Done!

There's a current commercial for Target on TV, showing different people getting their holiday preparations finished. I can almost join that group, after I wrap the girls' presents and deliver some cookies that were part of the project that started this week. So now I can...pay some bills, take some pictures, knit some projects. Oh, it never ends!

Another thing - I need to get back to real training. Unfortunately, we had a major snowstorm today, so that means I can't go on the streets (I could, but I would be spending most of the time avoiding falling on my butt three-quarters of the time). So it's time to hit the treadmill. Like right now.

Time off...so time for everything else (maybe)

Off of work for the next two weeks, so I'm hoping to get some writing and photography done. Of course, there is this little thing called the holidays that are upon us, and there is only one week left before Christmas (how did that happen???). So, even with my best intentions, I'm hoping that I can get an article written, another queried or submitted, and to get some photos submitted and accepted to a stock agency.

That's my best Christmas wish... :)

The cookie project

Thank God for my extensive cookbook collection - and for Food Network.com. I wouldn't know what to give to friends and the kids' friends' families for holiday gifts. So that's what I'll be doing about a week from today, getting immersed in sugar, flour and decorations to give something of good cheer. We don't expect anything in return. Really, that's not the point of the holidays. It just gives me satisfaction knowing I can put my cooking skills to good use.

Panic (kinda sorta)

I'm still working mostly on Terry's (Rob's mom's) blanket, now into the second of three 5-foot panels. The work is actually going along fine, but I'm a little scared that Christmas looms in less than two months, and I feel that I should be further along. So I'm mildly panicked...but I still think I can get it done. It may take pulling an all-nighter on December 24th. Oh well, that's the price I pay.

Now that I'm returning to copywriting and travel writing - and also possibly adding photography in the mix - I don't have the time to obsess about knitting like I have for the past 23 months or so. That's probably a good thing, really :-)

One thing I realized is that I don't think I can project monomous for the long-term. It just isn't in me, because I get bored too easily. But I can no longer go off and cast-on 20 projects with abandon. Finding that happy medium and getting my WIPs done is an early resolution for 2009

Pics on Terry's blanket will be in the next post!