{"id":1357,"date":"2007-10-03T09:33:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1357"},"modified":"2007-10-03T09:33:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T13:33:00","slug":"another-day-another-stroke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1357","title":{"rendered":"Another day, another stroke."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/exercise\/loljax1.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/misc\/exercise\/loljax1-thumb.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\"><\/a><br \/>\nAs you can see, the couch to 5k continues.  When I exercise vigorously, I turn red.  Really, really red.  Like so red that people are concerned for me.  I haven&#8217;t had a heart attack yet, it&#8217;s just that my super-fair skin needs little provocation to make me look like a cooked lobster.  If you see me jogging down the street, please do not call 911.  It&#8217;s perfectly normal.<\/p>\n<p>I need to work out a new route.  I&#8217;m doing okay up until that last leg of the run.  It takes me up Mt. Doom, and it&#8217;s brutal.  Maybe if I walk a little farther before starting the program, it won&#8217;t hit in the same place.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/illiane.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">illiane<\/a> turned me on to this really cool feature on the internet.  Maybe you already knew about it, but I didn&#8217;t.  http:\/\/www.gmap-pedometer.com\/ will let you plot out a route and tell you how far it is.  It&#8217;s not entirely accurate, because I&#8217;ve driven my route and it&#8217;s just about exactly two miles, but it comes up as slightly less on that site.  The site doesn&#8217;t take elevation into account, though, so maybe going up and down the slopes of Mt. Doom is adding some distance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Jaynemisc\/JMJayneart.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Jaynemisc\/JMJayneart-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearwithstyle.com\/hat5.html\" target=\"blank\">Jayne orders<\/a> are picking up speed.  Unfortunately, it&#8217;s because Halloween is upon us &#8211; and I&#8217;ve already got an eight week wait.  I feel bad for these Browncoats, but it is what it is.  Two kits went out yesterday, another two kits and two hats are going out today, and I&#8217;m devoting the rest of the morning to Jayne activities.  I can also usually knit an entire hat at my <a href=\"http:\/\/charlotteknitting.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"blank\">weekly stitch session<\/a>, so that&#8217;ll be another one down.<\/p>\n<p>I do love my Browncoats.  Check out the sweet art that came along with an order over the weekend.  Too neat!  The hat she drew is similar to a picture I made for something I&#8217;m planning on introducing fairly soon.  &#8220;Fairly soon&#8221; being &#8220;whenever I can eke out the time for it&#8221; so actually, who knows when it&#8217;ll be?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/knittingmisc\/socks\/pomatomuscuff.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\">Because all work and no play makes Tvini go crazy, I did pull out the Fleece Artist that I got as part of a sock kit swap from <lj user=strange_muse> (thanks again!).  I&#8217;ve been wanting to make <a href=\"http:\/\/www.knitty.com\/issuewinter05\/PATTpomatomus.html\" target=\"blank\">Pomatomus<\/a> since it was published in 2005.  I just love the way these socks look.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it turns out that I don&#8217;t love the way they knit.  I tried to put in a lifeline before I started the pattern, but it was so tight that I gave it up.  Twelve rows in and I&#8217;ve already lost a stitch.  The twisted knits make tinking back a giant pain in the keister.  I&#8217;m knitting it on size 1s instead of the recommended 2s because I&#8217;m a loose knitter, but even so, these stitches are pretty darned tight.  I think I may abandon this and use the yarn for something else, maybe <a href=\"http:\/\/knitstricken.blogspot.com\/2006\/10\/embossed-leaves-socks-how-to.html\" target=\"blank\">Embossed Leaves.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All right, back to the Jayne mines!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you can see, the couch to 5k continues. When I exercise vigorously, I turn red. Really, really red. Like so red that people are concerned for me. I haven&#8217;t had a heart attack yet, it&#8217;s just that my super-fair skin needs little provocation to make me look like a cooked lobster. If you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[90,47,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}