I had a good title for this post, but now I can't remember it

I thought I could get the sweater for my nephew done, and I was headed that way, but two things happened.

Thing One:

I am no expert or children's clothing, but something about the proportion of the arm to the body lenght looks wrong. My nephew does not have short stubby arms, (does he?)

I now dislike patterns which give row counts instead of measurements. Sure I could do the math and figure out what the measurements are suppose to be, but that would be work. The thing is I added some length to the back, which caused me to add some length to the front. I thought I added some length to the sleeve, but apparently not enough. This has caused me to pause while I rethink. I need to ask my sis to bring a long sleeve t-shirth or something so I can get an idea of what the correct sleeve length might be.

Thing Two:

Can you guess?

I'm in San Diego. It's warm here, and there's lots of sunshine, and lots of cell biologists looking for coffee..

Update..

November was a rough month for me. I been a little stressed and haven't done much knitting. I think the whole birthday thing couple to just having alot of stuff going on just kind of got me down. I don't deal with stress well.

However, the calendar has now changed to another page, and I got through most of the doctor's visits and presentations that were going on and I'm ready to move on.

I have picked up this project again.

I had all but stopped it as I didn't like how it was turning out. The 1st attempt through the star I made the mistake of thinking it wouldn't be that bad to carry the yarn behind, instead of winding little seperate balls and doing it the way its suppose to be done.

The result was very wonky. It made me unhappy but I wasn't able to decide to rip it out for awhile. So it was put aside.

Going through the month of November made me ready to accept what had to be done, both in terms of this sweater and life in general. So I ripped out the star, and started it over again. And now I am moving through it and could finish it by Christmas, no problem.

It's still a quite a bit wonky, but it looks better, trust me.