Just so I can remember and refer back…

Southwest
IND-MCO: 8:25-11:35 am $168.40-ish
MCO-IND: 1:40-3:00 pm $168.40-ish
NOTE: Southwest will be adding flights from RSW soon…

ATA
IND-MCO: 9:25-11:32 am $222.40
RSW-IND: 8:35-11:05 pm $212.40

AirTran
IND-MCO: 7:00-11:24 am $179.80 (w/ATL layover)
RSW-IND: 3:00-5:30 pm $280.40

My first completed garment! Woo-hoo! And it’s a mighty cute one, indeed. It’s the Koko Kimono from Minnows: Quick Knits for Babies and Toddlers by Jil Eaton; I did it in pink Bernat CottonTots (100% cotton) for baby Marlena, with a few on-the-fly modifications that had mostly to do with gauge and correcting mistakes midstream. But it’s adorable!

I have, however, decided that I hate i-cord. I know they call it idiot cord because it’s supposed to be easy, but I found it to be rather awkward and annoying, especially having to start and stop six times for these little ties:

So we’re moving into this house, right? Yesterday before work, I was watching some show on HGTV and there was this thing on with this woman who lives in a tiny apartment and has all this multipurpose furniture to make a great multipurpose room. Put this together with the fact that I get to have my own room — the craft room/guest bedroom/escape clause/cat hair free zone — and I suddenly have the whole concept in my head.

The room is already painted a warm grey, and the floors are wood painted a dark brown. It’s north-facing but has two big windows, so it’s nice and airy without being sunny. If I bought a sleeper sofa for that room, we’d have a place for guests to sleep, but keeping it folded up and out of the way most of the time would give me enough space to put a table in there pretty permanently, and would also make it possible to actually do yoga, or comfortably read or knit in there. And if the cats don’t get to come in, I could get a white sleeper sofa without worrying about the cats getting all on it. So I’m thinking white on white, with some dark wood and black accents. I’m seeing black frames with big matte and little black and white line drawings, and lots of different textured white and off-white fabrics. I’m so excited!

While I was up thinking about this past my bedtime last night, it occured to me to thank my husband for letting me have my own room, to which he said, “It’s so not a big deal for me, and I know it’s important to you.” He’s the best guy ever in the whole world.

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It’s official. I just came back to my office after lunch, and so craved having some knitting in my hands that I fashioned a set of dpns out of large paper clips and proceeded to start a sock using some crappy yellow acrylic yarn I found in my desk drawer. How pathetic is that. I’m already looking forward to getting home where I can bounce back and forth among the two WIPs that are currently occupying my brain — the pink cotton kimono-style sweater for our friends’ new baby, Marlena, and the pair of Fortissima Socka Colori socks I’m working on for my dear husband — instead of working on getting ready to move.

So what the hell is up with airfares changing for no apparent reason? I suppose that’s what I get for not booking when the booking’s good, but c’mon people! A $100 jump?!?

So the hubby and I are going to Florida in November, first to Epcot’s Food and Wine Festival at Disney World, and then to his parents’ house in Cape Coral. The most effective way to do this is to fly to Orlando, rent a car, and then fly home from Fort Myers, yes? To fly such a route from Fort Wayne will cost at least $320 per person, which really isn’t terrible, until you consider that a similar route priced a couple weeks ago from Indianapolis on ATA was $359. For both of us.

I just checked back randomly to see whether there are any better deals out there, and that same ATA itinerary has jumped up to $438. Why, why?!? We might be able to do better on Southwest, but they don’t fly Fort Myers to Indy, so we’d have to drive back to Orlando to catch the return flight, and then still drive to Fort Wayne, so it would have to be a significant savings to make it worth while. Southwest doesn’t have fares up past October 28 yet, so I’ll have to keep checking back.

And then there’s this question: If ATA remains at $438, after adding in the $20 or so for gas to Indy and up to $125 for the Park&Fly hotel deal, might it be worth just flying from Fort Wayne? For that matter, even if the Southwest Flight comes through under $350, there’s the added cost of renting a car for longer (+$120) to do all our driving back and forth, which might still make it a smarter deal to just fly from home.

Why must this all be so complicated? And why am I stressing out over it, when there are so many better things over which to stress, like closing on our house next week…

I was just checking out NonaKnits and in her post today, she mentions the things she’s planning on working on during Wimbledon. The Tivoli t-shirt by Grumperina is pretty awsome, and the pattern is so nicely organized… Can I really add it to my ongoing list of potential projects?

I say, “Hell, yeah.”

I’m not entirely sure how it happened, but I have ten million things going on and only meant to have about three. Things going on. I was creating the categories for these posts, and I realized that I have stuff actively happening in five of them right now: baking for the 3-Day fundraiser; working on six different knitting projects (the new bathmat, Mike’s socks, my sweater, Michelle’s sweater, Mike’s sweater, and an as-yet undetermined baby sweater for little Marlena Ames); making an unending list of things for the new house, from finding the best deal on homeowner’s insurance to prioritizing the repairs and improvements; training for said 3-Day and also, apparently, the Columbus Marathon; and working on two websites, one for FWIG and one for Miriam. Of course none of this includes the other unblogged stuff, like playing dramaturg for FPT’s upcoming Two Gentlemen of Verona, getting ready to move, trying to lose the ten pounds I put back on after January, and planning a November vacation, much less the last month or so of wedding reception planning…

And in spite of all this, I find myself staying up far later than is usual, or certainly than I ought to. I’m an early bird — to bed and to rise — and if I’m going to continue to wake up at 5:45 every day, I can’t keep on going to bed at 10:30 or 11:00. That’s going to kill me.

No wonder I feel such a lack of focus this afternoon.

I’m so pleased with myself: I successfully migrated my old posts from Blogger to WordPress! This is so much better, not only because I can put all my disparate posts in categories now, but also because I feel like my posts actually live where I do, instead of in someone else’s house.

This excellent free tutorial from the BBC will come in handy when I’m associate producing a TV show.