Here's Elizabeth III now, thanks to a little (OK, a lot) of reality tv. My husband taped "the Amazing Race" and "Junkyard Wars" for me yesterday and I watched them this evening after "Survivor". Great tv to knit by - entertaining, but not compelling enough to be distracting. Unlike "Blue's Clues", which you would think would actually provide me with some knitting time during the day, since my boys just freeze in front of the tv entranced by Joe the whole time it's on. But, oddly enough, Joe seems to have the same effect on me.

The only problem I have with tv knitting is that sometimes what I was watching gets associated with the project somehow, so that the next time I pick it up I think about the stupid show that was on when I was working on the decreases or whatever. For example, I really started to get the hang of the intarsia knitting required in my much neglected Native sweater while watching "the Osbournes" for the first time. Now every time I even think about picking up that sweater again to complete it, not only do I remember the whole episode (the one where they are Christmas shopping in NYC) but I feel like I need the Osbournes in order to get back into my intarsia rhythm! Luckily, the sweater isn't for me, so once I finish the thing, I can break it off with Ozzy.