Monday, September 22, 2003  

Extended Weekend

Thanks to Isabel, no work on Thursday or Friday. Perfect. And, except for 1 thing, the hurricane was rather anti-climactic... I didn't even lose power (not that I'm complaining!!!) My parents lost power, but they were able to bring all their frozen stuff over to my house, so even that was ok. What was the 1 bad thing, you ask? Well, on Thursday afternoon, I went to my parents' house for dinner. Family friends were in town from California, and we were having a big get-together- hopefully before the storm blew in to badly that evening. I brought Cricket over. I thought this was a good idea for 2 reasons- 1) in case I couldn't get back to my apartment for some reason, she wouldn't be stuck there... and 2) my parents were going to be cat sitting when I go to New Mexico, so might as well give Cricket a chance to see the house again before I drop her off for the weekend. Well, she will not be 'dropped off' anywhere for ANY weekend. She was totally fine- even friendly and pretty relaxed- for the entire evening. As I was getting ready to leave, though, she was NOT happy. I think she was reacting to the approaching storm- she was hiding under a bed, freaked out. So I got her out from under the bed, and tried to pick her up to put her in her box so we could go home and be happy. I had never seen a domesticated cat fighting for her life before, but that is exactly what Cricket was doing. She was frantic, and there was no way to grab her without risking injury to all involved. By this time, the power was out, making it even more challenging... so I gave up, and left her alone. She was so freaked that when I came into the room to bring some food and water, she made that weird growling warning sound from under the bed. I didn't even have to get near her- just come in the room. So I spent the night at my parents' house- during the night, she came out, and was snuggly and seemed fine. But just like a toddler works up into a tantrum, in the morning, she was getting upset again- I barely got her into the box, and that was only because both of my parents helped. Once I got her home, though- perfectly happy kitty- like nothing had ever happened. Needless to say though, when I'll be out of town from now on, the cat sitters are coming to Cricket, not the other way around.

I did get some knitting done this LONG weekend- I finished the seams on the aran cardi! Now I need to weave in the last ends, and wash the sucker a few times before I track down a zipper. I have a feeling I might be wearing it a few times before I get the zipper installed... ;)

I'm also making progress on ribbie- I'm on the last sleeve. Once I finish that, I'll be ready to join them and do some raglan shaping! Oh, and some seaming at some point as well. :)

Another nice knitting note this weekend- remember that garter stitch rug I was making?



Well, I decided that it was done. See, I really don't have a need for it as a rug like I thought I would, so I decided to just cast off and see what I could use it for. Turns out that it is the perfect size for my nightstand- so I can put all the remotes and my clock and whatever else I don't want to slide around the table on it, and it is perfect! :) So the knitting wasn't wasted, and I got something I didn't even know I wanted out of it.

Hopefully by the time fall weather really kicks in, I'll have 2 new cardigans... I'd better get busy with those zippers! :)

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