Mardi Gras

Today is Mardi Gras and I am very mad at myself. This is because it did not occur to me that my winter vacation coincided with Mardi Gras. I COULD HAVE GONE! I could be in New Orleans right now. Experiencing Mardi Gras. And next year the school district I work for won't have this week off and Mardi Gras might not have coincided with it anyway (I haven't checked). So, I blew my chance to go without having to take school days off and make sub plans and potentially have to pretend to be sick, depending on the attitude of whatever principal I work for.

Surprisingly, Mardi Gras is an event in downtown San Jose. Unfortunately, it is an event that has often gotten violent and destructive here, so I won't be going. The idiots who go downtown for this must think that is what Mardi Gras is all about. They don't realize Bourban Street is the exception in New Orleans. Mardi Gras is really a nice family affair in other parts of the city. And I'm missing it!

In knitting news, I have not posted lately because I have just been knitting baby hats and I have been working so much my brain just feels too tired to post. As for baby hats: I know too many pregnant women. My hockey fan friend's wife is expecting so they are getting a teal hat that I will iron a Sharks patch onto. And then there are the three or four women at work. Yikes, it is like a contagious disease at that school! One I don't intend to catch.

So, I have made three hats already, and am starting a fourth. I am looking forward to Stitches West this weekend, too. I have budgeted for it and I am taking a class on spinning. I also think I might be ready to graduate to an actual sweater or maybe a tank top or something. As long as it is not a hat!