Happy New Year

2008 wasn't the worst year of my life (that would have been 2002), but it certainly won no prizes except for the election!

OK, that's a biggie.

It's still bloody cold here by our standards and I've been taking numerous hot baths because I don't pay for water but I do pay for electricity. I know in eight months or so I will be whining about the heat. I was thinking today that although I've always hankered after living in the Northeast, I don't know if I could handle the wild swings in weather, from snow in the winter to blazing heat and humidity in the summer. I like our more subtle seasons (which we do have; they just don't bludgeon you.)

Having said that, I'd like a white Christmas one year. Preferably in, say, Europe. ;-)

I have numerous emails I need and want to return but need to get my thoughts together, an apartment I should clean up, hated dishes to do, and a scarf I need to knit. This is the last knit-for-someone-else project on my list, and after that I should be able to have some fun. The scarf in question is an Irish Hiking Scarf, and I'm using Fiesta Boomerang in Moulin Rouge. I'm having to go down from a size 8 needle (recommended on the pattern, the yarn, and by the one Ravelry user I found who used this yarn for this scarf) to a 4 in order to get a non-lacy fabric. I'm a loose knitter but this is crazy. I posted something on Ravelry about it but haven't gotten a reply.

I'll get back to that tonight. I think I'll queue up the last DVD in the first season of Scrubs and knit away. Although I had a dream last night that included the entire cast, so that might not be so good. I slept very late, and the later I sleep the weirder my dreams are.

Meanwhile, going out for coffee with a friend, and then coming back here and making myself straighten up. My kingdom for a dishwasher....