It's not fair.

Saturday night. Warm bedroom. I am sitting in bed, knitting and watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire on TV. That's fair.

Then JP comes into the room and starts watching too. Nothing wrong with that.

But then the kid comes in and insists he wants to watch TV and not play video games anymore, so the channel must get changed. That's not fair.

You see the kid is only eight and Harry Potter's rated PG-13 and he's been having nightmares because the kids at daycare and school have been telling him about demons. And something about "Bloody Mary". Their version: If you say "Bloody Mary" three times and then go into the bathroom, you'll come out with bleeding scratches on your arms, or something like that. Oh sure, he's all tough in front of his friends, but scared *&%$-less at night, so much so that he needs a nightlight and someone to be with him at bedtime, and often wakes up in the middle of the night from a nightmare. So we're not taking any chances of scaring the living daylights out of him with a movie such as Harry Potter.

I check the cable listings and Harry Potter's not scheduled to be on again within the next few days .... dang it! That's not fair. But what can you do about it? Can't scar a poor child for life for selfish reasons, can I?

UFO updates: Well, I put a few more inches on my mohair shrug last night. Watching Cops -that's not scary to an eight year old.

And turned the heel on my sock - all by myself! I've never knitted a sock without my mummy! She's always been there to help. Turns out I can do it by myself and it's not that hard. What was I waiting for? Knitting confidence I guess. And, as I am sure many of you are nodding your heads while you read this, knitting a sock is a great thing to do as a passenger in the car, especially when you're working on the leg or the foot. I like that with the dpns the project folds flat and doesn't take up that much space when you're traveling.

On the mohair shrug, I liked how the colour was "puddling" in the beginning, but then when I switched to the smaller needles, it's become self striping. I am not as fond of that, but it may turn out really nice when the project is done, so I am learning to postpone my judgement.