The past 2 weeks have been almost more than I can bear. I’ve been happily working and happily finishing up a couple of freelance project. Now if those were the only 2 things I was doing in the past week, I wouldn’t have run myself ragged. No. I wanted to (and did!) go to the gym, go for a speech therapy evaluation, go to knit night, went to see a show, watched a movie with Wonderful Husband, went to the Philadelphia Free Library Book Festival, baked bread, started puttering about the house in order to get it ready for our Annual Croquet party. As if that wasn’t enough, I knitted. And as if that wasn’t enough, I ended up untangling a bag of donation yarn. Oh and I went to lunch with Music Girl and we got pedicures and went shoe shopping.
On the plus side, I gained a new client that’s thrilled to bits about the work I’ve done with them. I get to exercise my graphical skills with another new client who needs an online store built. I get to set up a web template & stylesheet from scratch at work (which really is like feeding me catnip) and I slowed down enough to give myself a much needed manicure.
But the most exciting, dorkiest, geekiest thing I managed to do this weekend is get all tongue-tied while standing in front of my knitting hero — Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, aka, “The Yarn Harlot”. I was in stitches as this wonderfully, wickedly funny, intelligent woman shared her observations on knitter’s lives with us. The people organizing the event, didn’t quite know what to do with us. But most of us were knitting so there was very little gnashing of teeth.
As part of my adventure:
But this, this was the highlight of the day:
Yes, Wonderful Husband’s first pair of socks have been blessed by Stephanie herself. He really should be feeling pretty special right now. But over dinner, he just shook his head at “inexplicable knitter behavior”. I’m okay with that. He’s got his sword collection and gets to totally geek out with his sword buddies. It wouldn’t be fair if I laughed at his hobby. But frankly, I’m thrilled the man has a hobby!
My life is always a happy one when I get to see this:
So here’s to slowing down a little. Enjoying the knitting. And cleaning the house–ugh!
