Knitting Lace and Blocking

OK, when I was in Devils Lake I was trying to find a couple of pictures that would show how blocking lace drastically changes/improves its appearance after you are done knitting it. Well yippee doo-dah day, I found 'em! Someone posted some great before-and-after blocking photos to the knitting community, in this entry (just scroll down a teeny bit to see them both.)

So beautiful!!

And that's the kind of transformation my Peacock Feathers Shawl will go through after I knit it up. Wheee, I'm so excited!!!

5/4-06: EDITED TO ADD - OK, here are some even better pictures. Gorgeous!

Work sucks sometimes

Do you ever have one of those days where the things that people ask of you just get more and more crazy until you just want to throw your hands up and say, "Oh, you've got to be KIDDING me!" to the Universe?

Today is that day.

And every time I think that the requests and complaints can't possibly continue or get any weirder or more annoying, ANOTHER ONE pops up! I swear, I'm afraid to leave my office to go have lunch, because then people will have a hour's worth of saved-up whining for me when I get back! The last thing I want to deal with today is a backlog of annoying requests and complaints. No, actually, the last thing I want to deal with today is ANY of this crap. I want to go home. Last night we kept thinking tomorrow (which is now today) was going to be Friday. And then this morning Jon started talking about doing something that is happening FRIDAY, and I said, "Today's Thursday" and he was not pleased. I'm not pleased either. I want today to be Friday.

I'm going to be out of the office on Friday morning while we do the inspection of the house in Forest Lake. And then I am driving to Fargo after work tomorrow night. I would LOVE to just take the whole day off, but at the rate this week has been going, tomorrow will probably be my busiest day of the week. It's been a really backwards week. Monday was all nice and calm and laid back, and now things have gotten to the point of being about as irritating as they possibly could be. Yuck.


ETA: AAACK! It's happening again!!! And if I HAD gone to get lunch, things would have seriously gone down the drain for REAL!! I guess that's a good thing - at least I caught it before it blew up. But still! COME ON!!!