Too Busy...

I'm still trying to figure out how one can blog regularly, read/post lots on Ravelry, make beautiful handspun, hand dyed/painted yarns, knit gorgeous projects, photograph them so beautifully that they make others yearn and drool while maintaining a full-time job.

I'm doin' okay this week but it helps that I'm on "vacation". Today's activities:

• Work four hours,
• Knit a few rows during the mid-day news broadcast,
• Stroll through Ravelry,
• Cruise blogs as you find them,
• Spend an hour or two trying to figure out how to create your own slide show on your blog (hate seeing other folks photos there),
• Save links to appealing blogs (so you can find them again since you aren't expert at blogging),
• Read knitting magazines while eating,
• Machine knit through one HGTV show,
• Sit at computer to write blog post through another show,
• Consider whether next step is hand-knitting on sofa or machine-knitting in basement,
• All the while, dreaming up potential groups for Ravelry...

I still haven't finished one project, photographed any old FOs or my "not too shabby" stash. I haven't even glanced at the list of personal business to attend to during vacation! How the hell can one be stressed while on vacation?!?!? I just don't get it...

Merry (?) Christmas

Exactly two weeks ago today, I took a fall in Toronto. Never missed a beat in terms of the presentation that I had to make mere minutes after hitting the ground REALLY hard. I had some bruises and scrapes and badly sprained my left arm. After taking a break for holiday prep, I just discovered that the arm doesn't react well to knitting. At least not on a cabled scarf in a super bulky yarn.

I guess this discovery was in keeping with the rest of the day -- it just wasn't our best Christmas.

I'll give the USM (ISM, Bond, Ultimate Sweater Machine) a try tomorrow. Perhaps I'll find a few pleasant hours at the machine....

Bloggin' Again

Can't believe it! Did this in early '04 and thought I was the stuff 'cuz I had a blog about my stitchin' interests and family. Then I went to France for a while. Life changed when I returned and I never found time for my blog again.

But then came Ravelry.com... I'm hooked there and I'm back into bloggin'.

Question of the day: How do all of the knitting bloggers with careers find time to keep up with it all? Please comment!