T.G.I.F.

I'm a little sickish today - on Wednesday, my co-leader warned me "there's this stomach virus thing going around. Some of the kids on the football team have it; I expect at least one of my grandkids will catch it."

Well, apparently at least one of her grandkids (or maybe one of the other football players) was not yet sick but was already shedding virus. Fortunately, because I have a pretty good immune system (and eat copious amounts of yogurt - there have been studies that have shown the bacteria actually do help prevent GI problems) I don't really get SICK sick but I have kind of a gurgly stomach and really don't have much of an appetite. And I think I had a fever last night.

Figuring out lunch is going to be a bit of a challenge as I'm supposed to go out in the field at 2 pm and will need a nutritious and filling meal. (Maybe yogurt and some toast and some applesauce, or one of those pear-and-strawberry smoothies I make instead of applesauce. Or with).

Got the new "holiday" Vogue Knitting. There's really nothing - and I do mean nothing - in there I like well enough to want to knit and wear, so I can kind of look at the designs abstractly, as designs qua designs, if you will.

My favorite section, speaking as designs qua designs was the "Miss Mistletoe" (which I think another blogger dubbed the "Bride of Satan" section. I'd not go quite so far. I'd say "High Tea with Anne Rice in the French Quarter" or "Goth Wannabee Knitter" or maybe "Abby Sciuto Takes Up Knitting.") I probably would have considered wearing some of those things when I was younger, thinner, and mired in my drama queen opera-fan stage.

But, they do not say "Christmas" (or, "Holiday Season") to me.

I kind of liked the pseudo-Celtic section, but it was all tartany stuff. And intarsia, meh. And it's not really Celtic anyway.

Don't get knitted pillows. I think that's because I sew, and if I want a pillow - which can get laid upon by heads that haven't been washed within the past 12 hours, or spit up upon by cats, or dropped on the floor, I'm going to sew a pillow in about 1/8 the time it would take to knit one. And make one that's more readily machine-washable.

The rest of the stuff - big, big meh. Some of it may show up at "You Knit What?" and I'd not blink an eye over that.

On a totally different tack - every time I look at that Gansey in the "Handknit Holidays" book I want more and more to make it. Definitely the spruce green alpaca blend I have in-stash. And the "Log Cabin" socks - they'd probably be impractical to wear even with Birks because of the fat cables, but they are perfect "sit by the fire and read" socks. Except I don't have a functional fireplace. Maybe, "sit by the space heater and read"?