Week's almost over

 I'm tired, and I kind of hurt. (I think it's partly stress, partly the motion of having to sort through the bags of soil, and sitting kind of shrimped up on the chair to do that, and also it's been very hot). And I've been on my feet a lot - this week I wore things with pockets so I put my phone (on silent) in my pocket, since most of the rooms no longer have working clocks (! there are still not a lot of things back as they should be) and I find without doing anything "extra" over my usual workout and teaching and the usual to-and-from the car I do, I'm going over 5000 steps a day (I know they say 7000 is ideal, but that can be challenging to get when you have a job that keeps you at a desk or lab bench at times)

I do think I'm going to go to Farmersville Saturday. Apparently there is actually a SECOND (smaller, but still) yarn shop there, and there are several restaurants, so my plan is go down, shop for yarn, get lunch, and if there's somewhere else (like a bookstore) go there, too. Yes, I don't need more yarn. BUT: Yarns and You (the shop I looked up first) advertises yarn packs for the "knit the National Parks" hats - that's a book I have but never made anything from yet. The hats ARE colorwork, which is not my favorite technique to do (it's fiddly, and you have to be careful not to knit too tightly) BUT they have a Cuyahoga Valley hat kit listed on the website, and that's one I might want enough to make - it's a less complex pattern than some (fall trees and I think a trail) and also, given my happy childhood memories of there and still having a sense of a strong tie there, it might be enough to get me to do it. So if they have one in stock, I might buy it.

I also need to check my circular needles and if I don't have threes or fours of the right length (I think: 29" and 16"), I might look for those, I kind of fell in love with Greenstone from the new Knitty and ordered the yarn for it (Well, I got the same green, but went with an almost-camel-colored heather for the stripes, because I like brown better than dark grey). Yes it will take forever to knit and I'll probably get distracted by some new shiny sweater before I start it (I still have the Moon Moth one and the cabled vest, but neither of those are at "invigilating carry along" points). So it might become my invigilating sweater. 

And yes, I recognize that my desire for the sweater is at least in part informed by its photo and backstory: a young woman in a fallish forest, and talk about going to Michigan to visit Isle Royale, and the fantasy for me of "being out in the woods in fall and having this sweater" was what tipped the "I want one" switch for me. 

I do that a lot with projects. I want the life the model is modeling, and somehow deep in my brain it makes me think "if you knit that thing, maybe you will get that life" although intellectually I know that's unlikely, emotion can be a powerful sway for me. 

I have been knitting some on the cabled vest this evening but it moves slowly - even in worsted weight it takes a lot of stitches to go around a largish adult body. 

It's FINALLY supposed to cool down this coming week (and cool down a LOT in fact) and it seems nice to be able to hole up and knit when it's not 92 degrees out at 9 pm...