I finished up the first of the two work socks for 2nd Son's Christmas Eve birthday present. They fit Youngest Son, so I'm assuming they'll fit the other one, too.
F worked for a couple hours on my car yesterday. We replaced all the light bulbs and checked the fuses...and still no running lights in the back. Off to U-Haul today to buy towing lights. These will have to be wired directly to the battery, but they will fix the night time driving problem. Then to an auto electronics place to see if we can get a wireless lock for the door. F did get the driver's window up all the way, and took out the fuse for that one window so that it can't accidentally be lowered and subsequently not raised again. The linkage from the lock is what's causing the problem. F's confident he can fix it (how hard can it be?). But that's better left until we get back from Disneyland.
The exciting news is that Youngest Daughter got next Tuesday off completely so we're going to drive over to Disneyland a day early. Generally we leave some time in the middle of the night so the kids are asleep for most of the trip. What's not so good about that these days is I can't drive at night any more and Youngest Daughter doesn't like to. But it cuts off one night in a hotel and when money is generally an issue.... But with the light issues with the car, and everything else, we thought daytime driving might be a better bet. So, we're leaving Tuesday morning at a decent hour in stead of at 0-dark-thirty Wednesday as we'd originally planned. We'll take our time and let the kids out to run around a bit, etc. We're excited!
Youngest Son has agreed to wear Jackyll & Hide for a bit on Halloween at Disneyland. Yeah!
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I managed to get a lot done on my current project, Jackyll & Hide. I'm up to the eye holes. Which is kinda tricky, I think. I'm hoping for an hour or so of relatively quiet time in which to get that part finished. Then it's easy peasy from there on. With luck, it'll be finished today.
Then back to the regularly scheduled Christmas knitting. I pretty much know what I'm making for everyone so it's just a matter of working on it. And I need to CO the next pair of Mickey Mouse socks to take to Disneyland.
Awhile back I traded a small wooden swift I had for a $40 gift certificate at KnitPicks. I'm really bad at just "buying yarn" without something in mind for it and I just didn't have anything in mind I needed yarn for. So I was wandering through Etsy looking at Sock Knitting Bags. Although not necessary for knitting at home, it would be nice to have one for the trip. I found a very cute one. It's made by White Willow and has a Halloween motif of knitting witches. I may have to replace the drawstring cord, though, as it looks like it's too slick to stay closed. And add a lobster claw swivel hook so I can hook it to my purse. Don't want it flying off in Space Mountain!!
As that didn't use up my gift certificate, I bought some yarn, too. It was the only skein listed of that colorway which was based on Tinkerbell colors. Soft blue and green with a little white, I think. Anyway, Youngest Daughter is a Tink freak so the skein of yarn with a coupon for hand knitted socks will be her Christmas present. (Unless of course I have time to knit the socks before Christmas). It was just so weird, cuz earlier that day I'd asked her what she thought would be a Tinkerbell colorway. And she said, light blue, green, and white.....
Turner Movie Channel had some great musicals on yesterday. Watched most of My Fair Lady with my grand daughters and then Brigadoon. DVRed some more good movies for today, Fiddler on the Roof, Rear Window, and Paint Your Wagon. Today's list to be DVRed is House of Usher, The War of the Worlds (1953), and Sorry, Wrong Number. Gotta get more popcorn!
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