Anybody home?

I hear that is what some of my friends are saying about this blog :) Everything has been crazy over at the zoo. My MBA classes have started, colds have been passed around our house, and knitting/spinning has fallen to the bottom of the list. Where to begin....

Last weekend was the annual 24-hour mountain bike race in Boone. This was year #5 and hubb's 5th year at the event as well. He has raced the event with teams a couple of times and has also raced as a solo rider. This year, was another year for solo. He had originally planned to do the full 24 hour race, but due to getting a head cold right before the race, he signed up for the 12 hour race instead. This way, he could get the endurance side of doing the race, stop at midnight to hang out and have fun, and get some sleep. It was a good event again this year (thank you especially to the Sedore family--Kyle does a lot for this event), and hubb's ended up getting 3rd place for the 12 hour solo riders. Woohoo! Even as a sickie he can throw down.

You may be wondering if we have moved or have sold our condo? Nope. Through suggestions of my sis and Dogs Steal Yarn blog, I recently purchased a St. Joseph statue for our home, went through the whole ordeal with burying him, etc. So far, he is not responding to us. We will be patient and continue to have faith in someone loving our place. I am not giving up though, these things take time.

MBA classes? So far I am really diggin' them. Pretty interesting stuff. Granted, the reading and outside of class work is cramping my style, but I think that it is good to be challenged to get outside of the comfort zone/daily routine. This week however, was pure suffering with the head cold. I forgot how miserable it is to be sniffling through a 3.5 hour class, a foot away from each of the people next to me. I felt like the plague. Yuck.

And yes...knitting. There has been minimal, but there are a couple of current WIPs. Funny thing is though, they are both KALs with Knitttripps! First, we have the Breckenridge Shawl (dubbed so because we began this in Breck) and then we also have the Indigo Ripples Skirt from Interweave Knits.

I have been going back and forth quite a bit on blogging. This could partially because I am now on Ravelry! Woot woot! After Knittripps told me that you could check your count, I found out that they had sent me an invite a few months ago and I never saw it! Quickly, they sent another out and I am in. Right now, I am struggling to upload prior projects vs. starting from current knits only.