I Wish I Could Be Selfish

All I really want to do is this:

But what I’ve really got to do is this:

I have lists on top of lists and then lists of my lists. And I can’t find half of them.

The formal (Prom, if you will. Even though, as homeschoolers, we don’t call it that, and I have no idea why. Must we do everything different?) is tomorrow night. I’ve got 2 teenage daughters, so you can imagine the activity ’round these parts as we do our last minute stuff. Casey can’t find her slip, Pippin needs socks, of all things- and there’s the eyebrow waxing, manicures, pedicures, flowers, hair… It’s like My Big Fat Greek Wedding  at my house. Only without the windex. And the Greek people.

If I were a selfish woman, I’d say screw it all and I’d sit and knit. Secretly, that’s what I’d really like to do more than anything else. But I’m not a selfish woman (all the time). So I’ll sacrifice myself for my girls. (Selfish, no. Martyr, why yes, thanks.)

Since we’re homeschoolers, and as such must do everything different, Geek and I are going to the formal as well. We’re to be chaperones. Doesn’t that make you snort? Me, as a chaperone!? But I’m thrilled, really. I get the opportunity to be a fly on the wall and watch my girls at the dance. So that means I need to be waxed, primped, prepared and pedicured as well. Large fun for all.

So I’m really not complaining. Well, actually, I am complaining. It’s just a good natured complaining, with a dash of bitchiness for good measure.

I’m only a couple of inches into the sock pattern, but I’m digging it. It’s very simple and looks good with the yarn. I still have (naive) hopes that I can finish these by Mother’s Day. I thought I should share that Cristi (Turtlegirl, designer of the loverly Red Dwarf Socks) told me that Bezzie (she of Random Meanderings) actually knitted the Red Dwarf socks on DPNs last year, and noted it at her blog. I don’t have time to search it out and think too hard about it right now for these socks, but just in case anyone else out there wrote off the socks because of the circular needles, you might check out Bezzie’s blog and search for her work last year on these socks.