I did not do as much knitting this weekend as I usually like to. Is it wrong to wish that I had more time to lay on the couch at home when I still had a sufficient amount of loafing time? Meh. I think that part of my disappointment is that I did not make much progress on Friday night (while I watched 3 hours of 24 and an episode of Survivor).

Consider yourself warned. If you're going to try to start a multi-colored fair isle glove when you have little experience (none particularly successful) with stranded knitting, don't tune into 24 at the same time. If you do try this, you risk getting into the project and realizing that your "cuff" is more like a glorified hairband. It did work out for the best because I got the hang of the technique and smoothed out my tense knitting so that when I started the real thing I could really focus.

This project is SO.MUCH.FUN. It's the kind of knitting that literally keeps me up at night with that one-more-row mentality. It's great to have a project like this. I've been kind of floundering lately because although I have heaps of yarn, there's nothing that I've been really dying to make. What's a girl to do?

The answer is definitely not buy more yarn, so don't even think about it. Today I went comparison shopping for a new digital camera and an external hard drive to back up my precious files so it looks like May is going to be the month of new gadgets. I'm trying to decide what kind of camera to get. Any advice? As soon as I spotted the digital camera counter I got all distracted by super cute, small cameras. I started thinking that there's no sense settling for 5 megapixels when I can have 6--but then I realized that I'm upgrading from 3.1, so really anything will seem pretty extravagant. I started to read some online reviews of cameras but it seems like people only want to complain. Apparently no cameras have good battery life and big LCD screens are just made to break. I don't know if I can handle such a big decision. I might go with an Olympus. They have a RAD new model that's so thin it's practically invisible (and comes in great colors), but I'd probably go with an older, cheaper, granny style version in classic silver. There is always the allure of the smaller, fashionable camera too...

I'm so bad at making these insignificant decisions. I can move to the other side of the world, no problem, but a camera? Serious debate.

This rivoting post brought to you by the letters A and U and the color green (because it's May, of course!)