playing catch up…

I have started to slack with my posts here, but I think that has a lot to do with the fact that only one of us can be remote-desktop’d to home, and I try to refrain from posting very often while at work if I can’t RDP.

Plus, with our current schedule, waking up at 4:10a and leaving by 5a to head to work, then finally leaving work at 4p and getting home by 5pm-ish, leaves very little time to eat, catch up on some shows on TiVo, and then off to bed by around 8:30-9p…  I spend maybe 5 minutes on my Powerbook skimming email (either before leaving in the morning, or just before bed at night), just so it doesn’t pile up.

So, there really isn’t much time for anything like blogging.  Unless I do it from work (like today).

Work was busy this week.  A little more than usual, it seemed.  It actually made me really glad we got moved to the 2nd half of the week, so we only have to endure 3 days of “normal business hours” instead of five.

I’m working on three knitting projects right now.  One, which is nearly complete, is a huge afghan the husband requested, in purples & blues.  It’s about 6ft wide, and will be about 6ft long when it’s done.  And dayam, that thing weighs a ton!  Oh, made of miscellaneous yarns, all acrylic (and some leftover chenille on one section).

The second is a baby afghan for my sister-in-law’s baby, due in Feb.  Only just starting it, maybe have about six inches done.  Also acrylic yarns, but “quality” acrylics from the LYS I work(ed*) at.  In lilac, yellow, & a multi-color pink/lilac/yellow (three strands held together).

The third is another baby sweater.  I decided instead of giving the mint green one I made earlier this summer to the SIL for her baby, that I’ll give that one to my sister instead (she had a little girl in july), and make a new one in white & pink for the SIL’s baby.  It’s a top-down raglan, maybe 1/4 done.  Also quality acrylic from the LYS.

I also have a few UFO’s sitting in wait…

• - a men’s sweater, originally intended for a brother, but I think I’ll give it to my dad when it’s done.. in red heart acrylic (yuck)
• - a cardigan for myself, in Lion Brand Homespun.  It’s in moss stitch, which I got really bored with really fast, so this one may sit for a while before I pick it up again.  Got about 1/6th of the back panel done, and that’s it.
• - socks for myself… Lion Brand Magic Stripes (?), purple/white/gray… working from toe-up, but haven’t gotten to the heel on the first sock yet.

I think that’s all the UFOs.. And I have a project in mind that I’ll work on after I finish Josh’s afghan, (mainly because I need the size 15 needles the afghan is currently using), which should knit up pretty quickly as it will only require two skeins of boucle.. a shawl that I can wear when I go to restaraunts that leave their freezing cold A/C on that always seems to blow straight onto me while we’re dining…

That’s about it for the knitting.

I decided to join Blog Explosion (yeah, I know everyone else jumped on that band wagon like, last week or something… so I’m slow) to see what kind of traffic it can really give me.  I just signed up today, so my blog is in the “waiting for approval” status at this point.  If you visit via BE, please be sure to drop a comment to say hi so I know it’s working for me. 😉

Well, I guess I should get back to work.  Oh joy.

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