Too much

Last week I had a SAP course. Five whole days lost of information in English (not my native language) given by somebody from Germany. The worst was sitting still for five days. I always thought I had a job which required a lot of sitting, but this was awful. I consoled myself by starting a sock. Not really helpful towards my goal to reduce the current projects.
The Friday after we were done I walked into the centre of Waalwijk (about a 15 minute walk) to get myself moving around. That’s when the worst thing this whole week happened, a glove left me. Half of the pair of Fetching jumped out of my pocket and disappeared. And it was my favorite pair. Snif.

At least the shawl turned out great.

WIP reduction

Empty cupboards are contagious. Slowly but surely everything is getting cleaned out in this house. Now I need to try and keep it organized so it won’t take the upper hand again.

I’m hoping to achieve the same with my stash. It’ll probably go slower than cleaning out the kitchen cabinets. My second project of the year is also done, a shawl. It’s drying right now, picture will follow.

I’m going to inspect my current UFO’s. I know I have a few which won’t ever get done.

Cleaned up with mittens

I need to do things differently. I really wanted to clean out the front room so I could start painting next month. I did clean out plenty of stuff, just not from the room I wanted. Reminds me of my time in college right around exams. I usually passed them with reasonably high grades and had a spotless living space. Maybe if I decide to disinfect my refrigerator I might clean out a bookcase from that room.

I have finished my first project for 2011. Mittens for my mom. She wanted mittens that would match her brown coat. I bought the yarn in Berlin. I had purchased the pattern a while back.



Unfortunately for me she really likes them. They would have looked just fine with my blue coat.

2011

The new year has begun. New Year’s Eve was great, New Year’s Day was a bit harder. I had gotten up “early” so that I would be able to go to sleep on time the next night. Turned out that I still had plenty of alcohol in my system. The world kept moving more than what I used to in the morning. I’m done with drinking for a while.

A new year usually means new resolutions. I looked up mine from last year.

Finish a 100 balls -> made it, even though because most was donated.
Emptying the project bin -> oh yeah, I had put everything in one bin. Did not empty it (at all)
Finishing my Wolhemel blanket -> does knitting the 2010 square count? Still not done.

So . . . . . I’ll do it differently this year. I have decided not to dye my hair anymore. Let it go silver. Actually I think it would be awesome to have a long silver braid down my back. I already have long hair, so the long braid is no problem.
Second resolution is to finish redoing the upstairs. Last year I did one room, still two to go. This includes having everything organized and cleaned up.

For my knitting and spinning I’m making monthly goals. This month that would be finishing the December goals (a pair of mittens and a shawl), spinning at least 10 minutes a day with the spindle and to have at least a third done of the baby blanket.

What are your resolutions for 2011?