First Time, Repeat

Of course, my little friend Elion Koteas didn't vote, but the sticker looks cuter on him than me.

I'm happy to say business at the polling site was very brisk, and had been all day, according to the workers.  Signing in next to me was a first-time voter.  Whoever signs a first-timer in rings a bell, and the room applauds.  The young woman was rightly a little embarrassed, but I couldn't help but feel good about the whole thing.

I've cast on for a pullover sweater.  This morning, I spent a lot of time looking for cardigan patterns, because that's where my real itch has been.  None of the patterns, though, lined up with the amount of yarn I have, so pullover it is.  It's called a Condo sweater, and I've made it before.  You use sizes 6 and 15 needles, alternating rows.  This pattern has been in my knitting folder since shortly after I started knitting, so it may be out of fashion at this point.

Don't care if it is.  It's super-comfortable.  Does anyone else remember when free patterns hung in front of the yarn bins?

Dreamboat

Not surprisingly, I have a crush on more than one actor.  I spent an hour and 40 minutes with one this afternoon:

Chris Evans in "Sacrifice," on Netflix.  As a movie, it's maybe a "B."  John Malkovich is in a very few scenes, and is extraordinary.  Frankly, any movie under two hours these days is a welcome wonder, and it would take a lot to get me not to watch  Christopher.

Mundane day.  Pick up prescriptions, work on a bandana I'm making with yarn left from the cowl.  It's not going to be as big as the leftover yarn had me thinking, but I won't stop now.  It's a clear, cool day, and I've been knitting on my loveseat in my back porch room.  Just exactly one of the reasons I put it together.

FO

The cowl is finished.

 It won't be worn over my nose, obviously,  but that was the best way to show the color graduations.  My next project?  Who can say?

Just a day of laundry and errands, though when you have to avail yourself of a laundromat, laundry is an errand.  Tomorrow is Briton's birthday, but he has lots of plans on his own, so I doubt I'll see him.  I do plan on going to vote early, so I'll seeing if I can make an adventure out of that.

Last Choice

A sunny and very breezy day here.  If the leaves weren't still green, I'd call it a perfect Autumn one.

And finally

Would you rather spend a day with Jane Austen

OR

Spend a day with William Shakespeare?*

*Though Austen might be delightful company, I'd choose Shakespeare, just to see how --- and how quickly --- he writes.

Next to Last

 Would you rather

spend the rest of your life in a library

OR

in a museum?*

(You know, The Morgan in NYC is both.)

*Simple.  Library.

'Tis the Season

You "can" be trapped in a room full of snakes

OR

you "can" be trapped in a room full of spiders.* 

Ooooooh. . .   Spooooooky. . .

Halloween is no big thing for me.  Never has been.  And I always cringe when it's referred to as a "holiday."  A holiday is when things are closed and you don't have to go to work.  I always had to teach on Halloween, so. . .  Yeah.

This is now finished and ready for framing.

That's probably as fast as I've finished a piece.  Another from Subversive Cross Stitch.  Words and borders are pretty quickly done, and I do enjoy so many of their designs.  You can buy frames on the site, too, which I've done a couple of times, but didn't for this one.

*Spiders.  They don't bother me so much.  🕷

Down the Stretch

We're nearing the end of What Would You Choose.  Prizes are boxed up.  As for today:

Would you rather never sleep again

OR

never eat again?

Now, I'm assuming, for game purposes, neither decision will prove fatal, nor harmful.  For me, I'd choose losing food over losing sleep.  I'm terribly dissatisfied with my weight, and I love a good snuggling down under quilts and blankets.

The GIF was from "Bewitched."  Join me in having that theme song stuck in your head, won't you?