Have you ever had one of those weeks where so many things have crapped up that you start thinking the cosmos is picking on you?

I'm having one of those weeks.

First of all the hat I knit from handspun drastically changed size after washing. No biggie, my fault. Not only was it someone else's handspun purchased from an op shop but I guessed the gauge and knew it would relax after the lanolin was washed out. No great time was involved in making it, so I ripped it out so I could start again with the correct gauge.

Then the battery went flat on my mobile phone and erased half of everything but it still thinks it's there and I don't know the security code to reset it. It's not in my name so I have to wait for Jamie to call and get the code.

That's when all hell broke loose.

Last night some arsehole stole our car from the driveway. An old car, but one that worked beautifully because we had just spent a grand fixing it up. Apparently a highly sought after car by local thieves because the parts are in great demand. This means that most of the money so carefully saved to pay off the "huge interest" credit card will most likely have to be spent on a new "old" car because the market value of the stolen car wasn't anywhere near enough to buy a working car and we could only get "market value" insurance on the old car because it was so old.

And now my computer won't boot. Or to be more precise, booting is the ONLY thing it WILL do. Over and over again...

This is why I won't be touching my new lace knitting project today. Why tempt fate?

BTW: The project is a lace shawl from Interweave's reprint of the Weldon's books #12. It didn't have a picture so I naturally had to knit it to see what it looks like. It's a lace star with leaves in between the points. I charted it, it looks like it'll be really pretty. I'm up to round 51. Oh, and the yarn I'm using is a laceweight wool/mohair that I bought from the legendary back room at Bendigo Woollen Mills when I used to live in Victoria. Of course the edging pattern had to be in a different volume of the book that's in the lockup with the rest of our gear... Sigh.