There are a million reasons...

...why Max is my hero.

Yesterday, I had quite an emotional afternoon. I spent most of my morning writing. I wanted to keep track of my daily word count. So, to make it easier, I was just typing it up in a blank document to copy and paste into the actual document later. Just as I was about to do it, after five single spaced pages, the whole program crashed and I was devastated. Devastated and Angry. I hadn't saved the untitled document I had been typing in all morning and the situation was very frustrating and dire. I could not bear the thought of having to write it all again. I had been in the flow and did not reread it as I went along for fear of disrupting said flow. The Flow was also why I failed to save it until five pages in. I was too angry to do anything so I took a shower...while in the shower, I tried to remember what I wrote and I couldn't think of most of it. More anger, more cursing...

But Max, he came along and saved five pages of my writing from oblivion. Apparently, Appleworks has an autosave feature for your saved documents, which I knew. However, this document was NOT A SAVED DOCUMENT. I had not clicked that little button to create a permanent file. Still, Appleworks had saved it under a numerical name 20 characters long someplace random on my computer and Max found it!! It was a jumbled mess and spread out over something like five separate files, but it was there. All of it. Max is my hero...and God bless Macintosh...

Other than being generally wonderful and good with computers, he bought me these for my birthday:



The Knit Picks Options Interchangeable Needle Set!! I'm so excited and I can't wait to use them! They feel really nice and the join seems like it will be smooth. I love the case and the very notion of it all being neat and organized (not to mention very shiny) is very exciting to me.

He really is the greatest...and handsome too:


Hehehe...are you blushing yet, honey? :p

Ok, enough of that. I don't want to make anyone puke. Onto the knitting pictures!

My mom's socks look like this:


I hope she likes them...

My Swallowtail Shawl looks like this:



I love Edgar Allan Poe, btw...

My most recently started project looks like this!:


It's the Inga Hat. I'm knitting it with three colors throughout instead of only two. I think it looks cool. The photo doesn't do the colors justice. I took about a thousand shots in different lighting and none of them really captured it. This is the closest one. They are very bright...nearly florescent...and they really pop against the brown background. I'm not usually into those kinds of colors, but for this, they rock!! I can't wait to wear this thing! It's halfway finished.

So, I do believe that is all for today. Happy Knitting!