Sure, I Have Time For That!

We are currently neck deep in getting Caleb ready to go.  I've got IKEA bags full of Twin XL bedding piled in the Ball Room.*  I've got a notebook filled with lists, info, numbers, and anything he might possibly need once we get down there.  I'm trying to organize Logan (who's super easy and laid back) and Newton (who's generally nuts, fearless, the color of shadows, and he's teething - he has four lower canine teeth at the moment** so he looks like Venom) for my brother in law, John, who's going to be pet sitting for us (he's my very favorite brother in law!) And on top of all this we keep getting emails from the university to add things and make changes to the way things have previously been set up - most of this is adjusting for COVID, and I appreciate the effort they're making to keep everyone safe, but it feels like every time I get two things checked off a list, there's another thing added.  I've been assured this is normal from a very nice lady in Campus Living who's my contact for Caleb's dorm, and she told me I wasn't crazy when I emailed her asking about toilet paper because I didn't want to send the wrong kind with him and have it blow up the plumbing in the entire building and then not only does he have the reputation as the kid who blew up the plumbing but also everyone who lives in the building is now emotionally traumatized from The Incident and the whole school has to close down for the rest of the semester "for sanitary reasons."  Yeah, this is where my head is at right now.

So naturally I decided to do The Sharon Show MKAL that Casapinka is doing this fall.  It starts tomorrow.  I've picked my yarn (from l-r, and A-D for the KAL):Dark Yarns 50%Merino/50% Silk (I don't remember the base name and the skein isn't sitting here) in Arya, the other three are all Madelinetosh Tosh Sock in Ink, Kelp, and Tart.  I'm hoping to cast on and at least start the first clue this weekend, but then I'll probably fall behind a couple of weeks while we do The Move, but then I hope to catch up a bit.  Maybe.  Never mind that I'm still teaching Newton not to attack the yarn as I knit from it.  He's doing pretty well and mostly just holds it in his paws, but sometimes he just can's help himself and sinks his teeth into it with a look of pure joy on his little kitty face.  Baby steps.  Also, I might have grabbed a partial skein from my Leftovers With Potential basket (where I keep partial skeins that still have half or more of their yardage) for a sock project to take on the road trip.  I mean it's obvious that with everything else going on in my life I really need not one but two new knitting projects to really round things out, right?

Have a great weekend, and just as a public service announcement, strawberry lemonade and vanilla vodka are really yummy together.  In case anyone else needs to know this.

*We are really not fancy enough to have an actual ballroom in our house.  This is the combination formal living room and dining room space, but we don't use it for that, we keep workout stuff in it, including the big exercise balls.  One day, a few months after we moved here, back when he was eight years old, as we were leaving the house I called to Caleb to get going and he told me, "I'm already downstairs, I'm in the ball room."  Naturally, it's been the ball room ever since - how could it be anything else?

**I know that if Newton doesn't lose his baby canines by himself, he'll have to have them pulled, but I googled it and we don't have to deal with it until we get back from dropping Caleb off.  Hopefully, they'll fall out on their own in the meantime, but I know this is something to be watched.  It's on a list.  (I'm not kidding, it's on a September list.)