…And one more: Valentine’s Photo Session, other goings-on

Holy smokes, guys. I need to post a little more frequently so that I’m not doing this massive post dump all at once. I started out trying to write all this stuff into one post, and when I realized what a ridiculous idea that was, we ended up with, well, three posts in one night.

D and I had a great Valentine’s Day! First, we had a great photo shoot with LittleBee (who is getting to be not so little anymore). Click for biggerer.

That really is one of my favorite ways to spend a morning with the family – D and I trading the camera back and forth while Ada hams it up for us. If you look closely at some of those pictures, you can see some of her EIGHT TEETH. Holy smokes.

Afterward, Ada spent some time with her grandparents while we had lunch at Blind Lady Ale House, followed by some tasty ice cream on the best waffle cones ever made at Mariposa Ice Cream, which we ate while wandering around and musing on how lucky we are to live in San Diego (as well as how that food experience easily rivaled anything we’ve ever had, Paris and Buenos Aires included).

I made some progress on the sweater:

I also learned a valuable lesson; saying “not to jinx things, but…” is a surefire way to jinx things. Example: Saying “not to jinx things, but I’m making so much progress on this sweater that I wouldn’t be surprised if I have time to do two of them during the course of the Olympics,” will guarantee that the next row you hit in the pattern will bring things to a screeching halt for two days while you attempt to do the simplest of math in an effort to “distribute 41 yarn over increases evenly through the row.”

Without delving too deeply into the psychosis that led to this solution, I’m going to record here that my solution to the eyelet increase row in the February Lady Sweater was as follows (I’m making the 44-inch version):
k8, (yo, k5) x7, (k8, yo) x6, k12, yo, (k6,yo)x13, k12, yo, (k8, yo) x5, k8, kfb, k4, yo, (k5, yo) x5, k4, yo, k8

If that made any sense to you, you may have arrived at this after searching “February Lady Sweater / FLS eyelet row increase 44,” like I did before I came up with this insane fix. It remains to be seen whether anything has actually been fixed, though, so don’t use this until the sweater’s done and we can see whether I’ve got an extra arm coming out of my right elbow or something.

If that didn’t make any sense to you, you probably stopped reading a couple of paragraphs ago, and I don’t blame you. I’m off to repair my broken brain with some sleep.