Making Me Kukka

There was no ice storm today. I drove around looking at properties for rent that I had found on Craig's list. Most ruled out because of parking concerns and placement of a unit in the building that would make it more prone to be noisy. Because we have noise here. I wore ear plugs to bed last night because of blasting TV above my living room and bed room. Do you know that emergency testing happens at 2 am on TV? That alarm had me jumping out of bed. The same blasting TV was on at 8 am today, so that makes me think that it was on all night. These people know that it's loud, and they told the landlady that they don't care. Nice. Neighborly.
There appears to be a disproportionate number of things being started versus projects finished on this blog. Here's another. It's from the Norah Gaughan book for Berroco, called Kukka. I don't understand knitwear nomenclature most of the time. The patterns calls for one row knit on a size 8 needle the following row knit on a 10, alternating every row. This seems kind of kukka to me. Especially when you use a circular needle, like I do for most projects except socks. So, I split the difference, and am knitting every row with a size 9.
Have I ever mentioned how much I love Martha Stewart? We collect some of the same things: McCoy pottery, Fiestaware, and Steiff animals. My life other than that is not even remotely like hers. I'm sure she never had to deal with an undesirable neighbor, except perhaps for that short time, you know what I mean. She wears some amazing sweaters on her show. She had this adorable short sleeved garter and eyelet knit jacket on over a long sleeved blouse tonight. In her remote, a grey cabled shawl collared beauty, probably a Michael Kors. She has two French Bulldogs, and dresses them in custom coats. My dream is to show her how to knit a custom sweater on her show. That would really put me over.