Progress

I am about 6-7 inches into my Mr. Greenjeans and started my second ball of mmmmMalabrigo a couple of inches ago. I love this yarn. I needed to tighten up my gauge a bit, based on my extensive gauge swatch that I left to the last minute. My gauge has loosened for the most part, but I am still perfectly capable of knitting tight, so I am with this, even though it is not good for my hands to keep such tight tension on the yarn. But you know what they say: no pain, no gain. Such is the life of an athlete. Besides, I won't get much knitting time in tomorrow.

I knit so much yesterday afternoon that I was sort of worn out during the opening ceremony last night...which was fine. I tried to knit, but I was mesmerized and since we watched most of it on DVR delay because it started while we were out to dinner (Chinese food, no less), we started watching when we got home so I was fast-forwarding through commercials instead of knitting through them. The ceremony was fabulous. Loved it.

So today I didn't get much knitting time, although I finally got a chance to sit and knit through tonight's "prime time" coverage. I spent the day straightening, vacuuming, ran to get photos of our home printed at the last minute, and I even weeded the flower beds this evening before it got dark because rye grass and weeds had completely overtaken the beds next to the front door and the beds at the ends of the house.

Yes, you read that correctly. I did yard work in August. It's official. I'll do anything for a child.

C still has not finished his autobiography. I'm trying hard not to kill him as he sleeps, because if I do that, I really won't be able to get a child. He promises he will finish tomorrow before the social worker gets here at 1pm. I foresee myself printing it off at 12:55. He had the laptop tonight for several hours...occasionally typing things, mostly watching TV and zoning out. When I got the computer to finish up our Personal Data Form, I saw that he had finished a whopping four questions on the autobiography. Sheesh. This questionnaire is not nearly as extensive as the one from Great Wall, but still. Four questions? I can assure you there are more than four questions. At least he is an early riser and will have time to work on it tomorrow.

I'll get up tomorrow and hit the kitchen. I've got a sink full of dirty dishes and a dishwasher full of clean ones...and I'm sure I'll be touching up the bathrooms, making the bed, and dusting. I'm not as freaked as I was before our first home study. I have knitting stuff out on my end table and there is a ladder and tools in the master bedroom that has been there for a while since I was hanging drapes and then had to stop and locate another one. But the house is clean and more than presentable. I don't think I will be taking a nap 10 minutes before she arrives (as C did last time), but I won't be freaking out, either.

I just keep telling myself C's refrain: "There's no reason for them not to want to give us a child." I know this in my head, but my heart doesn't like my fate resting in the hands of others.