Social Anxiety Blogs

I guess it's just backlash from my cycle but I really can't seem to get sleepy. I've been up since about 3 pm yesterday. I can't say that I've put the time to good use as I've just been on the computer/on line most of that time. I did go to the store for smokes but that's about it.

I found out that the local grocery store shuts down their registers for a while during early morning hours and I just happened to be there when they were down. Thankfully, I didn't have to wait long for them to be started back up again. On the way home, I stopped at the ATM to get some money for shopping later today (if I'm not too tired to go).

I'm making progress on my sweater. So far, I'm about 7 inches into it. I'm really hoping that the neckline won't be too big. I changed over to dong a medium instead of a large so I'm keeping my fingers crossed. For a while, I was getting bored with it but I know that it'll be long enough to put on waste yarn and try on to see if I need more increases. I'm looking forward to that, even though taking it off the needles to put on the waste yarn is a pain in the ass and putting it back on the needles is a bigger pain but I'd rather try it on and know where I'm at with that than to not and it be too small or too big.

I don't have a boat neck sweater to measure it up against so I'm just going on instinct at this moment. I've seen it suggested that when in doubt about how to size something you're making, just find a sweater that fits you well and measure that to get the best fit. I'm a real noob to making wearables like sweaters so.... shawls, I'm good at because gauge (how many stitches per inch/rows per inch) isn't really all that important. But sweaters.... gauge is everything. Even if there's one more stitch per inch, it'll throw it off in a big way so I swatch faithfully.

I took some Equate PM stuff and it's finally starting to take effect now. I know that I shouldn't take that every day but it's so hard for me to relax enough to sleep.

More later.... maybe.