I am knitting socks. These are my jury duty socks, although they are really too pink and lacy to called jury duty socks. I abandoned the first sock right before the cuff last week because it wasn't going to be enough knitting to get me through a round-trip train ride to NYC. So I started the second one (lucky I'd just gotten my knitpicks sock needle set). I didn't actually get very far on the train (I wasn't feeling well - stupid vitamin) but I did a ton of knitting yesterday and went from an inch from the toe to turning the heel. I actually spent about an hour in the park near my apartment knitting in the open air. It was really lovely and refreshing. I didn't even take my MP3 player - I just sang to myself a bit. I'm going to try to go again today. Sooner rather than later because the weather report is suggesting rain.

I think I may be able to finish both of them today - though I may take some time off from the socks to work on the Lacy Hug-Me-Tight I'm making for my mom. The Yankees game should be an ideal time to work on the 21 inches of 2X2 ribbing. I'm about 9 inches in right now. Not too bad for a week's work.

I really want to buy more sock yarn. I'm also freaking out a bit over my budget and I've been going out to eat a lot lately. Intellectually I know I'm not overspending (I barely went out at all in September) but I can't bring myself to spend money on yarn when I have yarn at home. After these socks are done I'm going to use my  KnitPicks Gloss to make Maia's Mystery Socks, I think  they're called Scherezade, because they look awesome. After those I have two socks worth of yarn left (well, 
technically three, but I hate the Clown yarn) before I have to go out and buy more. And if I like the Gloss and Risata I may just make a big KnitPicks order and get cheap yarn with free shipping. I wish I could be less of a miser, but money (and the fear of running out) makes me crazy.

I have jury duty tomorrow. It will likely be quite boring. So I bought some new sock yarn (Louet Gems Pearl) in a lovely, pale pink and cast on for Cookie A's Baudelaire socks. They are lacy and pretty. The figure eight cast on nearly gave me a coniption, but I finally figured it out, and now I have the definite start to a sock. I'm a bit unsure about the size of the sock though. The largest size has a 8.5" foot circumferance, and when I measured around my instep I got 9". So we'll see how this goes. I mean, I only have a size 8.5 foot, I shouldn't have to make the largest size.

I have also finally conqured my fear of sweaters and cast on for my Something Green. I'm about halfway through with the initial raglan shaping, and I'm loving it. It's such a neat way to increase. I'm knitting on size 8's (7's are recommended, but I'm a super tight knitter) and the yarn is just so lofty and squishy that it's almost hard to work with. Especially since I'm working with sock and laceweight yarn for my other projects.