I’ve done the first button band- I started with the one without button holes. It’s puckering slightly, though. When I cast off loosely it ruffled and when I cast off tightly it puckered. I tried to do it somewhere it between, and I ended up with an edge that puckers a little put be stretched so that it doesn’t. Can that be blocked out, or should I try it again?

The fronts and back are happily blocking on a old beach towel on the bottom bunk in the guest room. The sleeves would be blocking, except I ran out of pins and towel space. The only reason I have any pins at all is because when my brother and I were little, we would collect the pins at department stores. (See, I’ve always been weird) The pins with green heads were the best. They’re probably awful and germy, but they block well enough.

I’ve got eight rows before I’m done with the second sleeve, and then it’ll time for the button bands and the collar. I’m getting so close!

The homecoming dance was just awful. I suppose I shouldn’t have expected anything more; school dances are never fun. Oh well. Football games on Friday nights are much more entertaining.

My mom is going to send my broken cord to the Denise address; hopefully it will be replaced.

Excuses, excuses. I have so many WIPs calling to me, but I can’t sit down and do any of them. I have school work, yeah, but I get that done quickly enough. My biggest problem is that when I come home, I just want to sit and read or walk around. Knitting, as little effort as it takes, is too much work. Plus I’m having teenage dating problems at the moment. I’m sure what’s stressing me would be of ridiculously little importance to most other knit bloggers out there, but hey, I’m a Freshman in high school. Homecoming is Saturday, and every A day I’m convinced that the guy I like is going to ask me- he’s friendly and we talk. Every B day, I’m convinced that he hates me- he has a friend with him that day, and he acts like I’m an idiot. So I’m quite confused. Ah, the joys of being an adolescent.

School has kept me from doing anything. I apologize my slacking on blogging. I’ve been busy with dance and school and just existing. High school is kinda crazy- new people, block scheduling. It’s actually kind of fun- the socializing- except that I keep remembering that next year we’ll be splitting off into two different high schools, so we will lose all the new friends we made.

I’ve only got a few inches left on the sleeve. I hear it scolding me from my knitting shelf, but I can’t seem to sit down and do more than a couple of rows at a time. I haven’t finished anything in months… I need to just sit down and force myself to do it.