Updates

My brother broke up with his girlfriend, moved back in with my parents, and then got back together with her. But he's not moving back over there. I think he's starting to get that he needs to handle one thing at a time and right now that's getting used to his new job and starting to save some money. He just turned 22. I'm glad he seems to be getting onto the right track and that he seems happier.

Work has sucked lately, although in the last couple of weeks it's gotten better. I was close to looking for a new job, though. My projects right now are pretty boring and I get too easily distracted from them. After they're finished I'll have an opportunity to be more creative and I think that's something that's been lacking around here that I desperately need. Creative is good.

My knitting projects are coming along. I've finished the sheep, one pair of Fetching (from knitty) for a friend's birthday, almost finished another pair for myself (although they may go to someone else or up for sale), gotten about 4 feet of my friend's Irish hiking scarf. I modified it slightly by adding two more cable columns so there's 5 instead of 3. I'm using KnitPicks' Swish Superwash, which is washable merino wool in Dublin green. It's beautiful. And warm. My brother wants slippers for christmas, so I'm going to attempt felting for the first time with Lamb's Pride Worsted in Midnight Pine. I haven't picked the sock pattern for my roommate yet, but I'm excited about that. I'm looking at patterns for baby blankets and really like the circular mitered square blanket. I may use a different yarn, though, since I have so much of the Caron Simply Soft left over from various projects. For the other one, I want to do something foresty, so I may do a design of my own (gasp!!) with some sort of leafy border and something in the middle. I don't know yet, though. If the parents-to-be don't use forest as their theme, then it might not fit in as well.

More knitting stuff

I may as well admit that this will be in part a knitting journal of sorts. Meaning, when I can pry my fingers away from the needles long enough to type, I'll talk about things and knitting will be one of those things.

For example, I've decided I'm insane and will be knitting in all my free time from now until Christmas. Seriously. I've got approximately 13-15 projects to work on in that timeframe. I have a list around here somewhere. And I keep adding to it, unfortunately. But it's nice. Knitting has become more of a meditation for me and it's helped me get through some really stressfull time lately, so I'm not begrudging the sore fingers. And at the end of the day or the end of the project, I feel accomplished. And that makes me happy.

I think tonight I'm going to start a new project and have two (three) concurrently. I forgot about the sheep. have to finish that sometime. Not tonight, though. The thought of working on that doesn't make me excited, and I'm actually excited about the project I want to start. I just hope my friend likes it because it would suck if she didn't.

Maybe I'll post some pictures of some of these things soon. Camera's still broken, although I just got a cheap temporary substitute.

I have to make a cake now.