Been extremely busy the past couple weeks… memorial day weekend hubby and I were in Redding for a church retreat. Last Wednesday was our 3-year anniversary (yes, we’re still married young’uns!) then Thursday we zoomed off to Monterey for a weekend wedding. I’ll be blogging about that plus pics in my non-knitting blog soon. =)

On the knitting front - taking a break from Shimmer (will start that swatch soon) and aiming to finish up those UFOs (two bags) that I’ve been procrastinating on.

Lastly, I’ve been tagged by Caitlyn, so here goes!

Choose five things from the list below and complete the sentence.

If I could be a scientist, I’d study people and their behaviors. =)
If I could be a farmer
If I could be a psychologist
If I could be a librarian, boy would I do a ton of delicious reading!!!!
If I could be an inn-keeper
If I could be a professor, I would do my very best to build mentoring relationships with my students.
If I could be a writer, I’d be doing poetry, music, and even a couple fictional short pieces.
If I could be a llama-rider
If I could be a bonnie pirate
If I could be an astronaut, I’d be alot more physically fit than I am now.
If I could be a world famous blogger
If I could be a justice on any one court in the world
If I could be married to any current famous political figure

Enjoy! =)

I’m at the part (near the end) where I’m doing the raglan decreases in the middle of the lace/lozenge pattern. I’m halfway up when I realize that I’ve been decreasing incorrectly - rather than decreasing 6 stitches each row, I’ve been doing only 4 stitches. =O

If it was only a couple rows of mistakes, I actually have the patience to tink back, stitch by stitch. But this mistake starts almost 40 rows back… ACK!! So I’m obviously considering frogging up to the point where I made the mistake, pick up the stitches again, and resume knitting the pattern correctly.

My dilemna is that my only experience in frogging is when I’m frogging projects completely. I’m scared of frogging midway and picking back up my stitches (in fear of losing them, twisting them, etc.). I thought about threading in a lifeline at the point where I want to stop frogging… or even sticking my needle at the point where I want to stop frogging, but I don’t know how to do it with this lace/lozenge pattern (if it was an easy stockinette, sure why not). I REALLY don’t want to frog all that hard work and everything and start all over again. This is so discouraging!! =( =( =(

So I’m going to take a breather from Shimmer (not think about it for the next week or so) while I contemplate what to do. I’ve thought about knitting up a small swatch so I can practice picking up sts and frogging them carefully and correctly.