#had my pet rabbit die on my bday 4 yrs ago

[barlee--mars]

Got fired on my bday so! to avoid reaching new lows, took my ass to the beach and did some knitting by the ocean

This is what I'm working on:

its a gift for a friend with a cat, and I learned how to knit 4 different colors at once! Also sort-of continental? ..and that your tension goes WAAY off if you knit with different weight yarns, oops, but they were so pretty and soft:

You can see the dark green starting to pucker/go wonky, even though I doubled up i guess it needed 3 strands of worsted to match that white blanket yarn im using for the cat face..but I wasn't about to go effing around with intarsia in the round 🙃

Oh well! This is the Ravelry pattern link:

After I finish this I'm gonna use all this knowledge to make a pup sweater for myself of our dutchie

Because, while knitting and beach visits do help my mental health tons, our boobalooby crazy girl does the most heavy lifting. As I type this, she's resting her head on my shin. Blessed.

#depressed but working on it #every year my bday never fails to disappoint with some mild calamity #had a relationship end on my birthday 3 times list my job on my birthday twice now had to have ulcer surgery one bday #had at least 5 where not a single person remembered it #had my pet rabbit die on my bday 4 yrs ago #and 15 yrs ago my best friend offed themself at midnight of my bday so overall i do not have a great track record with birthdays enjoyment #anyway KNITTING AND BEACH THERAPY AND DOG THERAPY #heals all wounds #knitting #beach #personal #bday #colorwork #wip #dutch shepherd #shes so so smart and cuddly and protective but very separationanxiety and likes to nibble on socks and eat tissues whole like some delicacy #she has a name officially but responds to Baby and Boobaloo and Boobaloobee and Hey Crazy and Young Lady #except Young Lady is when she has scarfed down the aforementioned tissues or brought one of our shoes back to her lair under the bed #i love her your honor #these tags are wildly getting out of hand so i will say goodnight and i hope 31 is a better year for me than 30 #long post