**picture here later**

So I finished both feet of the Wild Tide socks. I had to make them about 1/2 an inch shorter than usual because of the stretch in the lace. I finished one foot and heel on Saturday, and then put it on spare needles and started the second foot/heel on Sunday. We were out of town this weekend at Kevin's little bro's graduation from college. And let me tell you, I got nearly the entire sock foot knit during that graduation ceremony. Now I just need to figure out how to hide some knitting on me during my own graduation in two weeks so I won't be bored out of my mind!

When we got home on Monday, I put both socks back onto one set of needles and am trying to knit both legs at the same time. I'm realizing with this pattern that I don't particularly like knitting lace socks, especially when everything is p2tog. If it was k2tog, I'd probably be fine with it, but the p2togs are painfully slow.

Also, I'm kind of worried that I'm allergic to this yarn or the dyes. I've got these weird little bumps on the palm of my hands that kind of itch and developed after I started knitting with this yarn. I thought for a while that it might be a new lotion that I started using, but I'm not getting bumps on the more typically sensitive areas like the backs of my knees or inner elbows or wrists (I often react badly to scented lotions and those are the first locations to react). So the yarn is the only thing I can think of that touches the palms of my hands, but not other body parts.

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I got my Sockapalooza pal's info. I emailed her a couple of days ago, though haven't heard back yet. Unfortunately she doesn't have a blog so I have no other way to get in touch with her. There's apparently over 1000 people in this Sockapalooza, which is both cool, but also a little troublesome. I know there have been problems in the previous 3 sockapaloozas with people not coming through and knitting their socks (I was a sock savior for one round), and it seems with so many more participants those problems are likely to be even grander (which is really sad because this is supposed to be fun for everyone).