A Notion to Knit

Rain, rain, rain

Today was a busy day full of errands and lots of rain. But, I'm ending this day as it began .. snuggling with Candie. The rain makes sleep even better right!

Tomorrow, some knitting.

Some happy things, ahem.

Some happy things after a sort of bleak evening.

1. Finding "The IT Crowd" on TV. A happy surprise.

2. A Frosty from Wendy's.

3. Exchanging late Christmas gifts with two dear friends.

Sigh.

And yes, I'm meeting my goals still.

What could this be?

I'm so disorganized I don't know what pattern I'm following for this sock ...

I've knit just enough that I'm having a difficult time figuring this out. Still, I'm going to try rather than rip it (just yet anyways).

*awful light, I know. This was the best I could adjust it having not taken the photo earlier in the day.

Resolutions

Peach pie with coffee this afternoon. Very good treat after skating this morning.

So, I do have a few resolutions for the year. They are almost the same each year. Still, I'll share the top ones here.

1. I want to be much better about my daily self-portraits and 365 photos a day projects. I define much better as making at least 345 of the 365. That would be more than my best this year. While I do upload them to Flickr, that isn't my sole purpose in doing this. It's a good journal of sorts to have to look back to.

2. I want to blog regularly again. I know, I've never been one to be extremely regular at blogging, but like the photos I was much more regular before these last few months.

3. I want to start eating breakfast every day. This seems so minor every time I hear it out loud. But, after about 30 years of not eating breakfast as a habit, and only as a rare weekend treat, I can tell you it's almost impossible. This is something my trainer has been telling me to make my main goal and I've still not accomplished. While there are many other goals along these lines, this is the big one.

4. I want to be sure that I stretch before and after workouts and practice. Again, a 'prescribed' thing that I'm only half following so far and definitely paying for later.

Those are the main resolutions. There are some other small ones, but too many I'm sure. More like long term goals in a way. As for the ones listed, two days into the new year and I'm still good. As for the other two, I 'did' mention the difficulty in them. I'll get there. Absolutely.

I hope your New Year is off to a good start too!

Happy New Year's!

I hope you had a great New Year's Eve, whether it was out or vegging (maybe with some knitting) or asleep. All good stuff. We went out but it was low key and fun! Before going out, I cast on for the Eclipsing Blue Moon Cast On:

It's the second Pomatomus that I'm knitting using Socks That Rock Silkie. I've been needing and wanting to knit sock #2 for a year now. I thought this would help me get going.

I have some resolutions of a sort, that I'll share tomorrow. Happy Weekend, too!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving wishes to everyone!  Or just a really awesome Thursday as the case may be.  After all, today should be about good stuff.

I adore feeding the ducks, it's really one of my favorite things. And happily, they came by this morning. Happy stuff.

*no, the irony of it being 'turkey day' and me enjoying feeding the ducks is not lost on me. Still, happy stuff.

Ripping this wurm out.

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This Wurm (Rav link) has been my sole project recently. But now, I'll have to rip it. Sigh. I kept knitting even though it seemed too big, even for me! Anyway, yesterday I finally took a good look and tried it on and stepped out of the denial. So, I'll be ripping. Fingers crossed my next guess works on size. Because, ahem, why would I do a gauge swatch?

November

This was my view after dinner. Beautiful moon and cold, fresh air.

I hope you all had a fun Halloween and gorgeous weekend. I'll share a Halloween picture tomorrow.

Gradual blogging.

1. I've been wanting to blog for awhile but nothing ever seemed quite big enough to write about. Or I was too lazy to take pictures. Or days just kept flying by. Regardless, I'm here right now.

2. Thank you all for your thoughts a few months back. They meant a lot to me.

3. Fall is here completely, though tonight feels closer to winter. I do love it though. This is very definitely my favorite time of year. I need to rush out and get more photos before I lose my chance. The changing of the leaves always rushes by so fast. And my heart really melts over the oranges and pinks.

4. I've completed two shawls during this time. I haven't taken good photos of them, partly because they haven't even been blocked. No matter, I'm sharing one of them now.

Ishbel. Ooh.

5. I've been working out a lot. And rather suddenly. All with good reason but I'll share that later.

6. Several weeks ago I went to the Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival. I didn't make any purchases but saw lots of cute wooly creatures, visited with some knitting friends and saw beautiful scenery on the drive there. It was great fun!

The fuzzy photo'd guy is my favorite!

some of the scenery ...

There's something really dreamy in this photo for me, it's very comfortable.

7. I'm going to call it a night. I'm glad I'm back here.

Sadness.

In the past month, I have had many things run through my mind that I wanted to share here.  Time kept moving so quickly.  Too quickly.  My Grandfather passed away early yesterday morning.  He was a wonderfully kind person that I spent a lot of time with growing up.  His death was not a surprise yet seemed sudden. 

For now, time's moving a little slower.