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I started the coat, only halfway into winter. If I keep working on it consistently, though, I don’t think it’ll take too long. I have no idea what a “Size 16″ means in 1938 terms, but it seems a little big for me, so I’m just resizing the whole thing as I go along. The sleeves, for instance, are going to be about two inches narrower. That’s what you’re looking at, by the way - the beginning of a sleeve. Ain’t it pretty?!

Still have no internet. Apparently my apartment doesn’t exist in anyone’s records. By “anyone,” I mean the phone and cable companies. They are supposed to come later this week but I don’t want to get my hopes too high…

I spent the holidays in California, and while it didn’t exactly afford me a white wonderland Christmas morning, I got plenty of “tangelos” (or whatever those things were). It was fun and sunny. I also got to meet my mom’s new dogs: a standard poodle and a poodle/golden retriever mix. “Cute” is a poor word to describe these girls.

Like a little lamb, she is.

And this one has the most ginormous paws I’ve ever seen in real life on an animal.

Oh, and did you want to know about knitting? Really, now. Well, what with moving, and being out of town I obviously have not been what you might call “productive.” But I *did* receive in the mail this lovely yarn I will be using to make the 30’s coat.

I don’t feel too bad about not starting this sucker yet, because apparently it is supposed to be 70 degrees F. in New York tomorrow?! So no rush. Maybe I’ll just go to the beach, instead, or something.

I still don’t have internet access (blah), so thanks to David Fineburg for letting me use his interweb computer. Oh yeah, and my new year’s resolution is to get internet set up in my house. But not really. I’ll tell you what it is later, maybe…