Flotsam kind of day

1^st - we lost Enji.    He was kinda laying on his back/side last night when I went to bed, but he was still breathing.  I wasn’t sure what I could do for him, so left him hoping for the best.  This AM he wasn’t breathing anymore.  I flushed him prior to Little Man waking up thinking to save his sensibilities or avoid a scene or whatever, and really, he was more upset at me (and not even much of that) that he didn’t get to see him “floating”.  Mostly, since Enji was not a big mover and blended in to gravel so well - LM didn’t get too terribly attached I don’t think.  ::sigh::  I’m not sure if we’ll get anything else for a while.  And I guess I need to get Benji out and rinse everything off and hope he doesn’t get sick from the same thing.  (Which really - I think he’s fine - he’s still a busy little fish and finally comes to the top of the water when I put the food in.  He didn’t do that at first, and I worried.  Now I’m thinking it must have something to do with comfort levels/familiarity, etc.)  but this whole moving, cleaning, etc. thing is really kind of a pain.  Cause if Benji can get sick from the water or whatever is in the tank right now, I need to move him out.  But you’re not supposed to put the fresh water straight into the aquarium from the tap.   You’re supposed to let it sit at least overnight.   So Benji HAS to stay in the water he’s in while the new water sits.  How do people with large aquariums do all this?    Anyway…..

Little Man is much better.  Apparently it was just a 24 hour type thingie that lasted a little longer than 24 hours.  I gave him some Power Ranger action figures for Valentine’s Day (and a little candy - but we wouldn’t let him eat that yesterday which was very frustrating for him, but at the same time he didn’t want to throw up either, so he didn’t make too much of a fuss) and he’s loving them.  I couldn’t get him dressed this AM though because he was too busy playing with them.  I got very amused though, because I came in to check on him (and he dresses in the den FYI) and found him with yarn wrapped around them as a lifeline/lowering rope/something playing.  It was not any of my good/expensive yarn, so it was pretty funny.  (and still probably would have been even if, cause it’s all re-rollable)

I’m finally making some progress on Hug & A Prayer.  (part of it was I was waiting for payday) but I’ve emailed several times with Jennifer who is the genius dye artist for the Flock Tsocks, and have decided on using the superwash merino from Knit Picks.  Jennifer is going to custom dye it for me and there will be no more dithering on my part.  And if mom doesn’t like it - well, I might find some other uses for that yarn……

Calorimetry   - Cast on for the 5^th time - and I THINK it will be OK.  I only cast on 92 based on what everyone else was saying.  I was thinking too hard about it last night though and confused myself.  I need to just trust in the pattern and do it.  It’s not like it’s not froggable.   You know, it would TOTALLY help if I could count in the first place. I picked it up at lunch time (I’d already been creating this post) and got to the end of row 1 and was short a stitch. Which I could probably have lived with, and this project doesn’t have straight edges, so probably wouldn’t have even been noticeable, but I just HATED the idea of having 1/2 a rib hanging out there.

So now I’m going to cast on - ALL at the same time, with no stopping to look at a post, or read in a forum, or anything else.  (Quickly, before my insane boss who’s hyperactive comes back, because I promise you, he’d interrupt me at least twice before I could count to 92…..)

ETA - Done!  and it only took me 20 minutes.   (You didn’t actually think I wouldn’t be reading something else at the same time did you?  Can I not recommend the Tsarina’s archives while trying to count?  )