At long last...

My word but I have sucked at blogging over the last few months. My latest lame excuse reason for internet silence is that I am no longer able to upload photographs from my blackberry onto flickr. Meaning that I have to go to all the trouble of taking pictures with an actual camera, and then downloading them into my computer before uploading them to flickr. My life is so hard. I'm hoping that come July I will be much prone to being immobilized by intertia - we have managed to hire some new doctors to work in the ICU, and there will be 2 of us working at a time on weekdays, which should lead to my quality of life improving by leaps and bounds. More time to do all sorts of fun things when I am on call like sleep! Possibly even some time to knit. I have gotten a reasonable amount of knitting done in the last few months, although since early April everything I have knit has been for other people (which not my usual practice!) In May I finished knitting Herbivore for The Gambler's Mother: I still have a reasonable amount of yarn left, but it was becoming quite tedious - the "pattern" portion involves purling through the back loop on the wrong side. So this was what it was like to knit it: " Okay, some mindless stockinette, not a problem, what's on TV? Slightly tricky twisted rib section on the right side - oh damn, did I forget to twist those stitches? Mindless stockinette...much longer slightly twisted rib...mindless stockinette...oh good, it's the short twisted rib section - I am almost finished this row...mindless stockinette. Turn work - mindless stockinette again...OMG it is a pain to have to purl through the back loop; thank goodness this section is so short...mindless stockinette...OH MY LORD, I am going to grow old and die before I finish this middle twisted rib section; how big is this damned shawl? Can I cast off soon? Mindless stickinette...stupic twisted rib - at least this section is shorter...mindless stockinette...Thank God! It's the right side row!!!" Igave up on it and cast off got to a point where I thought it was a decent size just before TGM paid us a brief visit. I knew where my blocking pads and blocking wires were, but had no idea where my blocking pins were. So I improvised: Anyone up for some corn on the cob? By the way - Secret Pal - your package arrived today; I'm going to open it tomorrow. And even take some pictures!