Done

Another Christmas is behind us and all that's left to do is take down the decorations and put the tree away for another year. Space has been made on the shelves for all the new things the Tot received and the last of the torn wrapping paper and empty boxes has been taken to the trash. Soon another year will be over and we'll start on a new one. I hope that we can all make improvements in the places in our lives that we know we should and look for ways to make life more pleasant for those around us.

Not A Complete Failure

At least the turkey will be ready on time! I pretty much gave up on anything else that I'm responsible for being finished though. And the Peace Fleece needles I ordered mom are probably still snowed in, so even the things I'm not making myself may not be ready for this weekend. I might have been able to order them earlier, but I can't keep secrets so good, so she'd have them by now if they were here. Fortunately, I was able to hide the yarn I got her from myself and it will still be a suprise when I give it to her. The Tot has given it her 'Seal of I Want That'. Forgive the bad photography, it's not easy to accurately capture on film a three-year-old avoiding bedtime by running around with yarn on her head. You think you could do better? I'm open to any suggestion that doesn't involve rope or alcohol. Okay, I might consider those too after 9pm.

This has been a seriously hectic week and it's not even half-way over! There's no way I will get everything I need to do done by Saturday, unless I cut out sleep. And eating. And showers. If I did that, I'd be too cranky and stinky too get anybody to help me! I could always quit my job and stay home, right? Nope, then I wouldn't have any yarn money so I'd still be cranky! I will have to come up with a better plan of action before next December sneaks up on me!

What Christmas Knitting?

I claim teminal forgetfulness. And I never actually PROMISED anybody anything knitted as a Christmas gift anyway. Oh, yeah, I did. Okay, so I'm a procrastinator AND a liar. I can live with that.

I have this:

These are cute little crocheted squares about 2"x2" and the ones I've already joined together look like this:







I've been making a few of these here and there for about a year now. They're really easy and maybe 'One Day' there will be enough of them to be a tablecloth or a bedspread. I'll settle for a little shoulder wrap though.

So, there's not any knitting progress on the shawl-I expected that, so no suprise there. The socks, er, sock is coming along pretty well, but 1x1 ribbing in black is just so boring! If these were for somebody else, I might just make one and give it to them with some candy in it or something and call it a stocking. But I really, really wanted some plain solid black socks for myself, so I will suffer through the boredom and finish them, eventually.

I don't expect to get much knitting done during the next week either. Maybe I can roll up a tiny ball of wool to keep in my pocket to rub on when the stress gets to me. And a couple of #1 dpns just in case.

Caution-Disaster Area

You can put pictures of my office together with some of the office buildings that suffered damage in Hurricane Katrina, and you might not be able to tell which disaster was natural and which was man-made. There will be a new sign in front of our building on Monday and we all have nice new name tags and such, but until yesterday (our last day before the official changeover) it didn't really dawn on me what we'd do with all of our old stuff. And when I say old, I mean OLD-like paper work from 1977. I could see keeping yarn that long, but paper? And it wasn't even a pattern or anything good, just some old legal banky crap. So there's some major house-cleaning going on at work. What am I doing at home to counteract all that? I'm knitting of course. Not knitting anything with any real intent to complete it, just kind of keeping occupied for now until things settle down at work and I can get down to the business of (maybe) finishing a Christmas gift. Or two? Don't push your luck.

Yikes! I just realized that the mess in my office from last night will be waiting on me when I get there! EEEEEEK!

Short and Sweet

Okay, I'm posting from work today so don't tell on me. And by the way, where is my toolbar? Is Blogger having some issues today, or is it just me?

What I wanted to let y'all in on is this neat place where I got a Christmas gifty for somebody. I checked with them today and the gifty is still on back order, but they're having a bad snow-storm, so I'm not complainin'. They have some really cool Peace Fleece stuff and you might could still get something before Christmas if you wanted to order something for your special knitting person. (HINT)

I better get back to work so I can earn some more yarn money.

Knitting Again

I bet y'all probably thought I quit knitting. There just hasn't been as much time lately. So I took advantage of not being able to sleep last night and worked on this:
Yup, looks pretty much the same as it did last month doesn't it? But really, I did TWO WHOLE pattern repeats. That's alot for me 'cause I'm slow on the needle, so I feel like I made a little progress. Will it be finished for Christmas? I have a better chance of spending New Year's on the moon.

Mornin'

What's the best part about sleeping in Mom's bed? The cat!


Umm, unless you're the cat.

Sam Who?

I have been meaning to at least post a picture or two, but obviously haven't gotten around to it until today. And this is going to be a short post too 'cause I got things to do ya' know.

This is what I'm doing right now and hopefully will be finished doing before Christmas (if you are Aunt EE, get away from the computer now, please).

That ought to bring enough color to the baby's room, ya' think? Granted, said child might not be able to sleep with that much color glaring at her, but we think she'll like it just fine.

I also have a sock-in-progress that I've been dragging around.

That's Knit Picks Essential and I forget what the other one is called, but it's nice. I think they'll be nice socks. (they better be nice since I plan to keep them for myself).

There's not much else in the way of knitting lately and the sock is really just something to carry around to keep my hands busy. I might make some hard candy later tonight, but I doubt I'll be doing it this way:

I don't care how old you get, there will always be some things that your mother can do better than you. I've gotten good enough at cooking so that my family doesn't starve, and I can sew a little. I can do my fair share of gardening too, but cooking with a toddler on the counter? I'm not ready to try that one, but thanks anyway.