Oh, fer cryin' out loud...

We got more snow yesterday. My car, much as I love her (yay, good gas mileage), does not do well on slick roads. But I was a good little New Englander, and I drove verrrry sloooowly to and from work, and it was fine. Thankfully, my office closed early, which gave me time to shovel in the afternoon, by which time the snow had pretty much stopped. At the end of the day my driveway was clear, the street had been plowed, and we weren't getting any more snow, so things were good.

Except. My town's public works department was uber-ambitious, apparently, and plowed my street *again* (keep in mind, folks, it had been plowed already and there was no new snow). When I walked out to my car in the morning, this is what I saw:



I was not pleased.

Bad Timing

This week I've been antsy to plant things. Cucumbers and peppers and radishes type things (ooh, yeah, radishes. they grow in like five minutes. very good for impatient folks.), which is ridiculous because it's MAINE, and it's DECEMBER. We're in the middle of our second of what will be many, many snowstorms this season, the ground has been frozen solid for weeks, and it's pretty much exactly the opposite of when a normal person should be wanting to garden.

I should be all psyched about making holiday gifts and wreaths and all that stuff. But noooo, I want to pull weeds. I make no sense sometimes.

Accountability

Let's see how I did, eh?

- Bake a pie (with tofu! that's right!) Check! And I even got compliments on it.
- Finish raking the carpet of leaves in my backyard Check!
- Move outdoor furniture into basement hibernation Check!
- Clean out my car, fer crying out loud Err...
- Go to the gym, go to the gym, go to the gym! Check and check!
- Paint the off-white trim in two rooms true white, so the walls painted eons ago look better One room about 75% done, one room 0% done
- Decide on a color for my next targeted room to paint Yeah, not even close...
- Resuscitate the green/orange sweater I'm supposed to be knitting Check!
- Get through the front and back of the black diagonal cardigan Check!
- Go out dancing *at least* once CHECK!
- Find a cute brown coat once and for all Check as of today. :)


Not perfect, but not bad, I'd say!

Ambitiousness

I have a four day weekend starting in about five hours (hurrah!) so it's list-makin' time. I will:

- Bake a pie (with tofu! that's right!)
- Finish raking the carpet of leaves in my backyard
- Move outdoor furniture into basement hibernation
- Clean out my car, fer crying out loud
- Go to the gym, go to the gym, go to the gym!
- Paint the off-white trim in two rooms true white, so the walls painted eons ago look better
- Decide on a color for my next targeted room to paint
- Resuscitate the green/orange sweater I'm supposed to be knitting
- Get through the front and back of the black diagonal cardigan
- Go out dancing *at least* once
- Find a cute brown coat once and for all

A more spatial project...

So this is a little late, but I realized I haven't posted about a rather big crafty project: revamping my living room. I painted the walls, made curtains, and swapped out some furniture (thank you, Andrea, for the donated stuff!)

Living room before:


And living room after:


Oooh!



Ah!



Aww yeah.

Keeping my word...

As promised, a post with pictures!

Here's the beginning of my modified version of the lovely Ms. Japel's Minisweater pattern. I'm going to knit it as a full length sweater, rather than a cropped wrap, depending on how fair my three skeins of yarn will go. The yarn's a little fuzzier than I'd like (was a gift), but oooooh boy, is it soft! If the sweater doesn't work out, I'm tempted to turn it into pillows.


And here's the gray hat. "Felt me," it says. "Fellllt me!"

So much to do, so little time...

I wish each day was 30 hours instead of 24. Or I didn't need sleep to function. Or I was independently wealthy so I didn't have to work. Although I suspect I'm not alone in any of those things.

All those projects I talked about in my last post? None of them are done (the green/orange sweater is almost to the point of wrapping up the stripey section and picking up stitches in green to knit up to the shoulders, so that's good), but I'm still antsy to start something(s) new. I have two skeins of a red mohair blend, and I want to see how far they'll go in the form of some sort of simple cap-sleeved number. And I have black, gray, and light gray angora blend stuff that I want to turn into a stripey raglan. AND I want to polish up a design from several years ago. And and and and and!

I've gone from "I don't know what I want to knit next" to "I want to knit EVERYTHING. Right now!"

Man alive, if you don't knit, this is boring. In the interests of trying to keep a readership of at least two or three, um... contractor guy is coming to the house today to look at the Rustic Attic. And it's November. How the heck did that happen so quickly?

My next post will have pictures. I promise.