On my way home from a frightening large scale print quote, I decided to stop in the hospice shop. I walked in and it was full of shall we say, VERY elderly people. I was extremely tempted to walk out. Then I saw the buckets. The hospice shop always puts buckets of yarn in the same spot. So I started looking through. Believe it or not, there wasn’t anything I wanted in the buckets. What I did find was right next to the buckets. It was… A Gocco. I have been seriously thinking of getting one for over a year now, but could never justify the price to myself. However, this one was $4.00!

Needless to say, I picked it up and carefully held on to that sucker. I went through it and it has everything. It even has the original receipt from November of 1995! The owner used two of the master sheets and eight of the bulbs. There is still ink, extra master sheets, the blue filter, paper, the pen and of course instructions. Essentially it has everything but eight of the ten batteries.

There is a dealer not too far and I can of course buy anything I need online. I’ve got enough stuff for now. I won’t have time until after the holidays to do anything. Even then it might be a few weeks after the holidays are over before I can start playing. For now I will just be happy that I have it.

Can I finish my husband’s other glove (ravelry link*) before the twentieth? I don’t know. I finished the first glove in a couple of days. So there is a possibility. Of course that means I’d have to stop doing everything else. He asked me again today if I would be able to finish them. I replied with the statement that the bathroom had to be finished first. “One project at a time” is what Josh always says to me. This time I got to say it to him.

I want to have the bathroom done by Friday. So maybe I can start on Sunday or Monday. There will be cries of joy if I am able to complete the gloves by the twentieth. He wants them so he can go flying with his dad.

*For those not on ravelry, I started a pair of knit gloves for my husband two years ago. They were to keep his hands warm while he flew. The the thumb and index finger of the glove are half covered. He typically uses those fingers to feel the controls. I am also knitting it with a wool sock yarn on size 1 US needles. This means small stitches and a lot of them. Since he hasn’t flown much, I haven’t had a need to work on them.

So I checked out the new knitty and there are actually a few patterns I like.

Halcyon – It seems simple. I don’t know if I would get much use out of it though.
Jeanie – I really like this. I don’t know if I would get use out of that either, but I really like it.
Quant – Cute.
Entangled – I have absolutely no use for it, but darn it if I like it.
Sally the eco-Angel – She’s just cute. I think my niece would like this.

I’m lacking motivation, due mostly to me being sick. My husband is sick as well, so that isn’t helping anything. I was motivated this morning. I managed to paint one side of a door (it is outside and on tables) and sand a wall. However, I have other things on my list of things to do.

Josh informed me today that he would really like me to finish his second glove for flying. I’m suffering from second glove syndrome and haven’t had the motivation to do it. He wants to go flying with his dad and the weather at his parents will be cold enough to require the use of gloves.

I think I might feel motivated enough to take some yarn pictures for my ravelry stash. That doesn’t require too much thought from me. Right?