I Think It's Back

My knitting mojo that is.

After about 3-4 months of on again off again knitting, I think I've relocated my inspiration. It ran off to Guam on a 3 month bender only to return for about an hour every few Sundays then disappear just as fast.

I think it's partially due to the fact that I let my number of projects get out of control. I had been for a long time, one of those people that started and finished a project before moving onto the next. As of late though I think I have a grand total of seven, yes SEVEN different projects all at once.

One pair of socks for Chris, one scarf for Carlos, the "on the shelf" Tilted Duster, which is more collecting dust than anything. I haven't decided what I want to do with that. I'm seriously contemplating just tossing the whole thing. All I really have left is the bottom "skirt" and the collar but I can't seem to motivate.

Two girls in my department at work are due in August so they're getting baby blankets. I've tried to start one of them but after 2 false starts I think I'll finally have one going by this weekend (crossing my fingers).

Then I have two cross stitch projects and one needlepoint project

Wait that's eight... ok, I have EIGHT going all at once.

Not to mention the other 1,000 projects waiting in the wings.

So for now, I'm focusing on the scarf and I may let Chris' socks slide until the summer. Just last week we had three days of 100 degree or near 100 degree temperatures. If that's any indication to how the summer weather will be this year, the socks may be my only salvation this summer.

From my experience in the past with baby blankets, they're best worked in winter when the temperatures are actually cold. They're not so bad the first few rows but once that sucker gets anywhere past twelve inches, forget it, you're in for a lap full of HOT.

Lets see how it goes...

P.S. I'm dumb, I just remembered the Rona Lace Shawl... so that's nine projects at the moment. Duh.

It's been awhile...

Unforatunately my knitting has been on hiatus for a long while now. I've gotten over my funk about my friend (for the most part), but I haven't been able to pick up the needles.

And with two co-workers with babies due in August... I can't get motivated and I just don't know why...

Since my last post the earth has turned upside down in this house; we've had visitors nearly every weekend, be it in-laws or friends, there seems to always be someone here and no free time.

Chris FINALLY got a day-job... ok that sounds wrong. He DID work 40+ hour weeks, but they were from 3:30pm to 11:30pm... My day was 8 to 5, therefore we saw eachother for a few minutes a day during the week. He got a great job offer doing the same thing only on the day shift and for more money, so we carpool to and from work and actually get to see eachother during the day. It's weird.. In the 8 years we've been together, he's always worked swing shift so having him around in the evening is fun. I get to make dinner every day (I know you all are saying "and what's the upside to that???" - I like to cook sillies!!) I get to watch tv with him and we get more done during the week instead of having to wait until the weekend. It's just sooo nice :)

And this month I turned 31. Unfortunately it was not a happy birthday for me. We had plans to go to Disneyland (they were offering free admission to So. Cal. residents on their birthday) but my poor little Clyde got very very ill that weekend. All the "Fun" money we had saved ended up going toward her vet bill and eventually toward her surgery.

She's had a history of UTI's (urinary tract infections) but it all culminated when they did an ultrasound and found stones in her bladder. The only way to get rid of them was surgery (if she didn't manage to pass them- which was unlikely).

She's doing much better now, still has to wear her little cone so she doesn't lick her tummy where they did the surgery. (The staples come out later this week). And I'm struggling to give her the medicine she needs to heal as well.

So it's been an adventure the last few months. I'll try not to stay away too long (for all 3 of you that actually read this).

I just hope I can get out of this knitting funk. I have so much that I want to do, I stare at my yarn daily but I just don't actually pick it up and work with it!!! How frustrating is that?!