It must be game day...

As I left my office building downtown, the inescapable smell of the baseball staduim hit me smack in the face. That overcooked hotdog, beer, pretzel cooking smell that is prevalent at any baseball game can be smelled from accross the street. I swiftly realize, I must realign my game plan for escaping the parking lot so that I don't run into all of the fans trying desperately to get into the overpriced parking garage I call my own. I swiftly went down the other exit away from the stadium, up and over a block and escaped to the highway, only to be stuck in horrible traffic an exit down the road. It's not raining. There were no accidents...what's up with people.

Then I stopped at the knitting store on the way home to pick up brittany needles for the Madli and an extra pair of size two bamboo needles for my trip to DC so I can have a sock and a baby hat on needles at the same time. Yep, I have officially gone overboard. I have two sets of size 2 double pointed needles. So, I'm flying out thursday, so I decided to start the baby hat tonight with the lavender Stork yarn I bought at stitches. After restarting the swatch 3 times, the yarn is alas to big gauged to do the hat. I desperately searched my stash. I remembered some pretty yellow yarn I bought to make baby booties for a friend, that never quite got made. Yes and after quickly swatching it works!!! Everyone aplaud. It's looking good so far as well. Hopefully I have enough yarn to do the hat since I only bought one skein and have no hope of getting another... Yikes. Well, at least it will keep me occupied on the plane since I haven't found a book to read. After much thought I've also decided to trek along the laptop. I can watch DVDs and play cards in flight and as an added bonus, I can check my merit increase when I get to DC instead of waiting until I get back. Okay, so I'm prevaricating. The entire reason for bringing the laptop is so that I can access my merit increase before Monday. :-0