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.