separate cars: a Good Thing

I seem to be putting on weight (I mean, in terms of visible fat: I don’t care much about pounds) but my jeans are quite loose. I suspect this just means they’ve been worn too many times between washings. Not sure why on the fat: if naything I’ve been walking more and snacking less than usual. Because of all those evenings out last week, I didn’t work out from Wednesday through Saturday, but I was very good for the week and a half before that and I had that 17-or-so km bike ride Sunday. Yesterday I erged 6km and tonight I’ve got plans to go rock climbing.

I’m also worried about wearing the jeans so much: these are my favorite pair and I don’t think the Gap makes this cut any more. I don’t want them to wear out! (Maybe I can check the website and if they still have this cut (just checked: they do) have them sent to my Mom and have her mail them on. Gap doesn’t do international mail, unfortunately.)

Having flown in and arrived in Schiphol at 6AM Monday, Rudder got stuck in a late meeting and didn’t get back to the hotel until nearly 8:30. He seemed to survive the experience, but I’m very glad we have separate cars, as a Dichroic still at work at 8PM is a grumpy Dichroic. As it was, I got my account of riding along with the regatta written up (see previous entry) and am nearly done the gusset of the second sock for Rudder. (Apparently, it’s only a Dichroic actually in the office that gets grumpy, not one doing chosen work.) Yesterday, he’d planned to row, but left work a bit late – it was also nice not to have to figure out how to get me to one place and him to another when he was already running late.

Speaking of knitting, I’ve gone back through several of my projects listed at Ravelry and listed the countries each one was knitted in. So far the winner is a pair of socks I made for my uncle. I bought the yarn in London, then the socks were knitted during travel through 7 different countries (Netherlands, Taiwan, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, and Luxembourg – two different trips, as you might have guessed).