Life as I know it right now is good. Busy. Stressful. Tiring. But good. Things in my house are very hectic and demanding but, you know, it could be worse. I have been thinking today about what I am thankful for. I am thankful for my life as it is right now. I am aware that life has a habit of changing at a moments notice and that I have no control over it. I can only chose one path or the other and go with that decision. That is what I am doing now …

Ok. Enough insightful crap. Lets get down to business.

I realized that while I have updated my yarn collection, it hasn’t been here. Rather, its been on ravelry. I am sorry to those of you who either - 1) don’t have accounts yet, 2) have accounts but haven’t looked at my stash or 3) have no clue what ravelry is about - and haven’t had a chance to look at my pictures. Here are a few of what I have purchased these days.

Now, onto current projects. I got my Babette kit in the mail on Friday. I love Koigu. Yes those of you who have been to my house know this … but every time Koigu comes my way I have to stop and have a moment with the yarn. This moment is one where we spend a bit of time connecting to each other. Where the Koigu learns to appreciate my love for it and in return, offers to be a good yarn, allowing me to work it into something special - if/when I decide to work it up. I am working on the first square right now and I think that it may be my main project for a bit. It is an easy piece to work on and the amount of time I have to be creative has been limited to when I am stuck at a stop light and have a moment to knit on Cadenza or when David and I are in bed, watching a movie, until he drifts from the pain medicine. In between the drifting there is usually a need to get him medicine or ice or something else - then the dogs need to go out as soon as I’m settled or Cameron needs something. So its pretty easy to put down and pick up without thinking about it.

OH and a Babette Group has been set up on Ravelry for anyone who wants to join up. It is also open for people who want to do the Hexagon Blanket. Have you seen it? If not you HAVE to go look. I mean it. Stop what you are doing now and CLICK HERE …. I’ll wait till you are back before I continue …

Back yet?

Yes?

Isn’t that amazing??!! I am in ga ga land over it.

I have started the Kauni sweater but its harder to put down/pick up. So IT may be on hold. I haven’t decided yet. Right now its in the basement in front of the tv waiting for some love. I decided to do a provisional cast on for this sweater as I am not sure how to do the ribbing. I haven’t finished one repeat yet. Sad. Very sad. And to know that Autumn Rose is making its way to me … *sigh* … oh the decisions.

Then, I am working on a pattern that I was contemplating submitting to Knitty … but with all that is going on I am not sure if I will have the time to actually finish the knitting portion of it. I have the pattern written but the knitting … well that is the part that takes the time. Plus the yarn is cashmere … which … with the heat that we had been having (notice I said “had”) it was too hot to work with. Now its more paying attention to the pattern. Right now its about 1/8 done. I think.

Hmmm what else on the knitting front? Not much. I really need to work on my office at home. I took the tv out of it and put it in the bedroom so that we could watch movies and now my office is even more of a disaster than it was before. I just haven’t had the energy. AND every time that I look at it I feel overwhelmed. Maybe this week I will just go in and tackle it. I know that if I spent a half an hour of just “putting stuff away” it would make a huge difference. I don’t need to do a huge overhaul of it right now but I could at least have it so that its not a pigsty.

Books.

I finished reading a book called “Twilight” by Stephenie Meyer. Its a teen vampire book. I could NOT put it down. Thanks Fiona for hooking me up! My cousin (Fiona) lent it to me with the remark … “her third one is out next week” (this was 2 weeks ago). I love that. Getting turned onto a book just when the next one in the series is out. The biggest thing for me with reading series is that I hate to wait for the next one to be produced. I get so intensely wrapped up in the characters and the storylines that I need to know the next part. One of the reason’s that I can’t read horror/major suspense novels at night is that I take what I’ve read into my dreams and become a part of the storyline. Of course, there are good aspects to that - when a hunky hunk of a leading male character shows up to ravish me in my dreams - which of course I don’t mind. On the other hand. I still have dreams about one Stephen King short story that I read years and years ago where some army guy had a dream/vision (or something like that) and all these huge bad things (squids and stuff I think) were in this fog and it attached this town. Now. I’m not even sure if it was Stephen King’s work (sorry if it wasn’t!!) but I still remember the story. I remember the part about the workers in the grocery store and how everyone was locked inside while the horror in the fog took over. ick.

Anyways, back to the book. It was really good. The Vampires were different than what I’ve read by other authors and I quite enjoyed Stephenie’s take on them. The love story/attraction between the two main characters was strong in a way that left me breathless for more. Yet there was no sex…it is a young adult novel after all. To have the strength of the written word to catch me so completely without all the fluff of great sex scenes is a biggy … I look forward to the sex scenes. I appreciate her writing. It is simplistic yet demanding all at once.  So much so that I am looking forward to tonight, when I can  have a short bath and read a bit more when everyone is settled down for the night!

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