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I’m supposed to be cleaning my house right now, but I don’t want to.

So. Last week, I went to visit my boyfriend in Virginia so that we could spend Valentine’s Day together.

I was stuck at Long Beach Airport with a fog delay, so I decided to take out my knitting. The guy next to me, who was annoying the SHIT OUT OF ME with his cell phone said, “Are you allowed to do that?”

“Do what?”

“Knit. At the airport.”

“Well, they let me through security, so I’m going to say yeah, it’s ok.”

“I didn’t think you could bring knitting needles with you. Aren’t they very sharp?”

“Well, they’re wood, not metal, and no, they’re not sharp. That pen in your hand is probably as sharp as my needle. Like I said, I got through security. And there’s a woman knitting down there, too. People are allowed to knit on planes now.”

“WELL. I didn’t know THAT.”

Dude, if fucking Al Qaeda is going to take down a JetBlue flight, it’s not going to be with a knitting needle.

(This is why I hate people.)

I’m still working  on the Central Park Hoodie - ok, that’s a lie - I haven’t worked on it in about two weeks. I think there’s something inside my brain that secretly doesn’t want me to finish anything, because the only thing I’ve finished is a garter stitch scarf that I made to wear to Virginia, which I of course didn’t finish until today. Four days after I got home. From Virginia. So I gave it to my sister.

When Scott (the boyfriend) met me at the airport, he was carrying this HIDEOUS Arsenal (English football team) scarf. Part of it was red and white, part of it looked like the Union Jack, part of it was black… it was just an eye sore. I love Scott. I adore this man more than I can put into words. But jesus effin christ, does he have no fashion sense. And he knows that. He loves things that are “tacky”. This scarf is beyond tacky. So I told him that I was going to knit him a scarf that didn’t make my eyes bleed.

I took to the interweb and started looking at different scarves that were more than just garter stitch. I have to tread lightly here, because he already has made a comment (though he swore up and down three months later that he never said it) that sometimes men’s knits look “a little fruity”. So I need to find something that he’ll actually WEAR.

After reading La’s post about the scarf and hat she’s making for her mom, I clicked around Hello Yarn and found this scarf, that has an X and O cable pattern. I think it’s totally adorable, and since we sign everything we write to each other with “xoxoxo”, I thought it would be cute. My problem is, I don’t know if HE will. Plus, I have a feeling it will take a while to knit with all that cabling and what not.

So, knitters, any suggestions for a quick testosterone-friendly scarf?

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