Well, it's been forever since I've blogged. Unfortunately as disappointed as I am in myself, I'm not terribly surprised.
Things that have happened in my life since November: Started back working in my region, with the program area and manager of my choice. I had been looking at job ads elsewhere, but it's really hard to be miffed when you are given exactly what you want. The upside of that is that I'm loving work. Fortunately, my manager and I work well together. We'd worked on the same project before, but never really together. Whereas I've never worked as closely with a manager as I do my current one. Fortunately it appears our strengths compliment each other, and I feel we're doing really good work. As the stress increases as we get closer to the end of the financial year, we'll see how optomistic I remain!
On the knitting front, I got the shawl I wanted for the air conditioned office knitted, and I love it. It's soft and purple - sock yarn purchased from Moseley Park Store. Maybe in a later update I'll share a photo, but for now I am lazy!
Also, I've gotten back in touch with my eldest sister. We had been out of touch for years. This means I instantly have another big sister, another brother-in-law, and their 18 and 16 year old children back in my life. Given the children are essentially all grown up now, and each was still a child when I last seen them, I'm feeling very neglectful! The eldest has even left home already!
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Yay! Socks!
What can I say, I'm lazy. That's my excuse for not blogging. It's my excuse for most things. It works for me.
First of all, the socks. No photos yet. See the excuse for why I'm not blogging more often if you're curious as to why... I've got a WIP photo on ravelry, but nothing since. The socks are made from Tasmanian Merino that I spun myself. They're a lovely dark grey colour, and are incredibly soft. So much so I hate to part with them :p. Meanwhile as they sat there for over a fortnight waiting for me to get around to learning kitchener stitch I suppose my mother has waited just about long enough.
On a different note, I mowed my lawn today. It was the first time in ages, so of course that made the task an absolute bitch. The front lawn now looks like all the other lawns on the street, not something you need a machete to hack through. As for the back lawn? Well I spent 20 minutes out there after i finished the front and reclaimed about 3 square metres of it. Then on one of the downhill slopes I landed on my arse and decided that was enough. I figure if I leave it for long enough I'll discover some lost species there. It's not laziness, it's sharing with nature...
Working in Melbourne's going well, and I'm loving the commute, I'm getting so much knitting done. I'm less enthusiastic about the very early mornings, and the fact that I have maybe 3 hours of fully functioning free time at home for the entire day, but I'm geting a lot of knitting done! The weekends are good and lazy. I get some of the sleep I miss out on during the week, get my washing done, and try to get some of the housework out of the way. I'm also on a no-caffine on the weekend bent. I figure save the caffine for when I need it, and make every effort not to become hooked again. Anyway, I've got a swatch to knit up to work out how many stitches I need for the socks I plan to work on tomorrow... Hopefully I'll have a new pair of socks by the end of the week!
First of all, the socks. No photos yet. See the excuse for why I'm not blogging more often if you're curious as to why... I've got a WIP photo on ravelry, but nothing since. The socks are made from Tasmanian Merino that I spun myself. They're a lovely dark grey colour, and are incredibly soft. So much so I hate to part with them :p. Meanwhile as they sat there for over a fortnight waiting for me to get around to learning kitchener stitch I suppose my mother has waited just about long enough.
On a different note, I mowed my lawn today. It was the first time in ages, so of course that made the task an absolute bitch. The front lawn now looks like all the other lawns on the street, not something you need a machete to hack through. As for the back lawn? Well I spent 20 minutes out there after i finished the front and reclaimed about 3 square metres of it. Then on one of the downhill slopes I landed on my arse and decided that was enough. I figure if I leave it for long enough I'll discover some lost species there. It's not laziness, it's sharing with nature...
Working in Melbourne's going well, and I'm loving the commute, I'm getting so much knitting done. I'm less enthusiastic about the very early mornings, and the fact that I have maybe 3 hours of fully functioning free time at home for the entire day, but I'm geting a lot of knitting done! The weekends are good and lazy. I get some of the sleep I miss out on during the week, get my washing done, and try to get some of the housework out of the way. I'm also on a no-caffine on the weekend bent. I figure save the caffine for when I need it, and make every effort not to become hooked again. Anyway, I've got a swatch to knit up to work out how many stitches I need for the socks I plan to work on tomorrow... Hopefully I'll have a new pair of socks by the end of the week!
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