...and then you blink

Oh my...will it ever end?

Here is the scarf I've been working on since Sunday afternoon. I'm beginning to think I will never finish it. I'm knitting it on size 8 needles, and I cast on 30 stitches. Like a true beginner, somehow I added on 2 stitches somewhere, so I was up to 32. Well, last night I noticed a notch out of the right side (you can clearly see it in the pic). Sometime I dropped down to 31 stitches there on the end. Oh well...it's my beginner project. I think I'll be working on it until the day I die, but it's still my first. I'm using an inexpensive acrylic called "Fall Splendor," and I think the colors are very soothing. I *so* wish I had started this thing on larger needles. You live and you learn, right?