First post of the new year and it doesn’t happen until the 6th. I should try and sit down and do this when I think about all the things I should write as opposed to sitting down and not remembering why I did. I’m going to make an effort this year to track the knitting I do. It always just happens and I’ll finish something and not write about it or let something sit and forget about it.
This is as close to a resolution as I’m going to get, so don’t expect to see any lists here in the next few days.
I’m currently knocking out a pair of simple ribbed socks in Socks That Rock yarn that I’m totally loving right now. I have 2 skeins in different colorways, and I’ll figure out what I’m going to do with the second one after these are done.
There are currently only a few unfinished bits lying around, as I got off my ass and knitted up everything I had planned for holiday gifts. Yes, you heard that right, I finished off everything that was on the list! Right now, I’m left with an argyle cardigan, a cabled cardi that I’ve started more than once, and a ton of lovely alpaca sportweight that is going to become a Maidenhair cardi which will be my first Starmore patern.
I need to do some updating over on Ravelry and get my ducks in a row there as well. Now if I can find pics of everything, I’ll be set.
I have a 75 pound dog lying in my lap with her nose on my touch pad. I can’t scroll pages or navigate so I’m typing instead. I’m not going to the right sites and she’s not happy about it. She doesn’t care about yarn or gaming stuff, she just wants to go here. I cranked out 20 or so rounds on the Rogue yesterday while I sat thinking that I should be doing some more work on the story I started. It’s funny how they go together. When I get started on knitting something it’s a great time for my mind to wander and as much as I have to concentrate on what I’m doing, I can still work around the ideas that are twisting around in my head.
I would have said my worst distraction was WoW up until a few weeks ago, but then again, I have made a habit of kitting while sitting around during raids and while traveling. I decided to take a break two weeks ago, and I haven’t logged in since. I’ve watched programs that I normally miss, and apparently I’ve missed a nice bit of guild drama as well. I keep saying I should hop back in and see what’s going on, but having my time back to do other things keeps winning out. I guess it’s dealing with a type of burnout, I never got to a point where I didn’t like playing. In fact, I have 3 characters at 70 with another at 65, plus a few little ones as well that were more for goofing around. I had been slacking off a bit to start with before the break, only logging in to do the nightly runs with the guild, but even that isn’t pulling me back in right now. On the other hand, I’m flying through a couple of knitting projects and getting things organized a bit around the house.
I’ve been using Scrivener to organize the writing and I’m quite happy with the way it works. I’ve run a few different writing programs in the past, and have always found them a bit rigid for the way I think. I have a habit of running in circles when I write, in terms of bouncing from one section of a story, to outlining, to coming up with a whole new environment, and I can do that with ease. The fact that I can pull outside information like web links, images, and such into the program helps a lot, and keeps me from getting distracted by the pretty blue and green stumble link. I’m still running the trial for now, but I think I’ll be grabbing the full version this weekend.
I finally got around to getting a Ravelry account. Now I have to put all my ocd skills to work and get all my yarn and projects entered over there. In other news, I’m churning out some interesting thoughts on this whole story thing I’m working on, and I chucked Abney Park some money so I could download their new album (and they’re older stuff that I didn’t have yet) and it’s brilliant. The song from the video I linked a few back was awesome, but the rest of the album is wonderful for stirring things up in my head. It’s a wonderful mix of styles that definitely works for me, in particular the third track “Sleep Isabella” is stuck in my head. Definitely worth a listen, there are samples from all the tracks on their front page (go listen to them and buy them…really…go buy it, it’s good stuff)
