long time no post

well... since may i have knitted but obviously not posted.

gosh - where did the year go... summer was hot and long - to be honest i dont remember what i was doing that i couldnt post but i know i worked a lot and stayed in the ac a lot during one of the hottest summers in nyc...

i was working on many little sweaters for my new nephew - and struggling with the powers that be at my "job" to convert from part time to full time - THAT did finally happen at the end of september and i started working four days- friday-monday with sat and sun 12 hour days. then the first week of october two day guys were fired and i started working seven days and did that thru christmas (with only three days off - how crazy was i ? dont ask) and then i applied for one of the day spots and got it and started that last week - however i am training the temp consultant who is replacing me - so worked last weekend and will for at least two more... however not long hours. slept in for the first time in years on sunday morning and went in mid afternoon.

boy am i looking forward to having weekends off along with the rest of the world... its been eight long years on the weekends... the reasons why i took it involved pursuit of a music career which didnt work out. (NOT more about that as it is too depressing)

anyway - back to the present. while i was working nonstop from oct thru dec, the closest i got to knitting was carrying a project back and forth in the cab to the office and home at night - however i did start a shawl of my own design out of classic elite inca alpaca using cat's paw pattern (one of the old shetland patterns from one of the Barbara Walker books probably book one, will have to look it up..) anyway it was a simple pattern with garter stitch edge and increases every other row... i have no idea how many skeins i used, i just keep knitting and knitting - its very big - probably five feet from the tip of the triangle to the center of the top. i pushed to finish it two weeks ago - i took three days off !!!! and slept and knit and that was it... well, by the third day, i couldnt stand it and actually cleaned some of the apt and put away some things (however, the five foot high stack of newspapers is still there... later). anyway, i finished it just in time for the artic freeze which hit nyc last week - boy was i glad to have it. incredibly warm and very light!

but the artic freeze out continues, so sunday i cast on for a cowl in the same yarn and the same pattern to match - just a tube to fit over my head to keep it warm (since i hate hat hair) almost finished with this - just a few more inches - knit a lot during my first pedicure in about a year last night... and then while watching two british mysteries last night (yeah) - midsomer murders and waking the dead (love that trevor eve!)

well thats it for now... back to work. hopefully i will be posting more frequently - inspired by wendy and others whom i visit daily.
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