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think of the yarn!

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This morning, the tube that connects the toilet tank to the pipe came dislodged—I guess years of sitting still got boring. A geyser of water came shooting out (thankfully, I was home at the time—unthankfully, I was alone) and immediately flooded the bathroom, the hall, and the guest room.

When I ran downstairs to find my phone to call maintenance, it was raining on the first floor. Leaking all over the living room, through the spaces between the hardwood floors of the second floor (yay(?) for exposed beams and thus no real ceilings in the apartment). A half-inch of water on the floor of the living room, all over the couch, just . . . just . . . raining.

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from here to there

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My daily commute is a whopping 1-mile walk. If I do the Gmap Pedometer (play with it, it’s fun!), it comes out to 1.03 miles, guesstimating from door to door. I walk with a coworker friend, who lives nearby, and we chit chat for the 15–20 minutes it takes. Needless to say, it would be impossible to get anything else done during this time.

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Now that I’m redoing the Sunrise, I’ve decided to work on all the little things that could have been done better the first time around. I’m also being as OCD as humanly possible—I’ve already taken part of the sleeve out once! (I forgot which M1 was R and which was L, but went ahead without checking, and turned out to have had them backward. This would have meant nothing in the grand scheme, but I wanted it to be right. My boyfriend gave me an intense ironic face and said “this is for your mother. are you going to settle?” :) ). So anyway, fixing the k2togtbls is a high priority, because they’re all fat and ugly in the original (look along the right shoulder of the jacket, to the left in the photo, here)—it’s a constant problem for me all the time with those ssk/k2togtbl decreases.

I knit up a swatch, and here it is: