft. I also got snaps and a thing to set them with for when I'm done but I forgot buttons! Shit. Oh well I might make it longer than the pattern says anyway since apparently it's super short. Maybe people are smaller in the UK cause Debbie Bliss patterns always have stubby little arms... anyway if this works below you will find a photo of my yarn and how far I got knitting on the train there and back... or maybe above... I'm sending it from my phone so I really have no idea...