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metaphorically mopping

Posted on | December 17, 2008 | 14 Comments

I have lots of stuff to chat about.

First – SOME PEOPLE will do anything, even birth a baby, to avoid finishing their holiday knitting!  Sheesh.  Congratulations, Carrie!  Get some rest – you deserve it! 

Me, on the other hand, I’m not so lucky.  I can’t just pop into the hospital and say, oh, so sorry, can’t finish the knitting because I have a BABY to care for!  ;o)  So, the knitting continues – I’m on the heel flap of the first sock. 

I should’ve picked a better pattern, one with shorter repeats that I could memorize.  It also didn’t help that last night my body was wracked with aches and pains and I thought for sure I had contracted the virus that has felled my dear husband for the past five days.  I didn’t work on the socks at all yesterday, which puts me seriously behind schedule but I am determined NOT to be sick and I feel much better today!  If I can finish the heel completely, I’ll be back on track.

Paula tagged me for the Six Things Meme and since I have no pictures due to this incessant rain, today’s a good day for it.

1.  We still don’t have our Christmas tree.  I’m having a hard time getting into the spirit this year, probably because it’s in the 60s and gloomy.  It feels more like March.  Yesterday I saw new growth on a ginko tree.

2.  The older I get, the less I like to go shopping or talk on the phone.

3.  I have a great fear of inadvertently turning into a person who collects oodles of chotchkies.  Like, when people know you’re a knitter/spinner and they start giving you sheep figurines.  One or two is great (I absolutely love the first one I got), but I am fearful that if I don’t put an end to it, I’ll have a flock.  Or several flocks.  That I’ll then have to dust.  It can only lead to madness.

4.  Whenever I need a pick me up, I look at Emily’s pictures of Baby Ellie.  I used to think her cats were cute, but Ellie chasing the cats?  Cutest. Thing. Ever.

5.  I’m considering joining this Sweater A Month thing because I’m just that crazy.

6.  When I am determined to do something, I will stop at nothing to achieve my final goal.

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