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Okay, now I'm pissed off. Mostly at me. Pattern says, P hook. Ravelry says, hook I own is P/Q hook (15 mm). Okay. Toddle off to find hook, come back and start crocheting. Realize it's awfully loose for trying to match the pictures. Go back to pattern, click the link to where they're trying to sell me a crochet hook. Realize that the P hook they mean is either what Ravelry calls N/P (10 mm) or a hook that Ravelry doesn't seem to think exists (11.5 mm).

Am not in possession of a 10 mm hook. Am four rounds in to the pattern.

For bonus points, the yarn they're trying to sell me is bulky enough that the manufacturer recommended hook size is M/N, 9 mm, at three stitches to the inch. Because I made assumptions instead of checking the pattern, I am working with the worsted weight yarn I already have in quantity.

Too thick a hook and too thin a yarn. No fucking wonder what I've got doesn't resemble the pictures!

And I don't really have money with which to go buy a 10mm hook and 3500 yards of bulky yarn, either. Especially not the yarn the pattern maker wishes to sell me, which is $19.50 per 87-yd skein.

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Wow, my executive function is shot this weekend. Last night I went to bed with a candle burning in the living room—fortunately I recalled this and blew it out before I fell asleep. Just now it occurred to me to check the dryer for the towels I'd run through it yesterday, only to discover I hadn't actually put any of the towels in the dryer; they were still sitting damp in the washer, and I really hope I did not actually run the dryer empty! The aforementioned problems with not noticing I was crocheting with an entirely too thick hook and entirely too thin yarn. And of course now I cannot seem to get myself moving on the todo list.

I mean, part of that last is Family Dynamics and What Chores Are Whose and Dammit Sister You Were Supposed To Do This Already. (The only main-floor areas that haven't been dibsed by either middle or youngest sister—and by 'dibsed' I include 'dammit sister you were supposed to do this already'—are the dining room and foyer. Naturally, neither sister is here. Nor is brother!) But there is plenty of todo list that is not actually 'clean main floor'.

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For future reference: Two 2mm cords do not fit through one 3mm hole! The cords are not that squishy!

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Hmmm. To pod_together or not to pod_together, that is the question...

(not as a podficcer, hell no, not nearly competent enough with the audio editing magic wand. writer if anything.)