Christmas Eve
It's Christmas Eve.
Somehow this year has flown by me. I feel like I nodded off in the chair watching telly - you know, when you catch the first 10 minutes of a show, and then wake up for the last five, having missed all the important stuff in the middle.
I feel like I have not accomplished much at all this year. I was successful in reading the number of books I wanted to read, and I did get the sofa in my office cleared off. For about a month . . . you don't want to see it again now . . . I did lose about 10 pounds this year - although after this past week I'm likely up a bit - apparently you're supposed to eat starchy foods after you've had a stomach/intestinal virus - at least that's what the 24/7 nurse hotline told me. I haven't been as sick as I was a week ago for more than 20 years. Yikes! So, bread, which I've been avoiding, coupled with holiday parties has not been ideal :-) 10 pounds is not very much, but you know, I just keep moving forward.
On the yarn front - it could have been worse. A lot worse. I'll have the final figures after the 31st, but I think I fell short of my goal of decreasing the stash by 100 miles.
I did not finish my St. Brigid sweater.
I've nominally learned to weave, but it's only yesterday that I finished the second scarf that was on the loom back in January . . .
I did not knit 12 pairs of socks.
In the finish what I start area, well, I'm a little better at that I think, but not much :-D
I have done pretty well, however, in the putting myself first area :-) Yay Me!
This next week is always a time for introspection for me. We're in Sammhain (pronounced Sow-en: sow like a pig) in the Celtic year. This is traditionally a time of regrouping and readying for Imbolc to arrive in February. I'll be thinking alot about 2013. I'll let you know what I figure out :-)
Somehow this year has flown by me. I feel like I nodded off in the chair watching telly - you know, when you catch the first 10 minutes of a show, and then wake up for the last five, having missed all the important stuff in the middle.
I feel like I have not accomplished much at all this year. I was successful in reading the number of books I wanted to read, and I did get the sofa in my office cleared off. For about a month . . . you don't want to see it again now . . . I did lose about 10 pounds this year - although after this past week I'm likely up a bit - apparently you're supposed to eat starchy foods after you've had a stomach/intestinal virus - at least that's what the 24/7 nurse hotline told me. I haven't been as sick as I was a week ago for more than 20 years. Yikes! So, bread, which I've been avoiding, coupled with holiday parties has not been ideal :-) 10 pounds is not very much, but you know, I just keep moving forward.
On the yarn front - it could have been worse. A lot worse. I'll have the final figures after the 31st, but I think I fell short of my goal of decreasing the stash by 100 miles.
I did not finish my St. Brigid sweater.
I've nominally learned to weave, but it's only yesterday that I finished the second scarf that was on the loom back in January . . .
I did not knit 12 pairs of socks.
In the finish what I start area, well, I'm a little better at that I think, but not much :-D
I have done pretty well, however, in the putting myself first area :-) Yay Me!
This next week is always a time for introspection for me. We're in Sammhain (pronounced Sow-en: sow like a pig) in the Celtic year. This is traditionally a time of regrouping and readying for Imbolc to arrive in February. I'll be thinking alot about 2013. I'll let you know what I figure out :-)
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