Hmmm

I thought that I had a plan for today!

knit, church, building work party for a little while, come home, laundry, knit.

That doesn't sound so unreasonable does it? Now, looking at the list, I did accomplish most of that, at least partly, except for the last 2.

No knitting done at all this afternoon. Because I was dealing with the joys of homeownership:

When I use the washing machine, the floor drain (which connects with the pipe that the washer water goes into) backs up water onto the floor. Yuck. Usually it is just a little bit of water, and it goes away in a few minutes. Well, not today! No! water backed up everywhere!
So, 2 trips to ACE, one bottle of liquid plumber, and a poor attempt at using an auger. All to no avail. I think that I might have to call in the professionals. grrr

At least it gave me a good excuse to go out and buy some new clothes (so I could wear something to work tomorrow!)

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I finished the sleeve for the sweater, and have knit 2.5 inches on the second sleeve. I had hoped to finish it today - I figured out that it should take me 4 hours to knit the sleeve (used the Yarn Monkey's countdown timer for the KAL to time knitting a pattern repeat -- too much time on my hands?...) Maybe I will come close tonight.
I don't have a picture of the sweater parts yet. Haven't had time since I've been working on the plumbing. Hope to take some tomorrow.

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So, I broke down and started using my birthday present (to myself) and gave Sherri hers yesterday. I couldn't wait! Here is a picture (kinda blurry)

They are stitch markers and a shell case to keep them in! Too cute! I started using mine last night. They are for up to size 10.5 - awfully large for a size 3 needle, but pretty!