Purple Progress

I'm making a little bit of progress on my purple Mona socks.

The kids are off to bed in a few minutes and then I'll do some more knitting until my bedtime.

It's interesting, I'm finding that I keep making mistakes on these socks . I've tinked back more times so far on the first three inches of these socks than I have in all of the other pairs of socks I've made put together.  And it's not that they're hard - following the chart is straightforward.  I think my Thelonious-addled brain is having trouble with an easier pattern and is zoning out.  I'm also having major anxiety over my Zumba classes because of the owner of the dance studio where I hold them, so I'm sure that's contributing to my knitting (and sleeping and eating) issues the past few days. 

Hopefully things pick up this week and I start flying through these ghastly purple socks.  Once again, purple is not my favorite color, but I have been able to knit without grimacing too much.

Wait a minute...  Grimace from McDonald's is purple...

Coincidence???

I think not.

And in case you're interested, here's more than you ever wanted to know about Grimace....

Grimace - Grimace is a large, purple character who was first introduced in November 1971 as the "Evil Grimace". In his first two appearances, he was depicted with two pairs of arms with which to steal milkshakes and sodas. "Evil" was soon dropped from his moniker, and he was reintroduced in 1972 as one of the good guys. In 1974, he was redesigned, going from two pairs of arms to the single pair he has today. His role continued to grow, and by the mid 1970s, he was a major character in McDonaldland. Commercials and merchandise generally portray Grimace as a well-meaning simpleton whose clumsy antics provide a comic foil to Ronald McDonald. The character was retained after the streamlining of the characters in the 1980s, and soon details of Grimace's background and family life began to emerge. His Uncle O'Grimacey first appeared in 1986 and would visit only one month per year, around St. Patrick's Day, bringing Shamrock Shakes. Additional family were revealed in a McDonaldland VHS tape "The Legend of Grimace Island": He has an unnamed mom, an unnamed dad, a grandma named "Winky", a great, great grandma named Jenny Grimace, and a might be brothers with "King Gonga", who is the king of all Grimaces. In "Grimace's Oddysey", Grimace is portrayed as a ham radio enthusiast who uses a homemade transmitter made from a colander. Despite his massive girth, Grimace took ballet classes.