In which trek stops before Blogger eats the post again

Today was filled up with a variety of miscellaneous tasks and errands which needed my attention. The random nature of my morning and afternoon segues rather naturally into a Thursday Afternoon Bullet Post.

• If you haven't yet signed up for the Second Annual Box Topapalooza, hop over to the contest post now and leave me a comment with your intentions. I'll wait.



• Glad to see you back! :o)



• At the first PTA meeting of each school year, our Box Top coordinator reminds the parents that every Box Tops tossed into the trash can is throwing away a dime.



• Something is wrong with the weather here. It is 68°F right now. This is not summer weather.



• If we are not having summer weather, why did I invest in four ribbed tank tops this morning?



• Because hope springs eternal, obviously.



• And they were on sale for six bucks apiece.



• Neatnik is wearing a pretty white/pink/green floral sun dress today - with a blue t-shirt underneath. Refer back to Bullet #1.



• It wasn't quite this cool yesterday, so we were at the pool.
  
  
  I love the bright color contrasts here:
  blue/white, red/white, green/blue


• I am currently reading a book which Number Guy loved as a lad: The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. I saw it on the pool's book swap shelf the other day and just had to snag it. I really like the clever plays on words.



• Have you ever seen it? Read it? If not, you might want to give it a try.



• Remember the lost dpn? Reinforcements arrived today from Simply Socks.



• Their arrival is a very good thing: I caught myself yesterday thinking that while my raspberry socks were in their equipment time-out, maybe I could retrofit a couple of pairs of Neatnik's school socks. Then I remembered that they are knit from the same yarn as my raspberry ones and that meant that I didn't have the right needles then.



• While the socks have been stewing in the project bag, I have made great progress on the string bag. I am currently on Round 13 of 18 of the bag's body.



• I have to wind some more navy sock yarn since I promised Neatnik more school socks.



• This isn't purely altruistic on my part, sad to say, since it will reduce the yarn sock laundry frequency during the school year.



• Most moms do not worry about yarn sock laundry frequency do they?

Most moms just have to worry about clean underwear and fresh shorts and tees for gym days.

It's just a burden which we knitting moms must bravely bear - much like bloggers throughout the world having to endure blogging software which eats huge chunks of their post just before they are ready to push the Publish button.