Not much cleaning. But there was cooking!

Last night marked the start of Passover. Cue not being able to eat any and all bread products for the next week. It’s not as bad as it seems. Especially with how many grain and gluten free foods are available these days. Though I will say, having to eat like this all the time would stink. I don’t mean to offend anyone that has a gluten allergy or Celiac disease. But I don’t have either of those. Passover certainly gives me a taste of what it’s like to have them though!

Yes, I’m still working on my room. Yesterday didn’t lend itself to much cleaning however. I did manage to do about a 1/3 of the laundry that needed to be done and there’s another 1/3 in the dryer right now. And I’ll do the remainder when I get back from my knitting group.

So what was I doing yesterday? Well, other than the laundry, I had lunch with friends, then dropped off the finished test knit at the designers house (pictures to come when pattern is released), then I spend the afternoon cooking dinner for my mom and I’s seder dinner. We did a short seder, but we still did one. We decided not to go to the synagogues one which lead to us doing our own.

Matzo ball in the pot on the left. Gefilte Fish in the pot on the right and chicken in the oven.

So I was in charge of the cooking since my mom wasn’t home to do it.

I don’t do large amounts of cooking often so it was nice to know that my mom thought everything came out well.

And just to prove that I am still knitting and this is still a knitting blog, I’ve been working on my Sockhead Hat that I have on the needles.

PS: It’s very hard to write a blog post when your cat is rubbing all over the desk between you and the laptop.

And all three of the cats are in my room to boot! There’s the whole house and all three of them have to be with me. Figures.

Almost Thanksgiving

Before I get to the knitting…

Tomorrow is Thursday. This year, tomorrow is Thanksgiving here in the USA. It’s always been a small family tradition for me. This year things are a little different. I get three thanksgiving dinners. One was last night, with my father and stepmom and others. Tomorrow is with my mother’s family, and then Saturday is with my boyfriends family. I’m hoping I’m not in a turkey-coma by the end of it.

I’m not going to go through everything I’m thankful for as it would be a rather long list, but I am thankful for many things, both that I have and that people around me have.

I hope everyone enjoys tomorrow whether you’re celebrating thanksgiving or not. It’s never a bad time to give thanks for what you have.

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And now the knitting!

There hasn’t been a whole lot of it between school (getting towards finals) and NaNoWriMo, but there has been some.

The test knitting is going well, but that’s all I can say about that.

The mystery KAL is also going well and I’ma bout halfway through the second repeat of the main body chart (we have to do 3):

Of course, because it’s scrunched onto a circular needle you can’t see it real well, but a leaf pattern is starting to emerge.

I’ve also made some progress on “Neville’s Cardigan” but the going is slow. I got hung up this week when I realized that I have to redo the pockets I knit way back when I started making it because the size I made them wasn’t nearly big enough for what they should actually be based on Neville’s actual cardigan in the movie (those HD pics really come in handy!).

There was also baking this past weekend. My mother, grandmother and myself made 4 pumpkin pies (one with Soy for my lactose-intolerent cousin), 2 squash and 3 custard. We’d forgotten to bring a regular apron for me so that I didn’t end up filthy, so I ended up wearing one my grandmother had around.

Yeah, it’s rather frilly.

Anyways, again, enjoy tomorrow and I’ll do my best to be back on Thursday.