Persistent Knitter

My entire knitting work yesterday consisted of knitting two rows on Hardangervidda last night. I stayed up too late to do it (but had found this awesome show on PBS to watch: Colonial House. I think I saw the first or next to first episode as everyone was just getting setup in the Colony. It had another episode on after the first one, and I forced myself to use the VCR to tape it and went to bed. Given that daytime TV sucks, especially in the mornings, it’ll be good to watch during the day.

TLC?
Have you noticed a trend on TLC lately? (or maybe not so lately) What exactly are we learning? In the mornings the entire lineup consists of Baby/Wedding/Dating Stories. Bleah, Barf, Boring!! The afternoons are slightly better (in that I’m at least interested in these shows somewhat):
* Trading Spaces (a designer gets to design/destroy a room in your house while you help another designer do the same to your friend’s house. Why does anyone sign up for this show?)
* Clean Sweep (where as a viewer you get to feel better about your own house by seeing how cluttered other people live and laugh at all the crap they keep)
* In A Fix (where you get to blame one spouse for not doing their remodeling job, and the other gets sent to a spa or somewhere equally cool while a huge team of burly guys comes in and does the slacker’s work for them)
* While You Were Out (they get a designer who actually makes a good attempt to design a nice space for someone who is “out” at the time)

So I’m not sure what I’ve learned by watching “The Learning Channel” except I’d rather not let any of them into my house any time soon!

Non Knitting, but cool
I am going to finish Alex’s roman shade this week. The theory being that it’d be easier to do it this week while darling husband was here to help with the baby. It’s a good theory, but slightly flawed. Thank goodness Alex likes to sleep propped up in the boppy pillow on the couch while I putter away in the sewing room. I got the blackout lining put on yesterday - hoping to get the battens glued in today as that’s the most time consuming in that you have to let it dry overnight before touching it again.