Long Time No Sew

I hadn't touched any of my string working projects since the cat-pee-yarn incident. This week I've been getting back into the cross stitch. While watching shows with my Mom and middle nephew on Sunday, I brought out my cross stitch to work on. That prompted Little Bit to go, Oh Yeah, and go over and grab his cloth knitting box which houses his yarn and knitting needles.

Sure enough, it's been so long since he looked at it he has forgotten the basics (which was all we were working on at the time). So I grabbed a couple needles and started short-tail casting on, only to find that my hands have also seemed to forgotten. I flubbed a little ways through and managed to cast on, but then when going for the first row of knitting, again my hands were failing me, and it felt like the cast on row was too tight and/or wrong. Considering I didn't feel like I was doing it 100% correctly, I wasn't surprised.

I had to tell him that I promise to reteach him next weekend, but for right now he was just going to have to watch the show without having something in his hands. That means getting my knitting back out and reteaching myself as well.

Someone Needs To Be Fired

I've had to go online for two episodes of The Americans this season because the DVR cut off ~10min before the end of the show. The programmers at FX are responsible.

Now, it's 9:20pm, I've brushed my teeth, settled in with my cross stitch, and started up the DVR for the season finale of The Americans only to find 20 minutes of an infomercial that recorded at 5:10am instead of 20min of the episode. This is also the fault of the programmers at FX.

{Yeah, I edited it - I shouldn't be QUITE so perturbed, but it's still annoying}