Pounce

So, I forgot to mention my new thing for images (since I can't get my act together and upload photos taken - honestly, it just takes the first time and than I will fall into a pattern - so she thinks): SIGNS. You got to love the plethora of strange, unusual or in this case, contridictory signs there are out in the wide world. I have to admit that I found this on a personal post on craigslist (that is a scary place - the personals - the other sections are great - got a futon and an apartment from craigslist).



I have been good and even though my latest sweater is taking forever - the common knit and knit and no progress phenomina is kicking in, I haven't started any new knitting projects. Although I do have several ear marked and all lined up to jump into when I finish off the existing ones. The other day I thought I saw a ghost (or something in that venue) as I was reading my friend's blog and there my sweater was - all done and finished (but yet the first sleeve, half done is sitting in my bag, how can this be). I swear it looks almost identical. The same cables, the same pearl seed stitch along the button strip, the same rolled collar, the same color even. Once you see MY finished project (whenever that day might be) you will think it's eerie. One difference is that my version of the sweater is for me, hers for a baby.



And on a final "good thing in my busy life" note, even though it is chaos at work (too many people in one space - one room), there is a chore group of us that are hooked on a "new to me" card game called Pounce. It's like playing Speed or Spit (if you are familiar with those fast moving card games) combined with Solataire (similar structure), but with multiple decks and the more players there are the more chaos. I am addicted, but luckily so are three other people. So sometimes one of us can't play at lunch or during a break because of some deadline, but there is guaranteed that three of us will come through and play. I love it and it reminds me of my time in Wales during my study abroad. There were three of us (me, cec and joanne) who just would play Hearts endlessly and than we have other people we knew who would join us (as it is meant to be played with four really, especially if you are trying to shoot the moon - hee, hee). It was a great time to just chill but another aspect is you really get to know how each person plays, their style and then their is that added component to the game. Hopefully it will last, although at the end of the month we will all be separated (our office lease is up and our new office construction is completed yet, so we be splitting up the staff based on what makes sense of who goes where), so I guess we won't be able to play, but is only on hiatus until we move into our new space and are reunited once again!