Can this Much MS3 Joy be Normal?, Part 1

I finished chart E (½ of Clue #4) for my Mystery Stole 3 this morning. I’m trying to decide just why I’m having such a good time with this project -- because my family will tell you I am having WA-AAA-AAY too much fun with MS3.

Basically I live with two guys who get a daily update on 1.) My MS3 progress 2.) the MS3 Group’s general health and welfare, and 3.) any MS3 brouhahas or tempests-in-a-teacups (I.e., the knitter who was concerned about possibly knitting a stole proclaiming in artistic yarn-overs: “SATAN IS MY CO-PILOT.” Or something. You think you‘ve heard it all but crafty people can go crazy in innumerable directions, so there are always surprises.)

But I digress. Do either of the guys I live with WANT to know the details about my knit goods or knit groups? Definitely not. But I am so enthralled with MS3, they get it anyway!

I mean, how many times have I nodded and smiled politely while hearing all about how “the smildorf on the gluttensplat isn‘t operational for those DOD guys, so I’m gonna have to go to Dallas and meet with (unspellable) and (unpronounceable).” (This from the husband, an engineer.)

Or: “ Like I worked six point five hours STRAIGHT today. Hello? Hardly a break or anything. Is that even legal? And a customer spilled a Route 44 limeade on my new Rocket Dogs -- my socks soaked that stuff up like sponges and I had soggy sticky toes the rest of the shift. . . Mom, can you even get limeade out of suede?” (this from the kid, 16 years old and working his first summer job.)

But I’m a female, and as apt to nurture as any of my kind, so I listen to both the incomprehensible and the inane. (I’m sure my husband thinks the same thing when I point out row # eleventy-four, where “I missed the yarn over on both ends of the row and fudged the bead placement!”) We’re all trying to share what we’re passionate about, or what feels important, even if it’s soda-soaked socks, non-functional gluttensplats, and yarn-overs that have gone AWOL.

So I lug my stole around the house, asking these 2 men their opinions and listening closely to their responses, which are -- of course -- all wrong.