Lots of Knitting and Guilt Trips

So Emily calls me today asking for money. I am planning on sending out a box in the next day or so and putting what little cash ($10) I had in it for her. We are sticking VERY tightly to the budget and what extra we DID have we used on the Bug.

So she says she needs money and I was planning on talking to Jim about it. Then she told me she needed $1000 to pay for the classes that she dropped last fall because they were too hard etc etc. She wants to go to U of Toledo now and BGSU won't release her transcripts unless she pays first. I knew $1K was out of the question, but I was going to talk to Jim about seeing if we could spare a couple of hundred next payday. At least that was what I was thinking until she said "It's not fair for Dad to have to pay for all my college." UM, hello! She moved out of this house........then she moved out of her father's house because she didn't like this that or the other thing. She doesn't want to have to live in any house with any rules imposed upon her........she wants to live as an adult on her own. But she still thinks she's entitled to a free ride. NOT.
It went downhill from there....especially when she said that it wasn't my money anyway....it was David's and I was taking it from him and it was just extra money for us. blah blah blah.

Finally I told her I was not going listen to this any more and that I needed to go.
End of phone call.

On the knitting side of the house, I've been busting my butt on the Lot's Of Love Afghan. Then I laid it out and really looked at it.....and then looked at the pattern. OMG! I had cast on for the full sized afghan that was to be 67" long!!! There is NO WAY that I could finish THAT in the next 10 days.
So I cast on a modified version of that afghan and it's going to be about the size of a receiving blanket instead of a whole full blanket!!!
I cast on at 5:00pm and worked until 8:30pm and got 19 rows done on it. I am guessing that it's going to take about 200 rows to make it long enough. At 1:15 per 10 rows, that comes out to about 25 hours of knitting. So, if I spend the next couple of days just working all day on it, I should be good. I have 10 days to get it done.

Here's a pic of the huge one, a 3' yard stick, Phoebe, and the smaller one that I started today.