Thursday, November 29, 2012

Post-Birthday Blog

Going to keep this short 'n' sweet not only because doing so is so very me, but also because it's an ungodly hour of the night and I have to get to sleep.

For those of my friends and loved ones that keep track of what blatherings I put on here: Thank you, from the bottom of my heart, and with the entirety of my being, for all the wonderful birthday wishes. You all made what could have been a hard, trying, and above all, long day into a spectacularly great one. I send you all hugs and good karma and love.

I'm also continuing the wave of good feelings and making a list of things that I definitely need to get done, for one reason or another. I'm still psychotically busy, so I'm very glad I didn't attempt NaNoWriMo this year, but now that I have a list, I can definitely get things crossed off. Since I'm a new age, it's a new year, so I'm making some resolutions: the first of which is to get myself back into the cleaning habits mom built up when I was younger (do one massive clean to get it all to ground zero, and/or then there's one thing to do a day, and then one day a weekend where an hour is spent taking care of the other stuff). I can do this. I know I can.

Further efforts are being made on the front of taking care of myself. My physical health is really quite poor at this point and must be remedied. Sadly, my gym membership has been gathering dust with all the schedule changes. Damn my lack of routine.

And no, not much of any of this has anything to do with knitting, but such are stealth projects and the impending holiday season.

Off to bed now. Ta!

Saturday, November 24, 2012

Interjection

Dear Other Tea Store That Is Not The One In Ottawa:

Thank you for your offerings, they are delicious. Thank you also for being redonkulously expensive and proving that my favourite Tea Store is still the original and the bestest ever.

Love,
Me

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Dear Holiday Projects:

Please learn to knit/crochet yourselves by telekinywhatenousis or by yourself. I apparently am incapable of growing four extra arms.

Love,
Me

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Dear Bank Account:

I'm the one that's supposed to lose weight. Not you. Stop that.

Yours,
Me

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Dear Everyone Else:

I'm very sorry. You'd think with all this fibre I'd be regular (har har). I'm still in Holiday mode and have no other projects going on that I can blab about. Except the spinning. But I don't have pictures of that yet, because I've been busy.

Repentantly,
Me

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Dear Kitchen:

We're going to have a serious talk later. It's time.

Me

Monday, November 19, 2012

Apologies

I have been stuck in the realm of Christmassy/stealth crafting and still have nothing viable to post. I'm almost tempted to go out and pick up some dishcloth cotton of various flavours to alleviate this lack of stuff on the blog.

There's also a lot of black apathy floating around me lately, which is a shame, but I'm doing what I can to drag myself out of it. Have switched to a morning shift for the next week which should help some; I'll be able to get some sunshine.

Maybe I should also splurge on some vitamin D.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Drive By Blogging

Can't Blog. Too busy with super stealthy holiday projects. Still not dead. Have some spindling, my newest obsession, to tide you over until I can go off with the big photo-reveal of the massive amount of fun stuff I've been playing with.


Lookit the pretty yarn I've made! See? Not dead. That's my hand. No zombification present.... and that's the ugly cop before I re-wound it on the spindle. It looks much nicer now. Trust me.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

Check in and Confession Time

Not dead!

I keep meaning to blog and post things, but I keep not doing it, because I'm bad or something.

I still haven't taken a picture of my lovely new hat.

But I did get my hair taken care of. I had a hair appointment! It was awesome. I'm so going back to that hair salon again. This is the nicest my hair has felt in a long time.

Nothing else new on the knitting front, really, just working through in progress projects; and then I have to wait for yarn to show up and I have to ship things off to get feedback on them.... and then blanket...

Urgh, not enough time in November.

Now for confession time:

I'm a grown up.

I know. Scary. Shocking. Horrifying. But true.

I'm a grown up.

Wanna know how I figured this out?

It's simple: I went down to the bank, and started an RRSP, and a Tax-Free Savings Account.

Yep. Thinking about my future, waaaaaay down the road.

I'm a grown up.

I'm celebrating with cookies and ice cream.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

In Memoriam


Today marks the first casualty of the season. I have lost the Purple Slouchy Goodness hat. It decided that I wasn't cool enough for it, and it needed freedom. The Bus Gods called it home and the Fibre Powers That Be agreed. I swear I thought I'd put it in my bag properly but apparently I hadn't. Now it's gone.

I'd be sad, but I'm too excited to make myself another hat.