I need a job. I am so sick of filling out paperwork. Some of it is due to my own procrastination which I acknowledge. However, when you are applying for a job that is WELL beneath your qualifications because you just left an extremely stressful position with crappy hours and you just want to relax for a while and earn some yarn/pocket money you have to ask yourself if filling out 7 separate attendance vouchers to send to jobs and colleges you attended in a past life so that this new employer can verify your character is really worth it. Not only does my hand hurt, but I am irritated that I have to look up all this information on stuff that should be irrelevant...like my first job ever. I stayed there for 3 years and the experience is extremely relevant but I can't even remember my supervisor's last name. What are the odds that a retail supervisor stays in the same store for 10 years? And even if that were to happen, what are the odds that said supervisor will remember me? After 10 years. I know all of this is necessary, but it really makes me wish that my skills from my last job were more marketable here. Hal ay minkum bihajaa ila mutatarjima?

In knitting news, I bound off my pup's sweater on Friday, but I hated how the decreases looked when I tried it on him, so I frogged it. I wasn't as heartbroken as I thought I would be after frogging, probably because the pup only weighs 8 pounds and reknitting parts of a sweater that size just doesn't seem daunting. But I finished it and bound it off and now it is awaiting ribbing. I started at the neck so that part is ribbed, but the bound off edge at the other end needs to be picked up and knitted into a nice finished-looking ribbed edge. And I also need to pick up at the armholes and rib that for about an inch, but I'm not so good at picking up stitches yet, and hubby thinks it looks good without the arms done. It's probably fine for now as the weather warms, but next winter I will definitely have to take care of that. Last night I casted on for my first pair of socks! I was turned on to the website from another new knitter who assured me that she had never knitted anything other than a scarf when she started her socks, and she swore I would have no trouble. I'm using stash yarn (again) so they will not be comfortable or soft. But I'm getting great practice, learning new techniques, and when the time finally comes that I spend my entire paycheck on yarn, needles, and knitting books and patterns I will look back on these times and laugh. Or something. I need a job.