Yesterday was our anniversary. 17 years. Time flies doesn't it? 17 years seems so long to me. I left for college shortly after I turned 17, so I've been married to Mr. T about as long as I lived full-time with my parents. We've been together for almost 21 years now. That's almost half my life! It seems unreal that we've been together that long. How did this happen? How did I get here? (This is not my beautiful house...)
I have no complaints. Well, very few. Well, no dealbreakers, anyway. Happy anniversary, love :)
What my life lacks at the moment (ok, always) is balance. Some aspect of my life is always suffering for the sake of something else. If I do A and B, then C suffers, and if I try to catch up on C, then A suffers. And so on. So I always feel like I'm failing in some aspect of what I want/need to do. I feel guilty about things I'm not accomplishing. This isn't a temporary thing, like when getting sick throws me off schedule. It's an ongoing issue. Maybe someday I'll figure out how to get all the parts moving at the same time, all the balls balanced effortlessly in the air.
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I've clearly entered my blue period. Knitting with blue, spinning blue. But no blue skies. Just how much rain and grey can Washington have, anyway?
Cute, huh? I like it, but I haven't been knitting on it as much as I could. I've been spinning more.
I had this:
which turned into this:
which I'm now knitting up into socks:
The fiber is an 70-20-10 MCN blend, the first installment of The Sanguine Gryphon fiber club. It was nice to spin, even with all the spinner trouble I have while doing it. I'm amazed the yarn came out as well as it did, given that I spent more of my energy fighting the spinner than I did making sure the yarn was turning out ok. It's very soft and squishy.
I wanted to get the socks started so I could knit on them tomorrow at our Westover Wooly meetup (Tracey - when school's out, you should join us! Sharon - I don't know if your schedule would permit, but you should see if you could come by, too.) It's very nice to have knitters and spinners to hang with in real life, too. I love meeting up with Rav folks when we can, but a regular get-together is nice to have.
I've been working on a little project for meeeeee, and it's almost done. Pictures to come.
In parental news, Sr. Jr. got a Gold Medal for his performance on the National Latin Exam. He was one of only two kids in Latin 1 in his school to get a GM. And Jr. Jr. got straight As yet again. Very proud!
4 comments:
This is my beautiful house; this is my beautiful wife
Very nice! I do like the blue. that's a fiber blend (the mcn) that i look at often and wonder about. but i have too much fiber as it right now and i really need to do the babydoll in my collection justice first.
I've always wondered how it will feel when Sam and I cross that line; when we have lived together longer than we'd lived with our parents. It's a very sweet thought. Congratulations on 17 years!
Thanks K & Sarah! Sarah, it's definitely a weird line to cross. Kinda makes me feel old.
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