One down, one to go! Actually this one glove isn't quite finished. I need to close up the hole between the thumb and the index finger and finish up weaving in the ends. The holes in the um, crotch, of the other fingers are really not an issue as it turns out. One, you can't see them and two, you can't feel them. I may not even bother grafting them closed at all. Woo woo woo. I'm wearing this one glove now as I type. The fingers are free to be but roasty toasty. Perhaps this winter I'll be able to avoid the unpleasant Swollen Pinky Syndome.

For all you glove v!rgin$ out there, let me reassure you that gloves aren't really difficult to knit at all. I think socks are more difficult than gloves in construction; gloves are only more difficult in execution, ie fiddling with dpn's for the fingers. The hardest part for me was visualizing the process, which I like to do before I start a new knit. Like Steph told me, you just need to do it and once you do, it all makes sense.

I can't believe Thanksgiving is already here?!

So speaking of the holidays, it came a little early this year. Duck was his own Santa Claus. He waited in front of Target from 10pm to 8am this weekend to get his hands on this...

A fresh batch of the Nintendo Wii, and a game that has you destroy rabid bunnies with toilet plungers, among other crazy crazy things.

...which he has been talking about incessantly for the last YEAR. This thing is crazy. No more controls and complicated button combinations - just swing!

All afternoon we were serving and backhanding, pitching fastballs, bowling for strikes, throwing jabs and uppercuts in boxing. It's so real-time and realistic that I was really following through with my swings. Look ma I'm exercising!! And now the whole of my back is in complete disarray. My shoulder muscles, obliques, triceps, biceps, all of them howling in pain. Can't pull up pants, can't pick up coffee mug, can't even effing drag 'n drop with the mouse without coming close to tears. Heh heh. Ow.

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