Tiny Break

I've been a little preoccupied these last couple of weeks. First of all, I'll be honest: I haven't knitted a stitch in quite a while. Why? I'm not really sure. I'm not thrilled with either the Snowflake Socks nor Bee Fields. My unhappines from Snowflake comes from the fact that the first one is pretty tight and I know that they will actually be pretty unwearable. My slight unhappiness with Bee Fields comes from the difficulty level of the project - there seriously is no resting and "easy" rows in this baby... so it's definitely not mindless knitting. Why haven't I just cast on for a simple stockinette toe up sock? I couldn't tell you. Especially since I got the new Harmony Wood DPN set for my birthday. You'd think I'd be running to my stash, right? I don't really know what's wrong with me.

The main thing I've been doing in place of knitting is reading. I've read several books, and have been most thrilled with Kate Atkinson. I've seen her stuff on the shelves for years because she is near the Margaret Atwood section (which I scan each and every time I go to Half Price Books with the hope to score another of her works.. I have almost all of them now!), but had never been very interested. I read in some online community that she is a great mystery writer, so I randomly picked up "Case Histories" and "One Good Turn." Little did I know, Case Histories introduced a character (Jackson Brodie) and chronologically I should have started there. But I didn't - but luckily it didn't spoil my enjoyment. They were both wonderful novels... Especially since thriller-mystery type books are exactly what I've been craving lately. Case Histories featured 3 cold case-type mysteries (all wound into one cohesive story) and One Good Turn showed how one small decision/event/life catastrophe (?) affects so many other people. Just good fun. Right now I'm reading Crime and Punishment (just started this morning on the bus) and am not sure if I'm going to finish it. I honestly just grabbed it to pass the time.

One thing that I'm going to do is look for knitting Projects to work on. I'm looking at sweaters/cardigans because I've never really done one. The first on my list is Mrs. Darcy. I like this one because it's big yarn and big needles, and hopefully I will not get bogged down in tiny stitches and pattern repeats. I am a little worried that it might be too small for me, but maybe I'll just go up a needle size or two and see how it works? Yikes! Wish me luck.

So that's where I am - nothing exciting going on, just hanging out. Work is going okay - things could be better and they could be worse, but isn't that always the case? Even with the perfect job?

Oh, by the way. I got my hair cut. Really short. I love it.