hawaii. is. awesome.

i promise on quivit to blog more completely (and soberly) about it when i get home (not that anyone but ktb reads my blog) buuuut in the meantime i have timeshare presentation bribery money (because the free car wasn't enough) that i don't have time to spend at the hotel bar between now and when i check out on saturday....soooooo y'all get to listen to my rum induced ramblings. lucky you!

retail value on rum induced vacation ramblings? $9.95+tax. just so you know what a value you're getting. :) although really glad i'm not actually paying real money to access the internet right now....it's kicked me 5 times in the last hour.

as i've stated elsewhere 'round these parts ("these parts" = completely pointless and arbitrary group on ravelry....this started as a forum post and got out of hand) this is the longest i've gone without interwebs since i was 10.

hubster (who didn't get interwebs until moving out of his parents' house) finds my woe endlessly amusing. although, because of lack of wifi i finished three inches of cuff on a second-sock-that-makes-a-pair (plane) and all but 1 inch of cuff on a simple stockingette i-can-knit-this-whilst-drinking-and-talking tofutsies sock. tofutsies is awesome warm weather knitting by the way. don't know that i love the end product....but in sticky heat it can't be beat.

i experienced my first KIP (quasi-)discrimination at dinner tonight. it was from my closest, youngest, bluntest sister so it almost doesn't count. but on the other hand it's a Knitter rite of passage....so i'll blog it anyway :)

we went out to dinner as a family. and when i say we went out as a family....i'm talking 12 people. step-mom, daddy, husband, three sisters, brother, two babies, aunt, grandmother, sister's awesome roomie (one sister and roomie are local).

we ate at the plantation gardens and it was amazing. if you're ever in poipu, kauai it's definitely worth a look up. take the wiohai marriot turn off and follow the signs. we had awesome service, the food was amazing, and the drinks...well. someone was having fun when they came up with those. i had a cucumber mojito with local ginger....it came garnished with a mini cucumber salad.

so.

good.

they also have a green tea infused vodka "garden iced tea" that a few of my family members really enjoyed.

anyway. between ordering my amazing mojito(s) and waiting for the server to come back and take the dinner order, i pulled out my vacation sock. like i said earlier....simple stockingette. (tofuties color 727 (ravelry link) 72 stitches on size 2.5 susan bates aluminum needles.

because i tried to consolidate my knitterly packing, i only brought the wrong size needlesfor tofutsies. i mostly use 2.25mms with fingering weight. since i was already working on a pair of fingering weight socks i assumed i could just throw another fingering weight sock yarn into my carry one....because of course knitpicks fingering wool = tofutsies fingering wool blend. plus i'm new to knitting on dpns, which also changes my gauge. not to mention, i prefer magic loop. (another gauge changer)...but boomer dog ate the cables on my favorite 32' nickle plated knitpicks sock needles right before i left so i had to make do. (hopefully my replacement sock needles are there when get back)


erm. i bet you can see where this is going......

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it's turning out okay though. in a perfect world, with my gauge, i would knit tofutsies on 1.5mms or even 1 mms..... but i'm letting the aloha spirt lead me. both with my socks and with my story. :)

back to my sister:

sister: um. are you knitting?
me: yes.
hubster: it's kind of what she does.
sister: at the dinner table?
span style="font-weight:bold;">hubster: like i said, it's kind of what she does. you know what they say about idle hands.....
me: *smitten smile* besides, it's not dinner yet. we haven't even ordered.
sister: dood. you're weird.
me: you're saying that like it's new information.

meanwhile my certifiably crazy (srsly) grandmother was trying to interject. as soon as the conversation broke, she went off on a rant of the idle hands puritan morale leading to working your fingers to the bone for no pay off (tangible or intangible) which led to a one way discussion of the horrible treatment of slave laborers in the third world. oh. and republicans are evil incarnate and control the whole thing....including why i'm not pregnant yet and why my husband is a tool of the government. (this led to another smitten smile at hubster because when it comes to my gram and biting his tongue.....he bleeds like Jesus.)

no one on that end of the table got a word in edgewise for 10 minutes. thankfully i had a sock and my amazing cucumber infused mojito had arrived.

ooh. and yarn and tape measures? best. baby. distractions. ever.

i heart my family. times eleventy. :)


apparently this is my real smile. hubster is teasing me about my fake photo smile. waimiea shrimp shack 2pm 11/18


waimiea canyon national park. 3pm. 11/18 curvy-est road ever.





wiamiea canyon. 3pm. 11/18

these are the only pictures i've managed to load on the ridiculous cable internet that has now kicked me 22 times. yeah. i get a little OCD when i'm drunk. :)

like i said. i swear on quivit, more when i get home.

ALOHA!